Administrative Division Jacksonville, FL 2005 Minutes of the 27Th Annual Meeting
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Minutes of the 27th Annual Meeting Administrative Division Jacksonville, FL 2005 Minutes of the 27th Annual Meeting AAC Event Leaders Meeting STAFF SCREENING Staff Selection will be Friday for Men & Women’s Head Coach and Head Manager for the Olympic Wednesday, November 30 Staff. Several athletes volunteered to be on this committee. We discussed the criteria for future Call to Order / Attendance staff selection and how the AAC has mentioned the need for Olympic level experienced coaches Welcome and Remarks by Sandra Farmer Patrick for some of the staff positions. Kudos to Dexter McCloud for L&L meeting work. AAC 2006 OVERVIEW- Thanked Event Leaders for their hard work. IAAF does not have an athlete commission as functional as our committee, nor does it have APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES representation like we do here. Motion made by Jon Drummond, second by Lobbied to waive annual meeting fee for the Dexter McCloud, for approval of the minutes athletes of $150.00. from the Oct 9 conference call. Accepted Increased athlete commitment and Unanimously. participation within USATF. Implemented EX-Officio Committee to ensure Motion by Jon Drummond, second by LaTanya that AAC has adequate athlete representation th Sheffield that the minutes from the April 24 at the Board Meetings and AAC conference Conference call be approved. Accepted calls. Unanimously. Secure adequate coaching staff for the athletes at OTC – Chula Vista, in order to maintain INFORMATION PACKET residency. Keep the binder for future meetings to add inserts. Implementation of the “Managers Pool AAC Meeting Schedule is in the info packet. Program”. Athlete Committee Assignments in the packet. Proposed bylaw for PAA Help new athletes to attend future meetings Proposed new Agent Regulations Guidelines during the convention. Initiated and implemented Post-Collegiate Scholarship Fund program for emerging L & L COMMITTEE ITEMS: athletes. Agents Issues, PAA & increase athlete representation. Helped support the Rookie Camp which has Agents regulations task force - revamped the agent 30-40 participants this year. certification program. AAC Leadership Award – new this year Professional Athlete Association (PAA) - This group This will be presented on Friday. moved for a 5E organization which will give it a spot on the USATF board spots. We have a new definition for professional athlete. Want to define AAC Meeting a professional athlete as what the PAA defines as a professional athlete. Need to move that through December 1 L&L. This will allow autonomy with the PAA making the decisions for the athletes. I. Call to Order Increase athlete representation – a battle with some II. Approval of Minutes committees, we need to keep enforcing the Motion to approve Dec 2nd meeting minutes by percentage of athlete representation (20%). Sasha Spencer, seconded - passed unanimously Association membership is also an issue on the Sharrieffa Barksdale motioned for approval of the ballot - may be dependent on each sport Dec 3rd meeting minutes, seconded - passes committee. unanimously. Antonio Pettigrew motioned for the approval of the Dec 4th meeting minutes, Jon Drummond reiterated to make sure our voice is heard as the voting representation entitles us to seconded - passed unanimously. such. III. Welcome and Introductions of Executive Committee and Event Leaders. Jacksonville, FL 2005 IV. AAC’s Mission The track and field committees have adopted the Established in 1980. process to decide the team on the day of the trials We are committed to being athletes and not to allow chasing after the trials. They will advocate. Started with 5 athletes send 4 names to not include more than one ‘B’ Minimum of 20% representation on all unless there are no ‘A’ athletes. Can enter two ‘B’s committees if no ‘A’ in the event, and one could compete and Lobbied to waive the $150 fee for athletes one could chase the standard. Increased athlete commitment and participation XI. L&L Issue Implemented Ex-Officio committee to Dexter moved to accept language changing the insure adequate representation bylaw definition of a professional athlete to match Secure adequate coaching staff for athletes what the PAA determines to be a professional at the OTC to maintain residency athlete. Gary Morgan seconded and it passed Implementation of the “Managers Pool unanimously. Program” An agent / coach task force Committee was 2008 Olympic Trials Presentation created and will be chaired by Tyree Washington. Barbara Kousky and Mike O’Reilly are on They are looking for additional members to take Committee and accompanied Vin Lanana in part in this committee to review issues his bid review. surrounding agents and coaches. Working as an entire community to make this a huge event. Jon Drummond wants this task force to look at There will be another high