SCORES AND STANDINGS

International Schools’ Athletic Conference (ISAC)
Handbook

  1. Mission

 

Our mission is to provide regular quality athletic competition in a well-chaperoned environment for the students of international schools of Kuala Lumpur.  It is a priority to develop an authentic sports league that is meaningful through its accountability and transparency.  Authenticity and transparency is defined as a league where all events are run according to highly regulated standards and restrictions, where fixtures are scheduled and posted on official school calendars before their publication, and where school administrators, coaches, athletes, parents, community members, and league officiating crews are provided with detailed league rules, expectations, and schedules in advance of a given campaign.

  1. Secure the commitment of 4 international schools in KL with senior programs
  2. Agree on a handbook to detail the organization rules and expectations
  3. Secure dates, budgets and other logistics to launch the league in the 2007/8 school year
  1. Membership Guidelines and Criteria

Full membership status will be reviewed annually at the spring AD’s meeting.   The only guarantee for schools to retain full membership is their strict attention to the details of the membership criteria.

Mount Kiara International School (MKIS)
The International School of Kuala Lumpur (ISKL)
The Garden International School (GIS)
The Kuala Lumpur Alice Smith School (KLASS)

  1. Probationary  Members

Probationary members are schools participating in their probationary year. These schools are not given a vote.

  1. Potential Members

Potential members are schools that have expressed interest in, or identified as a good match, for ISAC.

  1. Membership Inclusion

Potential members seeking full league membership should spend one year as a probationary member.  During this year their goal is to complete a full complement of  home/away fixtures with member schools in every sport as “friendly” fixtures. This serves to introduce these schools to the rigors of ISAC membership: financial, logistical, and time commitment for the AD.

Qualification to the season ending ‘finals’ not permitted during the probationary membership year.

At the conclusion of the probationary year, probationary members may be voted in as full members at the spring ISAC meeting. 

  1. Sports

League Play

Football, Basketball, Softball

  1. Age Restrictions

The league is designated as “open”.  Schools may use any athletes available to them given that they are registered as full time students at the school and are no older than 18 years of age as of August 1st of any new school year.

  1. School Uniform Colour:                                    Mascot:

MKIS – black/orange                                       Tigers
ISKL – blue/yellow                                          Panthers
GIS – sky blue / navy                                       Dragons
KLASS – green/black                                      Spartans

All teams must be equipped with a home and away uniform.  The home uniform is predominantly “light” colored while the “away” uniform is “dark”. Uniforms must pass federation standards for the given sport.

  1. League “Seasons”

All seasons must end one week before the relevant IASAS of SEASAC event (whichever comes first).

Season 1 – Soccer                    

Season 2 – Basketball                       

Season 3 – Softball

  1. League Format

If a member school fails to comply with the pre-scheduled obligation, the game will be forfeited.  Having said this, circumstances beyond our control are understandable and all AD’s should be flexible and work to reschedule games in the event of force majour.

Match lengths are not to be shortened, nor rules changed during pre-match agreements between coaches.  The rules are listed in this document and all matches must use these rules.  Transportation should be arranged to accommodate adequate warm-up and official match lengths.  In the event of inclement weather, matches are ended, continued or replayed at a later date according to the sport federation rules.

It is the responsibility of the host school to ensure league match reports (appendix) are filled out and submitted by the referees.  These should then be sent to the KL Metro League chairman for league standing updating.

1. head to head, 2. volleyball set/basketball point/soccer goal differential head to head, 3.volleyball set/basketball point/soccer goal differential over the tournament, 4. volleyball point differential head to head, and 5. volleyball point differential over the tournament.

  1. Hosting Responsibilities
  1. Awards
  1. Funding

All team costs (uniforms, coaching stipends, equipment purchases, and practice or game facility rentals) are the responsibility of the school. The home school should also supply referees when hosting league fixtures.  Schools should be prepared to pay a final tournament fee to the host school.  These monies are to cover all costs involved with the tournament including the awards.  The tournament expenses are divided equally between the number of teams attending and the host school.

  1. League Chairman

The position of league Chair is by election every two calendar years.  Elections are held at the spring AD’s meetings.  Full member school AD’s are permitted to one vote each.

1.  Establishing an agenda for the meetings
2. Prior to the meetings, fax or email an agenda to the schools
3. Serve as the facilitator of these meetings
4. Organize the purchasing of awards at the Fall Meeting
5. Prepare minutes of meetings and fax or email to league schools within two weeks.
6. Maintain and update league handbook.
7. Schedule and chair one annual meeting with the league heads of school.

T. Match Rules

Soccer

Basketball

Softball