MINUTES
American Water Ski Association Board of Directors Meeting Embassy Suites by Hilton 1601 Belvedere Road West Palm Beach, FL 33406 Monday, August 5, 2019 8:00 a.m.
1. Call to Order – Meeting called to order at 8:00 am 2. Introductions & Roll Call a. Gordon Hall – SC – COB p. James Powell – E EVP b. Keith Lindemulder– S – AWSA VP / S q. Hutch Haines – E Director EVP (incoming) r. Greg Badal – Ntl Driver Committee c. Lyman Hardy – S Director s. Brad Hartwell – W Director d. Jim Jaquess – S Director t. Barry Young – W Director e. Bob Archambeau – S EVP (outgoing) u. Brad Corbin – W EVP f. Kirby Whetsel – S Director v. Richelle Muhlitner – W Director g. Jerry Bautsch – SCR Director w. Delaina Downes – MW Secretary h. Kelvin Kelm – SC Alt Director x. Robert Rhyne – Treasurer (outgoing) i. Van Parker – S EVP y. Tony Drake - Jr Dev j. Jim Babcock – MW Alt Director z. Jeff Clark k. Dennis Downes – MW EVP aa. Cynthia Logan – Treasurer (incoming) l. Peter Dahl – MW Director bb. Nate Boudreaux – USAWSWS Executive m. Julie Krueger – SC Director Director n. Doug Robbins – E Director o. Jonathan Thatcher – E Director 3. Announcement of Quorum – Quorum declared present. 4. Opening Administrative Motions a. Motion for all committee chairs and invited guests to attend the meeting, with voice Jim J / Jim P | Carries b. Motion for action items in committee reports be treated as automatic motions with automatic second – Motion Jim / Bob A | Carries c. Definition and explanation of Executive Session: In accordance with the bylaws, the board may vote to enter into Executive Session at any time during the meeting, to discuss information that is either private or privileged, in which case the minutes will reflect only a general description of the subject(s) discussed and any board resolutions enacted during the session. d. Code of Conduct – updated at USAWSWS Board Meeting – more definitive, board members required to sign. Circulated for signature. 5. Appointment of Parliamentarian – Jeff Clark appointed as Parliamentarian for the meeting 6. Confirmation of Voting Roll * - 20 votes / Majority = 11 a. AAC - None b. East – Director; Jon Thatcher, Jim Powell, Hutch Haines c. MW – Roy Surdej, Jim Babcock for Mike O’Connor, Peter Dahl
Minutes, AWSA Board of Directors meeting, August 5, 2019 UNAPPROVED d. S – Lyman, Jim, Kirby, Bob A > Keith e. SC – Jerry, Julie, Van, Kelvin Kelm for Kelly Stumph f. W – Brad, Barry, Richelle, Brad C 7. Adoption of Agenda – Added item #27, Complaint from 2018 Nationals a. Motion to approve agenda. Brad / Lyman | Carries 8. Presentation of Service Awards – None a. Discussion: Include board package to the minutes. Will be done. 9. Review and Approval of Jan. 26, 2019 BOD Meeting Minutes * - Motion Jim / Lyman | Carries 10. Ratification of BOD Electronic Ballots since last Meeting * - Motion Lyman / Bob A -|Carries 11. Nominating Committee Report * - Barry Young 12. Election of Officers for next year a. President: Jeff Surdej b. VP: Keith Lindemulder c. Treasurer: Robert Rhyne Cynthia Logan d. Secretary: Delaina Downes e. COB: Gordon Hall f. Robert Rhyne stepping down – Cynthia Logan incoming g. Motion to close nominations - Lyman / Jim | Carries h. Motion to approve slate of officers - Doug / Roy | Carries 13. Election of two USAWSWS Directors, for seating in Jan. 2020 *
Motion to approve seating as follows; motion carries.
