Trans Valley League
Rules, Regulations and Policies
1. Meetings:
League meetings are held once a month or as needed. The initial
meeting will be in August and the final in June of each school year. The
site will rotate among the league schools. Students may be included
in two meetings per year.
2. Ties for League Championship:
Ties for championship will remain. Co-championships will be declared.
There will be no playoffs, except if needed to determine playoff
representation to the Section. (Playoff representation information
can be found in the individual sport rules)
3. Scheduled Games:
A school must field a team for all scheduled games. Games not
played or delayed because of events beyond the control of the responsible
administrative authority will be rescheduled or started late by mutual consent
of the coaches. If the game is not played or rescheduled, the matter
may be referred to the TVL Protest Committee and handled like any other
protest. In case of football facility failures, the game should be
played on the Saturday following, if possible.
Games interrupted because of events beyond the control of the responsible
administrative authority will be continued from the point of interruption
unless teams agree otherwise, or there are conference, league or state
association rules that apply.
Any game suspended by a power failure should be played the next day.
After a wait of 45 minutes, mutual agreement by the principals or
designees may declare a winner.
4. Administrative Supervision:
The host school is to provide the necessary security and administrative
supervision for all TVL contests. For football games and boys basketball
games, schools must be represented by an administrator or designee. For
other night events the home school is to provide an administrator or designee
who is not the coach of the game in progress. Supervision should also
be provided for other contests where there is potential for distruption.
Host school supervisors shall make themselves known and contact the
visiting supervisor upon his/her arrival. The visiting supervisor shall
seek their counterpart and introduce themselves upon arrival at their host
school.
5. League Sports:
If half or more of the schools on the varsity level participate in
a given sport, that sport becomes a league sport.
6. Scheduling:
All schedules will be adopted on a two year basis. The second
year's schedule is to reverse the location, but use comparable dates with
adjustments as needed.
7. Classification:
A. Varsity--Open competition, except that students
less than 15 years of age may not play varsity football.
B. Frosh/Soph--Open to students that are either
freshmen or sophomores in school standing.
C. A student has 4 years of continuous eligibility
from the time he is enrolled as a freshmen. No student will be eligible
for frosh/soph competition after his forth semester of enrollment.
D. The following regulations apply for freshemen
and sophomores moving between varsity and non varsity;
a. Football, basketball, baseball,
softball, volleyball and soccer: A student may move up and down until
the first regularly scheduled league game, following which movement may
only be up.
b. Track, wrestling, tennis,
golf, cross country: There will be no restrictions on moving a participant
up and down, until that participant must be declared in the qualification
process for section competition.
8. Participation:
A. It is always illegal for a student to participate
in more than one classification in any one day.
B. In any sport when both individual and teams
qualify for section competition, an individual from a league school which
does not field a team in that sport may qualify for competition in the league
qualifying contest by the following:
Compete in a minimum of two (2)
league contests prior to the league qualifying contest. The athlete
will compete in these contests unattached and will not score points or affect
the outcome of the league contest.
An athlete in the league qualifying
contest who has qualified under the provisions of this section can not score
points in the league qualifying contest or affect the team outcome of this
contest. The Athletic Director of the athlete's school will make
arrangements in advance for the athlete to compete in league and qualifying
contests. Individual sports representatives will be responsible for
developing regulations to allow for this provision to function.
C. Individual exceptions will be handled by
the TVL Executive Board.
9. Penalty for Rule Violations:
Any school that cleary violates league rules will have to forfeit said
league contests as determined by the TVL Executive Board.
10. Cancellation of Games Because of Fog:
A. If either school determines that a game
should be postponed, that school should make every effort to notify the
opposing school by 2:00 p.m.
B. If a game is canceled because of fog, it
will be rescheduled for the first possible date (time mutually agreed
upon by the schools involved) following the cancellation.
C. The TVL President is to be notified of canceled
games.
11. Lightning:
Coaches, Athletic Directors and Administrators shall be aware of
the dangers of lightning. Games are to cease and all are to take
cover when danger presents itself. MCAA rule: "Hear it, fear it. See
it, flee it."
12. Starting Times:
Refer to individual sports sections.
13. Noisemakers:
Artificial noisemakers at indoor events are prohibited, except for
organized pep bands and pep squads in uniform. This includes megaphones
by people in the stands.
14. Non League Schools:
A non TVL school may be approved for league competition by the TVL
Executive Board.
15. Cheerleaders:
Each school may set rules and limits for cheerleaders during basketball
games.
16. Rules:
All CIF rules will prevail, except where the league is more restrictive.
17. Practice Starting Dates:
Fall: CIF designated date for pre-conditioning for football and
fall sport practice.
Winter: November 10
Spring: February 10
18. Officials
The TVL approved number of officials required to conduct a contest
is as follows:
Football: Varsity & F/S will have at least
4
Frosh will have at least 3
Basketball: Varsity will have at least 2
F/S will have at least 1
Volleyball will have at least 1
Wrestling will have at least 1
Softball will have at least 1
Baseball will have at least 1
Soccer will have at least 1
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