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FALLFALLFALL 20122012 2012 BLUECROSS SPRING FLING STATE CHAMPIONS TSSAA would like to congratulate the following 2012 BlueCross Spring Fling state champions: BASEBALL TENNIS CLASS A BOYS TENNIS Decatur County-Riverside High School CLASS A-AA Unicoi County High School CLASS AA Goodpasture Christian School CLASS AAA Brentwood High School CLASS AAA Arlington High School DIVISION II-A University School of Nashville DIVISION II-A University School of Jackson DIVISION II-AA Montgomery Bell Academy DIVISION II-AA Battle Ground Academy GIRLS TENNIS CLASS A-AA Notre Dame High School SOFTBALL CLASS AAA CLASS A Ravenwood High School Grace Baptist Academy DIVISION II-A CLASS AA Webb School of Knoxville Gibbs High School DIVISION II-AA CLASS AAA Baylor School Soddy-Daisy High School DIVISION II-A TRACK & FIELD University School of Jackson BOYS DIVISION II-AA CLASS A-AA Baylor School Sheffield High School CLASS AAA Brentwood High School BOYS SOCCER DIVISION II CLASS A-AA Brentwood Academy Christian Academy of Knoxville GIRLS CLASS AAA CLASS A-AA Brentwood High School Martin Luther King High School DIVISION II-A CLASS AAA Webb School of Knoxville Hardin Valley Academy DIVISION II-AA DIVISION II Baylor School Brentwood Academy FALL 2012 TSSAA STAFF BOARD OF CONTROL BERNARD CHILDRESS PRESIDENT - MIKE REED EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR HAMBLEN WEST HIGH SCHOOL, MORRISTOWN GENE MENEES JODY WRIGHT ASSISTANT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FULTON HIGH SCHOOL, KNOXVILLE MATTHEW GILLESPIE TOMMY LAYNE ASSISTANT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SEQUATCHIE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL, DUNLAP MARK REEVES JERRY MATHIS ASSISTANT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR TULLAHOMA HIGH SCHOOL, TULLAHOMA RICHARD MCWHIRTER STEVE CHAUNCY ASSISTANT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR HILLWOOD HIGH SCHOOL, NASHVILLE WANDA BELT BRYAN TRUE ASSISTANT TO THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR LEWIS COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL , HOHENWALD TRINA MELTON CHUCK WEST ASSISTANT TO THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR DRESDEN HIGH SCHOOL, DRESDEN HEATHER CARTER ISAAC WHITE ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT WESTWOOD HIGH SCHOOL, MEMPHIS EMILY CROWELL LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT PRESIDENT TERRY HILLIER DAN BLACK ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF SCHOOLS BRADFORD SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT LAUREN LYNCH ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT - MIKE HENSON HUNTINGDON HS, HUNTINGDON GAYLE SIMMS ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT RICHARD CARROLL SULLIVAN NORTH HS, KINGSPORT SHONNIE SPEICHER ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT MICHAEL REYNOLDS FARRAGUT HS, KNOXVILLE LYNNE SUTTON ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT MIKE TATUM LEWIS COUNTY HS, HOHENWALD KIM ALLEY ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT DAN HADDOW BOLTON HS, MEMPHIS STEPHEN BARGATZE DIRECTOR OF STUDENT SERVICES JEFF LUTTRELL WATERTOWN HS, WATERTOWN COURTNEY BRUNETZ DIRECTOR OF MARKETING DANNY GILBERT SODDY-DAISY HS, SODDY-DAISY EARL NALL TECHNOLOGY DIRECTOR WHAT’S HAPPENING TSSAA.org Website and Related We are seeing a dramatic shift in In order to host a Hall of Champions Media Information from the 2012 how people get spring fling results - as basketball game(s), please fill out the BlueCross Spring Fling sending results out via Twitter request form found on our website accounted for a significant portion of (www.tssaa.org). You may fax (615- 2012 BlueCross Spring Fling had how results were found. The TSSAA 889-0544) or mail (P. O. Box 319, 1.1M page views during the week's Twitter feed picked up an additional 400 Hermitage, TN 37076) this information activities. 200K unique visitors came to followers and was a major source of to our office to the attention of Heather the site. score reporting by the TSSAA. Nearly Carter. 2,800 people follow the TSSAA twitter The most visited pages were related account. The host school is responsible for to baseball as twice as many visits were sending in the financial form found on made there than for softball and track. Hall of Fame Nomination our website (www.tssaa.org) under Deadline ‘forms’, along with receipts to TSSAA. The baseball Class AAA game was Each host school should send 75% of the highest viewed single page with The deadline for Hall of Fame the gross gate AFTER PAYING GAME visits from 30,000 users. The second nominations is Friday, November 30. OFFICIALS (referees only) to the Hall most visited individual sport was for the Anyone interested in obtaining a Hall of of Champions fund. Class AAA softball game (27,364 visits) Fame nomination form should contact followed by the Class A baseball game Heather Carter at the TSSAA or by If you have any questions please feel with 26,053 visits. visiting the Forms section of the TSSAA free to contact us (615-889-6740). website. 