Well Mr. Sayler why don't you tell that to Mark tonight at the Classic, he'll be working it, and I will be there observing. I truly would like to see a coach try to tell him what you just said. Its fairly simple actually. A coach brings a form which lists the condition, the referee looks at the form and notices it still bleeding, oozing, etc etc. He says no. Take that to the tournament director, USAWKS, or KSHSAA and see what they tell you. I've seen it happen already Mr. Salyer and I don't even need to tell you which side won out. The skin form covers existing conditions, between the signing of that form and the time it is presented alot can happen. Granted 99.9% of the time most Officials will respect the form regardless of any doubts they might have, myself included. However should a situation as described above happen, which it has in the past, and was in favor of the official at the time, you can bet the same would most likely happen again. By the way Mr. Sayler you might also notice that the NFHS rule book does not include a time frame for which the skin form is applicable, so does that mean that it is good for the remainder of the season? No. What is does mean is that the form which may have listed valid information could may very well be invalid at the time when skin checks are performed. Which also reminds me there is no rules in USAKS by laws which state time for skin form either.

Heck I didn't even see the form of that boy at Subs but I'm fairly sure it didn't have every single lesion on it that he had on his body, it would have been utterly impossible.


William Nigel Isom
Officials Director (USAWKS)
KSHSAA #14274
USAWKS #577
Riley KS