Eligibility Requirements

• A minimum of a 2.00 GPA is required:
  • Upon making the team (grading period immediately preceding the start of the season is verified),
  • At the twelve-week report card, and
  • On the final semester report card.
• In order to be eligible, any student entering from eighth grade must have achieved an unweighted 2.00 grade-point average, on a 4.00 scale, in enrolled courses at the conclusion of the previous grading period. 
  • For example: Incoming freshmen must have a 2.00 GPA at the conclusion of their eighth-grade final semester.

• Students may not practice or compete in any contest at any high school until they have graduated from the eighth grade.
• A student whose nineteenth birthday is attained prior to June 15 shall not participate or practice on any team in the following school year. A student whose nineteenth birthday is on or before June 14 is ineligible.

• AthleticClearance.com Home Campus Login page.
• AthleticClearance.com registration and submission instructions.   

To be eligible to participate in any athletic event, a student must be in attendance for at least two (2) class periods on the day of the contest. 

• Students must be enrolled full-time at Birmingham Community Charter in order to be eligible to participate in athletics.
• Students cannot have dual enrollment in two different schools at the same time. Students may not participate in any athletic meeting, practice or competition at a new school until they have been officially withdrawn from their former school. 
• Eighth graders who have not graduated from middle/junior high school may not participate in any athletic communication(s) conducted by any high school coach that is not part of a school-wide high school presentation until May 1 and only if the student has registered for classes at Birmingham.

All students must have valid medical insurance to participate in athletics. 

• A copy of the student's medical insurance card must be included in the submission of the athletic clearance forms via Home Campus. 
• If you do not have insurance, please visit K & K Insurance for low cost policy options. 

• All students must have valid physical exam completed by authorized medical personnel in order to participate in athletics.
• Only the Birmingham approved physical form can be used for clearance. 
• All questions on the form must be answered, and doctors must stamp, date and sign the forms. 
• Tryout eligibility requires the completion of a physical exam before the first tryout date. Please see the tryouts webpage for more information. 
• Cleared physicals are valid for one year from the date of the examination. 

• Completed physical forms must be submitted via the Athletic Clearance website at the time you are registering your athlete.  

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