62,673 visits came from Apple We would like to thank all of the iPhone (28K), and Apple iPad (14K). All nominees should meet at least schools that participated in Hall of These two devices accounted for more one of the following criteria: (1) be at Champions games in 2011. Your than 50% of the mobile access. least 50 years old, (2) have been retired generous support allows us to continue at least three years, or (3) have been out the mission of the Hall of Champions, Outside the United States, Pichincha, of the particular field or category for which is to tell the history of high school a province of Ecuador located in the which he/she is being nominated at least athletics in Tennessee. northern sierra region, had someone three years. The three nomination who was interested in the BlueCross categories are Administrator, Coach, and We want to give special recognition Spring Fling. (Quito, capital of Ecuador Official. to the following schools for their resides in the province). The are two outstanding efforts in raising money for mountain peaks, both more than 15,000 Hall of Fame Luncheon the Hall of Champions through benefit feet high are visible from the city of Set for 2013 basketball games, by raising $2,000 or Quito and are easily climbed. But, more in its 2011 Hall of Champions beware, one of the peaks is an active The TSSAA Hall of Fame luncheon games: volcano that last erupted October 1999 will again be held at the Embassy Suites and covered Quito with several inches Hotel in Murfreesboro, located on Christ Presbyterian Academy ($3,528.00) of ash. Medical Center Parkway. It is set for Obion County Central High School ($3007.50) Saturday, April 20, 2013. We hope you Haywood High School ($3004.50) North Carolina, Texas, Georgia, will make plans to join us as we induct Dyer County High School ($2242.50) Florida, Louisiana, Illinois, South a new Hall of Fame class. The 2013 Carolina, New York, Kentucky, selections will be announced in March. We would also like to thank the Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Alabama and following individuals for contributing to Virginia all had more than 1,000 visits TSSAA Hall of Champions the TSSAA Hall of Champions fund, to the site. either in general, or as a gift in Benefit Basketball Games memoriam. In Tennessee, there were visits from 180 different cities - ranging from Schools may choose any two dates to 22,600 people from Nashville to 2 from play Hall of Champions basketball Crab Orchard. games between Tuesday, November 13 and Saturday, November 17, with an The TSSAA hotline, where scores unlimited number of games on those would be read to the caller, had 600 two days. These games will not count calls, all but 20 from in-state. against the 24 games a school is allowed to schedule during the regular season. CHANGES IN BYLAWS BYLAW CHANGES The following was given 2012-2013 from July 2011 through June 2012: The following is a summary of the Constitution and Bylaw changes and where they can be found in the TSSAA or TMSAA Joe Allen handbook. An updated version of the TSSAA and TMSAA Bill Arata handbooks will be available on our website prior to member schools Randy Barnes receiving the 2012-13 printed copies. When they become available, Bill Baxter the updated copies should be used to conduct coaches meetings. The Charlie Bayless changes are as follows: Charlie Bayless Gene Beck In memory of Mr. Carl Matherly 1. TSSAA Bylaws (Article I, Section 9(H) – Coaches) – This Billy Belew rule will state that coaches must be paid entirely from funds approved Ethel Benson by either the Board of Education, governing board of the school, Mike Bone Director of Schools, or the Principal of the school. Ronnie Carter In memory of Hilda Waller, Bobby Knight, Estelle Menees, Tom Squires, Wayne Hobbs 2. TSSAA Bylaws (Article II, Section 7 – Repeating Rule) – Al Cate This rule will be changed to state that a “student who repeats the Irene Chandler seventh or eighth grade and participates in school athletics while Jim Cradic repeating shall be ineligible to participate in athletics in the ninth Harry Durham grade.” It will replace the current rule which states the student is Jimmy Ellis ineligible in the ninth grade if he or she participates in school athletics Albert Ellison while repeating after passing that grade. Vic Francescon Hale Harris 3. TMSAA Bylaws (Article I - Membership) – This rule will Ed Henley state that membership in the TMSAA shall be open to any school that O’Neal Henley terminates with the 6th, 7th, or 8th grade, both for boys’ and girls’ Rick Insell interscholastic competition. Any school that terminates with the 6th Dale Kelley grade may be a member for the purposes of forming a cooperative Cynthia Lockhart program for the 6th grade students only. Eugene London Mary Martindale 4. TSSAA Bylaws (Article I, Section 1 – Membership) – The Gordon Perry rule will allow any secondary school in Tennessee which includes 9 Robert Raikes and/or higher to request TSSAA membership provided it is approved Mike Reed by the State Department of Education, State Department of Education Carolyn Ridley approve agencies (schools must be in category 1, 2,or 3), AdvancEd, Dan Schlafer In memory of Dr. Reynold Schlafer and/or Southern Association of Independent Schools.

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