Eligibility

PLAYER ELIGIBILITY GUIDELINES

Eligibility Status

  • Students educated per the South Carolina Code of Laws 59-65-40, 59-65-45, 59-65-46, or 59-65-47 or via the virtual school method per the South Carolina Code of Laws 59-16
  • Students educated per the South Carolina Code of Laws 59-40 (Charter Schools) provided their athletic director or principal provides documentation certifying the school does not offer the sport in question and gives permission for the child to participate
  • Students educated in a private school provided their athletic director or principal provides documentation certifying the school does not offer the sport in question and gives permission for the child to participate
  • For Students in counties that border South Carolina, the above eligibility rules would apply as appropriate for their home state
  • An academically ineligible player may not take part in practice sessions. Once a student has enrolled as a full-time student (more than twelve hours) at a post-secondary institution, he or she is no longer eligible to participate in a Member Organization. A public or private school student who has been unable to maintain academic eligibility is ineligible to participate in interscholastic activities as a student in a Member Organization for the following semester
  • if an athlete chooses to play for the local school in a sport, he cannot play for PAC in a different sport 
  • if an athlete tries out for a public school sport and doesn’t make the team, he/she cannot try to get on a PAC team once tryouts are over in the same sport they tried out for at the local school
  • if an athlete plays for a local school one year but the next year he/she wants to play for PAC, he is eligible
  • if an athlete plays for PAC in a sport and wants to play another sport at another time, but PAC doesn’t offer it, he/she is able to try out at the local school 
  • an athlete that plays for PAC is free to participate in any other extracurricular activity at the local school as long as it is not a sport offered at PAC 
  • Public schooled students are ineligible for PAC sports, regardless if the sport is offered at their school or not **An exception has been made for boys volleyball from 2023-2025 to allow the sport to become established in the state among public high schools

Playing for PAC and local school

Team Participation Guidelines for PAC Sports

 Specific participation opportunities and restrictions.

PAC is in compliance with (Save Women's Sports Act) https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess124_2021-2022/bills/4608.htm. *Please note that sports with * are not currently functioning at this time. If you are interested in directing a sport that is not offered, contact Jennifer Aurednik at pacpanthers09@gmail.com for more information.

Football: PAC Sponsors a boy's team in football. Girls may not participate on the football team.

Wrestling: a co-ed wrestling team will be added in the fall of 2024.  Parents will sign a form stating that they want their students to only wrestle opponents that are his/her biological sex/gender-specific team (girls on the girls’ team, boys only play on the boys’ team) or they will allow their student to wrestle either gender in the appropriate weight class.

Volleyball: Students may only participate as his/her biological sex/gender

*Girl's Golf: PAC does not sponsor a fall season only for biological girls. A boy may not compete on the girls’ golf team for any reason. Currently, girls are allowed to play both seasons (spring season one tee box is utilized)

Boy’s Golf: PAC allows for girls to participate as members of the spring boys’ team.

Cross Country: A student may only participate according to his/her specific biological sex/gender when participating on these individual/team sports.

Basketball/Soccer: If PAC sponsors both a boy's and girl's team, students may only play for his/her biological sex/gender-specific team (girls on the girls’ team, boys may only play on the boys’ team). If PAC only sponsors a boys’ team, then female students may play on the boys’ team. A boy may not compete on the girls’ team for any reason.

Cheerleading (sideline): PAC sponsors a biological girl’s only sideline cheer team.

*Tennis: If PAC has a boys (spring) and girls (fall) team, students may only play for his/her biological sex/gender-specific team (girls on the girls’ team, boys may only play on the boys’ team). If PAC only sponsors a boys’ team, then female students may play on the boys’ team (spring). A boy may not compete on the girls’ team for any reason. The Committee reserves the right to allow girls dual-season participation in order to salvage a boy's team.

Baseball, Softball: If PAC sponsors both a baseball and girl's softball team, boys may only play on the baseball team and girls may only play on the softball team. A boy may not compete on the biological girls’ softball team for any reason.

Bass Fishing: If PAC sponsors a bass fishing program, both boys and girls may participate.

PAC’s policies are designed so that all students are able to compete on a level playing field in a safe, competitive, and friendly environment, free of discrimination. PAC’s rules and regulations are intended to provide every student-athlete with equal opportunities to participate in athletics. A student shall participate based on the gender noted on the student’s certificate of birth. The Certificate of Birth is defined as 1. It must be an original certified document. 2. It must be obtained from the state, county, or city government in which the student was born. 3. It must include the given first and surnames. 4. It must be legible and unaltered. PAC leadership (directors, coaches, managers) will only use pronouns for a player or parent in/ accordance with their biological sex/gender at birth.  All PAC participants will address all other PAC participants according to their biological sex/gender and will not be forced to use "preferred gender" pronouns.

***All those who choose to participate in PAC recognize that PAC Leadership adheres to the following Statement of Faith and that these beliefs will be emphasized during practice and games.  PAC understands that participants may hold other beliefs but PAC leadership will not conform to alternative lifestyle beliefs or adjust the way they conduct their training in order to appease someone's alternative lifestyle and beliefs that may not align with the Statement of Faith below.  PAC will allow all who are eligible to participate if they agree to adhere to the PAC standard and character expectations while at practice and at games.  There will be no solicitation or promotion by displaying identifying symbols on personal bags/equipment, at team events, or in team chats of one's alternative lifestyle or gender dysphoria to other PAC participants.

Leadership Statement of Faith

We believe the Bible is the inspired Word of God, without error in the original writings, the complete revelation of God’s will for the salvation of men. All scripture, living and powerful, is profitable to teach true doctrine, for reproof and correction, and to instruct us in a life of righteousness. (2 Peter 1:20-21, 2 Timothy 3:16-17, Hebrews 4:12)

 

We believe in one God, eternally existent in 3 persons:  Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – the same divine nature (Gen. 1:26, Deut. 6:4, Isaiah 45:18, Matt. 28:19, II Corinthians 13:14, 1 Peter 1:1-2, Jude 20-21).

 

We believe that salvation is by grace (Ephesians 2:8).  The conditions of salvation are confession of sins and belief in Jesus Christ, who knew no sin, but died a substitutionary death on Calvary for the whole world, being made sin for us (Romans 8:32, John 3:16).  He arose bodily from the grave, ascended into heaven, and is now our Advocate and High Priest at the right hand of the Father (John 11:25-26, 1 Cor. 15:1-4).

 

We believe that men are justified by faith and are accounted righteous before God only through the merit of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ (Romans 10:17, Romans 5:1-2, Romans 3:21-26, Acts 16:3, Acts 20:21). 

 

We believe that our lives are to be an expression of our faith through holy living and righteous works which God planned from the beginning for those who accept His gift of Salvation. (Ephesians 2:1-10)

 

We believe that God wonderfully and immutably creates each person as male or female. These two distinct, complementary genders together reflect the image and nature of God. (Gen. 1:26-27) Rejection of one’s biological sex is a rejection of the image of God within that person. (Matt 19:4)

 

We believe that the term “marriage” has only one meaning: the uniting of one man (genetic male) and one woman (genetic female) in a single, exclusive union, as delineated in Scripture. (Gen. 2:18-25.) We believe that God intends sexual intimacy to occur only between a man and a woman who are married to each other. (1 Cor. 6:18; 7:2-5; Heb. 13:4) We believe that God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of a marriage between a man and a woman.