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Sportsmanship/Ejection Policy

Officials have been instructed to notify the principal of the school from which an ejection has occurred for the following to be enforced. The school athletic director will fill out and send the WCPSS Middle School Sports Coach/Player Ejection Report to the System Athletic Director.

This policy applies to all persons involved in athletic contests, including student-athletics, coaches managers, and game administrators. The following examples include behavior or conduct which will result in an ejection from a contest:

fighting, which includes, but is not limited to, combative acts such as:
- an attempt to strike an opponent with a fist, hands, arms, legs, or feet
- an attempt to punch or kick an opponent, regardless of whether or not contact is made
- an attempt to instigate a fight by committing an unsportsmanlike act toward an opponent that causes an opponent to retaliate
- leaving the bench area to participate in a fight (contact or no contact)
taunting or baiting
profanity, directed toward an official or opponent
obscene gestures, including gesturing in such a manner as to intimidate
disrespectfully addressing or contacting an official

Penalty for an ejection for the above reasons:

for a first offense:
1. Football, the person shall be reprimanded and suspended for the next game at the level of play (varsity, junior varsity, or middle/jr.high) and for any intervening games at any level;
2. All other sports, the person shall be reprimanded and suspended for the next TWO games at the level of play (varsity, junior varsity, or middle/jr.high) and for any intervening games at any level;
for a second offense:
the person shall be suspended from all sports for the remainder of the year.
Teams in the following situations will not be allowed to participate in Tournament play (or the remainder of the season for those who do not play a tournament):
- a team whose players and coaches accumulate six or more individual ejections during the regular season.
- a team whose players and coaches accumulate more than three individual ejections for fighting during the regular season.

Note: Penalties are cumulative from sport to sport and sport season to sport season. Ejections in the last game of the season carry over to the next sport in which the individual participates that year. Ejected players may practice but not play. Ejected coaches may not be on the premises for a contest. If no member of the school's coaching staff is present to assume an ejected coach's duties, the contest shall be terminated by a forfeit.