South: Bob Archambeau (1 year remaining in term 2020) West: Connie Bergmark (2 year term 2020-21) Midwest: Don Bucher (2 year term 2020-21) East: Alternate pool, if a seated director not available South Central: Alternate pool, if a seated director not available
14. AWSA President’s Report & AWSA Executive Committee Report * a. Accepting bids for 2022 Nationals and 2021 Jr US Open b. Nationals 2021 – Waters Edge, Wilmington, IL c. Jr US Open 2020 – Mystic Lakes, Maize, KS d. PB stickers still going strong and no change to program e. Mark Crone programming, working hard f. Right after Nationals we will have Boys 4 – be prepared for the changes, will take a bit to work out the bugs. g. Membership – Our membership numbers are stable. No huge swings, no major gains. h. Team skiing – Discussing changes as the program evolves. i. America’s Cup discussion j. Social media k. Team fundraising l. Where2Waterski.com is having technical difficulties. Hope to have working next summer.
Minutes, AWSA Board of Directors meeting, August 5, 2019 UNAPPROVED m. Ski school iPads – no data yet, but will have at the end of the year. n. New ranking list- Development in progress. Similar to the old rating card system, but will be online rankings list, for performances done in practice, i.e. not at tournaments. Idea is to stimulate interest and taking the next step to competing.
15. AWSA Treasurer’s Report – Robert Rhyne III a. Motion to receive – Lyman / Barry | Carries 16. USAWSWS Executive Director’s Report – Nate Boudreaux a. PanAm games – 4 water skiers / 2 wakeboards - all medaled b. Membership – tracking where we were in the past. Supporting/key membership ($19.95) has not gained traction as hoped. Still need to be defining the benefit. c. IT Update – 24-36 month plan on upgrading all systems and making it work for everyone. Mark Crone has been very helpful in the process. Running in a test environment. d. SafeSport initiative – this is morphing into a fundamental change in all USOC sports; expect more requirements on this. Some NGB’s are requiring certification of all members. 17. IWWF Tournament Council AWSA Representatives Report * - Bob Corson 18. Pan Am Confederation IWWF Report * - Jeffry Armstrong 19. International Activities Committee Report – Jeffrey Smith a. Only team left to decide is the PanAm 35+, still have a lack of judges and drivers for international tournament. Still a little lapse of the athletes contributing. 20. Athlete Advisory Council (AAC) Report * - No report 21. Standing Committee Reports a. Announcers Committee i. Asking that regions add announcing to your local tournaments. b. Awards Committee – No report i. Request to look at number and type of awards. Please replace the awards that were removed due to cost constraints. c. Boat Driver’s Committee i. Proposal #1 - A boat driver shall not use a cell phone while operating a boat unless that phone is used in a hands-free manner such as with the use of a headset. Use during a sanctioned event, even with a headset, should be minimized to communication with officials, safety crew, dock starters and shore personnel in conduct of the event. A boat driver shall not text while operating a boat. Operating a boat is defined as in the driver’s seat with the motor running. Motion to approve policy - Jon Thatcher / Barry Young Call to question Jim P / Barry | Carries ii. Proposal #2 – Fast Track to a Regular or Senior Tricks Driver. Process to Fast Track to a Regular Tricks Driver is as follows: If a driver holds a Regular or Senior Slalom Drivers rating or a Regular or Senior Jump Drivers rating AND does not have a rating to drive Tricks, then they must pass the written portion of the Regular Tricks Drivers exam. If they are successful & pass the exam, they will be elevated to a Regular Tricks Driver.
