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SQLGeek wrote:I'm envisioning a league made up of club teams funded privately, many teams are organized the same as the schools that the kids belong to but not all of them. The schools are used as a way to group players. This isn't so different from leagues that use school boundaries to define where their players come from.

That's pretty much how it is. The league is private and run by parents of the students. The coaches are hired and paid by the parents, and each team has a "booster club" feel to it with positions like president, treasurer, etc. all filled by parents. All the games are played at third party locations and never on any school's property. It's purely extra-curricular and the only involvement some schools have is lending their name. Some don't even do that.

Thanks for your input, everyone. I understand this is a pretty gray area and I certainly don't want to be the test case.

My younger brother is on a sports team that is "unofficially" a high school team, in that it is not sponsored by the school, receives no funding from the school, and does not use the school's name, colors, or logos (although it has in the past). However, the team is comprised solely of kids from multiple high schools in the area and participates in a league with other high school teams, which I believe are all unofficial, but some use their school's name and logo.

The nature of these other teams is that they are allowed to use the school's name and logo and only roster students that attend the school, but they don't (to my knowledge) receive any funding from the school or are considered an official school sport. They are considered to be more of an affiliated "club" sport.

Here's the law:

TEXAS PENAL CODE 46.035(b)(2)
A license holder commits an offense if the license holder intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly carries a handgun under the authority of Subchapter H, Chapter 411, Government Code, regardless of whether the handgun is concealed, on or about the license holder's person on the premises where a high school, collegiate, or professional sporting event or interscholastic event is taking place, unless the license holder is a participant in the event and a handgun is used in the event.

I would like to carry to these games, and my initial feelings are that this situation does not fall into the official "high school sporting event" category, but I sure wouldn't want to deal with being hauled off in the back of a squad car.

As I typed this out, I realized I may be in trouble with the other teams, even though I believe all of them are unofficial as well.

Thoughts?