{"id":827831,"date":"2026-08-27T18:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T18:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/827831\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T18:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T18:32:11","slug":"docs-tenn-schools-breaking-rules-lead-to-fines-suspensions-playoff-bans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/827831\/","title":{"rendered":"Docs: Tenn. schools breaking rules lead to fines, suspensions, playoff bans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) \u2014 Tennessee high school athletics are not allowed to recruit student-athletes, but new documents obtained by FOX17 News show some schools are facing penalties for breaking the rules.<\/p>\n<p>Since July 1, TSSAA officials tell FOX17 News\u2019 Johnny Maffei four schools are facing different recruiting penalties. Those schools include:<\/p>\n<p>Knoxville Catholic High School (Football)Clarksville Academy (Football)Tipton-Rosemary High School (Basketball)Cordova High School (Basketball)<\/p>\n<p>Knoxville Catholic faces the harshest penalties including a fine, losing offseason practice time, a coach suspension, and a 2026 postseason ban, per TSSAA. The body says the suspended coach texted a player encouraging him to transfer.<\/p>\n<p>MORE FROM MAFFEI: <a href=\"https:\/\/fox17.com\/news\/local\/tssaa-transfer-talk-on-agenda-with-ridiculous-recruiting-violations-under-microscope\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BA, MCS, MARYVILLE FACE TSSAA RECRUITING VIOLATION PENELTIES (APRIL 2026)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clarksville Academy is losing some offseason practice time and facing fines for a coach not directing a prospective player towards admissions before dealing with athletics.<\/p>\n<p>Week 2 of the high school football season kicks off tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) \u2014 Tennessee high school athletics are not allowed to recruit student-athletes, but new documents obtained&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-827831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}