Talented in-state point guard Zion Harmon was ruled ineligible to play high school basketball in Kentucky this year by the Kentucky High School Athletic Association last week, but the family plans to appeal, according to his father, Mike Harmon.
“We will sit before an appeals committee and whichever way they rule (eligible or ineligible) we will not complain,” Mike Harmon said in a statement released to KyPrepReport.com. “We are grateful for all that God has allowed Zion to experience and accomplish in these two years. Zion has a plethora of opportunities available to him.”
Harmon was ruled ineligible by the KHSAA due to Bylaw 6, which states that student-athletes have to sit out a year for transferring but provides a multitude of exceptions to allow for family circumstances, a bona fide change of residence, and other exceptions that can often be out of a student’s control.