Athletics

A student participating in sports at Stadium must have a complete valid physical form on file in the athletic office BEFORE they will be allowed to participate. Tacoma School District recognizes a physical as valid for 13 months from the date of the physical exam, unless otherwise limited by physician. 

Physical Form

Physical Requirements:

• Physical must be submitted in a PDF format - no photos (jpg, png, gif, etc.)
• Physical must have a stamp from the provider/clinic/doctor/ARNP
• Physical must include language that specifically states the student is:
  • Cleared for sports/athletics, or
  • No physical restrictions, or
  • Recommended for full participation

Foreign Exchange Students - Physicals from your home country will be recognized/accepted provided the form includes similar language referenced above.

Completed physical forms may be:

• Emailed to StadiumAthletics@tacoma.k12.wa.us, or
• Uploaded to Final Forms, or
• Faxed directly to the Athletic Department at 253-571-3112

We are very excited to announce that the Tacoma Public Schools Athletic Department has partnered with Final Forms, an online forms and data management service. Final Forms allows you to complete and sign athletic participation forms for your students. The most exciting news is that Final Forms saves data from season-to-season and year-to-year, meaning that you will never need to enter the same information twice! Final Forms also pre-populates information wherever possible, for each of your students, saving you time. You may review your data at any time to verify it is current. You will be required to sign your forms once per year and after any update.

This is the registration process for ALL ATHLETES, regardless of Running Start, Homeschool, Private School or Alternative School enrollment. However, you will need to complete the relevant Running Start, Homeschool/Private School/Alternative forms within Final Forms online registration.

SAMI/SOTA/IDEA Students, you need to contact the Stadium Athletic Director prior to online registration. This does not roll over in the Final Forms system and must be done annually.

In order to register you must confirm your account using the link provided in the Final Forms email. If you did not receive an email from Final Forms or the link has expired, please contact the Stadium Athletic's Department at StadiumAthletics@tacoma.k12.wa.us

Stadium Athletics receives emails from students and parents needing help with various issues related to logging into their Final Forms accounts. Unfortunately, we do not have a list of usernames and passwords or a way to reset passwords. However, here is a list of what may be causing issues and possible resolutions:

• TPS (eSP) & Final Forms are not communicating.
  • Tacoma Public School students must use their school email for Final Forms. If you (student) have changed your HAC contact email to a personal address (Gmail, Yahoo, etc.), you need to change it back to your assigned school email address.

• The student has never logged into Final Forms.
  • The student will need to confirm their account. Students need to login to their Office 365 account (same username and password needed to login to a school computer). Once confirmed, athletes should go to Outlook email where they will find their Final Forms Account confirmation link. If they cannot find the email, the Athletic Director can resend a link to confirm their account.

• Parent has never logged into Final Forms.
  • They need to confirm their account. Parents should search their email for a Final Forms confirmation email. If parents cannot locate their confirmation email, they will need to contact the building Athletic Director to confirm the email address Tacoma Public Schools has is correct. We can then resend a confirmation email.

• Parent or athlete have logged in but forgot their password.
  • Please use the “Forgot your Password” feature on the Final Forms login page.

If the parent does not have a valid email in eSchoolPlus (HAC) there will not be an account for the student. Parents need to update their email with the school’s Registrar and the Athletic Director.

Homeschooled, Private School, Alternative Education students will need to have an account created for them. Please contact the Athletic Department at StadiumAthletics@tacoma.k12.wa.us

Athletic and Activity Code - Attendance Policy

The opportunity to participate in the interscholastic athletic programs and activities is a privilege. Participants in this voluntary program are expected to conform to specific conduct standards established by the principals, athletic coaches and activity advisors. A student who is found by a staff member of the student's school to be in violation of any rules is subject to removal from the team/activities.

The following rules shall be applicable for a sports/activity season:

A student must be in school on the day of the activity and attend all classes to participate in the activity. This rule may be waived only by the principal or designee for reasons including, but not limited to, verified medical appointment [prearranged with AD] or verified family emergency.

Stadium Running Start students are eligible to participate in sports at Stadium. Please complete the WIAA Contract for Running Start students within Final Forms or by using the link below.

WIAA Contract for Running Start Students

Running Start Students: it is your responsibility to provide current grades/transcripts to the Athletic Director at required/requested Academic check intervals.

After both the student and the guardian have signed the form, the student will give their form to their counselor. The counselor will verify credits and give the form the Athletics Office for processing.

You must be enrolled in/or the equivalent of 2.5 credits (minimum) per semester to be eligible for athletics.

Homeschool students residing WITHIN Stadium's boundary are eligible to participate in sports at Stadium.

Private School students are eligible to participate in sports at Stadium IF they reside within Stadium's boundary AND the sport IS NOT offered at their school.

Alternative Education students (Insight and/or students on Trimesters) residing WITHIN Stadium's boundary are eligible to participate in sports at Stadium.

Please complete the relevant form posted below and contact the Athletic Department at StadiumAthletics@tacoma.k12.wa.us for instructions.

Homeschool, Private School Student and Alternative Education Students: It is your responsibility to provide current grades/transcripts to the Athletic Director at required/requested Academic check intervals.

After registering with, attending, or participating at another high school or changing enrollment to/from another school district to Tacoma/Stadium causes you to be a Transfer Student.

Transfer students are ineligible for varsity competition for one calendar year unless the transfer is based on a bona fide change of residence which includes an actual physical relocation of and with the entire family unit. There are other circumstances that may apply.

A transfer student may appeal his or her eligibility if there is a hardship. Please contact Stadium Athletic Department for specific circumstances at StadiumAthletics@tacoma.k12.wa.us.

Once you are successfully enrolled at Stadium and your host parents have a HAC login and password please register online with Final Forms.

Complete the forms below and send to StadiumAthletics@tacoma.k12.wa.us.

Please contact Stadium Athletics for more information regarding protocols and return to play rules.

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