Hearing in Bradin Nelson Eligibity Case Continued Until January 31

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A decision on whether Lyon County senior Bradin Nelson will be able to play during the regular season for the Lyon County boys’ basketball team will have to wait just a bit longer. During activity in Lyon Circuit Court Friday morning, Lyon Circuit Judge Jamus Redd continued a scheduled hearing until January 31st.

The decision to continue the hearing came after attorneys for the Kentucky High School Athletic Association argued that enough time had not been given for them to provide information that had been subpoenaed by attorneys for the Nelson family. The requested information primarily involved case files involving 15 other transfer cases handled by the KHSAA.

Attorneys for the KHSAA noted that, due to federal privacy regulations involving students, they were required to notify the students affected by the subpoenas and obtain their approval or rejection of providing the information contained in those files. Counsel for the Nelson family noted that with the regular season winding down they are “running out of time” for a decision in the case to be relevant.

Attorneys for the Nelsons are arguing that the KHSAA arbitrarily enforces its own transfer guidelines and that having the materials contained in the files is necessary to conducting the hearing and questioning witnesses in the case.

During Friday’s court appearances, the attorneys for the KHSAA pointed to the timing of Nelson’s enrollment at Lyon County as being one of their issues with approving a waiver to their normal transfer guidelines. Nelson enrolled at Lyon County for the 2022-2023 school year in May of 2022. At the time, Nelson was moving to Lyon County to live with his grandfather to provide support in the loss of his grandmother.

The KHSAA did not deem that as a move of necessity and did not approve the reason for the transfer. The Nelson family would later move to Lyon County in August, with the KHSAA also pointing to Bradin Nelson’s enrollment not coinciding date-wise with the move of the rest of the family as another reason they did not approve an exigent waiver of their normal transfer guidelines.

While due to privacy guidelines, the names of any of the students whose transfer files were subpoenaed were not given in the hearing, there were attorneys in the courtroom and on video from Webster County, Hopkins County, and Union County.

While he did continue the hearing until January 31, Judge Redd did announce that he would reconsider a previous denial of a temporary injunction that would allow Nelson to play for the Lyons while the legal proceedings wind their way to a culmination. The ruling on that injunction is expected sometime in the next 72 hours.

3 Responses

  1. This child gave up his senior year at a school he had attended all his life to take care of his grandmother who lost her husband. He is a pillar to his community and so is his family. I get there has to be rules but there has to be exceptions too. I find this very disturbing news to take away from a child who just wants to play a sport. He isn’t causing trouble he wants to play ball. Let him play!!

  2. The KHSAA has done this boy wrong! It’s sad to see him sitting there not getting to play his senior year. I’ve seen players move from school to school and not having to sit out a year . It’s a shame.

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