Dual Participation in Swimming for Kansas

The following section of section of HB2182 discusses the dual participation rule adopted for Kansas as related to swimming.  Many people have worked hard for this over the past few years to see this through.  Take the time to read it.

New Sec. 35. The Kansas state high school activities association

and its member high schools, and administrators, principals, coaches,

teachers and other affiliated with such association and member high

schools, shall not adopt any rules and regulations or interpret any

existing rule and regulation in any manner which would prohibit a

student athlete from training with any Kansas state high school league sponsored

sport or competition while the student athlete is participating

in nonschool swimming athletic training or diving athletic training, or

both, during the high school sport season and throughout the year if:

(a) The nonschool swimming athletic training or diving athletic

training, or both, is under the jurisdiction of and sanctioned by the

national governing body of the sport, U.S.A. swimming, inc., or U.S.A.

diving, inc.; and

(b) the student athlete meets the reasonable and ordinary school established

requirements for participation in the student athlete's high

school swimming program or diving program, or both.