Our coaches need to get outside of the state and see what is going on out there! I went to the USA Folkstyle Nationals two weeks ago where there were 30 plus Iowa high school coaches in the corners for their kids. There were ZERO Kansas coaches! What does it take to wake up the dinosaurs on the KSHSAA board?
Will if that is the case, that 30-plus Iowa high school coaches were in the corners for their kids at Nationals, then they were doing so in violation of the following rule (taken directly from Iowa High School Athletic Association handbook):
COACH-ATHLETE CONTACT (“Camps & Clinics Rule”) & OPEN GYM
281-36.15(6) Summer camps and clinics and coaching contacts out of season.
a. School personnel, whether employed or volunteers, of a member or associate member school shall not coach that school’s student athletes during the school year in a sport for which the school personnel are currently under contract or are
volunteers, outside the period from the official first day of practice through the finals of tournament play. Nor shall volunteer or compensated coaching personnel require students to participate in any activities outside the season of that coach’s sport as a condition or participation in the coach’s sport during its season.
If what you saying is accurate, I'm sure the IHSAA and the administrators of those schools would be very interested in who they were. This rule is taken extremely seriously in Iowa.
