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MINNESOTA STATE HIGH SCHOOL COACHES ASSOCIATION, INC. PO Box 519 Detroit lakes, MN 56501 SPRING DELEGATE ASSEMBLY Mancini's Char House St. Paul 3/25/11 The Spring Delegate Assembly of the MSHSCA was called to order by President Shelly Hotzler Jackson County Central at 9:01 a.m. Shelly welcomed all in attendance and thanked for making the effort to be there. Jon Wagner Eveleth Gilbert called the roll. The following were Absent: Adapted Athletics, Baseball, Boys Basketball, Cross Country, Tennis, Nordic Skiing, Hockey, Synchronized Swimming, girls Lacrosse. All class A and class AA had at least one delegate in attendance except 3AA. John Erickson asked for any corrections or deletions to the minutes of the previous meeting held October 9, 2010. There were no corrections or deletions. Gordy Klomps made a motion to accept the minutes as presented and Keith Randa gave a second to the motion. The motion passed Dave Stead MSHSL Board of Directors. Next year will be the 100th of basketball in Minnesota. The MSHSL was founded in 1916. The competitive sections have been finalized and released. We are seeing a shrinking in enrollment. Dave reviewed the process that is used to determine the competitive section placement for the next two years. Schools have had the option to opt down if they meet one of two criteria. Coaches Education: Dave handed out the information regarding coaches education. Each coach will be required to create their own clipboard. Dave walked the delegates through the process that will be used to develop a clipboard. The process should be in place by June 1st. The League is counting on the integrity of coaches to comply with the new education program. There is pending legislation regarding training for coaches in dealing with concussions. This would be available on line through the coaches education component. The training will be required of all levels working with athletes. Dave gave some examples of how this has been handled correctly and incorrectly in past incidents with concussed athletes. The Highs School League Foundation renewal is before the legislature. There is currently a sunset on the bill and will go away after this year unless the bill is renewed. The League will continue to try and push to keep the foundation. The money derived from this bill allows the MSHSL Foundation to dispense funds to schools based on free and reduced lunch counts and to help with grants for AEDs etc. Football task force: There has been several options discussed and a decision will be made in the near future. Reporters have asked if there is a plan in place to cut games. The question is surfacing as a result of the high gas prices and at this time the league has had not discussion regarding the reduction in the number of games. Rep Assembly amendments will be voted on in April. All the 100 series by laws will be reviewed. Wheel Chair Track and Field will be added to the state meet for some events this year. The robotics competition will be held at the U of M in the coming week. Board of Directors: The blackout days has been revamped. Eligibility verification information is due and schools are fined if they are not in on time. John Schumacher thanked the group for allowing him to represent them for the past four years. The next four years the AD association will provide the MSHSL Board of Directors representative. Mike Peterson Perham, thanked Dave Stead for all he has done for Zach Gabbard and for the entire state of Minnesota. Don Tangen Past President. Don said the past four years have been a wonderful experience and anyone having the chance to serve on the Executive Board should consider it. Jim Sable addressed the clay shooting leagues and the virtual leagues and how they are organizing and offering opportunities for students. There are 29 schools in last years leagues and 19 more are coming on board this year. April 4th June 10-11 are the dates of the season. It costs about $200 per student to take part. Jim was asked about roster limitations and he said there is none but many limit to 45 due to limited range abilities. It is co-ed and does not cost the school anything. John Erickson Executive Directors report. Erickson gave an update on the current membership and reported that it appeared as though membership numbers have started to level off. Any new sports choosing to affiliate with the MSHSCA would change that. All Delegates were provided with a growth report showing the membership growth over the past 12 years as well as the growth in assets over the past 12 years. Erickson reviewed the current finance report as well as the 2010 finance report and called on Rick Ringeisen, chairman of the Finance Committee. Finance report Rick Ringeisen Finance Chairman reviewed the areas of the report that had significant differences from the previous year. Rick also reviewed the graph showing the percentages spent in each area. Rick asked for a motion to approve both the current report and the 2010 report. Motion to accept reports was made by Rob Nielsen and second to the motion was made by Mike Lhotka The motion passed without discussion. Sport Association and Delegate Reports AD Association. The AD convention is coming up at the St. Cloud Kelly Inn Next week. Baseball is working on trying to get back the double elimination. Girls Basketball April 15 and 16 will be all Star weekend. FB has the clinic coming up next week and the scheduling task force is still working on proposal. SB is working on getting fences mandatory for all games. Working on getting summer waiver in the winter. Boys swimming will be addressing the National Federation regarding deck starts. The National Federation may require block starts. It effects about four schools in the state. Coaches clinic is April 8-10 at Ramada Plaza. There is concern about number of sections for boys swimming. Currently there are four sections and there is consideration to go to six sections. Some sports are having a difficult time in the inner city due to dropping enrollments especially in the sports of hockey and swimming. Soccer had a big changed last fall with a change in games from 18 to 16. By limiting to 16 games the coaches are encountering scheduling difficulties. With 18 games you have flexibility. Track and Field we took over our own clinic. The attendance went from 380 last year to over 600 this year. We are addressing the wheel chair division in track and field. They have done a lot of research on advancing the second place really teams advancing. Boys Lacrosse is celebrating their 5th season. Wrestling went to a three day tournament. Attendance was up this year. The tournament as whole was successful and attendance was up. There are pros and cons to the new set up and they hope to work on making it a better tournament. Wrestling will have a rep serve a 5 year term to the MSHSCA. Gregg Martig Scholarship committee. There was an error in that the application was not printed in the prep coach but the numbers are about the same as last year and there is about one week left for applications to be accepted before they will be screened and voted on. Web Site Development. We are still getting about 120,000 hits per year. Rob emphasized how important it is to keep your information updated. Many of the sport associations are doing their surveys and voting on line. John Schumacher DSA Jim Baker Hall of Fame Talked about the new site for the Hall of Fame Banquet. Jim talked about how important it is to these people VP Candidates Jeff Wall not able to attend and Tom VanErp did speak to the delegates regarding his candidacy. MSHSCA Approval of continued employment of John and Mary Erickson as Director and Assistant Director. Evaluation summary: Don Tangen reported on the job evaluation of the Executive Director and Assistant Director and reported that the evaluations all came back positive. Rick Ringeisen reported that the Finance Committee recommends a raise in pay for Mary Erickson due to the additional time needed to do the clinic registrations on line, manage the Academic Excellence program and oversee and update Prep Coach mailing lists to avoid double mailings and dead end mailings. There was a motion by Jim Baker and second Tim Johnson to approve an increase for Mary. Passed without further discussion. The pay for John Erickson will remain the same. Becky and Shelly are continuing to work on a junior all star classic. If there is enough interest the event will be held in July 2012. The door prize was won by Tom Gruhle Bill Bauman moved and Diane Petits moved to adjourn at 11:35 Passed |
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