Electronic Physical Packet Information
January 12th, 2024
Happy New Year 2024!
I hope this email finds all CR South families safe, healthy, and doing well.
This email is being sent to the primary parent email contact in HAC and the CRSD student email account of every CRS student. This e-mail contains important information for students interested in participating in spring sports at Council Rock South in the 2023-24 school year.
Please read this carefully as there is some new information. We continue to use ATS, the on-line software program that allows students, parents, and coaches to log in check on the athlete’s file. For the 2023-2024 school year physical packets will only be accepted on-line, including re-certification forms. Forms will be available in the ATS portal effective 6/1/2023. Again, ALL Physical paperwork is only accepted online via the ATS Portal. No paper copies will be accepted.
****First time users can find a YouTube tutorial here https://youtu.be/RYK0PaygKAcLinks to an external site.
****Please be sure to view this tutorial prior to completing your portal. ****
Students, at the bottom of this e-mail you should find your username and password. (Parents are not sent this information)
Parents, please have your child check their CRSD student email and provide you with the login and password.
Please click on the following link to login: http://crsd2.atsusers.comLinks to an external site.
For security reasons, your password may need to be reset after your initial login.
The GENERAL tab is for information about the STUDENT ATHLETE.
The EMERGENCY tab is where the parent information should be.
****PLEASE NOTE**** We have tied the ATS system to the information that is in the HAC system. The information will be updated nightly. If you see information that is incorrect or out of date in ATS, DO NOT attempt to correct it in the ATS system, it will be overwritten during the update. To correct information please log in to the HAC system (https://hac.crsd.org/HomeAccessLinks to an external site.) and make updates there or contact Central Registration (Registration@crsd.org) to make updates.
***Please have your student login and look around the system. Their username is their CRSD student ID number. Your password should be the one that you used for the 2022-2023 school year. The passwords will be included in the email that is sent to each CRSD student email address. CRS_1 is NO LONGER a default password. If this is the first time in ATS this school year, again, you may be prompted to change the password.
When scheduling your physical appointment, please take into consideration the possibility of long wait times to get an appointment. You can submit your online paperwork and physical any time after June 1st, regardless of what season you are participating in. Under the “eFiles” tab you will find PIAA Section 6. Please print it out and take it to your physician.
You can scan the physical and upload it directly into your student’s record via ATS. There are several free apps for smartphones that have the ability to scan to a PDF file. This is the preferred file type for upload. If you have an iPhone there is a scan feature in the notes app, you can find a tutorial here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210336Links to an external site.
To fill out the physical packet, click on the “Forms” tab. There are 7 forms that need to be completed and submitted.
PIAA SECTION 2: CERTIFICATION OF PARENT/GUARDIAN
PIAA SECTION 3: UNDERSTANDING OF RISK OF CONCUSSION AND TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY
PIAA SECTION 4: UNDERSTANDING OF SUDDEN CARDIAC ARREST SYMPTOMS AND WARNING SIGNS
PIAA Section 5: HEALTH HISTORY
PIAA SECTION 6: CIPPE
AS PER PIAA AND CRSD RULES, ALL PHYSICALS MUST BE DATED ON, OR AFTER JUNE 1, 2023, TO BE VALID FOR PARTICPATION. PHYSICALS DATED PRIOR TO JUNE 1, 2023, WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
***Please note: many physicians wish to review Section 5 “Health History”, you should print a copy after you complete it to give to your physician at the physical.
Also, once you upload Section 6, it will show up on the uploaded list, but will not show as checked off under paperwork until an athletic department representative visually verifies the form is valid.***
*******NOTE: If you have completed the paperwork for a FALL sport OR WINTER sport, you simply only need to complete the RECERTIFICATION - SPRING form, unless you were injured in the fall or winter season. Then you must have your physician complete and sign Section 9. This form is also in the EFILES tab in your ATS portal.
A VERY IMPORTANT NOTE--- We DO NOT ACCEPT any other Physical Form other than the Section 6 – PIAA CIPPE Form that is located under the “efiles” tab. Pennsylvania Department of Health School Physical Forms are NOT ACCEPTED.
If your child is not due for a physical until after Monday March 4th, 2024 (the start of Spring Sports), due to insurance reasons, please be aware that your child WILL NOT BE ELIGIBLE TO PARTICIPATE until a physical form is completed and uploaded to ATS. The PIAA and CRSD cannot allow any student to participate in ANY ACTIVITY until a valid, current physical is completed and on file. All physicals completed for a 2022-2023 sport are no longer valid after June 1, 2023.
PLEASE ENSURE ALL PHYSICAL FORMS ARE SIGNED AND DATED BY THE MEDICAL PROVIDER! They will not be accepted if they are not completed with a SIGNATURE AND DATE.
Please do not include immunizations, allergy action plans, or other ancillary paperwork in the ATS portal. All these papers MUST go to the nurse’s office directly.
ATS Sport Selection:
On your ATS profile PLEASE select which sport you will be participating in and changing that sport to an active status so that you show up on paperwork verification rosters. If you don’t select your sport and make it active, I have no way knowing to verify your paperwork for the spring.
Concussion Education and ImPACT testing:
As we have done since the COVID-19 pandemic, Concussion education and ImPACT testing will be completed online from home. Instructions for completing the education portion and how to take the ImPACT test are included as 2 ATTACHMENTS to this email. One set of instructions is for the Concussion Education module and the other is for the IMPACT Test. Please understand that there are 2 different requirements. See attachments to this email.
***Concussion Education is MANDATORY for all student athletes wishing to participate in athletics.
***ImPACT Testing is MANDATORY for Men’s Lacrosse, Women’s Lacrosse, Baseball, Softball, Men’s Volleyball, and the following M/W Track events. (Vaulters, jumpers, and hurdlers)
All other student athletes are welcome to take it if they desire.
Spring 2023-2024 Important Dates:
- June 1, 2023, is the earliest date an athlete can have a physical for the 2023-2024 school year.
THIS IS THE FIRST DAY YOU MAY COMPLETE/SUBMIT ANY INFORMATION INTO ATS.
*** FIRST DAY OF SPRING SPORTS is Monday, March 4th, 2024 (Please contact your specific head coach for times/locations). Many coaches update their team pages on the CR South webpage, so please be sure to check the specific sport pages for information. Stay tuned for announcements during the school day regarding possible team organizational meetings.
***Spring 2023-24 Paperwork and Physicals must be completed on/and uploaded to the ATS Portal by 11:59pm on Friday February 16th, 2024. ***
If you have any problems, please contact me at abbie.predmore@crsd.org.
Thank you,
Abbie