Two Milwaukee high schools forced to forfeit 2024 football season [Video]

The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association is sidelining Milwaukee Public Schools’ Pulaski and Bay View High School football teams over a paperwork problem.The district said it needed to file paperwork for Bay View and Pulaski high schools “to move between divisions before the 2024 season began.”The necessary paperwork was never filed, and now the two teams’ seasons are effectively over. “The two programs played in non-approved conferences and not their approved conferences,” Todd Clark, WIAA Communications Director, said. WIAA issued sanctions against both schools, making them ineligible for postseason play for the 2024-25 and 2025-26 seasons and requiring them to forfeit all games for the 2024 season.James Prince watched his son, Elijah Luckett, practice on Tuesday. “He actually got his start to play varsity two weeks ago,” Prince said.His son’s first varsity season will be cut short. “There’s got to be something wrong. I just couldn’t believe it. I almost cried,” …