Minutes of the
meeting of
Present: Executive Board Members: David Braun, Dave Goble, Paul Lundsten,
Other Board Members: ������ Rocky O�Neil, Kathy Czuprynski, Michael Bougie, Jean Freeman, Neil Mahoney
Appointed Committee Members: Matt Brown, Ellen Youngers, Bob Pearson
MSI Staff: �Cassy Shapley, Sheryl McGuire
Non-Board Members: Dave Arnold (RWSC), Jim Hanlon (MVSC), Heidi Oquist (MONC), Bob Peterson (HOP), Karen Stewart (ROC), Rick Dunham (M3F), Natalie Kuramoto (MCA) Cindy Mc Collum
Meeting was called to
order by the General Chair at
Motion:� To approve the minutes of the meeting for
Seconded; Passed with these corrections:
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Officer Reports
General Chair: David Braun
New Business:
Discussion of the 2004-05 Meet schedule.� Drew Walden was not present.
Discussion of the merits of the different formats of the schedules presented.
Motion to accept schedule #1 (Winter), Seconded, Passed.
Motion to accept schedule #2 (Summer), Seconded, Passed.
Unfinished Business:
Raising fees for meet participation.�
Since the Finance Chair has resigned, the discussion was tabled.
Motion to table discussion, Seconded, Passed.
Finance Chair:
Since Jack Boder has resigned, the General Chair appointed Al Ness to fill in until the next House of Delegates.
Discussion.
Motion to accept Al Ness, Seconded, Passed.
Rep. Hilstrom has taken the Bill to the House of Education, a majority voted yes.
MSI members, coaches, athletes and parents spoke to Rep. Hilstrom. The Chair was disappointed that MSI members changed their support when it came to addressing the Bill at the House of Education.
Pat Hogan from USA Swimming came to testify in support of the Bill.
The Minnesota High School League agreed to change their rules, concerning the issues that the Right to Participate addresses.� The Executive Director said they would address these issues at the MHSL meeting, but the minutes from that meeting didn�t reflect discussion on the issue.� The Senate Chair has since then addressed the issue with the MHSL to insure the issue will be addressed. The Bill can and will come up again in the Senate if necessary.
If the Bill passes, ASCA should �toe the line� with respect to the swimmers that participate in high school swimming.� The Bill allows swimmers to swim in a club practice if there is no practice offered by the high school team.� The swimmers are expected to attend all high school practices and meets.� Club coaches cannot tell the high school coaches how to coach the swimmers.�
This Bill opens the door of communication between club and high school swimming.
Gold and Silver Applications are due next week.� Clubs able to apply, meeting the criteria should do so by the time line.
State Meets:
Administrative Vice-Chair: Dave Goble
Rental forms for equipment are ready for the website.
Policy Manual is still a work in progress.
Senior Vice Chair: Jean Freeman
Summer cuts for Nationals are faster this year.
Use money allotted for Spring Sectional for reimbursement for other events.
Age group Vice-Chair: Drew Walden
Not Present
Finance Vice-Chair: Al Ness
No Report
Senior Coach Rep.: Paul Lundsten
No Report
Junior Coach Rep.: Dennis Dale
No Report
Senior Athlete Representative: Sarah Sofelt
Not Present/Report
Summer Splash tour: A great way to expose
Paralympic Trials are at the
Junior Representative: Neil Mahoney
Discussed Splash tour.
Safety Coordinator: Kathy Czuprynski
No Report
Technical Planning Chair: Rocky O�Neill
No Report
Official�s Committee Chair: Michael Bougie
148 Officials. 37 Referee.22 Starters. 89 Stroke and Turn.
Legislative Chair: Jim Goetz
Not Present/No Report
NTV Chair: David Shapley
Not present/ No report
Adapted Swimming Chair: Marlene Goblish
Not Present/See report
Public Relations Chair: Bob Pearson
Age group swimmer write up on John Harkness from STAR.
Swimmers that have trial cuts should have a short profile on them.
Athletes from
Webmaster: Matt Brown
Changing the host of the website to a company in
Would like feedback on the website, complaints/compliments.
Equipment Chair: Jeff Chida
Not Present/No report
Registration - Membership Chair/ Office: Cassy Shapley
Membership Report
4855 Athletes. 561 Non-Athletes. 65 Clubs. 1 Organization as of April 2004
New Club Tsunami Swim Team (TST)
New Club The Great Wolf Swim Club (WOLF)
Spoke to teams about cleaning up and up dating their databases.
Clubs can send batch reports by email and she will enter them into SWIMS.
Records Chair: Ellen Youngers
State verification:
In State meets: Keeping the State records in Hy-Tek allows the records to be automatically updated.
Out of LSC meets still requires a form submission.
Email Matt Brown an updated form to be placed on the website.
Swim Meet Sanction Coordinator: Sheryl McGuire
Change in summer (long course) zoning of the teams.
Outreach Coordinator: David Cameron
No Report
Board of Review: John Witzel
Not Present/ No report
Nomination Committee: Paul Lundsten
Looking for new people to run for openings in October.
Order of Events Committee:
2004 Central Zones: Al Ness
Handout explaining 2004 Team Minnesota Zones
Updated Code of Conduct reflects the change in chaperons and transportation. Will be posted on the websites.
They will have an adult to do administration to allow coaches to coach.
Unfinished business:
Discussion only
New Business:
Timers policy for Senior State Meet
Proof of Times
Meeting adjourned
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Action:���� Passed����������������� Failed����������������� Vote:������ Unanimous�������� Not Unanimous