{"id":396195,"date":"2024-05-22T18:50:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T18:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=396195"},"modified":"2024-05-22T19:03:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T19:03:53","slug":"tennessee-high-school-will-forfeit-all-their-2023-wins-due-to-an-ineligible-athlete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=396195","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee high school will forfeit all their 2023 wins due to an ineligible athlete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/sports\/high-school\/2024\/05\/21\/darell-keith-fired-clinton-football-tennessee-high-school-tssaa\/73789494007\/\">Tennessee high school football team<\/a> is paying the price for fielding an ineligible student-athlete last year.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton High School (Clinton, Tennessee) fielded a player during the 2023 season who was academically ineligible to play. According to reporting from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvlt.tv\/2024\/05\/21\/clinton-high-school-forfeit-all-2023-football-wins-playing-ineligible-athlete-after-grade-changing-accusations\/\">WVLT 8<\/a>, the student-athlete in question &#8220;did not earn the required number of credits the previous school year to be academically eligible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/tssaa.org\/\">Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association<\/a> (TSSAA) has ordered that Clinton vacate all their wins from last season. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/tn\/clinton\/clinton-dragons\/football\/schedule\/\">The Dragons<\/a> finished the 2023 season with a 6-7 record.<\/p>\n<p>The violation was reported to the TSSAA by the school.<\/p>\n<p>The fielding of an ineligible player continues a rough stretch for Clinton High School.<\/p>\n<p>Principal Dan Jenkins resigned last month amid allegations of teachers reportedly fixing grades. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/sports\/other\/two-teachers-fired-principal-resigns-amid-grade-fixing-investigation-in-anderson-county-schools\/ar-BB1mrZnP?ocid=BingNewsSerp\">WBIR television in Knoxville<\/a> reported that a teacher &#8220;told investigators she believed Jenkins asked her to change grades for students to improve the graduation rate for Clinton High School.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Darrell Keith, the head football coach, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/sports\/high-school\/2024\/05\/21\/darell-keith-fired-clinton-football-tennessee-high-school-tssaa\/73789494007\/\">did not have his contract renewed<\/a> for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>A Tennessee high school will forfeit its wins from last year due to an ineligible student-athlete.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=396195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396196,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396195\/revisions\/396196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=396195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=396195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=396195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}