Minnesota Swimming Incorporated�������� Board of Directors

 

Minutes of the meeting of June 15, 2004 (Quorum equals 7 people)

 

 

Present: Executive Board Members: David Braun, David Goble, Paul Lundsten

 

Other Board Members: Olga Espinosa, Kathy Czuprynski, Rocky O�Neill, Michael Bougie

 

Appointed Committee Members: Ellen Youngers, John Witzel, Matt Brown, Jeff Chida

 

MSI Staff: Sheryl McGuire, Cassy Shapley

 

Non-Board Members: Dave Arnold (RWSC), Ron Murphy, Natalie Kuramato (MCA), Rick Biggs, Bob Petersen (HOP).

 

Meeting was called to order by the General Chair at 7:40 pm.

 

Motion: to approve the minutes of the meeting for May 18, 2004.

Seconded, passed without corrections.

 

 

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General Chair: David Braun

New Business:

- 2004 Winter Senior State meet- 3 clubs have an outstanding balance, M3F, Foxjet and Blackline.Extended deadline was May 30, 2004.

Motion: all fines must be pail to the host club by the end of the meet.Teams have one week from the end of the meet to prove the time and their fine will be refunded by the host team.Failure of the team to pay the fine by the first meet of the following season�s entry deadline will result in the team�s charter being suspended until the fine is paid.Seconded, passed.

- Golden Goggle award, sponsored by USA swimming.$10.000 a table, black tie event.

- Indiana LSC is sponsoring FINA World Championships October 7-11, 2004.Minnesota LSC has a possibility of purchasing a suite for 4 days to help with outreach program for younger swimmers or those who would not be able to afford the tickets otherwise.Follow up in July BOD.

- Sept 12-19 Convention in Orlando, confirmations are due ASAP.

 

Administrative Vice-Chair: Dave Goble

No Report

 

Senior Vice-Chair: Jean Freeman

Not Present/ No Report

 

Age group Vice-Chair: Drew Walden

Not Present/ No Report

 

Finance Vice-Chair: Al Ness

Not Present/ written balance report available

 

Senior Coach Rep.: Paul Lundsten

No Report

 

Junior Coach Rep.: Dennis Dale

Not Present/ No Report

 

Senior Athlete Rep.: Sarah Solfelt

Not Present/ written report

 

1.  Awards for Senior Swimmers

 At the last board meeting, I was asked to look into the value of awards for the senior state meet as well as the presentation of those awards. 

 First of all, unanimously coaches and swimmers do not want to take up time presenting individual awards after swims at the meet.  HOWEVER, the only awards that should possibly take up time are team awards at the end of the meet.  The concept of team finish should be more reinforced. 

 Secondly, medals should still be distributed to 13-14 age groups.  HOWEVER, 15-16 and seniors could be more motivated by a "fun" award.  We should reward the top three finishers in the 15-16 and senior category with a creative "banana-type" award.  This would get seniors excited about swimming, reflect more accurately the award structure of major meets, and allow us to be a little fun and silly at senior state. 

 

2.  The first SWIM seminar meeting will take place this week.  If you have any other suggestions for individuals who would be good to be on this board, please let me know.  Also, we will be presenting this year at the STAR meet and at the Age Group State Long Course Champs.  I also need your help in finding sponsors, so keep your eyes open for people willing to donate stuff. 

 

Junior Rep.: Neil Mahoney

Not Present/ No Report

 

Safety Coordinator: Kathy Czuprynski

Sandi Blumit is planning to come to HOD.

Safety calendar update.

 

Technical Planning Chair: Rocky O�Neill

No Report

 

Official�s Committee Chair: Michael Bougie

146 officials, 34 referees, 23 starters and 89 stroke and turn officials.

 

Legislative Chair: Jim Goetz

Not Present/ No Report

 

NTV Chair: David Shapely

Not Present/ No Report

 

Adapted Swimming Chair: Marlene Goblish

Not Present/ No Report

 

Public Relations Chair: Bob Pearson

Not Present/ report through Dave Braun

-website is updated

- Kare 11 will have a piece on OT qualifiers, Pioneer Press will run an article on one of��� MN swimmers in the Sunday paper.

- Bob has been doing a great job on PR

 

Webmaster: Matt Brown

Progress on communication with MSI web host, possibility of a better software

MSI has an annual agreement with Hytek, need to pay $69 for an update.

 

Equipment Chair: Jeff Chida

$125.000 of new Colorado equipment confirmed by MN colleges and HS.Jeff will be in charge of receiving and delivering the orders.

 

Registration- Membership Chair/ Office: Cassy Shapley

MSI has 6035 athletes, 609 non-athletes, 67 clubs and 2 organizations as of June 2004.

 

Records Chair: Ellen Youngers

Updating the long course records, should be ready by the end of June, 2004.

 

Swim Meet Sanction Coordinator: Sheryl McGuire

No Report

 

Outreach Coordinator: David Cameron

Not Present/ No Report

 

Board of Review: John Witzel

No Report

 

Nomination Committee: Paul Lundsten

List of nominations for HOD will be done by July 2004.

 

2004 Zones: All Ness

Not Present/ written report

Kim Olson will replace Meghan McNair as the 15-18 girls coach.

Coaches letters are ready for distribution.

Pre-registration at the Star A meet.

Zones info is available on the web under the Zones link.

 

Unfinished Business:

USA swimming has last MSI 2003 HOD minutes three times.Former secretary Tim Mann mailed MSI HOD minutes in November of 2003.USA swimming has not made any decisions yet as far as our HOD 2004.

 

New Business:

 

 

 

 

Meeting adjourned 8:40 pm.