Minutes, AWSA Board of Directors meeting, August 5, 2019 UNAPPROVED Fast Track to a Senior Tricks Driver: If a driver holds a Senior Slalom Drivers rating or a Senior Jump Drivers rating AND holds an Assistant Driver’s rating in Tricks, then they must pass the written portion of the Senior Tricks Driver exam. If they are successful & pass the exam, they will be elevated to a Senior Tricks Driver. Motion to approve policy Barry / Brad | Carries d. Bylaws Committee * - Jeff Clark – Update – one of the things in the compliance review in November by the USOC that they didn’t like was our grievance procedure. Felt it wasn’t clearly defined, etc. Committee worked with Jeff Smith to better define the process. Recommends looking at Appendix 1 of the P&P for the complaint procedure. Language change, to be called “complaint” not “grievance”, exact language is expected to come out early 2020 and will be effective 60 days after approval by board and posting. i. Request from Jim Powell to have the chart on how we are rotating USAWSWS Directors put into the P&P Manual. e. Judges & Scorers Committee * - Tom Nathan i. Roger Hammel – East – asking for Senior Judge Emeritus, effective October 2019 Motion Jon T / Jim J | Carries ii. Membership levels for officials – recommending a lower or reduced price for officials who do not ski. iii. National recognition for officials based on work done. Could be a double check on whether credit is being given for work done. iv. Southern Region – Jeff Clark for Senior Judge Emeritus Motion to accept Jon T / Jim B | Carries f. Junior Development Committee * - Tony Drake i. Register by tomorrow for the Junior Banquet!! g. Rules Committee * - Richelle i. Action Items: The Skiers Qualifications Committee would like to make the following recommendation to rules to be effective for ski year 2020. There are 2 concepts that SQC is recommending based on its research to establish L10 ratings in S,T,J, and O for ski year 2020. 1. Overall should be excluded from L10 in both open and masters. Rationale-The main concept of L10 is to assure competition within the event, i.e., anyone running 41 off should not be skiing against someone running 28 off. But, when you incorporate L10 into Overall, it gets messy. Most skiers who are L9 or L10 in overall only have 1 event, maybe 2 events in which they are also L9/L10 qualified. This forces said skier to compete in some events in elite for which they are not qualified. Now I know we have recently fixed that; but, in the end, overall overly complicates an already complicated L10 concept. But the other main issue is finding a good L10 score to use for overall. Now, as we shift to more IWWF scores and try to combine M3/M4 to form an L10 overall rating, it’s not easy due to M4 jumping on different ramp speeds and heights. Yes, NOPS can tie it all together; but there are equivalent flaws to truly come up with a fair overall score for L10. We therefore think it might be best to just leave overall out of L10 as we evolve this concept.
Minutes, AWSA Board of Directors meeting, August 5, 2019 UNAPPROVED Motion Carries; approved. 2. L10 should not be mandatory for anyone in W5/M5 and up. Rationale- When establishing L10 ratings for ski year 2020, some of the skiers that would be forced into L10 would be forced to ski at speeds and ramp heights that no longer exist in their current divisions/events. Example, Joy Kelly. Most of the complaints about L10 have also come from skiers aged 55 and up who think it is not fair to force them to compete against 35- year olds. It is also interesting to note that the American Barefoot Association, which recently moved to Ability based divisions, maintained age groups for 55 and up for many of the same reasons. Motion to table Hutch / Jon T Carries; tabled. 3. Motion to leave slalom gate judging as currently defined in the rulebook (center to center) Barry / Doug | Carries h. Safety Committee * - Jim Babcock i. Seeding Committee – Kirby Whetsel – Nothing to report j. Skier’s Qualification Committee * - Barton Rachwal, via speakerphone call-in. Consideration of Action Items: i. Reduce G2-3 (and 4) and B2-3 (and 4) level 8 threshold to 50% for all events for the 2020 ski year. Committee’s goal was to maintain the integrity of Nationals, while fostering youth development in the sport, and to reduce attrition. Based on analysis of the data regarding qualification versus attendance at Nationals, by age group, it appears that attendance at Nationals is optimized at the current percentages EXCEPT in G2-3 (and 4) and B2-3 (and 4), where it