Several high school athletes are fighting to be able to play sports their senior year after a change in the eligibility rules left them on the sideline, according to WNCN.
One of those students is Jessica Norman, a senior at Olympic High School in Charlotte. Norman was told she can't play soccer.
She took two advanced placement classes and one math class last semester. But since those AP classes are year round, she doesn't get credit for them until the end of the year. Therefore she doesn't have the three credits she needs to play.
“I feel like my heart is breaking. I have been playing with these girls since elementary school,” Norman said.
Norman wasn't told the AP classes wouldn't count, and her mother is upset about the ruling.
“I have a daughter that could have graduated in December, could be in college now, but she wanted to play soccer and that dream is being taken away from her," said Jessica’s mother, Cheryl Norman.
The rules changed in July, but Norman, who is one of at least three Olympic students having the issue, signed up for classes in May.
The Charlotte school system said it is investigating. The N.C. High School Athletic Association, in a statement, said, "It is unfortunate that these student-athletes are ineligible to participate in the spring semester of their senior year, and the NCHSAA does not address credits in its rules in any way. But, the state does address that a student-athlete must take and pass a minimum course load in order to be eligible in the next semester.”
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