1. 2017 Principals’ and Athletic Directors’ Conference
Darren Anglin, Principal
Randolph County
Clifford Porter, Principal
Columbia HS
Jena Swindle, AD
Tuscaloosa County
Anthony McCall, AD
Montgomery Academy
Paige Faulkner, AD
Donoho School
Lorenza Pharrams, Principal
Lee HS-MGM

2. GoFan is the official provider for Digital Tickets for the AHSAA
Preptix is now GoFan

3. 1) Digital ticketing is getting simpler and simpler.
2) No Scanners needed, no cost, no hassle.
3) GoFan will set everything up for you and your school.
4) Everything can be done on a mobile device.
5) Everyone should look into this for your school.
1) Through the Huddle and AHSAA partnership, schools can get free tickets and other products for their events.
2) Most schools in the state are using this program.

4. Simple process…

5. Alabama High School Athletic Association
Finding the Common Denominator for Successful Athletic Programs
ADMINISTRATIVE LEADERSHIP

6. Strong Administrative Leadership is the Common Factor in all Successful Athletic Programs

7. The Alabama High School Athletic Association, founded in 1921, is a private agency
organized by its member schools to control and promote their athletic programs.
The purpose of the AHSAA is to REGULATE, COORDINATE and PROMOTE the interscholastic athletic programs among its member schools, which include public, private and parochial institutions. Currently, the AHSAA serves 413 senior high members and 318 junior high and middle school members with more than 150,000 students participating in athletics.

8. Article IV, Management
The management of the affairs of the Association shall be vested in a Legislative Council and a Central Board of Control. The Executive Director may act for the Board when it is not in session. The membership of the local district boards shall constitute the Legislative Council of the Alabama High School Athletic Association. All changes in the Constitution and By-Laws shall be made by this body. They shall meet annually and at such times as may be deemed necessary by the President of the Central Board of Control/Executive Director

9. AHSAA Central Board of Control
Luke Hallmark Dist. 3
Richard Brown Dist. 4
Tyrone Yarbrough
Bi-Dist. 3-4
Pamela Holloway Dist. 4
Terry Curtis Dist. 1
Trent Taylor
Dist. 2
Jerome Woods
Bi-Dist. 1-2
Larry Raines
ALSDE

10. AHSAA Central Board of Control
President
Keith Bender
Dist. 8
Thomas Jones
Bi-Dist. 7-8
John Hardin
Dist. 7
Mike Welsh
Dist. 6
Hal Riddle
Dist. 5
Van Phillips
Bi. Dist. 5-6
Lori Carlisle
Dist. 6

11. Interscholastic Athletics
Too many parents have lost sight of the real value of participation in athletics and activities – not to create future college and professional stars but to create future citizens for our great country. Our primary focus must always be the same reason that our forefathers tied activity programs to our school system— “To create good Americans, not All-Americans”.
11,000,000 participants
19,000 high schools
51 state associations

12. Most Common Factor of School Violations
Misinterpretation of
AHSAA Bylaws
If you have to read it twice
to understand;
get an eligibility ruling! 3

13. Rule VI, Administration, Section 2. Principals’ Accountability:
The principal of a school shall be held ultimately responsible in all matters that concern interscholastic athletics at his/her school.
Steve Hunter
Maplesville HS
Dennis Alvarez
Sipsey Valley HS
Cheryl Kuyk
Moody HS
Stephanie Robinson
Fultondale HS
Gary Minnick
Boaz HS
Brelinda Sullen
BTW Magnet-Tuskegee
Alvin Dailey
LeFlore Magnet HS

14. Rules Compliance
Rule II. Section 1. Rules Compliance. A superintendent or principal shall, when requested, furnish to the Boards such information as they may desire bearing upon the eligibility of contestants from his/her school. A failure to comply within a reasonable time shall forfeit a school’s membership in the Association.

15. Transfers: Overlapping school zones Custody and Legal Guardianship
Home Rule
Bona Fide Move
Non-traditional students
Academic Exceptions (IB Programs, Magnet School, etc.)
Alabama Accountability Act transfers
McKinney Vento Act

16. Rule I. Eligibility. Section 2. Enrollment:
In order to be eligible, a student (traditional or non- traditional) must be enrolled within the first 20 days of the semester as a regular student in the school systems where the student will participate.
Note: The student becomes eligible immediately at the member school that serves the area in which the student’s parents reside if all other eligibility requirements are met.

