CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS OF THE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLS' ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK: ARTICLE I (Name) This Association shall be known as the Catholic High Schools’ Athletic Association of the Archdiocese of New York. ARTICLE II (Object) This Association shall promote within the framework of its Athletic principles, interscholastic and intramural competition among the Catholic Secondary Schools on the New York Archdiocese and shall protect the mutual interests of the schools engaged therein. ARTICLE III (Athletic Principles) This interscholastic athletic program must: a) Aim at developing such virtues as loyalty, docility, generosity and sportsmanship all based on Christian values; b) Be a well coordinated part of the secondary school curriculum; c) Be based upon the spirit of amateurism which eliminates professionalism and commercialism; d) Be conducted by secondary school authorities; e) Encourage participating schools to conduct a well-balanced program of interscholastic and intramural athletics; f) Engender in both participants and spectators the ideals of sportsmanship, morally correct conduct, and fair play according to the guidelines of a code of conduct for spectators and areas of responsibility for supervision published by the CHSAA. |