 Hello and welcome to the North Carolina School of Science and Math, the parent guardian information video for athletics. This video will 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, and Dr. Joanne Barber is our vice chancellor for student life. She's also in charge of athletics above of me, 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 and 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 that 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. You can 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. And 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. A participation in inter-scholastic athletics are representing the school in any official manner. Any student on academic probation or disciplinary consequences could also possibly permit them from not playing on inter-scholastic 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. The athletic training room, I actually stay at the athletic training room. I'm a certified athletic trainer. I have undergraduate students from neighboring colleges from UNC and North Carolina Central also help there. There's also a physical therapist from Duke that comes in two days a week to also help with rehabs and things like that. I work very closely with our clinic here at the school. We're about the kids make sure that we have all the kids injuries, taking care of all their medical forms and everything in water. A lot of the rehabs that your children will do will be done right here on campus this way they're trying not to miss too much school and this way I can have them here and get things done. In case there's serious injury, the athletic trainer will usually call the on-call physician, let them know what's going on and relay the information to that physician and the physician with the athletic trainer will make decision whether the child needs to go to the ER or whatever the situation to be taken. If they need to go to the ER, they will be transported by the student life instructor. I will be calling the parent personally and let them know what's going on and this way you'll be right up in the loop and the child's going to the ER, you will be able and you will go and meet them in the ER. I maintain an affiliation with Duke Sports Medicine, they're very good. Usually if there's an injury and I need to get the child in, I have them in the next day. This will be seen by orthopedics and this way we get done right away. Concussions, concussions is a very big thing today. If you notice in the paper, there's constant things going on in back concussions as Greg Jarvis told you, you will be filling out a form. It will tell you all the back concussions, all signs and symptoms. If your child sustains any suspected head injury, it doesn't have to be a concussion, it's suspected the child will be removed from that competition and will not return to that competition to seen by the physician. We actually have the affiliation with Duke that has a licensed physician in concussions who I send the children to make sure that they get taken care of. And again, I will not put your child back until I feel that your child is ready to go back there. If there is no reason to take any chance with a concussion whatsoever. We have the North Carolina law now that also stipulates this. So this is why it's so strict. It's a very good thing. I will tell you I've been involved many years. I worked with Dr. Kevin Gusquitz and UNC on some of the largest concussion studies ever. And like I said, when it comes to your child, it's better to be safe than sorry in this thing. I do not want any chance. So please do understand if your child sustains head injury, they will be removed and will not be going back in until they are cleared. If there is a return to play plan that will be done by myself, I will be the one working through them each step to make sure they can get back to return to play. And like I told you, we have a great working relationship with Duke Sports Medicine. I'm very lucky they've been very good to us. And they're always there ready to tell us, OK, yes, no, what to do. You can follow NCSSM Athletics on our website at gounies.com, on Facebook, and Twitter. Any questions you have, feel free to contact Greg Jarvis, our athletic director, his email is on the slide below. Thank you very much.