SW Junior Coaches Meeting

Date: October 7^th, 2001

Meeting called to order at 12:10 PM by Joe Mees

Introductions

• Team not in attendance: Tempe, Bair Island

Voting

• Terms up: Joe Mees, Sandy Armstrong, Borowski
• Nominations: Zohar (MAC), Abbott (SI), Brannigan (BHS), Mees (PRC), Binkowski (SI), Armstrong (Marin), Beth Andersen (OS)
• Vote Counting with Jim Andersen and Bob McClean
• 2 year – Mees, Armstrong, Andersen
• 1 year – Zohar

Lake Chabot Overview with Vince Horpel

• Former coach at BHS
• Trying to start program at Lake Chabot by hosting a varsity regatta with 2-4 teams for 2002 and program in 2002-2003
• Will contact a select number of teams about racing in February

Race Schedule

• New 5 week schedule round-robin from Eric (BHS)
• Approved by group.
• Schedule Formula attached to minutes

Review of 2001 Southwest Championships

• Weigh-Ins - getting better

• Proposal for Stewards to buy 3-4 scales to have ownership

• Race Schedule

• Very aggressive schedule in 2001.
• For 2002, new rules from CSUS AC including 40 minute breaks every 4-4.5 hours.
• 115 racing slots available over the 2 day Championship

• Stake Boat Volunteers

• Proposal from USRowing to have a Head Coordinator/Parent to coordinate all the parents over the 2 days.

• Awards

• Good reception for the new Awards Ceremony
• Ideas: Publish Awards Times in attempt to get all 3 teams there at once.
• (OS) Awards Beach proposed, but Capital mentioned that inexperienced crews might have a problem with it. Maybe a future project.

• Other problems:
• (BHS) Race Days were too long in the sun
• (ZLAC) Launch area was too hectic. Need a beach master
• (SNDM) Swimming athletes and spectators need to be abolished. Safety

• Race date for 2002 May 11^th-12^th

2002 Meeting Agenda

Proposal from the Stewards:

• Weigh-ins
• Weigh-ins for Lightweights and Coxswains would be open on Friday PM from 2 PM - 6 PM and from Saturday 6 AM - 10 AM. No Sunday weigh-ins.
• For lightweights, if any member of a LT boat does not make weight, then the whole boat needs to be re-weighed.
• Lightweight weigh-ins close at the beginning of the first race of the day. Once racing has begun on Saturday, no lightweights can weigh in. Coxswains have until 10: 00 AM.

Weigh-in proposals ACCEPTED.

• Entry Restrictions
• All teams will be limited to one entry per race

Discussion:

• (SI-Abbott) Motion to limit one boat per team per race AND a maximum of 3 races per athlete over the weekend. ACCEPTED
• (PRC-Mees) Motion to propose a lottery to fill up lanes in heats. The lottery would be for all 2^nd boat entries and the lottery should be equable. ACCEPTED
• (PRC-Mees) Motion to propose an exception to the one boat per team per race limit to exempt the following races: N8B, 3V8 and V1x ACCEPTED

Open Discussion

• (PRC-Mees) Race Elimination

• Each team was asked to rank according to preference of elimination the following events:

LT4,  FR4,  Int1x, 2-,  Int4x,  N4

Ranking from vote:
    1. Int1x
    2. 2-
    3. Int4x
    4. FR4

• Stewards will put together a new SWJRA schedule based on the above entry restrictions and event elimination ranking.

• (BHS-Brannigan) Motion for proposal the investigate moving some heats from the weekend to Friday afternoon for future SWJRA 2003 and onward ACCEPTED

• (SI-Abbott) Motion to not allow hotseating due to time constraints DENIED

• (OS-Hooper) Motion to modify the definition for participation in the JV4 for athletes not racing in an 8+ event DENIED

• (LGRC-Kudja) Motion to move both the heats and finals of the LT8 to Saturday morning and afternoon. DENIED

• (OS-Anderson) Motion to move both the heats and finals of the LT8 to Sunday morning and afternoon. ACCEPTED

• (SNDM-Hilcu) Motion to move the NA8 and NB8 heats to Saturday afternoon so Novices are not sitting around for an entire day on Saturday. ACCEPTED

• (SI-Abbott) Motion to impose term limits on Stewards to two consecutive terms at time, but no maximum number of years served. DENIED

• (SI-Abbott) Motion that only High School aged athletes compete at Championships, thus no athletes less than 14 years of age or 9^th grade. DENIED

• (SI-Abbott) Motion that athletes only be allowed to have 4 years of eligibility at Championships. DENIED

• (SI-Abbott) Motion to buy and maintain a league-funded website. The group decided that Abbott could look into the cost and present something to the group.

League Scheduling

• A new round-robin league schedule was proposed by Christiani (Berkeley) Involves only the Northern teams since the So. Cal teams already have a schedule in place
• Proposal: Over 5 weekends, all 12 teams will have at least race each other. Each team is assigned a letter and Eric has race schedule formula
• Weekends: Race weekends will be: 3/9-3/10, 3/16-3/17, 3/23-3/24, 4/13-4/14 and 4/27-4/28. Racing teams can decide which day, Saturday or Sunday they would like to race as well as the race location, i.e. Home Team.
• Race formula

• Week 1

• A1/B2/C2/F
• A2/B3/C1/U
• A3/B1/C3/W
• Q/T/X/L

• Week 2

• A1/B1/C1/Q
• A2/B2/C3/X
• A3/B3/C2/T
• L/F/U/W

• Week 3

• A1/B3/C3/L
• A2/A3/F/Q
• B1/B2/T/U
• C1/C2/X/W

• Week 4

• A2/B1/C2/L
• A1/A3/U/X
• B2/B3/F/X
• C2/C3/Q/U

• Week 5

• A3/B2/C1/L
• A1/A2/T/W
• B1/B3/F/X
• C2/C3/Q/U

• Team Assignments: