Summer Camps (Rule 30-1-6):

Article 6: No school organized spring or summer practice or school-organized summer camps shall be permitted. (See Rule 20-1-1e, Awards )

a. A football, volleyball or basketball coach may be present only as an observer, participant or staff member at camps provided the attendance of athletes he/she would be coaching the succeeding season does not make up more than 10 percent of the total camp enrollment. The coach may not organize or administer such a camp.

b. In addition to the above, a coach may organize and administer a one-week (per sport) camp for his/her players only, provided the following guidelines are met:

1. The school shall not be involved other than to approve the use of facilities, dates and to be assured by the coach there will be no violations of KSHSAA rules and/or regulations.

2. It shall be conducted following the conclusion of the second semester and before Sunday of Standardized Calendar Week #5.

3. School uniforms or player equipment may not be used. If school facilities (gymnasiums, fields, balls, mats, etc.) are used, the coach must lease them per board of education policy

4. No coach or other school representative may require or by implication direct a student to attend a sports camp as a condition of team membership the following year.

5. A student shall not receive pay or expenses for working at a camp involving a sport in which he/she participates.

6. The camp program shall not include any type of competition with teams of another camp.

General questions

1) Q: Is the 10 percent rule/provision in effect at any camp where a football, volleyball or basketball coach is a member of the camp staff?

A: YES, revisions in KSHSAA rules made in 1996 codified in 30-1-6 all provisions relevant to a school coach(es) participation in a summer camp which included any athletes they would be coaching the next school season. A school coach may serve as a member of the summer camp staff provided students he/she would coach the following season do not make up more than 10 percent of the total camp enrollment (registration). Thus, a coach working at a camp with a total enrollment of 100 may not have more than 10 of the campers enrolled from the school team they would coach the succeeding school year. In addition, the coach may not administer or help organize the camp.

2) Q: What if during the camp there were sessions or station drills during which the campers were broken into smaller groups rotating from station to station for instruction? Does the 10 percent provision apply to these smaller instructional groups?

A: NO. If a school coach was a staff member of the camp, and during the camp, specialty group sessions were conducted, a coach could work with a specialty group (i.e., linebackers, sprint relays, shooting guards, setters, etc.) even if the percentage of students in that smaller group from their school exceeded the ten percent figure.

3) Q: If a school coach is running/coaching a station drill at a camp and there are athletes they would be coaching during the school year in that drill, may the coach work with those athletes when they are in the drill?

A: YES, provided the students/campers were in a format that provided for a period of instruction that was part of a planned rotation of campers throughout other stations during that session.

4) Q: During the camp a team period or competition between teams is conducted. May a school coach meet with campers from his/her school as a group or coach a team that included athletes they would coach during the school year?

A: NO. Coaches must not coach any “teams” which included athletes from the team they would coach during the school season nor could they meet with students from their school as a team. They could coach teams competing against other teams which include players from the school team they would be coaching in the upcoming school year.

5) Q: When does a person become subject to these provisions?

A: These provisions apply when a person is either under coaching contract to a school or has an understanding with the school that they will coach at a school, these provisions apply.

6) Q: Do these restrictions apply to only the head coach or to all coaches, including coaches aides?

A: These provisions apply to all coaches, which includes the head coach, assistant coaches and coaches aides.

7) Q: Do they apply in all sports?

A: Only football, volleyball and basketball come under these rules.

8) Q: May the school provide transportation for students from their school wanting to attend a summer camp?

A: NO.

9) Q: May a school coach provide transportation to the camp for students they would be coaching the next school year?

A: YES, but the coach could not use a school vehicle for this transportation or be reimbursed by the school, or booster club for transporting the students to these camps.

10) Q: May the coach tell students which camps he/she wants them to attend?

A: NO, attendance at camps must be voluntary on the part of the student.

One-week camp for coach's players

11) Q: Does the KSHSAA Catastrophic Insurance cover the athlete, coach and/or school during these camps?

A: NO. It will be the responsibility of the coach and/or athlete to provide insurance.

12) Q: Does the week have to be consecutive days?

A: YES, the camp must be confined to a single calendar week, maximum of seven (7) days.

