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Eighteen months after arriving from war-ravaged Sudan — and just as they are beginning to feel at home — four young men find themselves at center court in a controversy over high school sports recruiting as officials unravel exactly how they came to tiny Mooseheart High School in Batavia, Ill.
The Illinois High School Association board will consider Monday whether the three basketball players and one cross country runner are ineligible to compete for the Red Ramblers, after the coach of a rival school’s basketball team raised questions.
The administrators at Mooseheart, a privately funded school 35 miles west of Chicago, say they accepted the students as part of a long tradition of helping troubled and poor youth.
