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May 4, 2009
GREENSBORO — The Page High School football team has a reason to celebrate this week; the N.C. High School Athletic Association concluded that the school will not have to forfeit any games or return playoff revenue after an ineligible player was found on their roster.
Page reported the violation to the NCHSAA last week, and according to The Greesnboro News & Record, the Association's decision was announced to Guilford County Schools on Friday.
The News & Record report stated that no school employees will be punished.
The outcomes suggest that the ineligible player may have faked his residency status, leading Page school officials to believe he was supposed to attend their school.
Guilford County Schools' Nora Carr, the chief of staff for the system's superintendent, told the News & Record that she could not reveal the identity of the student because of student privacy laws.
The situation has become very complicated.
Last week, Patricia Hughes told the News & Record that the ineligible player was her son, Gabe King. King, one of the state's top defensive linemen, played the previous year at Northern Guilford, but his parents lived in Winston-Salem. King lived with his sister in Greensboro.
NCHSAA rules prohibit students from living with anyone other than their parents or legal guardian to play sports at a particular school.
Hughes told the newspaper that King lived with a Page assistant coach on some weekends last summer.
Guilford County Schools is also investigating possible ineligible players at Northern Guilford High School where the athletic director, principal and head custodian were pressured into resigning.
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