13) Q: What is the latest date a camp must end?

A: Sunday of SCW #5.

14) Q: May a coach charge for the camp?

A: That is a matter left up to the coach. Schools and/or booster clubs may not pay a students camp fee.

15) Q: May a school Booster Club help finance either the coaches camp or provide financial assistance to a student wanting to attend a camp?

A: NO, a booster club is synonymous with a school.

16) Q: May a coach include attendance at their camp as a condition for lettering, or to determine starting positions on the team?

A: NO, attendance at all camps must be on a voluntary basis. A coach may not directly, or by implication, require a student to attend their camp.

17) Q: May a coach use another coach (college coach, from another middle/junior high or high school) to help at the coaches one-week summer camp?

A: YES, this is the coach's camp. They may have other coaches or individuals assist at their camp.

18) Q: There are 5 football coaches at our school. May each coach have their own one-week football camp?

A: NO. Only one camp per sport is allowed.

19) Q: Should the “assurances” as listed in KSHSAA Rule 30-1-6b (1-6) by the coach be in written form?

A: This is a matter to be determined by the local school.

20) Q: May the coach have his camp at a site other than their school?

A: YES, but all provisions pertaining to these camps apply wherever they are held.

21) Q: Can the camp permit scrimmages?

A: NO. Competition with other camps is prohibited. Intra-squad scrimmage within the camp is allowed.

22) Q: May the camp use the school's team equipment (balls, dummies, rebounder, pitching machine, wrestling mats)?

A: YES , but not player equipment (helmets, pads, etc.)

23) Q: May the school compensate the coach either directly or indirectly for holding the camp?

A: NO, if the school compensated the coach it would then be the school's camp and not the coach's camp.

24) Q: Who may attend the coaches camp?

A: Only those students who have attended or are presently enrolled at the school which employs the coach may attend that coach's camp.

25) Q: If a student attended a camp and subsequently transferred to another school, would that be a violation of the rule?

A: NO, a coach may only have a camp for his/her athletes. If the student was enrolled at the school that coach is employed by at the time the camp was held, even if they later transferred, that student could attend that camp.

26) Q: A student moved into an area during the summer months and has not yet enrolled at any school. Several coaches in the area are conducting one-week summer camps. Which camp(s) may this student attend?

A: The student may attend only the camp conducted by the coach of the school in which he/she is enrolled or pre-enrolled.

27) Q: May a student who has graduated from the middle/junior high school attend a camp offered by a high school coach and another camp offered by the junior high school coach?

A: When a student is promoted from the middle/junior high school, they become a high school student and would only be permitted to attend the camp offered by the high school coach.

28) Q: The girls basketball coach at the high school is also the boys basketball coach at the junior high school. When they conduct their one-week summer basketball camp, may girls from the high school and boys from the junior high attend the same camp?

A: NO, the camp must be available to students from a single group or team. The coach could conduct a one week camp for the high school girls and the following week for the junior high boys or could conduct a one week camp for the high school girls from 9 a.m. to noon and a one week camp for the junior high boys from 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. (for example) but the two camps could not be conducted at the same time.

29) Q: The high school girls basketball coach is also the girls junior high basketball coach. During the one week junior high camp may girls from the high school come to the junior high camp to demonstrate drills, or serve as clinicians for the junior high camp?

A: YES, provided the camps occur during the same one-week period and both camps are administered by the same coach, otherwise, no.

30) Q: Could the high school football coach and the high school volleyball coach from the same school combine their two camps by having their camp during the same week or conducted at the same time?

A: YES

31) Q: Are their stipulations or restrictions on how many hours a day the camp may last:

A: NO

32) Q: May the coach provide a T-shirt to those students attending the camp?

A: YES, but the shirt may not identify the camp as the school's camp, it is the coach's camp.

33) Q: May the coach provide “awards” to those students attending the camp?

A: The only awards that could be provided would have to be in compliance with the provisions of KSHSAA Awards Rule 20 . The coaches camp would be governed by the provisions of Article 3: Outside agencies-non-school participation.

34) Q: May a school refuse to lease their facilities to a coach for use during the one-week summer camp?