17. Rule I. Eligibility. Section 12. Transfer Rule
Rule I. Eligibility. Section 12. Transfer Rule. Overlapping School Zones:
A student whose parents reside in an area served by more than one school lives in the school zone of each school, thus in overlapping school zones. A student who changes schools within these overlapping school zones is ineligible for one year at the new school.
Note: A student that transfers from a school within these overlapping school zones remains ineligible for one year at any of the other schools within these overlapping school zones.
Note: Private and/or parochial school zone lines for eligibility purposes are limited to the municipality (city limits) in which the school is located. If the school is not located within a municipality (city limits), the school zone lines are the county system where it is located.

18. Overlapping School zones:
Example of Huntsville City:
Public HS _______ Private HS
Columbia Randolph
Grissom St. John Paul II
Huntsville High Westminster Ch.
Mae Jemison Whitesburg Ch.
Lee Madison Academy
New Century Tech
All these
schools
serve the
City Limits
of Huntsville

19. Rule I, Eligibility, Section 12, Transfer Rule, Divorce:
The eligibility of a student whose parents are divorced is determined by the following:
(a) If there has been a divorce or legal separation in a family and sole or physical custody has been awarded by the court granting the divorce to one of the parents, the athletic eligibility of the student will be established at the school that serves the area where that parent resides.
Note: If joint custody has been awarded and a transfer is involved, the student must attend the new school for one year before becoming eligible.
(b) If it becomes necessary at a later date for the student to reside with the other parent, the move will be accepted as a bona fide move if the court that granted the divorce changes the custody to this parent. This type of move will be accepted for the immediate eligibility purposes only one time. Therefore, if a student subsequently decides to return and reside with the first parent in a different school zone, the student will be ineligible for a period of one year.
Note: Only final orders of the court, signed by the applicable judge, shall be considered by the AHSAA. Petitions, temporary orders, pendente lite, etc., do not constitute a final court order.

20. Rule I, Eligibility, Section 12, Transfer Rule, Custody and Legal Guardianship:
Custody or legal guardianship assigned to anyone (including relatives) will not establish immediate athletic eligibility.
Note: (1) If a student transfers to another school zone to live with an appointed guardian without a bona fide move into that school zone by the parents, that student would be ineligible under the Transfer Rule.
Note: (2) If a student has been declared a “dependent of the state” and placed by the Department of Human Resources (DHR), that student would meet the Transfer Rule requirement in the school zone where the student has been placed.

21. Note: Only final orders of the court, signed by the applicable judge, shall be considered by the AHSAA. Petitions, temporary orders, pendent lite, etc. do not constitute a final court order.
Acceptable
Not Acceptable
Not Acceptable

22. Case Studies Related to Custody:
A student-athlete previously attended School A and lived with her mother who resides in the School A school attendance zone. On October 21, 2015, the father of the aforementioned student-athlete was awarded custody of the student and another sibling based on recommendation from DHR through an Order from the Circuit Court of Calhoun County (CCCC). As a result of this order, the student-athlete withdrew from School A and enrolled in School B where the father resides. On October 27, 2015, the CCCC awarded the father (petition for custody) temporary custody based on an Interim Order.
Ruling: Following a review of all court documents, it was the conclusion of this office that multiple custody changes occurred between 2009 and Additionally, DHR was not actively involved with the custody court hearings on October 20 and 27 and did not place the said student-athlete and a sibling in the care of the father as a dependent of the state. Moreover, both court orders dated October 21 and 27 were Interim Temporary orders pending a final court hearing held on May 6, Therefore, the student-athlete is ineligible to participate in athletics at School B.

23. Case Studies Related to Custody:
A father of the said student-athlete resides within School A’s attendance zone, and was awarded primary physical custody and control of the aforementioned student- athlete through a Divorce Settlement Agreement in the Circuit Court of Calhoun County on May 20, 2016.
Ruling: The student-athlete is eligible to participate in interscholastic athletics at School A if all other eligibility requirements are met and if this is the first modification to the parent’s custody agreement.