appears more skiers would attend if they were qualified. The current threshold for SL in G2-3 is 68th and 65th percentiles respectively and 68th and 66th in B2-3. However, the percentage of those that qualify that attend is very high (96% and 87% for B2-3 and 63% and 84% in G2-3). Given the very high nationals participation rate, it appears more kids would attend if qualified (which is very important for the future of the sport). The SQC proposes; 1) that we lower the L8 threshold in B2-3 and G2-3 to 50% (down from basically 68%) in order to maintain interest and to foster support for the youth skiers (the future of our sport) and to help reduce attrition at the G3 and B3 levels. We have a threshold of 40% for G1/B1. This would still be a step up and make it harder to qualify as a G2-3/B2-3 than G1/B1, but be a more inclusive approach for the younger skiers. SQL committee voted to approve this proposal by over 2/3 vote. Motion Fails ii. L10 methodology and ratings for Open for 2020 ski year. The SQC would like to propose to make the Open L10 ratings equal to the #20 ranked skiers on IWSF weekly rankings list as of July 1st, 2019. This is the threshold it takes to qualify for the elite worlds. So, for 2020 ski year they would be: OMS-2.5@41 OMT-9690
Minutes, AWSA Board of Directors meeting, August 5, 2019 UNAPPROVED OMJ-205 OWS-.5 @ 39 OWT-6855 OWJ-153 Motion Carries (13 in favor) iii. SQC is recommending to rules to eliminate Overall from L10 – for Rules Committee review; no action. iv. SQC is recommending to rules to eliminate W5/M5 and up from L10 – for Rules Committee; no action v. SQC is recommending the following methodology for Masters L10 ratings for ski year 2020. The L10 rating will be set by either the top 10 on IWWF skiers aged 35-54 or top 3% on US, whatever is higher and thus for 2020 the L10 ratings for Masters will be: MMS-1.5@ 41 MMT-6905 MMJ-183 MWS-1.5@38 MWT-4135 MWJ-126 Call the question Lyman / Barry. Call for vote; Motion Carries k. Technical Committee – Jerry Jackson, via speakerphone call-in. i. Recommendation on how to handle records in the new Boys and Girls divisions. Motion to follow the procedure described in the rulebook (use the scores from Nationals 2019 as the new benchmark). Jim / Barry | Carries ii. Motion to table discussion on new records benchmarks. Jim J / Lyman | Carries New benchmarks may be established jointly between Skier’s Qualifications and Technical committees. Once a recommendation is approved by the Technical committee, it will be sent to the board for approval by email ballot. l. Towboat Committee * - i. Make sure word gets out to all promo boat owners to make sure they have proper insurance coverage. 22. Special Committee Reports a. Team Funding – Ron will be onsite promoting this. Has a lot of auction items including a new Malibu boat. 23. Regional Recommendations a. East i. Rules recommendation, splitting the boys and girls age division to five. b. Midwest i. Rules recommendation to allow open skiers to ski any regionals for placement. c. South i. Nothing further d. South Central i. Nothing e. West
Minutes, AWSA Board of Directors meeting, August 5, 2019 UNAPPROVED i. Rules recommendation (possibly) – change the days for regional tournament to be able to end on a Monday (currently rulebook says must end on Sunday). 24. Old Business – a. Printing Regional guide – West thinks they would like to see it 1-2 more years, East looking for a better format (than PDF) and possibly printing on their own, MW majority ok without printing but would like to have easier access to it, SC think they would like to print one more time, S depends on access being better. 25. New Business - None 26. Date & Time of Next Meeting – January 25, 2020 8am 27. Pending Complaint – 2018 Nationals – a. Motion to move to executive session, including respondents and current board members (including HNDs). Jim / Lyman. Motion to amend; and include USAWSWS Executive Director Nate Boudreaux. Gordon / Doug | Carries. Convened Exec Session @2:17pm EDT b. Motion to end executive session. Jim / Lyman | Carries. session ended at 3:23pm 28. Adjourn a. Motion Lyman / Jim P | Carries. Meeting adjourned at 3:28 pm
* Supplemental information provided in Board Package (attached)
Note: In accordance with the bylaws, the board may vote to enter into Executive Session at any time during the meeting, to discuss information that is either private or privileged, in which case the minutes will reflect only a general description of the subject(s) discussed and any board resolutions enacted during the session.
