Temporary restraining order will allow athlete to compete – and forbids AHSAA from declaring a forfeit if he does.
A Montgomery, Ala., Circuit Court judge on Sept. 5, 2024, has OK'd a temporary restraining order that would allow a recent transfer to Marbury High to play football and ruled that the AHSAA Transfer Rule be suspended. This file photo from 2021 shows Marbury in action against UMS-Wright.
The complaint also raises a larger issue that could change the face of cheerleading in AHSAA schools. Currently, cheerleading is not a sanctioned AHSAA sport and therefore any cheerleader who transfers is immediately eligible to compete in cheer tournaments. Kidd argues that the transfer rule, which was adapted before cheerleading had competitions and requires the transferring student to sit out of competition for a year, should not exempt cheerleaders now.
Kidd’s son, Watson Troy Kidd, transferred from Prattville High School to Marbury after his freshman year, the attorney said. The Autauga County Board of Education has a school choice policy that eliminated school zones within the county. Kidd said in his 11-page complaint to the Circuit Court, that Marbury High School principal Bill Harris had been told by an AHSAA investigator that a Marbury student who transferred to Holtville High “should not be immediately eligible to play varsity athletics. In direct opposition to their own internal findings, the AHSAA did not declare the student athlete ineligible for violating the AHSAA Transfer Rule.
“The reason they give for cheerleaders being exempt is that they don’t compete. When the rule was written, that was true, but now they compete at a high level. Several schools take their teams to national competitions at Daytona Beach or Orlando at Disney World.”
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