Student Transfers Eligibility

The NCAA is expected to allow Washington football players with two years of eligibility or less to transfer without penalty if they so desire, Pacific 10 Conference officials said Monday. The NCAA's transfer waiver rule will probably apply to Washington, although sanctions against the football program were meted out by the Pac-10. The rule allows athletes to transfer with immediate eligibility to other Division I schools when their program has been sanctioned for rules infractions.

For six years, Beth Cirilo's three children went to school where they were supposed to, in Hawaiian Gardens. But as the Long Beach woman got more involved in the school at the southern edge of the ABC Unified School District, she didn't like what she saw: Her fifth-grade son caught a classmate with a knife, few showed up at Parent-Teacher Assn. meetings and teachers seemed to spend more time dealing with discipline than education.

Derya Buyukuncu, a sophomore swimmer at Woodbridge High School, has been ruled ineligible, Southern Section Commissioner Stan Thomas said Wednesday. Southern Section officials ruled that Buyukuncu did not meet transfer requirements. Woodbridge might have to forfeit three dual-meet swim victories. Athletic Director Dave Cowan said school officials were re-scoring all the meets in which Buyukuncu competed.

The NCAA is expected to allow Washington football players with two years of eligibility or less to transfer without penalty if they so desire, Pacific 10 Conference officials said Monday. The NCAA's transfer waiver rule will probably apply to Washington, although sanctions against the football program were meted out by the Pac-10. The rule allows athletes to transfer with immediate eligibility to other Division I schools when their program has been sanctioned for rules infractions.

For six years, Beth Cirilo's three children went to school where they were supposed to, in Hawaiian Gardens. But as the Long Beach woman got more involved in the school at the southern edge of the ABC Unified School District, she didn't like what she saw: Her fifth-grade son caught a classmate with a knife, few showed up at Parent-Teacher Assn. meetings and teachers seemed to spend more time dealing with discipline than education.

Derya Buyukuncu, a sophomore swimmer at Woodbridge High School, has been ruled ineligible, Southern Section Commissioner Stan Thomas said Wednesday. Southern Section officials ruled that Buyukuncu did not meet transfer requirements. Woodbridge might have to forfeit three dual-meet swim victories. Athletic Director Dave Cowan said school officials were re-scoring all the meets in which Buyukuncu competed.