MARYLAND SWIMMING
BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING
May 5, 2003
Meeting was called to order at 7pm.
Directors Present: Chuck Jacobs, Donna Danielson, Chad Craddock, Chris Gibeau, Roger Weinberg, Katherine Branch, Tom Himes, Marta Iler, Abi Iler, Ken Spencer, Dee Gass, Peter LaGow, John Ferrari, Brendan McElroy, Sheryl Lepisto, Kim Easterday, Pat Kaplan, Linda Sue Lottes, Megan Riley
Others Present: Ken DeGruchy
Adoption of Minutes of February Meeting: Approved
COMMITTEE REPORTS
Administrative Vice Chairman- Chad Craddock, Megan Riley, Sheryl Lepisto, Pat Kaplan and Roger Weinberg attended Easter Zone Meeting
Treasurer- Jamie Cahn –
· Financial Report Distributed
· No unusual items
Age Group Chairman- Chad Cradock
· Zone Meet went well
Sr Chairman – Chris Gibeau
· Sectional meet is an open meet
Registration- Pat Kaplan –
· 1400 new swimmer packets distributed, receiving positive feedback
· Updated registration statistics for 2003
· 2004 registration form for athletes does not contain a preprinted address to minimize confusion
· Accepting names for the nominating committee, still no one for equipment chair
Officials- Sheryl Lepisto –
· Drafting “Responsibilities for Meet Referee
· Developing Officials Tracking Form (including who worked what meet)
· New Referees coming on board
Technical Planning- Tom Himes
· Coaches meeting will develop draft schedule
· Schedule will be proposed at Annual meeting
· Will propose not attending SC Zone Meet next year
o Will push Eastern Zone to make the SC meet a qualifying meet like summer zones
o Replace will a more important All Star meet
Webmaster- Marta Iler
· Meet information and results are coming very timely from all teams
Awards and Swim-a-Thon – Dee Gass
· Not all bills in yet for All Star awards.
· Look at All Star Awards for next year in June
· Bag tags for 2 years ready to go
Open Water/Distance/Camps- Chuck Jacobs
· June Open Water Championship in river at College
o Meet notice ready, needs sanction
· Re-introduce Postal Meet for 2004 with additional marketing
· Camp spots or host available for Levels 1-4
NTV- Susan Pallace
· No report
Records- Barbara Bellamy
· Records up to date, need to double check one record
Top 16/MD Top 5- Katherine Branch
· Send new tabulator to training this summer
· Coaches should send relays in for Top 16
· Final SC Top 5 done
Safety- Kim Easterday
· ALL Safety Marshals need to be registered, up to host club to police
· Investigate holding CPR class for coaches in May/June
Adaptive Swimming- Linda Sue Lottes
· Will investigate interest in hosting Disability Meet in 2004, need to vote into schedule
· Dundalk has registered new athlete
Coaches Rep- Ken Spencer
· Worked on 2003/2004 schedule at coaches meeting (20 coaches from 17 clubs), came away feeling pretty successful
· Awards criteria distributed (copy attached)
Hall of Fame – Theresa Andrews –
· Redo this year’s nominees for next year
Athlete Reps – Abi Iler
· Jr Rep voted on – David Collier from RAC
· Discussion on All Star/Zone Meet concerns – teambuilding is an issue
Outreach – Brendon McElroy
· Black Heritage Meet in Charlotte last weekend in May
· Working with City of Baltimore to host a clinic again
· Looking at outreach opportunities in coming years (ie: S. Africa)
Club Development – Melinda Colgan– no report
Equipment- Peter LaGow
· Missing tripod recovered
· Need new Equipment Chair for next year, give name to nominating committee
Old Business - none
New Business
· New Meet procedures – send to Marta for posting
· De-certification Procedures – MOTION PASSED (see attached)
· Rule Change regarding Bid requirements regarding officials – MOTION PASSED (see attached)
Next meeting – HOD June 22 (see UMBC Pool for directions to meeting room).
Motion to adjourn made and approved at 8:50PM.