O.K. Conference At Risk Programs

At risk programs would be defined as those programs which may or may not be sponsored by a school from year to year for a variety of reasons.  When a school is scheduled into a division in a sport and hen is unable to honor heir commitment, it presents scheduling problems for the remaining schools in that division.  Therefore the following procedure is being proposed to address this concern.

At Risk Procedure

If a school commits a sport for scheduling in the O.K. Conference and then is unable to honor the commitment for two (2) consecutive years, the sport for that school will be dropped from the scheduling procedure for the following year.  Commitment would involve beginning and completing the season for that particular sport.  If a school is dropped from a sport and the following year they feel that they can sponsor the program again, they will submit a written petition to return on a non-divisional basis and member schools will schedule that school on a non-division basis to provide competition.  After a school is dropped from a sport and they go through two (2) consecutive years, beginning and ending the season on a non-division basis, they will be returned to the division schedule in good standing.

If a member school is unable to provide both varsity and jv teams in the three (3) mandatory sport offerings for Male and Female the school could be dropped from the league/division schedule in that sport. Each division could allow a waiver to that school for up to two years before being dropped from the schedule for one of the mandatory sport offerings