24. Transfers Related to the Home Rule:
Rule I, Eligibility. Section 12. Transfer Rule, Exception 4, Home Rule:
If a student attends a member school that does not serve the area where the student’s parents reside, the student may return to his/her home school and be eligible following the last day of the school year or first day of school if all other requirements are met. If the change of schools is made after the school year has started, the student will not be eligible until the beginning of the next school year. (This does not change the existing rule concerning transfers within overlapping school zones in which both schools serve the area where the student’s parents reside.)
If a student attends a non-member school, that student may return to his/her home school and be eligible at the beginning of the first or second semester if all other requirements are met.

25. Case Studies Related to the Home Rule:
A student-athlete previously attended high school A but withdrew in January 2016 to attend the IMG Academy in Bradenton, FL. In November 2016, the student withdrew from IMG and re-enrolled at high school A. The student-athlete’s mother has always resided within the high school A’s attendance zone.
Ruling: Student is eligible at high school A at the beginning of the second semester if all other eligibility requirements are met.

26. Case Studies Related to the Home Rule:
A student-athlete has been enrolled in school B’s feeder pattern and school B since kindergarten. However, during his freshman year, the student-athlete’s family moved to an area outside school B’s attendance zone, yet the student continued to attend school B. In September 2016, the student was sent to a court- ordered program; therefore, he withdrew from school B. In October, the student returned to the same residence outside the school B’s attendance zone and re-enrolled in school B.
Ruling: Student is ineligible at School B for one year from the date of his re- enrollment in School B. For immediate eligibility, the student-athlete and all principal members of his family must make a compliant bona fide moved into the area that serves School B bus zone.

27. Transfers Related to a Bona Fide move:
Rule I. Eligibility. Section 12. Transfer Rule, Exception 3, Bona Fide Move:
A student whose parents make a bona fide move completely out of one school zone into another may transfer all his/her rights and privileges to the member school that serves the area where his/her parents reside.
If the change of school precedes the bona fide move on the part of the parents, the student is ineligible until the parents make a bona fide move.
Determining a Bona Fide Move – Sometimes it is very difficult to determine what constitutes a bona fide move. Family and home conditions differ and must be considered. The following factors are basic guidelines for determining a bona fide move:
a. The household furniture of the family must be vacated into an unoccupied house or apartment.
b. All principal members of the family must reside in the new place of residence.
c. The original residence should be closed, rented or disposed of and not used by the family.
d. Nine months at the new residence will be required to make a move bona fide.
If a family moves into a new school zone and remains there for less than nine months, the move will not be considered bona fide and the family’s child who is enrolled in the new school zone becomes ineligible there the day the family leaves the new school zone
The student remains ineligible for a full calendar year from the date the family moved out of the new zone. However, if the student did not participate in athletics, the period of ineligibility will be 12 months from the date of the student’s initial enrollment.

28. Transfers Related to a Bona Fide move:
A student-athlete enrolled at School C in November Although the student-athlete and his parents do not reside within nor moved into School C’s attendance zone, the student was allowed to enroll at School C since his mother is an employee at the school.
Ruling: Student is ineligible to participate in athletics at School C for one year from the date of his enrollment.

29. Transfers Related to a Bona Fide move:
A student-athlete previously attended School A and transferred to School B on October 17, Additionally, correspondence stated School B has conducted a home visit to the new address-___________ John St. Calera, AL and the former address-999, 35th St. SW, Birmingham, AL.
Ruling: If School B has verified the student-athlete is compliant with the completion of a bona fide move, the student is eligible to participate in athletics at School B if all other eligibility requirements have been met. Please note that School B is responsible for monitoring the situation as it relates to the student-athlete’s eligibility status. If contradictory information is provided, the AHSAA will contact School B.

30. Non-residential Requirement:
Rule I, Eligibility, Section 12, Transfer Rule, Exception 2, Non-Resident Attendance Requirement: Any student, after completing one year’s attendance in a school and fulfilling all other requirements, becomes eligible in that school and the high school that it feeds in the same system. (This does not apply to foreign exchange students who participate in athletics during their first year of attendance.)

31. Rule I, Eligibility. Section 2. Enrollment Rule:
In order to be eligible, a student (traditional or non-traditional) must be enrolled within the first 20 days of the semester as a regular student in the school system where the student will participate.
Note: HOME SCHOOL STUDENTS must be enrolled at the member public school that serves the area in which the student’s parents reside and must be within the first 20 days of the semester in the public school they are zoned to attend.
Note: VIRTUAL SCHOOL STUDENTS must be enrolled at the member public school that serves the area in which the student’s parents reside and must follow all ALSDE policies. A virtual school student must be taking six new units of work through the school’s virtual program.
Charter Schools?

