State Board Meeting

Meeting Minutes 2.16.10

 
State Chair James Letzring called the meeting to order at 9:43 pm
 
I. Roll Call
Voting Members Present:
James Letzring
Vadim Balakirev
Bob Wuornos
Doug Price
Matt Kieffer
 

II. Approval of Agenda

III. Old Business

A.    State Championships
a.    Approximate numbers
                                                        i.     258
b.    Team Minnesota Concept
                                                        i.     Will get a certificates at State Championships provided by the State
                                                      ii.     Will take pictures of all groups.
c.     Senior Awards
                                                        i.     There was no update on senior awards. They will be receiving sweatshirts with their names on the back. The orders will be placed for those once the number of seniors are finalized
 

IV.  New Business

A.    State Coaches and Judges Dinner
a.    Bob confirmed that he has made contact with the owner of Majors. He says it is not for sure yet but that he thinks it should work to have the coaches and judges dinner there after the Saturday night session.
B.    Email to clubs asking for state forms
a.    James announced there was an e-mail sent out to all clubs reminding them that the State award forms are due February 28th.
C.   Letter Award Qualifying Score
a.    Open discussion
b.    Dale e-mailed that he thinks the scores should be lowered to 60 for level 8’s, 65 for level 9’s, and 70 for level 10’s.
c.     Doug felt that the scores were good the way they were or maybe even raising them a little bit.
d.    James felt that they also needed to be lower but not as low as the scores Dale had suggested
e.    Doug also suggested making it a team process in which if you were top 6 on any event you would make the line-up and in turn earn a letter.
f.      Bob suggested lowering the score to 65 for level 8, 67.5 for level 9, and 70 for level 10.
g.    Doug also suggested that if you were to get a 12.5 on any event that this would also qualify you which would take care of any specialists.
h.    James suggest that the 12.5 should apply for all events except vault and that score should be a 13.
i.      What was voted on was
Level 8 – 65
Level 9 – 67.5
Level 10 – 70
or a 12.5 on Fx, Ph, Sr, Pb, Hb
or a 13 on Vt
j.      All in Favor, No oppositions
 
 

VII. Adjournment

A.    Doug motions for meeting to adjourn
B.    Second: Vadim
C.   No oppositions, All in favor
D.   Meeting Adjourned at 10:32 pm