GHSA aims to crack down on transfers

Per Tim Scott, Executive Director of the Georgia High School Association, nearly 5,916 of the GHSA's 462,492 student athletes were transfers across the 2024-25 season, and the GHSA wants to ensure that the integrity of academic success is not playing second fiddle to athletics.
Under new GHSA bylaws that are expected to be approved in the coming months, high school athletes who change schools twice following the ninth grade will be ineligible for one year. Additionally, other bylaws targeted towards transferring would require schools to send the GHSA official copies of driver's licenses, utility bills and lease agreements from the families of any transferring athlete in order to prove their relocation into new school zones and have given up previous residences. Any athlete who is declared ineligible under the transfer bylaws would have three opportunities to appeal to the GHSA.
Last week's vote was 11-1 among the GHSA's board of trustees, and the bylaws must be approved a second time in July before going into effect come August.