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TPS: 37 Booker T. Athletes Were Ineligible
posted 11/04/09
3:45 pm
 Click here to read today's press release from Tulsa Public Schools regarding the new violations. |
The sports in question are softball, volleyball, cross country and football.
The violations will result in the forfeiting of four volleyball matches -- including the 2009 Regional Volleyball Championship and win over Tahlequah in the state tournament.
The Hornets had already forfeited two district football games against Hale and Pryor and now it will also have to forfeit their 90-0 win over Miami after the school revealed that 16 athletes were academically ineligible.
The softball team is required to forfeit nine varsity victories and three JV wins.
The district says one cross country runner was ruled academically ineligible, but no races were impacted and no forfeits were necessary.
Kevin Burr is the Tulsa Public Schools Area Superintendent of High Schools. He says he and administrators are aware the ripple effect the violations have on other OSSAA schools.
?We are aware of our responsibilities to our honorable association with the OSSAA,? said Burr. ?Allowing ineligible
athletes to participate put BTW at a competitive advantage to other member schools that chose to participate by the
guidelines we all agreed to. We have a responsibility to athletes of competing schools as well as our own."
The district's investigation revealed that the Booker T. Washington principal, athletic director and assistant athletic director failed to conduct weekly scholastic eligibility checks that the OSSAA requires.
Wednesday, Principal Michael Johnson's request to be transfered from the school to another site in the district was granted by TPS Superintendent Dr. Keith Ballard.
Former BTW Principal and current McLain co-principal James Furch has been selected by Ballard to serve on a temporary, short-term basis.
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