NAC386.802. Academic eligibility: Courses and units of credit.

     1. For each semester a pupil participates in a sanctioned sport, the pupil must enroll in a course of at least two units of credit consisting of at least four classes and regularly attend a school. The pupil must successfully complete a course of at least two units of credit for the immediately preceding semester. If a pupil fails to complete successfully the course for that semester, the pupil is ineligible to participate in a sanctioned sport for one semester unless, for the grading period for the first 9 weeks of the semester that is conducted immediately after that semester, he or she receives a passing grade for the two units of credit for the grading period, at which time he or she becomes eligible to participate in a sanctioned sport for the remainder of that semester.

     2. A pupil may enroll in a course for one unit of credit for each semester he or she enrolls in a correspondence course or attends any summer school, night school or any other school, including, without limitation, a postsecondary educational institution, and receive credit for the satisfactory completion of that course toward the satisfaction of the requirements for academic eligibility if the principal of the school in which the pupil is enrolled indicates in writing that the course qualifies for credit for the pupil’s requirements for graduation.

     3. Any course taken or unit of credit received by a pupil pursuant to subsection 2 becomes a part of the pupil’s academic record and, after the grade for the course or unit of credit is recorded on his or her transcript, applies to the requirements for academic eligibility to participate in a sanctioned sport.

     4. A school shall ensure that each course or unit of credit in which a pupil who participates in a sanctioned sport is enrolled is reviewed in accordance with the provisions of NAC 386.804, 386.805 or 386.806, as adopted by the school pursuant to the provisions of NAC 386.803, to determine academic eligibility to participate in the sanctioned sport.

     (Added to NAC by Nev. Interscholastic Activities Ass’n by R206-03, eff. 11-2-2004; A by R147-10, 5-5-2011; R128-13, 6-23-2014)