14 Del. Admin. Code § 1035-2.0 - Definitions
The following words and terms, when used in this regulation, shall have the following meaning:
"Board" means the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association Board of Directors established pursuant to 14 Del.C. Ch. 3.
"Competition" means a contest between schools in which student athletes compete.
"Event" means an invitational, meet, or tournament.
"In-Season" means the period of time from the beginning of the season until the last scheduled date for DIAA championships for the sport's season.
"Member School" means a full or associate member school of the DIAA.
"Practice" means working on skills for a particular sport within a single team at a Member School as guided by coaches and includes team workouts and inner-team scrimmages.
"School day" or "School days" means actual school attendance days during the regular academic school year including a partial day that students are in attendance at school for instructional purposes as adopted by the district or governing body of the school not to include weekends, holidays, summer school, etc.
"Scrimmage" means an informal competition between schools in which a final score is not kept, the time periods are permitted to be modified, the results of the competition are not reported to the media, the coaches are permitted to interrupt the play to provide instruction, and the competition is strictly for practice purposes.
"Unified Partner" means a student who is not identified as a Unified Athlete, is enrolled at a DIAA Member School, and does not appear on any school eligibility report submitted to DIAA for a non-Unified school team in the same sport.
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