Pending approval at the January 09 CCM meeting
PVS Competition Committee Meeting
MINUTES
October 1, 2008
Attendance:
Riley Eaton-Chair; Bill Marlin-PVS, Greg York-PVS, John Ertter- PVS,
Jim Garner-PVS, Dan Jacobs-PVS, Manga Dalizu-PVS, Christian
Doud-MACH, Brian Pawlowicz, Shelley Gesker-YORK, Heather Coulson-MAKO,
Emily
Felker-HACC, Bruce Andersen-HACC, Aaron Dean-OCCS, Dave Crocker-RMSC,
Dave
Kraft-RMSC, Pete Morgan-CUBU, Norm Wright-FISH, Ruth Anne Miller-AAC,
Rob
Washburn-CUBU, Kerry Ellet-CUBU, Tim Kelly-CUBU, Mike Kraeuter-BWST,
Paris
Jacobs-MACH, Mark Faherty-CUBU, Terri Marlin-PVS
- Call to order : Riley called the meeting to order at 6:50 pm
- Approval of May 08
minutes: motion was made to
approve May minutes, second: approved
- Convention reports
- General Chair: Greg York
- There
are still some boundary issues with Virginia, in both Prince William
and Loudoun Counties; we are trying to avoid rules and
committees, the issue is currently in governance.
- PVS is going to be a Pilot
program for a new LSC program set forth by USA Swimming (similar to the current
Club Recognition Program); Greg will ask John H to help out. This
program tracks the progress of LSCs and is intended to see how LSCs are
doing (i.e.organization-wise, etc). Greg will provide updates.
- Sr Chair: Riley Eaton
- Going to be committee to
look at Sr. Champ meet at Zone, decision may be made by Dec. Meet
designed so we as a zone can structure meet however we wish (t/f, q
times, 2 day/3day, etc) Goal to address the 15 and overs that are
slipping through the cracks
- Still don’t have a site
for Spring Sectionals
- Trial cuts in another
month some times will drop as much as 2 seconds; want to keep jrs under
1000 athletes;
- Negotiating
with NCAA because Mark Schubert wants Olympic Trials 2 weeks
earlier than this past year. It would then overlap with the NCAA
baseball Tournament which also takes place in Omaha.
John E: The meetings he attended dealt mostly with
management issues.
Diversity discussion;
Paris & Greg:
We will now have a
representative appointed to the board to help us move forward; USA Swimming
does not have a direction, PVS seems to be forging the way. Diversity/Outreach
should not just be about race but about economics as well. Outreach group will
be meeting once each month/2 months, still to be determined, anyone interested
should check the PVS website for announcements and make an effort to attend
meeting.
Coaches Reps: Dan Jacobs/Manga Dalizu: See report submitted
- Board of Review: PVS
appears to be well ahead of other LSC; doesn’t not work for BOD in any
LSC, they are an independent group, to give merit/ not give merit.
Anything past 90 days is old and will not be considered
- Others
- Take advantage of BoD
members who went lots of great info
- PVS Age Group Coach of
the Year: Congrats Dave Green!
- 07-08 Outstanding
Athlete of the Year: Results:
- 9-10 boys: Carsten
Vissering – RMSC
- 9-10 girls: Katie Ledecky
– CUBU
- 11-12 boys: Harrison Gu –
RMSC
- 11-12 girls: Janet Hu –
CUBU
- 13-14 boys: Jack Conger –
RMSC
- 13-14 girls: Sarah Haase -
RMSC, Kaitlin Pawlowicz – CUBU
- 15-16 boys: Brady Fox –
RMSC
- 15-16 girls: Kaitlin
Pawlowicz – CUBU
- 17-18 boys: Matthew
Benecki – FISH
- 17-18 girls: Ashley Danner
– SDS
- Open men: Tom Koucheravy –
Mason Swim Team
- Open women: Kate Ziegler –
FISH
Congratulations to all
Swimmers Nominated!
- 07-08 Distance Swimming
Awards:
- OPEN: Kate Ziegler and
Tom Koucheravy
- 15-18: Rachael Burnett and
Matt Benecki
- 07-08 Disabled Swimmer
Award; not awarded yet
- 2008 LC Zone Report: Mike Kraeuter
- Meet went great; we had a
great staff, even though it was not as team oriented as in the past the
staff kept everyone together; many kids swam faster at night, because
the meet was local we had a huge team (over 260 swimmers), many of the swimmers
who did not make finals still came back to cheer at night, great overall
support. WE WON—Awesome!
