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coaches and teammates. Moreover, he was considered an elite
athlete within the disabled athletic community, as he competed
at the U.S. Paralympic Trials in 2016.

ADA Accommodation Policy
The IHSA is a not-for-profit voluntary association that organizes and regulates interscholastic high school athletic events
throughout Illinois. It consists of 810 public and private-member high schools, more than 90 percent of the high schools in
Illinois. The IHSA's board of directors comprises 10 principals
from its member high schools who have the final authority on
the overall operations and rules; an executive director of the
IHSA oversees the day-to-day operations.
The executive director has complete authority to decide accommodation requests, which can be brought by member
schools or by an individual. There is no published criteria that
the executive director consults when evaluating such requests.
His or her ruling on an accommodation request can be appealed
to the 10-member board, which will hold a hearing with the
student-athlete and other relevant parties.
The IHSA maintains an " Accommodation Policy for Students
with Disabilities, " which states:
It is the policy of the IHSA to provide students with disabilities
full and equal opportunities to be integrated in IHSA interscholastic sports and activities whenever possible. IHSA recognizes and
adopts the definition of disability as provided within the ADA.
The IHSA will not discriminate against students with disabilities
on the basis of disability in its services, programs, or activities.
The IHSA has implemented this policy through divisions
within particular sports for student-athletes with disabilities.
These divisions have included a para-ambulatory division at
swim meets and a wheelchair division at track and field meets.
The IHSA, however, did not have a para-ambulatory division
for runners like A.H. in the track and field meets it regulates.

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While the IHSA did not organize or regulate individual school
meets throughout the track and field season, it did manage the
two most important track meets: the Sectional meet and the
State championship meet. To qualify for the State championship meet ( " State " ), runners had to place first or second in their
event or attain a particular qualifying time at the Sectional meet.
Runners who competed at State could achieve points for their
team to determine which team won the overall State championship. The IHSA does not preclude any runner from participating at Sectionals, as individual track and field teams determine
who runs in the events. A.H. ran the 1600-meter race for his
team at Sectionals in the spring 2017.

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