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.
2021-22 Approved Applicants
Student Name | High School |
Herman Holt Hodne | Clarion-Goldfield |
Janosch Rosuer | Clarion-Goldfield |
Darya Kantorbayeva | Panorama |
Frederik Joergensen | Panorama |
Bjorn Kaasquard Sunesen | Benton Community |
Anton Uffhausen | Panorama |
Miguel Moran Bobadilla | Des Moines North High |
Rune Nielsen | Des Moines North High |
Jannis Hartell | Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn |
Edoardo Giannini | Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn |
Kostiantyn Tsymbal | Johnston |
Teofil Aleksander Semeniuk | North Polk |
Adrian Bartra | Mormon Trail Community School |
Diego Tomm | Mormon Trail Community School |
Camilo Blanco Faraco | Northeast, Goose Lake |
Mario Castillo | Okoboji |
Mato Cabraja | Pella |
Christopher Brandt | Pella |
Paul Schlacter | Shenandoah |
Edgar Cuevas | Solon |
Lennart Blank | South Tama County |
Jens Thygesen | Springville |
Mohamed Ben Lassaued | Union Community |
Bachana Ugrekhelidze | Union Community |
Ismat Abdurahimov | Washington |
Ference Mudra | Clear Creek Amana |
Giji van der Vegt | Clear Creek Amana |
Olzhas Koishybek | Dubuque Senior |
Pablo Penas Villen | Dubuque Senior |
David Vraj | Fort Dodge |
Nicolas Shatleh | Fort Dodge |
Pablo Pascual Alfaro | St. Mary’s Storm Lake |
Samjhana Zapata | Kuemper |
Giulia | Kuemper |
Ibrahim Cara | Hampton-Dumont |
Alessandro Ercoli | Emmetsburg |
Simon Andersson | AGWSR |
Lasse Segebrecht | AGWSR |
Fernando Diaz | Woodbury Central |
Antonin Jachimowski | Cedar Rapids Washington |
Mauritz Malchin | Red Oak |
Riccardo Rezia Loppio | Marquette Catholic |
Daniel Vlas | Thomas Jefferson |
Mika Lensker | Marquette Catholic |
Filipe Guedes | Fort Dodge |
Chingis Zhomartov | Ankeny Centennial |
Auturo Reyes Vera Martinez | South O’Brien |
Alja Eremic | WACO |
Oleh Shtefanchuk | WACO |
Alexander Maximilian Stridde | MMCRU |
Erdem Tastepe | Bondurant-Farrar |
Diego Camarena | Bellevue |
Shakhzod Shodiev | Woodward-Granger CSD |
Max Konings | Sibley-Ocheyedan |
Thomas Papadopoulos | ADM |
Tolga Sevimli | Harlan |
Kristian Upmalis | IKM-Manning |
Ayshan Mammadova | Fort Madison |
Bahaa Aldeen Al Jnada | Colo-Nesco |
German Llorente | Sioux City North |
Krisztian Kohalmi | West Central Valley |
Bahaa Aldeen Al Jnada | Colo-NESCO |
Fritz Lange | Bellevue |
Edoardo Girombelli | West Bend-Mallard |
Filipa Bobber | Panorama |
Frederico Kautzmann | Mason City |
Fatima Pitiko | Davenport North |
Blanca Martin-Rubio | Davenport North |
Finn Skrybeck | Harlan Community |