32. A virtual school student cannot enroll in a virtual school program under the umbrella of another school system and then enroll in the public school he is zoned to attend for athletic participation.
“A student currently enrolled in any K-12 public school, K-12 private school or a K-12 public/private facility that provides educational services shall not be permitted to concurrently enroll in another school. A student cannot be enrolled in two schools at the same time.”
----Ethan Taylor, Coordinator LEA Finance and Budget, ALSDE

33. Eligibility of Non-traditional student-athletes:
Student lives within the Elmore County School System and zoned to attend Holtville High School
Student enrolls in the Alabama Virtual Academy at Eufaula City Schools
Student is ineligible to participate in athletics at Holtville HS.
Student lives within the Carver High School attendance zone
Student enrolls in the Montgomery Public Schools’ Virtual School Program
Student is eligible to participate in athletics only at Carver HS.
Student lives within the Hoover High School attendance zone
Student is enrolled in the Valleydale Christian Academy –a cover school for people who wish to educate their children at home. Valleydale does not offer interscholastic athletics.
Student is eligible to participate in athletics only at Hoover HS.

34. Home School Criterion Assessments
End of Course Core Assessments for Academic Accountability
Scantron and the ALSDE have partnered with the AHSAA to create subject matter end of course assessments in all four core subjects. 46 tests in all: 10 for English, 14 for math, 12 for science, and 10 for social studies. The 46 unique tests will create 23 hybrid tests.
Two unique tests per grade/subject area, plus one hybrid version of those two will allow students an opportunity to take a subject area test three times if needed.
The AHSAA has requested the test window to be the last two weeks of May and the month of August as options.
*Blue Prints for each grade level and subject area may be found on the AHSAA and ALSDE websites.

35. Transfers related to IB Programs and Magnet Schools
Rule I. Eligibility. Section 12. Transfer Rule:
Note: If a Board of Education policy allows a student completing the eighth grade in a gifted program to transfer within its system to an International Baccalaureate program (IB), that student would be immediate eligibility if all other requirements are met.
Rule I. Eligibility. Section 12. Transfer Rule: Exception 1
Completion of Highest Grade Taught. Any student, upon completion of the highest grade taught in any school that offers less than the number of years required for high school graduation, becomes eligible immediately at the member school that serves the are in which the student’s parents reside if all other eligibility requirements are met.

36. Transfers related to the Alabama Accountability Act:
The AAA is a law comprised of two major parts (1) Flexibility for public schools and (2) school choice for parents.
Rule I. Eligibility. Section 19. Eligibility Rule Application:
Note: The Alabama Accountability Act of 2013 shall not affect or change the athletic eligibility rules of student-athletes governed by the Alabama High School Athletic Association. Approved transfers for athletic eligibility should be completed by Sept. 1.
A student enrolled in a school that appears on the current Failing Schools list as Defined by the AAA of 2015, may transfer to a non-failing school within the same school system and athletic eligibility will not be affected.

37. McKinney Vento Act:
The McKinney-Vento Act, 42 U.S.C. Section 11301, defines homeless children and youths as individuals who lack a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence. The Act does not define fixed, regular or adequate, but it does provide a list of these examples included in the definition of homeless:
Children and youths who are sharing the housing of other persons due to the loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason;
Children and youths who are living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due to the lack of alternative, adequate accommodations;
Children and youths who are living in emergency or transitional shelters;
Children and youths who are abandoned in hospitals;
Children and youths who are awaiting foster care placement;
Children and youths who have a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not designed for or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings;
Children and youths who are living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations, or similar settings; and
Migratory children

38. McKinney Vento Act:
In determining athletic eligibility, the overriding question is whether the child is living in a fixed, adequate and permanent residence that the parents agreed upon. If so, the child may be determined to be an unaccompanied youth, but not homeless unaccompanied youth.
Defined within the McKinney Vento Act is the condition of “economic hardship:
If economic hardship, such as an accident, illness, loss of employment, loss public benefits, or conditions of property, forces families to share housing temporarily the children and youth are eligible for McKinney-Vento services
A long-term cooperative living arrangement among families or friends that is fixed, regular and adequate should not be considered a homeless situation even if the parties are living together to save money.

