UAAP board says UPIS cager exceeded four-year rule
MANILA, Philippines - The UAAP board yesterday stressed that it declared a player from University of the Philippines Integrated School as ineligible following “an elementary violation of a long-standing rule on eligibility.â€
In a statement released yesterday, the UAAP board maintained that UPIS’ Joshua General has consumed his four-year playing eligibility with UPIS and the league. Under “Other Requirements†of the Player’s Eligibility rule of the UAAP’s Rules and Regulations in its Articles of Incorporation and By Laws, “A [High School] athlete shall have a maximum of four playing years within five [High School] years reckoned from the academic year of elementary graduation.â€
General graduated in elementary at 11 at the Naga Parochial School in Camarines Sur in 2008. He attended San Beda Taytay for his freshman year as a high schooler but dropped out in October of school year 2008-2009.
General enrolled the following school year at Lourdes School Mandaluyong not as a high school freshman but as a Grade Seven student and graduated a second time in elementary in 2010. He then enrolled at UPIS for his high school in 2010-2011 school year.
According to Season 76 secretary-treasurer Ma. Luisa Isip of Adamson University, it starts counting a player’s eligibility from his first graduation as an elementary student – in General’s case from 2008 at the Naga Parochial School.
The UAAP board has sought its members from UP – Chancellor Caesar Saloma and Prof. Ronualdo Dizer – to initially inquire into the General issue after his eligibility was questioned despite the fact that the season has already started, and based its decision on their report.
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