Trumbull judges rules player ineligible at Warren JFK
Staff report
WARREN
A judge in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court has ruled that a Warren John F. Kennedy High School sophomore who transferred from Bristol High is ineligible to play sports at Kennedy this year.
Isaac Carrino, who relocated with his family to Bristolville in July 2011 for family reasons, attended Bristol High School last year.
But his family felt Isaac would receive better academic, spiritual and social opportunities at Kennedy, according to a lawsuit.
The Ohio High School Athletic Association, however, ruled that Isaac didn’t qualify for an exemption from a rule requiring him to sit out of athletics for a year.
The OHSAA said in a letter to JFK High School that the reason was the association had been told by Bristol administrators that Isaac’s transfer was “clearly motivated by athletics.”
The OHSAA bylaws say an exemption from sitting out a year can be obtained if the change of schools “is not athletically motivated.”
Judge John M. Stuard issued his ruling in the case the same day he had an evidentiary hearing.