Co-Curricular Eligibility

Participation in a co-curricular activity provides wholesome, rewarding, and stimulating opportunities for the young men attending O’Dea. Co-curricular opportunities offer students the occasion to develop initiative, leadership, and responsibility. From these experiences a student can build character and skills needed to lead successful and productive lives consistent with the Essential Elements of a Christian Brother Education, The Profile of an O’Dea Gentleman, and the Mission of O’Dea.

Participation is co-curricular activities is voluntary and considered to be a privilege. Co-curricular eligibility shall align with, but is not limited to all Washington Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) rules and regulations. Nonparticipation due to ineligibility means that an O’Dea student may not participate in an O’Dea athletic contest, Esperanza, drama production, music performance, or similar co-curricular activities. In addition, a student may not hold a leadership position in campus ministry, student government, or a student organization.

A list of students not eligible for participation in cocurricular activities will be published and distributed to the appropriate the faculty and staff members at the conclusion of each academic quarter. An interim grade report will be published and distributed at the midpoint of each academic quarter. It is the responsibility of the Assistant Principal for Student Services to monitor the publication and distribution of these reports.

The Principal may make exceptions to the eligibility policy if circumstance warrant. No other faculty or staff member may make an exception to the policy.

Loss of Co-Curricular Eligibility

A student will become ineligible for participation in co-curricular activities on the second Monday following the completion of an academic quarter based upon one or more of the following three scenarios.

1. A student who earned three or more quarter grades of “D” is not eligible for participation in co-curricular activities.
2. A student who earned two quarter grades of “D” and one quarter grade of “F” is not eligible for participation in co-curricular activities.
3. A student who earned two quarter grades of “F” is not eligible for participation in co-curricular activities.

Re-establishing Co-Curricular Eligibility

A student may regain eligibility for participation in co-curricular activities at the conclusion and at the midpoint of each academic quarter if one or more of the following conditions are satisfied.

1. If a student’s interim grades are satisfactory, he may regain eligibility for co-curricular activities on the Monday of the sixth week of the academic quarter.
2. If a student’s first quarter interim grades are satisfactory, he may regain eligibility on the last Saturday of September.
3. Eligibility for the first quarter may be regained by successfully completing an approved course of study. Approval for such a course must beobtained from the Assistant Principal for Student Services.
4. A student’s first and second semester grades may be substituted, in their entirety, to determine eligibility.

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