<p>In the article it mentioned that only 18 states grant access to high school sports for homeschoolers. Luckily we live in one of them. My son has competed on the high school team all four years. He won his events at the state meet and last week the principal introduced him in a school wide assembly to celebrate it. He even has a letterman’s jacket for this high school. They put his picture up on the gym’s wall-of-fame. It’s all kind of funny… being that he’s a homeschooler. However he did represent the school, and has been the backbone of the team for some time now. He’s even been the team captain for the last two years, as well as the representative to the student athlete leadership team. The coach and the athletic director have been so sweet telling him how sad it is that this is his last year.</p>
<p>The other night he was asked to appear at a school board meeting to represent his team getting a statewide honor related to their GPA. (I have no idea how his, such as it is, would be factored into that equation.)</p>
<p>He competes in a club team year-round, so it’s not like the high school was essential to him athletically, but it’s been fun for him. Not quite so serious as the club training and competitions.</p>
<p>A couple kids on the high school’s snowboarding team are homeschoolers too.</p>