39. Violations A mistake is something that happens.
Cheating and lying are not accidents, they are choices.

40. How People Treat You Is Really Who They Are
Cheaters always accuse everyone of cheating
Liars think everyone is lying
Insecure people think everyone is insecure
Hysteria-Madness

41. Recruiting:
AHSAA Handbook, Rule VI-Administration, Section 12. RECRUITING:
No person connected in any way with a school may contact a student or prospective student, or his/her parents or guardian, who resides outside of the school district to inquire or encourage them to transfer or enroll in their school for the chief purpose of participating in interscholastic athletics.
Note: This rule includes and applies to any third party “go-between” initiated by school officials.
It is permissible for a coach, or anyone else connected with a school, to talk or speak with a student(s) or parent(s) who, on their own, visit their school for any specific purpose.
Anyone connected in any official capacity with any high school who offers material or financial inducement or enticement to any student to come to that school for the purpose of engaging in athletics shall subject that school to suspension from the AHSAA.
Note: Any contact with a student (including 6th graders) enrolled in another school, including, but not limited to, phone calls, s, texts, social media, etc. is prohibited.

42. Using Social Media and other Avenues to Recruit Students
Call from:
Coach
Savage

43. Unacceptable Advertisement
Foundation
Unacceptable Advertisement
Acceptable
Advertisement

44. Rule III. Contests. Section 21. Summer Practice Rules::
Coaches are allowed to practice and hold camps with their zoned students (K-12) during the summer months (from the end of school until the starting practice date for fall sports) and use drills to teach skills.
Sports-specific mandatory practices are prohibited until the starting practice date for fall sports. No football equipment except helmets and hand-held blocking pads may be used until the starting date for fall practice. Sleds are not permissible.
Weight training and conditioning programs are not restricted. It is the responsibility of each school to see that the Summer Practice Rule is not violated.
During the All-Star Sports Week/Summer Conference (July 17-21) is DEAD WEEK:
• Weight training and conditioning programs are permissible.
• Practice and competition are not allowed.

45. Rule III. Contests. Section 16. Summer Practice Competition:
Only eligible students may participate in summer competition and/or camps under the jurisdiction of a member school.
1. A school may participate in unlimited competition and/or camps for winter and spring sports during 3 of the 4 following weeks: May 29, June 5, June 12, and June 19. Also, unlimited competition and/or camps are allowed for fall sports during 3 of the 4 following weeks: June 26, July 3, July 10, and July 24.
Note: The week of July will be a dead week for competition due to AHSAA All-Star Sports week/Summer Conference, but schools may hold sessions of conditioning and weights.
Note: Any day(s) used during an assigned week (Sunday thru Saturday) count(s) as one of the three allowable weeks. Weeks cannot be broken-up.

46. Rule III. Contests. Section 22. Camps/Summer Camps:
Students are allowed to attend camps as individuals outside the allowable three week period.
Students may attend camps provided they do so individually at their own expense.
Outside the allowable three week period, if a member school’s facilities are used by any outside entity for an event, including but not limited to, camps, showcases, combines, or individual skills development, a coach, whose players (grades 7-12) are participating in the event, may NOT work the event.
Outside the allowable three week period, players and coaches who attend camps as individuals on a college or university campus are exempt from this rule.
During DEAD WEEK, a member school’s campus may NOT be used to host an event, including but not limited to, camps, showcases, combine, or individual skills development.

47. Rule III. Contests. Section 22. Camps/Summer Camps: cont.
Note: Camps, combines, showcases, etc. involving students NOT enrolled in the school hosting the camp or school’s feeder pattern, can ONLY be held during the allowable period.
Note: Schools may not participate in a camp outside the dates of the three weeks for that sport. i.e. Basketball teams may not participate in a camp during the week of June 27.
Note: During the school year outside the sports season, coaches may only coach their own students (one coach at a time) in groups not to exceed 50% of the players required to play the game (Sec. 6 Part B) for a maximum of 2 hours per week per athlete. No two coaches may work the same sport at the same time.
Note: Weeks cannot be broken up. Any day(s) used during an assigned week counts as one of the three allowable weeks.
Note: If a coach conducts more than the allowable 3 weeks of practice competition, or violates allowable three weeks period, he/she could be restricted from coaching that team the following school season

48. Strong Administrative Leadership

49. Violations of the Throwing Period January 9-29

50. Effective Administrative Leadership
Is the Common Factor
AHSAA Fault?
Who Is Running The Show?

51. It Is Up To Us
As Teddy Roosevelt stated over a century ago: “To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
Our coaches are teachers first– they must be an extension of our classrooms where they use football, basketball, baseball, track, band, choir, theater and so on, to teach life-long values thus preparing students for the Game of Life!
As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt stated: “The foundation of every society is the education of its youth. We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.”

