Minutes of Ad Hoc Committee Meeting
on Summer Swim Leagues
Held on September 27, 2001 at the Belton Chamber of Commerce Office, Belton , MO
Members Present: Jim Devine, Billie Jo Parrack, Dulcy Sellon, and George
Schluter
The discussion began with a review of the problem areas occurring with
summer leagues as identified by the members present. These problems fall
into two areas. First, getting Leagues, swimmers and teams to register in a
timely manner and getting coaches to register and secure all their
certifications in a timely manner. Second, to get leagues to sanction dual
and championship meets. The consequences of these problems are that
parents, swimmers and teams might believe that they have health and
liability insurance when they are not covered because they are
participating in meets with non-registered swimmers or clubs.
Jim stated that Missouri Valley must do what is reasonable to insure that
clubs, leagues, swimmers and coaches register and obtain sanctions,
realizing that we are unable to be perfect in this regard. Several ideas
were offered to address this. These are:
- Appoint an assistant chair for Officials who will be responsible for
officials education. Activities this assistant chair might undertake
include scheduling several training type meetings each year, one of which
all officials must attend; identifying officials throughout Missouri Valley
who will work with the summer leagues to help their officials, encourage
summer officials to be targeted to work the Division II summer championship
meet to get them involved in broader Missouri Valley meets, hold separate
sessions for summer league officials at the Missouri Valley spring meeting,
and encourage summer-registered officials to continue to work at Missouri
Valley meets throughout the year.
- League Contacts have leagues appoint a contact person who will be
responsible for reviewing clubs in their league to check that all clubs
have registered and that they have a registered/certified coach. A letter
will be sent to the past year s league contact explaining to them that they
will have insurance coverage after their league registers, secures their
sanctions, and under what conditions clubs in their league may participate
in league meets (i.e., the club, swimmers and coaches must be registered
and the coaches certified as well). This letter will be sent with the
registration material in February of each year. This letter will also
encourage them to attend the spring meeting and point out that if they
register before the meeting they will have a vote at the meeting.
- Coaches Missouri Valley will work with the coaches to establish and publish
on the website a schedule for the offering of Safety Training for Swim
Coaches so that summer team coaches will have an opportunity to take the
course before they register in May of each year. The Missouri Valley Office
will also send a letter to all coaches reminding them that coaches
registering after their first year must take the ASCA First Level Coaches
training test before they can register for the second time. Information on
the Safety Training course schedule will also be provided.
The meeting adjourned at 10:15 AM.
Respectively submitted
Dulcy Sellon, Missouri Valley Swimming Secretary
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