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Required Health Forms to Participate in Oyster-Adams Sports in SY2026-27
Required Health Forms to Participate in Oyster-Adams Sports in SY2026-27
UPDATE: The DCIAA Trainer will not return to work until August to resume evaluating health forms. After DCIAA updates the portal (www.thedciaa.com), please submit 2026-27 forms online—instead of submitting handwritten hard copy forms to me. That process will enable the Trainer to see the forms in the system as soon as they return to work. You will know the portal is updated and ready for you to submit next year’s forms when you click on “Participation Packet” and the Heading says:
“2026-27 DCPS Student-Athlete Participation Packet”. Currently it is set for 2025-26.
Every school year parents must submit DCIAA athletic papers for a student to participate in a school sport. You do this at the DCIAA Portal (https://www.thedciaa.com/participation-forms).
If your student played on a team this school year (SY2025-26) you must submit new papers for them to participate next year (SY2026-27).
If your student did not play on a school team in SY2025-26 but they plan to try out / play on a school team in SY2026-27, you must submit new papers.
Three forms comprise the Participation Packet:
Consent for Athletic Participation,
Student-Athlete Data & Emergency Treatment Information,
Concussion & Sudden Cardiac Arrest Information. You also will be prompted to upload a 2026-27 Universal Health Certificate (UHC) representing a physical that was conducted within the past calendar year.
If your student’s UHC is valid and in the DCIAA system because they played a sport in SY2025-26, you do not need to upload that same UHC. BUT YOU DO NEED TO SUBMIT A 2026-27 PARTICIPATION PACKET. Later, when that student gets a new physical and corresponding UHC, please go to www.thedciaa.com and re-submit the 2026-27 Participation Packet along with the updated UHC.
To submit forms, go to www.thedciaa.com. Select “Athletes”, then “Participation Forms”, then “MS/ES Participation Packet”. Fill out the Participation Packet online, then submit it along with a pdf of the current UHC. When doing so, please keep scrolling down to select Oyster-Adams when prompted for Athletic Director and Athletic Trainer.
IMPORTANT!
Parents must fully complete these forms and leave nothing blank. Parents must complete and sign Part 1 of the Universal Health Certificate AND they must completely fill out the AT-13, AT-14, & Concussion forms.
There can be no blanks other than those allowed by checking a related “N/A” box.
Often-omitted but required information includes the following:
Emergency Form (AT-14)
- two emergency contacts
- Complete health insurance information, including policy #, insurer phone #, effective date…
Universal Health Certificate (UHC)
- Complete Part 1 (every blank) and sign/date, including health insurance information
- Doctor office must: 1) complete Parts 2-4, including date of health exam in Part 2, 2) check “yes” box in Part 4 for “This child is cleared for competitive sports”, 3) apply an office stamp in Part 4, and (4) print, sign and date Part 4.
A physician, nurse practitioner, or doctor of osteopathy must perform the physical and sign the required forms. DCIAA does not accept physicals conducted by others, e.g., physician’s assistants and nurses. Moreover, nurses or physician’s assistants cannot sign the UHC for the doctor, nurse practitioner, or doctor of osteopathy.
CVS Minute Clinic performs sports physicals. If you go that route please print out a blank 2026-27 UHC from the Portal, fill out Part 1 and sign, and take it with you for the CVS Nurse Practitioner to complete.
Questions? Contact Athletic Director Stuart Logan [udfan1@gmail.com]