52. I Still Believe Schools still win with integrity.
Easter Mass
Everyone does not recruit contrary to our legislature and social media accusations.
Member schools still uphold AHSAA bylaws.
Schools still teach winning with integrity.
Life lessons are taught through sport.
Character is more important than talent.

53. Good Good coaches still build programs.
Good coaches still outcoach those not as prepared or experienced.
Good coaches teach respect.
Good schools create a family within their school community, not a school of individual programs.
Good athletic programs still honor the concept of team, not me.
Educators truly love their students.
You are doing what you do to make a difference.

54. Thank You No Matter How Demanding, How Impudent, How Problematic, How Challenging “You Make A Difference”
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life out of what we give.”
- Winston Churchill

55. Rule III. Contests. Section 22. Camps/Summer Camps: cont.
1. Coaches may coach their own school players in practice competition. Coaches may coach their own children in more than three weeks of allowable competition if none of the coach’s other players are on the child’s team.
2. Each day of practice competition in organized events (team camps, skill camps, Sports Festival, etc.) will count toward the allowable three weeks. One day used in a week counts as one of the three allowable weeks.
3. All practice competition and team camps sponsored by AHSAA member schools must include only AHSAA-member schools or schools from other NFHS-affiliated state associations. (All Team camps hosted by colleges and other outside organizations are excluded.)
Note: Practice competition against non-member schools is prohibited except in team camps hosted by colleges and universities. Member schools may not participate in practice competition against non-school teams (travel, club, etc.)
4. Practice competitions between schools are deemed to be modified or practice contests under the jurisdiction of participating schools, therefore AHSAA-registered officials are not required and National Federation rules may not apply.
5. Each school should analyze the liability issues of its practice competition and act accordingly.
6. Admission may be charged to any practice competition under the direction of the school principal.
7. Practice competition involving coaches and players in grades 7-12 (including team camps) is not allowed during All-Star Sports Week, a “dead week”.
8. Helmets and hand-held blocking pads are the only types of protective equipment that may be used in any football practice competition (includes team and individual camps).

56. Rule VI, Administration, Section 4 Contest Contracts:
The superintendent or principal shall countersign all contracts to engage in interscholastic contests. When contracting for a contest, provision must be made for a forfeiture fee to be paid by the school that fails to carry out the arrangement made. There shall be no cancellation of a contract once entered into, except by mutual agreement, unless the forfeiture fee provided by the contract is paid.
Note: If a school has a contract for a game and breaks it (by paying the forfeiture fee) without mutual agreement of the other school involved, this may count as one of the offended school’s allowed games and will be officially a forfeited game. If the game is replaced by the offended school, no forfeit will be granted. The school breaking the contract will not be allowed to replace the forfeited game.
The Central Board recommends that: (1) member schools play interscholastic athletic contests on only one night preceding a school day in any given week and, (2) contracts be used for contests in all sports.
Note: A contest starting at 5 p.m. or after is considered a night contest.

57. Winning at ALL Cost! Misconstruing the rules.
Not seeking an interpretation of a rule from the AHSAA.
Lack of respect or fear of administrators.
Mindset-Do what we want and ask for forgiveness later.
Ex--Misconstruing the rules.
Throwing Period for baseball and softball: Only balls and gloves can be used during the throwing period that begins 3 weeks prior to first practice date. No bats, no defense drills, no base-running or sliding drills, etc.
Athletic PE: Outside the season, athletic PE can only be used for conditioning and weight lifting. No balls or equipment may be used, except under the guidelines of Rule III. Section 15. Coaching Outside the Season, page 45.

58. Educational-Athletics
What you accept, you teach
What you allow, you encourage
What you condone, you own
What you grant, you get
What you sanction, you solicit
What you tolerate, you deserve
What you permit, you promote
That which you ignore, you encourage

59. Thank You!
“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.”
---Mother Teresa