Subchapter J. NON-DISCRIMINATION in UIL
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Subchapter J. NON-DISCRIMINATION IN UIL CONTESTS Section 360: NON-DISCRIMINATION POLICY Failure to comply with the provisions of this subchapter constitutes an act or omission that is a violation of the Constitution. Except as provided for below, no student otherwise eligible under Subchapter M of the Constitution shall be denied, because of disability, race, color, gender, religion or national origin, the equal opportunity: (a) to try out for and, if selected, participate in the Academic and Music Plan contests offered by the member school district; (b) to try out for and, if selected, participate in the Cross Country, Golf, Swimming, Tennis, Track and Field or Wrestling individual Athletic Plans; except that school districts that offer any of these plans may not permit mixed plans for boys and girls; (c) to try out for and, if selected, participate in the corresponding Athletic Plans as follows: CORRESPONDING ATHLETIC PLANS BOYS’ PLANS GIRLS’ PLANS Boys’ Basketball Girls’ Basketball Boys’ Soccer Girls’ Soccer except that school districts that offer any of these plans may not permit boys to participate on girls’ teams, nor girls to participate on boys’ teams, nor permit mixed team participation; provided that if one of the following conditions exists, a female student may try out for and, if selected, participate on the corresponding boys’ team: (1) the school district does not have the corresponding UIL Girls’ Basketball Plan to the UIL Boys’ Basketball Plan it offers; or (2) the school district does not have the corresponding UIL Girls’ Soccer Plan to the UIL Boys’ Soccer Plan it offers; (d) to try out for and, if selected, participate in the Team Tennis Plan; except that school districts offering mixed or coed team tennis in which the game rules designate a certain number of team participants from each gender may not permit boys to qualify for girls’ positions on the mixed teams nor permit girls to qualify for boys’ positions on the mixed teams; (e) to try out for and, if selected, participate in the High School Football Plan or the Junior High School Football Plan; and (f) to try out for and, if selected, participate in the Junior High and/or High School Baseball Plan, however, girls shall not participate in both baseball and girls’ softball at the same time. Section 361: EXCEPTIONS TO NON-DISCRIMINATION POLICY (a) Only girls eligible under Subchapter M of the Constitution may try out for and participate under the High School Athletic Plans designated for girls’ teams. (b) Only girls eligible under the Junior High Athletic Plan may try out for and participate under the Junior High Athletic Plans designated for girls’ teams. (c) Boys shall not wrestle against girls, and vice versa. This prohibition is only applicable when the contest is held in Texas or in any other state that sponsors wrestling programs for both boys and girls. (Sections 362-379 and Subchapter K reserved for expansion.) Subchapter L. CONTESTS Section 380: LEAGUE CONTESTS AND PILOT PROGRAMS The League shall conduct: (a) annual contests, as follows: (1) Accounting (2) Art (3) Band, Concert Performance (4) Band, Music Reading Evaluation (5) Barbara Jordan Historical Essay Competition (6) Baseball (7) Basketball, Boys (8) Basketball, Girls (9) Calculator Applications (10) Chess Puzzle (11) Choir, Concert Performance (12) Choir, Sight Reading (13) Computer Applications (14) Computer Science (15) Creative Writing (16) Cross Country, Boys (17) Cross Country, Girls (18) Current Issues and Events (19) Debate, Cross-Examination (20) Debate, Lincoln-Douglas (21) Dictionary Skills (22) Editorial Writing (23) Extemporaneous Informative Speaking (24) Extemporaneous Persuasive Speaking (25) Feature Writing (26) Football (27) Football, Six-Man (28) Golf, Boys (29) Golf, Girls (30) Headline Writing (31) Impromptu Speaking (32) Latino History Essay Competition (33) Listening (34) Literary Criticism (35) Maps, Graphs and Charts (36) Marching Band (37) Mathematics (38) Modern Oratory (39) Music, Medium Ensemble Performance (40) Music Memory (41) Music, Solo-Small Ensemble Performance (42) Music Theory (43) News Writing (44) Number Sense (45) One-Act Play (46) Oral Reading (47) Orchestra Performance (48) Orchestra, Sight Reading (49) Poetry Interpretation (50) Prose Interpretation (51) Ready Writing (52) Science (53) Social Studies (54) Soccer, Boys (55) Soccer, Girls (56) Softball, Girls (57) Spelling (58) Spelling and Vocabulary (59) Storytelling (60) Swimming, Boys (61) Swimming, Girls (62) Team Tennis (63) Tennis Singles and Doubles, Boys (64) Tennis Singles and Doubles, Girls (65) Tennis, Mixed Doubles (66) Theatrical Design Contest (67) Track and Field, Boys (68) Track and Field, Girls (69) Volleyball, Girls (70) Wrestling, Boys (71) Wrestling, Girls (b) and pilot program contests as provided by the Legislative Council. The UIL administration is authorized to design, organize, and implement contests and contest rules among participant schools on a pilot program basis upon the recommendation of the Executive Director of the UIL and the approval of the Legislative Council. A pilot program shall exist for the time period specified by the Legislative Council. Section 381: OFFICIAL CALENDAR PUBLISHED Before June 1 the Executive Director shall announce the official calendar for League contests for the coming year. Section 382: RESCHEDULING CONTESTS If it appears not to be feasible to hold a contest at the scheduled place or time because of weather, facilities or other cause, the Executive Director shall determine where, when, or if the contest will be held. .