Does the IAAM have rules prohibiting the recruitment of girls who are enrolled at conference-affiliated middle schools?
I would guess not much can be enforced. They have not committed to a high school or played a game in conference yet. Once a parents submits an inquiry to a school the coach can then talk to a family.
On the boys side coaches can’t speak to kids who are enrolled at conference middle schools.
So for example, on the girls side, the coach for SPSG can’t talk to NDP MS girls.
Unless they have submitted an inquiry. If not, it’s a fineable and suspendable violation…
The technical answer is easy to find in the the IAAM handbook:
2. It is considered appropriate for a school’s admissions department to provide a student information about its school; however, coaches and other members of a school’s athletic department are prohibited from contacting or communicating with a student or the student’s parents/guardians until such time as an inquiry regarding the student’s possible admission to the school has been initiated by the student’s parent/guardian through the admissions department. This policy does not preclude attendance by coaches or member school representatives to non-high school athletic events for the purpose of screening prospective student athletes. On the occasion that a prospective student athlete or her parents seek information from a member school’s representative attending a non-high school event, the school’s representative may answer preliminary questions about the member school. The school’s representative should indicate to the prospective student athlete and her parents that further contact by an athletic department representative cannot be made until the admissions department at the member school is contacted by the parents.
3. IAAM schools may not initiate contact or “recruit” middle school students who are enrolled in other IAAM schools, while the students are representing their IAAM school.
So they can't recruit while they are representing their IAAM school, but otherwise, fair game if the family has showed interest. So, if OP is asking on their own behalf, submit and inquiry. If you're asking because someone at your middle school is getting recruited, I wouldn't assume the family hasn't showed interest in some way shape or form and just hasn't felt the need to inform you.
