New IHSA Rule:
Yellow cards received during regular season or tournament competition must be counted. Once a player has accumulated five yellow cards, he is suspended for the next game. Once the player accumulates three additional yellow cards, he is suspended for the next two games, three more, he is suspended three games, etc. These are minimum penalties. All yellow cards must be reported by the official to the IHSA and the member School as currently practiced with all ejection reports.
At the start of the IHSA tournament series, a player will start with a clean slate if he has accumulated fewer than five yellow cards during the regular season. During the tournament series, once a player accumulates three yellow cards, he is suspended for the next game; three more yellows, suspended for two games, etc. If a player enters the tournament series having accumulated five or more yellow cards during the season, his yellow card count continues. Once he reaches eight total cards (regular season and IHSA tournament series) he is suspended for two games, eleven yellows - suspended for three games, etc.
Rationale: The committee reviewed area state associations practice of recording yellow cards throughout the season and state series. This is an effort to clean up the behavioral issues in the game of soccer.