For information on foreign exchange student eligibility, please view the IHSAA Handbook.
Below is a mandatory form and list of approved applicants for foreign exchange student participation in IHSAA activities. Notification forms below are to be submitted on behalf of each male student who wishes to participate in an interscholastic athletic activity. Forms for female students should be sent to the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union.
Notification of Foreign Exchange Student Participation
In Athletic Events Sanctioned by IHSAA
Completion of this digital form serves as notification that the following foreign exchange student desires to participate in interscholastic athletic contests and competitions on behalf of the school named below.
Iowa Code section 256.46 was amended, effective July 1, 2006, to state that foreign exchange students (those with J-1 visas) shall have immediate eligibility to participate “unless undue influence was exerted to place the child for primarily athletic purposes.”
In accordance with this change, the IGHSAU and IHSAA, in collaboration with the Iowa Department of Education, have developed this form for high school to use to report their foreign exchange students who desire to participate in an athletic contest of competition sanctioned by the Union or Association. As with all secondary students, foreign exchange students must also be under 20 years of age, not have completed eight consecutive semesters of high school following the entry of the ninth grade or its equivalent for the first time, possess an appropriate physical examination report, and be eligible under the scholastic rule.
NOTE: Failure to submit this form before competition starts for the student’s first sport shall result ineligibility of the student.
2022-23 Approved Applicants
Student Name | High School |
Matija Tanevic | North Fayette Valley |
Thierry Mueller | Nashua-Plainfield |
Luis Romero Triste | Mormon Trail Community School |
Adrian Haetta Balchen | Riceville |
Guglielmo (William) Barbiere | Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn |
Baiel Ulanovich Zhenishev | Winterset |
Markus Ljungberg | Pella |
Jean Huillier-Perochon | AHSTW |
Barnabas Nagy | ADM, Adel |
Thiago De Santana Aju | Williamsburg |
Tigran Bayatyan | WACO |
Leandro Ficone Jr | Oskaloosa |
Jaime Esquivel Mena | Washington |
Frederik Jensen | Washington |
Ivan Paredes Millan | Mount Vernon |
Christopher Macartney | Grinnell |
Moritz Hansch | West Bend Mallard |
Nils Passalacqua | Harris Lake Park |
Krzystof Koziej | Waverly-Shell Rock |
Otar Jinchveladze | Waverly-Shell Rock |
Gonzalo Quiroga | Waverly-Shell Rock |
Jesse Goertsches | Gilbert |
Pedro Zen Mire | Webster City |
Kaya Pedersen | Panorama |
Pelle Weiss | South Tama County |
Maike Beran | Panorama |
Emil Buhl | Panorama |
Henrik Schoeps | Panorama |
Valentijn Niet | Lynnville-Sully |
Bork Ersnes | Greene County |
Arseni Ceban | Johnston |
Kostiantyn Tsymbal | Johnston |
Simon Dirk Lukesch | Northeast, Goose Lake |
Dylan Yodsuwan | Woodbury Central |
Michal Dudek | Albia |
Justin Wu | Graettinger-Terril |
Sean Tayarat | Graettinger-Terril |
Rasmus Brandt | Dike-New Hartford |
Pedro Teixeira Patricio | Newell-Fonda |
Samuel Mikle | Cedar Rapids Washington |
Tobias Chemnitz | Cedar Rapids Washington |
Vinicius Carvalho | New London |
Leo Gebauer | New London |
Tai Hsain-Hui (Wayne) | Cedar Rapids Washington |
Philip Backmann | Davenport North |
Daniel Acebes | Davenport North |
Edoardo Pozzi | North Polk |
Leander Buettner | Decorah |
Francisca Munoz Infante | Decorah |
Jeronimo Rico | Ballard |
Caio De Carvalho | Cedar Valley Christian |
Gioele Rinaldi | Gehlen Catholic |
Luis Fernando | Ballard |
Oskar Aalund | Exira-EHK |
Tyler Bratkowski | Mediapolis |
Jules Bois | Cardinal |
Claudio De Fabritiis | Des Moines Lincoln |
Shahriyorkhodja Khojaev | Urbandale |
Akram Sawalha | Hampton-Dumont |
Sergio Daghfal | Hampton-Dumont |
Anthony Karanu | Hampton-Dumont |
Mitterand Tchamba | Hampton-Dumont |
Oomatbek Baratov | Union Community |
Hamed Agossa | Union Community |
Casper Kohlrusch | Marion |
Stefano Soddu | Le Mars |
Ismail Ergene | Colo-Nesco |
Kaloyan Gerasimov | Davenport North |
Leonard Nolden | Washington |
Lorenzo Brugnone | Des Moines Lincoln |
Camiel De Vre | Norwalk |
Rayan El Alami | Xavier |
Leonard Nolden | Washington |
Juan Cruz Stratta Peretti | Grinnell |
Marcos Diaz Tan | Xavier |
Jannis Franke | Ottumwa |