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The school self-reported its violation of the proselytizing rule, just a year after controversy at fellow FCPS school Hayfield.
FAIRFAX, Va. — Fairfax High School football team will not be in the playoffs this season, no matter how they play. The Virginia High School League placed the team on probation and banned it from postseason play after the school self-reported a recruiting violation.
The team broke the “proselytizing rule,” which prohibits the school or any group of people representing the school from encouraging a student from another school to transfer to their school so they can join their team. VHSL did not say how Fairfax High School violated the rule, but said the school did not appeal the penalty.
VHSL’s penalty will just last one year for Fairfax.
The league has tightened enforcement of rules after last year’s major controversy over transfers at the highly-ranked Hayfield Secondary School, another Fairfax County public school. Hayfield pulled itself from playoffs in November 2024, after the program allegedly illegally recruited 14 students from a coach’s former school. VHSL also barred Hayfield from postseason play for two years as a penalty, but a judge overturned the ban. Hayfield is eligible to play in the 2025 postseason, unlike Fairfax.
WUSA9 reached out to Fairfax County Public Schools for comment. It has not yet responded as of publication.
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