ATHLETE ELIGIBILITY FORMS

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Welcome to the new athletic paperwork process for your student-athlete. ALL student-athletes must complete this new process and be cleared prior to participation for in-season conditioning, tryouts, practices, and athletic contests as well as out-of-season conditioning.

Go to AthleticClearance.com and choose Florida.

1. PARENTS register with a valid email username and password.

2. Login using the email address that you registered with.

3. Select “Start Clearance” to start the process.

4. Choose the School Year: 2023-2024.

5. Choose our School: Highlands Christian.

6. Choose Sport (pick the sport your child wants to participate in for the fall, winter, or spring season. You can add additional sports later).

7. Complete all required fields for Student Information, Educational History, Medical History, and Signature Forms. Note: During this process, you will confirm that your student-athlete has watched the 3 NFHS Learn Courses (Concussion in Sports, Heat Illness Prevention, & Sudden Cardiac Arrest). These courses are available here.

8. The following forms need to be printed, filled out, and uploaded during this process. *Recommendations on how to upload documents are below.

   1. “Physical Form” aka FHSAA EL2 physical will need to be uploaded. Athletic Clearance website will say “Physical Form” and that is when you will upload the FHSAA EL2 (all three pages as one document *instructions on how to do this at the bottom of this document).

   2. “Proof of Insurance” will need to be uploaded. That is where you will upload a picture of your health insurance card. Health insurance is mandatory by the FHSAA in order to play sports in Florida.

   3. “Upload Concussion Certification” and “FHSAA Required Video Certificate” will be used to upload an NFHS course certificate from completing the required video courses in #8 above (or an additional form option if needed).

   4. “Additional Form” may be used to upload the GA4 form, any of the homeschool forms, or page 2 of the EL2 form if uploading later.

9. Once you have completed the required fields and uploaded the required forms you will be returned to the ‘clearances’ page where you will be able to view the status of your submission. You will begin with an ‘uncleared’ indicator. Once your submission has been reviewed and approved by the athletic office your status will change to a ‘cleared’ indicator. It is at this point that your student is ready to participate in athletics.

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR #9: Forms to be printed and uploaded:

1. “Physical Form” – print the FHSAA EL2 pages 1-3. Fill out completely, have the physician sign and date. Upload to your computer. “Additional Form” – print the GA4 page (and EL7 & 9 if you’re a homeschool student), fill out, and upload to your computer as ONE document (instructions below).

2. Please do NOT use the “documents library“ feature rather use the “choose file” button.

3. We recommend that you download the “Genius Scan“ app (below) to your phone for scanning your EL2 and uploading it to your computer.

*If you do not know how to upload a document to your computer or merge multiple pages into a single document, we would recommend the following:

1. Print the forms you need and have them completely filled out. Download the ‘Genius Scan’ app to your phone.

2. Using the ‘Genius Scan’, take photos of the completed form combining into one pdf file (for the FHSAA EL2 do not forget doctor’s signature!).

3. Follow prompts on ‘Genius Scan’ to email pdf file to your personal email account.

4. Log in to your email account on your desktop / laptop computer.

5. Open email from ‘Genius Scan’ and save pdf file attachment to your desktop.

6. Upload it to Athletic Clearance when prompted on the ‘Step 1-Student Information Uploads’ page by clicking on the ‘choose file’ and selecting the pdf file from your desktop.

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