"In the case set to be heard Dec. 1, the athlete's father, Bart Schachter, is seeking a temporary injunction that would reverse North Coast Section commissioner Pat Cruickshank's decision to deny the waiver and allow his daughter, a 15-year-old sophomore at The Branson School in Ross, to compete without restrictions in the spring track season, which begins in February."
"She was already required to sit out half of the fall tennis season. What we thought would be a fairly routine transfer turned out not to be so, said Bart Schachter, who filed the suit anonymously through his attorney and requested that his daughter's name not be used. That is the greatest hardship endured in this whole thing."
"Schachter brought the issues to administrators at UHS and later provided the documentation to the NCS in the hardship application. When the section contacted the school to verify the information, however, administrators disputed the characterization of the allegations, and the application was denied. In a correspondence to the family provided to this news organization, Cruickshank wrote that the girl was denied the student safety hardship waiver based upon no documentation from UHS of any student safety incidents while enrolled there."
A 15-year-old varsity athlete experienced alleged antisemitic incidents at University High School in San Francisco and transferred to The Branson School in Marin County. The family applied for a North Coast Section student-safety hardship waiver but the NCS denied the request after UHS administrators disputed the allegations. The denial required the athlete to miss half the fall tennis season and threatened spring track participation. The athlete's father filed suit in Marin Superior Court seeking a temporary injunction to reverse the denial and allow unrestricted competition. UHS leadership denied the allegations, and the NCS declined public comment due to pending litigation.
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