Minutes for the February 2002 Meeting

Sam Zeman called meeting to order at 7:30 p.m. at Addison Trail High School

1. Treasurer's Report

· Current Balance - $5,920.80

· Current Membership – 60

2. Sam Zeman introduced Ed Gambos

· Ed was offering gymnastics T-shirts to anyone interested in purchasing them representing different countries

· If anyone is interested in t-shirts or would like to sell them at your meets as a fund raiser his address is:

Ed Gambos

USACO

645 S. Addison Rd.

Addison, IL 60101

(630) 832- 2346

 

Old Business

3. Skills to Rules Committee

· Questions should be brought to an Association meeting or faxed to Doug Foerch (Fax #847-949-0079)

· Doug Foerch stated that he would put together a list of skills not listed in the Rules Book

· Rulings on interpretations will be posted on the IHSGCA website and faxed to schools

· The deadline for submissions to the Rules Committee is March 20th. The Rules Committee will make rulings by April 1st

· Remember that there is no more scale requirement on the Frosh/Soph level. It has been replaced by a ½ twist minimum salto requirement. Frosh/Soph requirements can be found on the IHSGCA website

4. Judging Clinic at Lake Geneva

New to this year; Rule changes
Feet need to be together on landings (see interpretations on website for interpretation.)

Press handstands; if elbow bend is greater than 0.10 point off, no B credit will be given

Matting of 4” thickness will be allowed one time for D skilled tricks during routine

5. Top Twenty

· The Internet program is not quite ready, we will still be submitting top 20 to Steve Foerch at Niles West High School

· Top 20 lists will be posted on the IHSGCA website

· The form for writing your top 20 list is available on the IHSGCA website for download in PDF and MS Word formats

· Due dates - March 20th and April 17th

6. Mixed Pairs – Sam Zeman

· February, 23rd at Niles North High School, Skokie

· Warm-ups at 10:00 AM, meet begins at 12:00

· Make sure results are faxed to newspapers at completion of meet on Saturday. Send results with a brief story about the origins of the meet and the meet format. Bring fax numbers of your local papers to the meet

· Judges are needed

· Dave Donaldson, Vic Avigliano, John Brinkworth and Bob Ferguson agreed to officiate meet

7. Hall of Fame – Vic Avigliano

· Sam introduced Don Ohanus; Don is asking the Association to consider Al Bergmann and Henry Smidl as candidates into the Hall of Fame. Both are Founding Fathers of Illinois High School Gymnastics

· Nominations are due by the March Association meeting

· Send resume for nominations by next meeting

· Nominees that need to be resubmitted:

· Tom Temple

· Jerry Jacquin

· Breck Grigas

· Andy Kostick

· Skip Ray

· Paul Fina

· Mark Watman

· Mark Wanner

· Al Galatte

· Brad Foerch

8. National High School Meet Selection Committee

· Call for nominations for members of the Selection Committee

· Members vote; top 5 votes will constitute the Committee

· Vic Avigliano nominated Ed Raymond; Rob Defano nominates Bill Watts; Eric Liva nominates Neil Krupica; John Brinkworth nominates Vic Avigliano; Doug Foerch nominates Skip Adamson; Ed Raymond nominates Doug Foerch

· Sam announced through ballot, the National High School Meet Selection Committee; Congratulations to Doug Foerch, Ed Raymond, Bill Watts, Neil Krupica and Vic Avigliano.

 

DuPage Valley - Brad Foerch?

West Suburban Gold - Bill Cordts

Mid Suburban East - Vic Avigliano

West Suburban Silver - Sam Zeman

SICA - Skip Adamson

Central Suburban - John Brinkworth

Mid Suburban West - Ed Raymond

Independent - Steve Young

New Business

10. Judging Clinic - Sam Zeman

· There is discussion of a judges clinic possibly in March

· Clinic and papers must be submitted to the IHSA by April 7th to be eligible for State meet

· Vic Avigliano proposed having (2) two hour session clinics

· John Brinkworth suggested using mixed pairs as a clinic for future

· Bill Cordts suggested having routine videos as well as a Q&A and live routines for judges looking for certification

