SECTION 13—LIMITED TEAM MEMBERSHIP
SECTION 13 (A)—A student who, after practicing with or participating in an athletic contest or scrimmage as a member of a high school athletic team, participates in any athletic competition not sponsored by his or her school in the same sport during the same season, shall become ineligible for a minimum of the next three (3) days of competition and maximum of the remainder of that season in that school year. The following exceptions to this Regulation will apply:
1. Ice hockey and all individual sports will apply the limited team membership rule from the point of a student’s first participation in a contest or scrimmage, rather than practice.
2. During a season an individual may participate in a maximum of two (2) individual sports meets or contests in that sport while not representing his or her school. An event held on consecutive days is considered a single meet (for the purposes of this section only).
a. Points earned, weight established, times or records established shall not count toward any qualifying requirement for MHSAA meets or tournaments.
b. Meets or tournaments entered under the above provisions shall not affect the number of games, contests, or days of competition specified for each school team and individual under Regulation II, Sections 10 and 11.
SECTION 13 (B)—A student shall not compete at any time in any sport under MHSAA jurisdiction in any of the following events: (1) Any event which is or purports to be an “All-Star” contest, regardless of the method of selection; (2) “All-Star” fund-raising events or similar exhibitions if they involve contestants other than the students and faculty of that student’s school; (3) Any event which is or purports to be a national high school championship, or the qualification thereto. Participation in such a contest by a high school student shall cause that student to become ineligible for all interscholastic athletics for a maximum period of one year of school enrollment from the date of the athlete’s last violation of this Regulation.
SECTION 13 (C)—A student may participate as an individual at any time without loss of interscholastic eligibility:
1. As a member of a National Team, (and the actual, direct tryouts therefore), which is defined as one selected by the national governing body of the sport on a national qualification basis either through a defined selective process or actual tryouts for the purpose of international competition which requires the entries to officially represent their respective nations, although it is not necessary there be team scoring by nation; or
2. In an Olympic Development Program, which is defined as a training program or competition:
a. conducted or sponsored by the United States Olympic Committee (USOC); or
b. directly funded and conducted by the USOC member national governing body (NGB) on a national level (e.g., NGB national championship competition and the direct qualifications therefore); or
c. specifically authorized by a national governing body involving only athletes previously identified by the NGB as having bona-fide potential for participation in international competition in the sport involved.
Provided in (1) and (2):
a. participation, if during the school year, is approved by the student’s high school principal, and the state high school association is notified in writing by the principal at least 30 days prior to the start of the program; and
b. the student makes prior arrangement to complete missed academic lessons, assignments and tests before the last day of classes of the credit grading period in which that student’s absence occurs; and
c. the student misses no state high school association-sponsored athletic event involving a team in that sport.

INTERPRETATIONS—SECTION 13
128. A. The purpose of Section 13 (A) is to limit a students athletic competition to his or her high school team during the season of the sport concerned. The purpose of the exception to this regulation is to allow individual athletes reasonable opportunities to participate in non-school competition important to their continued development in the sport.
B. The regulation is violated in its purpose when coaches arrange these outside opportunities to allow athletes to exceed the maximum days of competition permitted under Regulation II, Section 11. School personnel cannot plan or supervise these events.
129. Outside competition usually involves league, tournament or organized play or when admission is charged.
130. Regulation baseball and softball are not considered as identical sports. A student may represent the high school in baseball and that same student may play on an outside softball team during the same season, and vice versa, without incurring ineligibility in either sport. Fast pitch and slow pitch softball are considered to be different sports, as they relate to this rule.
131. Insofar as this Regulation is concerned, indoor soccer is interpreted to be the same as outdoor soccer, indoor track and field the same as outdoor track and field, and roller hockey is considered ice hockey if the standard ice hockey stick and/or puck is utilized.
132. A member of a school’s interscholastic team may not participate in either a school or non-school 3-on-3 (or more) competition in that sport during the MHSAA season for that sport without loss of eligibility under this Regulation.
133. A member of a school’s interscholastic swimming, cross country or track team may participate in a non-school triathlon during the MHSAA season for those sports without loss of eligibility under the Regulation.
134. Participation as members of class, intramural, student-faculty, or club teams composed exclusively of students and faculty members playing within that senior high school is not regarded as outside competition.
135. A season in any sport ends when the last athletic contest or scrimmage is played in that sport by the school team during that school year. If a student plays on a non-school team at the conclusion of the season for his/her level, that student is ineligible for the remainder of the season for other levels of that team.
136. The phrase “next three (3) days of competition” means the next three days of competition after the school becomes aware of the violation.
137. An “all-star’’ team is one whose membership is elected by ballot, or by any organization, league, newspaper, radio/television station, or by any similar method or agency, and which is composed of outstanding competitors from two or more high school teams. Alumni games are not considered “all-star” games but must be counted as a scrimmage or contest.
138. An “all-star” contest is one which is called “All-Star” and/or in which there is participation by one or more “all-star” teams.
139. Underclassmen shall not compete in “all-star’’ contests in any sport under the jurisdiction of the Michigan High School Athletic Association.
140. If there is no limit to the number of people invited to a tryout, or if the tryout is performed throughout a non-school season (such as summer American Legion baseball), athletes may be selected for and compete on teams on the basis of those tryouts without violating the “All-Star” Regulation. To meet the requirement of an open tryout, notice must be provided in at least two different public media, or at least twice in the same public medium, at least seven days prior to the tryouts.
141. If based on performance during a camp open to all students, then students may be selected for and compete in feature contests at the end of that camp. However, it is a violation of the all-star regulation to invite a limited number of students to a camp on the basis of their demonstrated interscholastic ability, place them on teams and play games between those teams.
142. If a non-school tournament host posts times, heights, distances or scores that qualifiers must achieve to enter a competition which is not counted as one of the allowable contests or days of competition for the school or individuals involved, all who meet the standards must be allowed to compete; and if they compete as individuals and are not placed on teams (such as North vs.. South; class A vs. classes B, C, D; Michigan vs.. Ohio, German Nationals, etc.) they will not violate the “All-Star’’ Regulation. However, if only the top several qualifiers are allowed to compete, they will violate the “All-Star” Regulation even if they compete as individuals.
NOTE: The above does not apply during the school season in meets sponsored and conducted by schools and counted as one of the allowable contests or days of competition by all schools and individuals.
143. A national high school championship includes any athletic event, regardless of title, which attempts to draw to it or its qualifying rounds only the top place winner or winners from more than one state high school association championship meet.
144. The exception of Section 13 (C) applies to the requirements of Section 1 (A), Section 8 and Section 13 (A). Students returning from National Team competition and Olympic Development Program activities must adhere to all other sections of this Regulation.