Sports: Athletic Commission (NCHEAC)
It is a goal of NCHE to provide homeschool athletes with the opportunity to participate on a high school level team similar to what they could experience if in a private or public school. To that end, we established North Carolinians for Home Education Athletic Commission (NCHEAC). NCHEAC operates under NCHE to provide leagues and tournaments in the traditional high school sports.
Distinctives
Our homeschool teams consist of only homeschooled athletes and are primarily coached by homeschool parents, many of whom have high school and/or college experience. We follow the rules of the National Federation of State High Schools Association (www.nfhs.org) and have a level of competitiveness found on many school teams while preserving a high level sportsmanship . We have a level of competition which exceeds recreational sports but does not place undue travel demands on families involved with “travel ball” teams.
To be eligible to participate in an NCHEAC team or sport, students must be in compliance with North Carolina homeschooling law which defines a homeschool as “a nonpublic school consisting of the children of not more than two families or households, where the parents or legal guardians or members of either household determine the scope and sequence of academic instruction, provide academic instruction and determine additional sources of academic instruction” (quoted from the NC DNPE website).
For more information and guidelines, see Rule Clarification and the “Definition of a Homeschool Athlete” section 2 of the NCHEAC Handbook.
NCHEAC.COM
For comprehensive conference and league information, included stats, visit ncheac.com