Four Glencoe transfer student-athletes and their families are frustrated after the OSSAA ruled the students have to sit out this basketball season.

This was the OSSAA’s initial decision, but the students appealed it, and the board voted to deny that appeal in a meeting on Wednesday.

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An OSSAA investigator says the four boys not un-enrolling from their previous schools before coming to Glencoe violates what’s called the “linked rule” because the kids attended a team camp.

The “linked rule” refers to connections students have with a coach outside school, including being coached by them on a club team, going to a sports camp, or players following a coach to a new school after playing for him or her at the old school.

Attorneys for the school and families say there is nothing in

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