performance meet coaches who are being paid sending athletes to at Oregon for the next three years certain agents without the athletes input as well Throws issues surrounding the site of the as agents going after athletes prior to the hammer. A motion was made by Ian Waltz, completion of their collegiate eligibility and seconded by Cari Soong, for the hammer to take place outside the oval at the Olympic XII. Officials Clinic trials. This was passed unanimously. Also it Linda Metzler invited athletes to the officials was highly recommended to add seating for clinic with Alan Bell who is the Head starter for 1000 spectators. the 2012 Olympics. There will be equipment and an experience to help the athletes. This is VII. Research Project Saturday 1-4pm grand Ballroom 7. Krista Austin spoke about a gene research project on sprints, jumps and hurdles about the lineage of XIII. PAA the athletes and the impact on their athleticism. The updates on the services the PAA has provided She has a quick survey and would need a swab of to date are: DNA. This can help further research in the area Put $50,000 over four years in to the elite and she is located in the lobby for the next few athlete retreat. days. Prize money has increased from top 5 to top 8 at the Olympic trials. Ralph Lindamen – Air Force Head Coach Expanded the Prefontaine Classic to include Will be in the pool for Olympic Staff and was more events and athletes. discussing his credentials for such position. (719) Promotional track meet proceeds are going 930-4517 cell number if questions. into the PAA. IX. Gleukos XIII. IAAF Cross Country CEO Mark Jensen spoke about his product and Anne Timmons asked for a resolution to maintain their support of USATF and free samples were equal numbers on the men’s and women’s cross given out. country teams for the IAAF World Championships. Teddy Mitchell made a motion to X. IAAF support this resolution. It was seconded, passed New rule to allow one ‘B’ standard athlete per unanimously. event with two “A” athletes or less. This is currently for the 2007 World Championships and has yet to be officially adopted for the Olympics. Minutes of the 27th Annual Meeting Be it resolved that USATF is not in favor of the IAAF Championships in Orlando; mountain running, Councils decision to have 9 men with 6 to score and and multi’s. only 6 women, with 4 to score as a team sizes NACAC under-23 Championships in Santo competing at the world xc championships. We firmly Domingo and in 2007 NACAC Open believe that equal numbers should be represented for the Championships (First Ever). senior men’s and senior women’s teams. Robert Hersh, IAAF Council Motion to adjourn at 3:35pm Talked about how our federation is the most athlete-active of all the other federations. December 2, 2005 2006 World XC in Fukoka , Japan, 2007 World XC in Moumbasa Kenya; World Road Running I. Meeting called to order at 8:25am Championships in Hungary October 2007, then in 2008 will be in Italy for the half-marathon; World II. Sign in sheet for all athletes Indoors in Moscow 2006, World Indoors 2008 in Valencia, Spain and World Cup in Athens, Greece III. Post collegiate Scholarship Athletes in 2006. Rookie Camp, Five years, True Signs of success with our young athletes They also set the standards for the 2007 World Championships. The window was enlarged for the IV. Special Guests marathon, Race-walk and combined events. Also Lamine Diack, IAAF President included automatic time qualifiers for the top 20 He spoke to the group about his experiences in in NYC, Boston, Chicago, London and Berlin the United States and meeting with all the marathons for the 2007 World Championships. constituencies of this organization. He spoke World Athletics Final 2006 will go to Stuttgart about his love of the sport and his involvement in Germany. The Grand Prix is also being the sport. He talked about the history of the restructured. This will use a point scoring system. relationships with the IAAF, good and bad, There will be Golden League, Super Grand Prix covering from drug woes of the early 2000’s to the and Grand Prix and also Continental Meets. highlights of the great performances in Helsinki in 2005. He touched on the lack of TV coverage in The three meets in NACAC are Kingston Jamaica, between Olympic years. He also is working with Carson California and the Reebok Meet in NYC. Craig to create partnerships to host future The top scores (using their best five events) will international competitions in the United States. be invited to take the 7 places of 8 in the Grand th Lastly he congratulated the young American team Prix final (with the 8 place being selected by the that was so brilliant in Helsinki! IAAF). IAAF has expanded its athlete’s commission. Craig Masback, CEO Craig discussed the work that was done in Toni Campbell, Al Joyner, and Todd Henson from conjunction with Lamine Diack over the past few the Olympic Training Center spoke about the days for the betterment of the sport.