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Beamer’s Davis back for fifth year
September 25th, 2009 at Fri, 25th, 2009 at 10:22 am by caseyolsonI wrote a story for Saturday’s edition of the Mirror about Beamer’s 6-foot-8 Kevin Davis being cleared to play basketball during his fifth year of high school by the West Central District.
http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/south_king/fwm/sports/61364577.html
Davis was a first-team, All-SPSL South selection a season ago after leading the Titans to their first-ever berth into the state basketball tournament. Davis averaged 16.3 points, 15. 3 rebounds and 4.1 blocks a game. The return of Davis makes Beamer one of the favorites in the SPSL and the state.
Davis is also the latest in a long line of high-profile basketball players from the Federal Way school district to ask and be granted a fifth year of eligibility. Decatur rode fifth-year senior Marcus Tibbs last year to the SPSL South Division title and a third straight trip to the Class 4A State Boys Basketball Tournament.
According to the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) handbook, a hardship exists only when some unique circumstances concerning the student’s physical or emotional status exist and only when such circumstances are not the result of acts or actions by the student or family unit. Usual maturation problems or family situations that do not cause severe and abnormal emotional problems and academic or athletic deficiencies in a school’s curriculum or extracurricular activities do not constitute a hardship.
What is your opinion on the proliferation of fifth-year seniors, especially in Federal Way? If they have a legitimate hardship in their lives, should they be given another year of eligibility? Or do you think every kid goes through hard times and they should just be allowed to compete in sports through their actual senior year of high school?
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