Minutes from the Winter 2007 Region III Meeting

Call To Order: The meeting was called to order at 9:31 a.m. on February 12, 2007.

Roll Call of Schools: All were present at roll call.

Introduction of Guests: Ketchikan (Lynn Wadley), Barrow (Mike Wetherbee), Delta (Bruce Reiter), ASAA (Gary Mathews), Monroe (Gary Drexler), Eielson (Kelly Growden) and Sitka (Steve Gillaspie) were in attendance.

Adoption of Agenda: The agenda was approved as written.

Approve Minutes From Previous Meeting: The minutes were approved and seconded.

Financial Report: The financial report was approved and seconded. The account shows $12,128.15.

ASAA Report (Action/Discussion Items) (Al Howard) (See asaa.org for details)

Teams that know they will not be attending the State tournament must notify ASAA and the Region so that they can contact the next qualifying team. The board will be revising the state tournaments bid criteria for hosting these events. The board will be adopting minimum consequences regarding drugs and alcohol, the plan will put into effect a first offense of ten days out of the sport, second offense 45 days, third offense, 1 year and 4^th offense athlete will no longer be eligible the rest of their career. Schools must apply for ASAA membership by the first board meeting to be eligible for the yearly activities. More conversation regarding correspondence athletes. The proposal would classify Raven and Idea and would only be allowed to compete with that team. They must notify ASAA and the host site in at least two weeks before the meet for them to be allowed to compete. They will not be eligible for regional or conference awards. Students have to sit out 18 school weeks from the date of enrollment, if that occurs during the summer ASAA is not granting it. They will be trying to clarify this next meeting. ASAA will be looking to impose a fine for those who do not send in their Master Eligibility Forms before the first competition. ASAA is looking for Region III nominations for Gold Lifetime Passes. ASAA Hall of Fame has announced its second year of selections. April 15^th at the Maryott will be the presentation. Track & Field is looking to add a small schools classification at the state track meet. Volleyball is looking to bring back the 3A schools into one season. 8 man football has been discussed, however, there is not enough committed for this fall. Discussion regarding the use of metal bats in baseball. Please give ASAA any information you might have on injuries in this sport. Team Mobile would like to pay to send 4 students to a national leadership conference in Indianapolis this summer, contact ASAA if you have a student interested.

Old Business

By-Law Changes (Action items)

Soccer: The vote was unanimous. Changed wording to second game counts toward region seeding.

Track: The vote was unanimous. Added coach of the year.

XCR: The vote was unanimous. Added 3A coach of the year.

Baseball: The vote was unanimous. Added the second berth to state.

Fall Regional Tournament Reports

Swimming – Homer, would like to formalize a diver of the year, the region is not in favor of this. The region also believes that the coaches are the best judges for diving.

Volleyball – Kodiak/ACS/Glennallen: All went well.

Football – Skyview/Seward/Juneau: All conference voting issues occurred because of a teleconference.

Wrestling – Cordova/Seward/Skyview: All tournaments went very smooth. Issues regarding coaches sending correct wrestling records. ASAA is looking to get something posted online. Remind coaches to send in accurate information.

New Business: (AIAAA Meeting 2/13 at the Millennium 3 – 6.)

Winter Regional Tournaments

Basketball – Kenai/Nikiski/Cordova: Issues regarding the ability to get the Anchorage officials to submit a list of who is available to officiate regional contests. Cordova will solicit their own officials.

Skiing – Soldotna: Thanks to help from Skyview.

Hockey – Colony/Houston: We should look at the by-laws regarding All Region Team and coach of the year. Should the second place team members get medals?

Region Rotation: (Scratching Houston out of the conference tournament sites, the will be moving into the Mid Alaska Conference for most sports)

Cordova Moving Conferences: Teams have been added to the Aurora Conference creating more travel for Cordova. They would like to be move to the South Central Conference for Volleyball and Basketball and Kachemak for Wrestling. Discussion surrounds how many games and it will cost $89 dollars per person and takes 7 hours. Houston is leaving this conference after this year. This move will be for the 08-9 school year. This will be voted on in the spring.

Swim Qualifiers: It was brought to the attention that maybe the region meet could be trimmed down. The region felt like 4 per event was trimmed enough.

Wrestling Officials Correspondence from P.W.O.A.: The by-laws allow coaches to vote on who they feel is best. This request to divide by area will not be honored.

Small School basketball proposal: There is a proposal to make a new classification to help balance the competition at the state tournament. Take home to discuss with coaches.

Softball: Motion to reduce the amount of games to play in the region to three games. This will be voted on at the spring meeting, teams will schedule this way for the upcoming season. Since Nikiski pull out, we will be keeping the 4 game conference schedule.

Week of between basketball regions and the state tournament: Most of the schools were not in favor of the week off. ASAA needs the week to prepare for the tournament.

Spring Vote for officers: There will be a vote in the spring for secretary – treasurer position.

Region III Scheduling Feb. 13 (9 – 2 @ ACS)

Spring Region III Meeting, April 16, 2007 – 9:30 a.m.

State Wide Feb. 14 @ Millennium 8:00 a.m.

Fall Meeting September 24^th, 2007

Winter Meetings February 11-13, 2008

Spring Meeting April 14, 2008