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Show Student athletes must live with families, state board rules decisions in previous cases. Nevertheless, the board did clarify its residency requirements Jan. 31 by ruling that if a student had been living with both parents prior to a move he would be expected to live with both parents after the move. Littleford said that the board's decision would have no impact on games played before Jan. 31. In other words, South Summit's 1984 state football championship was not in jeopardy. Questions about McKee's academic aca-demic eligibility had also been raised by the Region 1 1 board of managers. However, Littleford said South Summit was found to be "in complete compliance" with the state's scholastic rule. Wilkie said the state board planned no punitive action against South Summit. "The board was confident that Mark Iittlefield had acted in good faith, he said. However, Park City High School Principal Jack Dozier said such action could still be taken by tne Region 1 1 board of managers. "It will be interesting to see if the j board thinks this is an honest error, " he said. by David Hampshire The board of directors of the Utah High School Activities Association (UHSAA) ruled Jan. 31 that two South Summit High School athletes will not be allowed to compete in UHSAA sponsored events until their families comply with residency requirements. The board's action came on the heels of a similar decision by the board of managers of Region 11, which is composed of the principals of the 1A (small enrollment) schools in Northern Utah. According to David Wilkie, assistant executive director of the association, the board concluded that the two athletes, Todd McKee and Shannon Bearden, had not complied with the transfer rule and would not be eligible until their families had joined them in the district. Both students are recent transfers from Cyprus High School in Magna. Bearden played on South Summit's football team last fall and both he and McKee were playing on the varsity basketball team until Region 11 ruled them ineligible Jan. 29. State rules require a student athlete to be enrolled in the school district where his parents live. The charge was made that both families continue to live in the Salt Lake Valley and have simply rented apartments for their sons in the Kamas area. ilowever, South Summit principal Dr. Mark Littleford told the UHSAA board of directors Jan. 31 that the fathers of both boys were legal residents of the South Summit School District. He said he believed this would satisfy residency requirements require-ments based on an interpretation of the rules he received from the executive director of the UHSAA. "Since South Summit High School acted in good faith in seeking and complying with the executive director's dir-ector's interpretation, they were not accountable for the misinterpretation of the rule which was furnished to them by the executive director and his assistant," Littleford said in a prepared statement delivered to the Record Monday. (A complete text of Littleford's statement will be reprinted re-printed next week as a letter ot the editor. ) However, Wilkie strongly disagreed dis-agreed that there had been any misinterpretation of the rules. He said the interpretation provided to Littleford was based on board i f i- .. i "r : 'JhtW iiX A-iwwB - '.v , .. H... , . . 'i il - A 1 ' fV 7 f ''- ft I ; A. J-uuft ; m ' " t Til tfr yy v i H "L - - nr-r? Mi -? I :... - X. - n m |