 Hello and welcome to the North Carolina School of Science and Math, Parent, Guarding, and Information video for athletics. This video is going to help you make it more familiar with the different things we have in athletics to walk you through eligibility, athletic training, and different items to talk about our sports that we offer here at the School of Science and Math. I'm Greg Jarvis, the Athletic Director. Terry Lynch is our Vice Chancellor of Student Life, and Thomas Michelle is our Athletic Trainer. He's in charge of all of our athletic training and the different things you need in sports medicine. And our coaching staff is also available on gounies.com. You can go there and get their contact information, as well as my contact information. Anybody else on the staff? We have 19 varsity sports. We offer men's and women's basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, swimming and diving, tennis, track and field. We also have baseball, cheerleading, softball, volleyball, and wrestling. We are a member of the Northern Carolina 2A conference. There's eight schools in this conference. They're all northwest of here, actually northeast of here. Bunn, Durham School of the Arts, Franklinton, South Granville, Southern Vance, Roanoke Rapids, and Warren County. We do follow the rules of the High School Athletic Association as being a part of it. There are a lot of things we want to stress within our athletic programs. We want to compete with integrity, respect, and unity. These are values that we want our coaches and our administrators and all of our students and student athletes to show every day when they're in practice and within school and their personal life, as well. Talking about integrity, that's our core. You're only as good as you are in the different actions you have. Respect, that includes sportsmanship and how you treat your coaches and your parents and your officials. Unity, that's all working as a team. We all want to work as a team to get to that goal that we want to get to. As a part of the High School Athletic Association, we are bound by the sportsmanship policy they have in place. We fully back that here at the School of Science and Math. You can find this on the Athletic Association website as well as gounies.com to get more information about it. It helps cover our spectators, our parents, our student athletes, things they should do on the court and also off the court with other teams. To be a part of our city sports and to be eligible, you must have a current sports physical on file. That must be submitted to the clinic. You also must have a sickle cell submitted to the clinic as well. You must also have permission for intersclassic sports. That is done on focus. You must also pick the sport that you want to have permission for. I would recommend checking off as many of those as possible in focus just so you don't have to worry about it later. There's also a concussion statement that you must fill out and Coach Michelle will talk about that in a minute but that must be turned in by the student athlete when they show up on campus. There's also a high school eligibility form that the juniors fill out. That must be done as well and that's also on focus. In addition to the paperwork and medical clearances, students who represent the School of Science and Math must be academically and disciplinary eligible. To be academically eligible, any trimester grade of a D or U or any two grades below a C will place a student on academic probation. Disciplinary, level three violations may include banning of participation in interscholastic athletics or representing the school in any official manner. Any student on academic probation or disciplinary consequences could also possibly permit them from not playing on interscholastic competition for the School of Science and Math. Students can request a review of grade by their instructor and any review of their athletic eligibility can be requested by the Vice Chancellor for Student Life. More information on these requirements can be found on the gounies.com website on the physical activity and wellness handbook that's listed there. And now we're going to move on to talk about athletic training.