GENERAL INFORMATION

● Each SGIS member school is responsible for sending a representative to the Spring and Fall SGIS Sports Directors' Meetings.

● Each SGIS Sports director is responsible for confirming their tournament hostings for the next school year at the Spring SGIS Sports Directors' Meeting.

Each SGIS Sports Director is responsible for registering their intent to participate in each SGIS tournament for the upcoming school year at the Fall SGIS Sports Directors Meeting. If a Sports Director is unable to attend the Fall meeting, then they must submit their intentions in writing to the SGIS Sport Chair prior to the meeting.

• If a tournament is deemed to be oversubscribed by the tournament host and would not fulfil the minimum requirements for playtime, two divisions will be considered and a second host school may be required.

● Only SGIS affiliated schools may participate in SGIS tournaments.

● All SGIS schools are guaranteed entry of at least one team into a SGIS Sports

Tournament if they have registered their intent in the fall meeting. The host school is to get priority for a second team and then it will be based on first come first served in regards to second team requests. Some of the bigger one day tournaments have been expanded to two days in order to make it easier for host schools to accommodate more teams and not lose the quality of the tournament.

● Division two is for all teams not entering an SGIS tournament on the grounds that they don’t consider their standard high enough to compete. In the main tournament this can also include B teams. Division two teams cannot be a school's top team.

● Each SGIS member school is obligated to host at least one SGIS Sports tournament each year.

The recommendation is to host:

One (1) SGIS tournament if participating in 1-10 SGIS tournaments

Two (2) SGIS tournaments if participating in 11-20 SGIS tournaments

Three (3) SGIS tournaments if participating in 21-30 SGIS tournaments

● If there is a special circumstance that stops a school from fulfilling this, then the AD must speak to the SGIS Sports Chair at the Fall AGM. Furthermore, it is possible that schools without facilities can use another school's facility in order to host their tournament.

● By accepting to host an SGIS sports tournament, the responsibility is on the school and the sports director of that school. Hosting schools must be fully committed and prepared to assist visiting school in the following ways:

Recommend adequate accommodation for all travelling schools.

Supplying suitable refreshments at the sporting facility when possible. If not possible, host schools must give plenty of warning to the attending schools.

Providing professional medical/first aid personnel.

● SGIS Sports have a seasonal sporting approach, allowing for stronger competitions. The sports generally fall into the following seasons:

Fall: soccer (indoor & outdoor CAT D – CAT A), volleyball, cross country and unihockey (floorball).

Winter: basketball, skiing, badminton, swimming, primary indoor football.

Spring: tennis, golf, track and field (athletics), primary outdoor soccer and volleyball Cat C and D (dance and gymnastics to be reviewed).

The SGIS tournament will happen within the seasons allocated above. There is one SGIS championship tournament for every sport. Due to the seasonal and historical nature of category A basketball, there are two SGIS championships: one in fall and one in winter.