Athletics

Athletic Eligibility

Participation in athletics at Bullis is both a privilege and a responsibility. As members of a Bullis athletic team, student-athletes are expected to make a personal commitment to represent Bullis in an exemplary fashion and to follow rules of training and conduct necessary to maintain strong, healthy minds and bodies. Because student-athletes are in a highly visible position requiring leadership and responsibility, they will be held to a higher accountability of conduct and behavior than students who choose not to participate in interscholastic athletics. Athletic consequences, therefore, will be implemented in addition to any recommended by the Conduct Review Board (CRB).

The following rules apply to all students participating in interscholastic athletic activities or attending team-related activities, including out-of-season camps or tournaments. These rules apply at all times throughout the school year, beginning with pre-season tryouts, extending to the last day of school, and including any summer team-related activities.

Drugs, Alcohol and Tobacco

Student-athletes shall not use or possess tobacco products, drugs, alcohol or performance enhancing drugs such as steroids, whether it occurs on or off of school property or at a Bullis school function.

Consequences for violations of the Drug, Alcohol, and Tobacco Policy:

1st Offense:

  1. The student-athlete will be suspended from interscholastic competition for one week. (one or two games)
  2. The student-athlete will lose any leadership position on the team for the remainder of the season.

2nd Offense

  1. The student-athlete will be dismissed from interscholastic competition for the remainder of the season.
  2. The student-athlete will be required to attend substance-abuse counseling as recommended by the school.

Academic Eligibility for Upper School Students

Student-athletes must maintain a cumulative average of 70 and have no failing grades in a marking period. Grades will be reviewed after the official submission to the upper school office at each mid-trimester and again at the end of each trimester, a total of six times each year. All student suspensions will be initiated on the day that grades are reviewed.

Consequences for violations of the Academic Eligibility Policy:

  1. The student-athlete will initially be suspended from interscholastic competition for one week. (one or two games)
  2. The student-athlete’s academic performance will be reassessed after one week and will be based on grades, effort, teacher comments, and other necessary indicators of progress. Students will become eligible as soon as teachers report that the student is successfully passing all classes or when they have demonstrated through effort grades and teacher comments progress towards improving his/her overall performance.

Academic Eligibility and Attendance Requirement for Participation in Middle School Sports/Activities

  1. Any student absent from school for three or more periods in any school day is not eligible to participate in any athletic contest, practice, student activity or program that day. Any part of a period beyond two periods counts as the third missed period. This policy is subject to the discretion of the Middle School principal and the athletic/musical director.
  2. Middle School students must maintain an average of 70 percent and have no failing grades in a trimester to participate fully in our athletic programs and the Middle School musical. Grades will be reviewed at the mid-trimester and again at the end of each trimester. If a student does not meet the academic criteria, the teacher, advisor, student, parents and the learning specialist will meet to determine an improvement plan. This may include meeting with the teacher or the learning specialist, during the 1:55-3:30 p.m. sports/musical time period until the academic average is brought up.

Sportsmanship

Bullis student-athletes are expected to display appropriate conduct and sportsmanship at all times through the season.

Consequences for violations of the Sportsmanship Policy:

  1. If a student-athlete is ejected from a game, he or she will be suspended from the next interscholastic competition.
  2. If a student-athlete is ejected from a second game for unsportsmanlike behavior during the same season, he or she will be suspended from the next two interscholastic competitions.
  3. Any player ejected from more than two games for unsportsmanlike behavior during one season will be suspended for the remainder of the season and will lose the opportunity to receive any post-season honors.

Individual league policies in boys’ soccer (IAC) and boys’ ice hockey (IAC) meet or exceed the consequences detailed in (1) above and thus supersede the Sportsmanship Policy in the case of a single ejection. The Sportsmanship Policy applies to all student-athletes in cases of two or more ejections in a single season.