Nor-Cal Representatives Meeting Minutes

Tues, 4 February, 2003 - ARC Ranch House

In attendance: BVC: Lisa Bauduin, Raydell Barkley, Melissa Seale, Ron Whitney, Coast: Gary Shaw, Sean Laughlin, Joe Mangan, Ann Marie Weiss (for Curtiss Smith), CVC: Gary Bluth, Dave Bronzan, GVC: Ross Brosius, Pete Pichetti (for Michelle Hannaford). Guests: Nor-Cal Meet Director Jack Albiani, Rick Anderson, COA CC Rep. Gary Dilley, Mary Shea, Nor-Cal Secretary Dave Shrock.

10:14: meeting called to order by Nor-Cal T&F Chair Joe Mangan

Treasurer’s Report:

Sean Laughlin reported that the treasury was in good shape with a current balance of $2187.00 with bills paid.

Rotational and invitational adjustments:

• Yuba will host Shasta’s 28^th March rotational as Shasta’s track will not be completed
• Contra Costa has cancelled their Invite on 27 March

2003 Post-season sites:

• Combined Events: San Mateo will host the event with information already on the www.norcalstat.com site

Coaches are reminded that men must have 8 marks completed and women 5 marks competed before entry cut-off date, though marks can be updated until Sunday before competition.

Joe will speak with Bob Rush on method to declare potential competitors early.

• Nor-Cal Trials: (Merritt College-Oakland) Upon review of the tentative schedule Mangan assigned Bauduin, Shaw, Brosius, Bluth and himself to review the schedule and get back to Coach Nate Slaughter with suggested adjustments.

Note: As Merritt has an 8 lane track, only 24 top Nor-Cal marks shall advance to the Nor-Cal trials in both track and field events, not 27 as in the past. This is a one-year alteration.

In the HJ & PV, all ties shall be broken as to only advance 12 competitors the finals, not all ties as in the past. This will need to be made a Nor-Cal by-law change.

• Coach Slaughter outlined the new facilities: 42” wide banked 8 lane mondo surface with 155m turns and 85m straights; HJ, LJ. TJ in ‘D’ areas; PV on opposite side; SP, DT, HT, JT on lower field a short distance away.
• Nor-Cal Seeding Meeting: Sunday, 26 April at San Joaquin Delta’s Bud Lounge beginning at 10:00am.

• Nor-Cal Finals: (Modesto JC) latest schedule passed out by Mangan, and Jack Albiani: former Modesto coach for 28 years, was introduced as the Nor-Cal Meet Director.
• Mangan mentioned that the schedule was much different than last year, with only two open/invite. events interspersed in the Nor-Cal schedule, with all track events to be contested on Saturday, 10 May. Javelin will be thrown tentatively on the baseball field across the street north of the stadium.
• Officials: Gary Shaw mentioned that he wanted to make sure that sufficient officials were available for the Nor-Cal portion of the relays, and Albiani assured that there would be.
• Supplemental Housing: Last year the outlying colleges were the only schools to receive housing. This year Joe Mangan will hand out a request form at the Nor-Cal Trials, and will allot housing on a need basis this year.
• Scheduling: There was much discussion was had on the meet format was better with more traditional Modesto Relays invite/open. events interspersed as last year, with discussion also if the 5km should be run at 1:30-2:20 as scheduled. It was determined that it gets hotter in Modesto as the afternoon progresses, and if it was too hot during the day, the Games Committee can make the decision to postpone the event.

Gary Bluth calling for the question to accept the schedule as is, and it passed unanimously.

Up-to-date schedule and information is posted on www.norcalstat.com and www.modestorelays.org

• State Meet: (Chabot College-Hayward) Mangan began with a rundown on why the meet has been moved from Shasta in Redding by stating that the college and contractor could no longer guarantee that the facility would be ready for the state meet. As the event was the primary responsibility of the Coast Conference, Mangan contacted several coaches, and Ken Grace of Chabot said he would host the event.
• Officials: Mangan asked everyone to contact official in their area to ask them to consider officiating, and Bauduin suggested that the Nor-Cal committee donate $1,000.00 to the PAUSATF Officials committee, in thanks of their efforts, and as an inducement to help at more JC meets.
• Schedule: The Scheduling committee of Bauduin, Brosius, Shaw, Bluth and Mangan will review the state schedule.

2004 Post-Season Sites:

• Combined events: CVC, Fresno has volunteered
• Nor-Cal Trials: BVC, American River College has volunteered
• Nor-Cal Finals: CVC, Modesto has volunteered
• State Meet: Tentatively Bakersfield

2005 State Meet site:

• Discussion if Shasta would want to host the 2005 championships

Upcoming season rule changes:

§ Uniforms: It was noted that the rule change requiring singlet touching the uniform pants was still in effect

It was also noted that beginning this T&F season every school must have some sort of identifying logo, initials, name, or symbol representing the college on the uniform.

• Pole vault standard crossbar pins. As per the new NCAA Rule book, the standard pins which hold the cross bar would have to be reduced to 2.17 inches effective this season.
• Note: COA T&F Rep. John Norton requested from the COA, and was able to obtain the Community Colleges a one-year moratorium for implementing this rule change.
• Automatic Timing at Rotational Meets: Effective this season, automatic timing is advised, but beginning in 2004, automatic timing will be required at all Nor-Cal rotational meet.

12:17pm: Cross Country portion of meeting called to order by Nor-Cal CC Chair Gary Bluth

§ 2003 Cross Country Schedule: Gary Bluth began by passing out a tentative 2003 invitational schedule and asking for additions and alterations. Gary will work with Dave Shrock to finalize the schedule and get a version out by March.

§ Bye week before Nor-Cals: Should we maintain the 2003 Cross Country schedule with a bye week before the Nor-Cal championships? After additional discussion Gary Bluth called the question. The motion passed 7-5.

Post Season Qualifying: Ross Brosius noted that the coaches Association has forwarded a ‘form 5’ (legislation change) proposal to the COA stating that the 5CTCA unanimously supports the following post season cross country qualifying procedure of qualifying 10-14 teams and 30 individuals to the State Meet from each region. Ross detailed the approval procedure with a videoconference before the COA March meeting.

Ross noted that we would stay with qualifying 14 teams form each region in 2003 unless the proposal is adopted in March.

General items for discussion:

Hall-of-Fame nominations: All nominations must be submitted to Joe Mangan/Jean Snuggs by the Beaver Relays. Those making nominations should include supporting information and background, with a photo.

Those nominated thus far are:

Coaches: Dave Stern, former MPC Coach

Athletes: Stacey Dragila, former Yuba heptathlete; Eddie Hart, former Contra Costa 400m runner

Officials: Chuck Skow (posthumous): long time San Joaquin Valley statistician and official

State Coaches Association Business: Effective at this State T&F Championships in May Vice President Doug Wells (Cerritos) will assume the association presidency, and will nominate a treasurer and secretary from the southern region.

Ross noted how we need to come up with a nomination from the north to serve as the vice president for two years with Doug before becoming association president in 2006. We need to do this by the T&F State Meet.

New Facilities in Nor-Cal: Peralta District: Merritt (site of this year’s Nor-Cal Trials), Laney, Alameda (no program), and Shasta are still working on their facility.

Full-time positions frozen due to the state budget crisis:

Sacramento CC, Shasta, West Valley

12:58pm: Meeting adjoined with Joe Mangan thanking Ross Brosius for ably representing the State and Nor-Cal interests to the COA while serving as Association President for the past two years.

Next informational Coaches Meeting: State Championships at Chabot College, 16-17 May

Respectfully submitted by Dave Shrock, Nor-Cal Secretary