The Farmington soccer workforce has forfeited its first 4 video games as a result of two gamers who participated in these video games have been ineligible.
The workforce is now 1-5 after wins over Ann Arbor Huron and Walled Lake Northern have been vacated by the Michigan Excessive Faculty Athletic Affiliation. Its 29-7 win over Livonia Stevenson on Sept. 25 was not impacted by the MHSAA’s rulings.
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“Farmington Public Colleges lately discovered that residency info offered to the District for 2 Farmington Excessive Faculty college students was inaccurate and that the scholars didn’t meet athletic eligibility necessities,” athletic director Allyson Robinson wrote in a press release Thursday, Oct. 8. “Previous to the college yr, the District accomplished the required eligibility course of primarily based on the knowledge obtainable on the time. District workers met with the household, reviewed the required residency documentation and confirmed the scholars’ switch from their earlier faculty.
“When FPS later discovered that the residency info offered to the District was inaccurate, we addressed the scholars’ eligibility and self-reported the matter to the MHSAA.”
Farmington is in its first season underneath coach Kason Dickerson, a former assistant who helped Orchard Lake St. Mary’s win Division 2 state championships in 2024 and 2025.
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FPS employed Dickerson on March 6 to exchange former coach Jason Albrecht, whose groups received two Oakland Actions Affiliation-Blue championships, made three postseason appearances and went 26-23 in 5 seasons.
That is Dickerson’s first head-coaching job. He has spent most of his profession as an assistant, teaching defensive backs and dealing as a passing recreation coordinator. He additionally has been a part of different successful applications, together with West Bloomfield’s 2020 state championship workforce.
Dickerson declined to remark in regards to the forfeitures.
FPS is targeted on transferring ahead.
“Eligibility necessities are important to sustaining equity and integrity in athletics,” Robinson mentioned. “Whereas this end result is disappointing for our student-athletes and coaches, our focus now’s on supporting our soccer workforce. These student-athletes have labored arduous all through the season, and we hope they’ll rally round each other, proceed competing, and benefit from the alternatives nonetheless forward of them this season.”
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