· This clinic would satisfy the course requirement for judging the State series

· The clinic may involve gymnasts performing routines for judges to judge and discuss

11. Creating a List of Judges for State Series

· IHSA submits a list of their 3 judges based on their power rankings

· Those judges respond with the dates they are available

· Doug Foerch stated that 55 judges were made available for officiating

· The IHSA then goes to the next judge on their list

· This process continues until all judges are selected

· The Association would like to generate a list of the top 12 judges for the State meet

12. Constitutional Changes/Amendments – Discussion and Voting

· Process currently being used to pick the National High School Meet Selection Committee amended to the Association Constitution. (Tabled until next meeting)

· Process currently being used to pick the lead coach for the National High School Meet amended to the Association Constitution (Tabled until next meeting)

· The following statement amended to the Association Constitution: "In order for an athlete to receive the stipend provided by the IHSGCA, a member of the coaching staff from participating schools must have contributed to the functioning of the IHSGCA in the current school year through petition of the steering committee"

13. Finding New Officials – Ideas – Eric Liva

· Coaches find one ex-gymnast to become a judge

· At least one member of each coaching staff become a registered official

· Bill Watts has an booklet on how to become an Official for anyone who is interested

14. 12 Teams at State Meet – the proposal will be resubmitted to the Advisory Board

· Jeff Robertson will resubmit the 12 teem proposal for State meet; he will give copies of the proposal to coaches to forward to their Athletic Directors

· Athletic Directors will meet April 25 to review the proposal

15. Job Openings

· There are a few job openings; coaches looking for jobs posted on the IHSGCA website

· Email openings or personal information to Shawn Martin at nngymnastics@yahoo.com or shamar@niles-hs.k12.il.us

· Howard Rubin stated that Schaumburg High School has an Assistant Gymnastics coach position available; he also stated District #211 will have numerous teaching positions available for the 2002-2003 school year

16. Televising of State Meet

· The IHSA is not going to televise the State Meet this year

· Ed Raymond stated that the IHSA has guidelines making it difficult for small television stations to film the State meet

17. 1st Timers meet at Leyden – Bill Cordts

· Meet held Saturday, April 13th at 12:00p.m.

· Meet is for all athletes competing for the 1st season

· Any school interested in attending needs to contact Bill as soon as possible. All athletes are welcome

18. Bowling Night Fundraiser – Bill Cordts and Mark Wanner

· Suggestions were taken regarding the fundraiser for next year after mixed pairs meet

19. Advising Committee

· Three positions available

· Jeff Robertson advised having members from the Association on the Committee

· Anyone interested call or write Sue Heinrichsen at IHSA

20. Safety Concerns on landings

· Fred Dennis expressed concerns about landing feet together and the dangers to the knees and ankles

· Blaise Blasko suggested we refer to the FIG code and read how the rules are written

21. Judges Needed

· Howie Sokol needs officials for open dates. Contact him if interested

22. UIC vs. Iowa Meet

· CJ stated the last home meet will be March 15th

23. National High School Championship Meet

· Meet will be held May 16th & 17th at 4:00p.m. at UNLV in Las Vegas, NV

· Entrance for gymnasts is $100, and $75 for coaches

· Reservations will be taken at Circus, Circus under the code BO5NGC; phone: 800.634.3450. Rates are as follows: $45.00 for Thursday night and $89.00 for Friday night

· John Brinkworth suggested a supplement for the cost of sending judges to the meet

24. Freshman Invitationals

· Rick Orna suggested that Freshman with club experience should be ineligible for these meets

25. Coach of the Year

· Congratulations to Marek Ciborowski on his nomination for Girls Coach of the Year

26. Lake Geneva Clinic

· Anyone who has ideas for next year please contact Ed Raymond at ERaymond@D211.org

27. Steve Peszek

· CJ Johnson stated that Steve was involved in an accident and is recovering

28. Postponing Season Start Date

· Ed Raymond suggested the season start one week later due to the conflicts of Wresting, Girls Gymnastics and Boys Swimming

· Motion for discussion at our next meeting by Ed Raymond and second by Paul Kim

Motion to adjourn Al Galatte second by Vic Avigliano