- Using 2 pools?? It seems
to work well; great weather; MAC run very well
- Thanks to coaches for
preparing athletes so well; a lot of meet records were broken through
out the meet (about 7 from PVS);
- Some complaints about the
electronic issues; however the MAC staff was wonderful to work with
- Outfitting only a few got
it late, but that was because they registered past the due date; Shelley
Gesker is taking over the outfitting for the 09 Zones team.
- TYR contract is up (we
had a 3 year contract), we are renegotiating. Mark Faherty, Dave Green and
Shelley will be meeting with TYR; suggestions are welcome, contact Mark
- 2009 SC Head/Assistant
Head coach elections:
- Head Coach: Mark Faherty
- Assistant Head Coach: Steve
Menard
- Eastern Zone
Info/Activity
- Sectionals: still no bids for the Southern Region meet
3/26-29/09
- We are still in a
position where a club or venue that is interested we can still hold the
meet. USA S will contribute $10,000 for the meet
- AG Zones; April 2-4 Rochester, NY
- 10 lane, didn’t want the
extra swimmers, so the new rule to allow additional 9-10 & 11-12
swimmers has been moved to Spring 10 to start
- LC AG Zones: August 09; still no bids; PVS entertaining
venues;
- Looking into Naval
Academy or UMD
- Travel Assistance
- SCY Nationals
$450/$6750: swimmer must
participate in 4 swims between Sept 08 and the meet, Dec-4-6, in Atlanta, Georgia
- National LC time trials
there will be cut time for the time trial; not available yet
- SCY Jr Nationals
$250/7500 swimmers must
participate in at least 4 swims between Sept 08 & the meet; Dec 11-13
in Austin, Texas
- This is a new meet added
to the schedule
- Competition Schedule
- PVS Meets 09-10 Short
Course Season (Sept 09-March 10); the following are the proposed dates
for the PVS Meets:
- October Open; Oct 16-18,
2009
- November Open; Nov 6-8,
2009
- January Distance: 1/2-3/10; proposal to move to 1/9-10, second
and passed
- January Open; 1/16-17/10 Proposal to move to the 23/24
weekend; second and passed
- February Distance; Feb
14-15, 2010
- B/BB Meet; proposal to move meet to the 26-28, no second,
the meet stays where it is; Feb 19-21
- Junior Champs; March 4-7,
2010
- Senior Champs; March
11-14, 2010
- AG Champs (JOs); March
18-21, 2010
- Club Meets; Jan 1, 2009
through March 31, 2009 (last
call); final 3 meet requests for the 08-09 SC schedule:
- Mako: Winter Invite,
January 10-11; Spring Invite, March 28-29
- RMSC: Gender Blender Mini
Meet, February 14-15
- Club Meets: April 1, 09
through August 31, 09 (2nd
call)
- FISH: LC Derby, May 16-15
- FISH: June 13-14
The above meets were all
recommended by the Competition Committee Members. All above mentioned meets
will go to the Board of Directors for final vote of approval; pending signing
of pool contracts.
- Club Meets: Sept 1, 09
through Dec. 31, 09 (not to vote on will just put on make a list of; all
these dates will be pending the scheduling of PVS meets)
- CUBU; Dec 10-13 TDI
–location TBD; hoping for GMU
- AAC Fall Gator: 10
31-11/1
- MACH: 4-6 Turkey Claus @ Takoma
- FAST: Nov 21-22 Qualifier
@ Fairland
- HACC: Harvest Moon Oct
10/11 @ Herndon CC
- CUBU; Pilgrim Mini Meet
11/22
- MSSC: Christmas Champs
12/4-6
- MSSC all Free 10/3-4
- PVS Jr Champs time
standards
- Senior Champ participation
- Riley recommends forming
a committee with large and small clubs to look at Sr. Champs regarding
outside participation, will tie in looking at time standards
- Riley will chair the
committee; anyone interested in contributing should contact Riley Eaton
- Proposal meet schedule – Riley
- A parent member has asked
the committee to look at the LC schedule for the June LC AG/SR 1 & 2
meets; because they are always on Sunday which make it impossible for
some swimmers to participate for religious reasons; Riley has asked for
the Competition Committee to think “outside the box” for ideas and
thoughts on this issue; please email Riley will any thoughts, ideas,
concerns, etc.
- Riley is trying to find a
way to better communicate to all coaches; wants to create a more
complete email list of coaches/assistant coaches
Proposed date for next CCM
is Wednesday Jan, 7 time and place TBD
Adjourn: 8:30 pm