Minutes, AWSA Board of Directors meeting, August 5, 2019 UNAPPROVED Agenda
American Water Ski Association Board of Directors Meeting Embassy Suites by Hilton 1601 Belvedere Road West Palm Beach, FL 33406 Monday, August 5, 2019 8:00 a.m.
1) Call to Order 2) Introductions & Roll Call 3) Announcement of Quorum 4) Opening Administrative Motions 5) Appointment of Parliamentarian 6) Confirmation of Voting Roll * 7) Adoption of Agenda 8) Presentation of Service Awards 9) Review and Approval of Jan. 26, 2019 BOD Meeting Minutes * 10) Ratification of BOD Electronic Ballots since last Meeting * 11) Nominating Committee Report * 12) Election of Officers for next year 13) Election of two USAWSWS Directors, for seating in Jan. 2020 * 14) AWSA President’s Report & AWSA Executive Committee Report * 15) AWSA Treasurer’s Report 16) USA-WS Executive Director’s Report 17) Pan Am Confederation IWWF Report * 18) International Activities Committee Report * 19) Athlete Advisory Council (AAC) Report * 20) Standing Committee Reports a) Announcers Committee b) Awards Committee – No report c) Boat Driver’s Committee d) Bylaws Committee * e) Judges & Scorers Committee * f) Junior Development Committee * g) Rules Committee * h) Safety Committee * i) Seeding Committee j) Skier’s Qualification Committee * k) Technical Committee l) Towboat Committee * 21) Special Committee Reports a) Team Funding 22) Regional Recommendations a) East b) Midwest c) South d) South Central e) West 23) Old Business 24) New Business 25) Date & Time of Next Meeting 26) Adjourn
* Supplemental information provided in Board Package
Page 1 of 1 VOTING ROLL
American Water Ski Association Board of Directors As-of: July 10, 2019
Voting Members and Votes Officers Position Region Present allowed Alex Lauretano Ath Rep AAC Corey Vaughan Ath Rep AAC Freddy Krueger, IV Ath Rep AAC Scot Ellis Ath Rep AAC Karen Truelove Ath Rep AAC Jim Powell EVP E Hutch Haines Dir E Doug Robbins Dir E Gary Noll Dir E Dennis Downes EVP MW Jim Babcock Alt Dir MW Mike O'Connor Dir MW Roy Surdej Dir MW Bob Archambeau EVP S Kirby Whetsel Dir S Lyman Hardy Dir S Jim Jaquess Dir S Van Parker EVP SC Jerry Bautsch Dir SC Julie Krueger Dir SC Bob Mayhew Dir SC Brad Corbin EVP W Barry Young Dir W Richelle Muhlitner Dir W Brad Hartwell Dir W Gordon Hall COB¹ Jeff Surdej Pres² Keith Lindemulder VP² Delaina Downes Sec² Robert Rhyne, III Treas²
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Voting Members and Officers Position Region Yea Nay Abstain No Vote Yea Nay Abstain No Vote Alex Lauretano Ath Rep AAC XX Nate Smith Ath Rep AAC XX Corey Vaughan Ath Rep AAC Freddy Krueger, IV Ath Rep AAC XX Scot Ellis Ath Rep AAC XX Karen Truelove Ath Rep AAC XX Jim Powell EVP E XX Hutch Haines Dir E XX Doug Robbins Dir E XX Gary Noll Dir E XX Dennis Downes EVP MW XX Peter Dahl Dir MW XX Mike O'Connor Dir MW XX Roy Surdej Dir MW XX Bob Archambeau EVP S XX Kirby Whetsel Dir S XX Lyman Hardy Dir S XX Jim Jaquess Dir S XX Van Parker EVP SC XX Jerry Bautsch Dir SC XX Julie Krueger Dir SC XX Bob Mayhew Dir SC XX Brad Corbin EVP W XX Barry Young Dir W XX Richelle Muhlitner Dir W XX Brad Hartwell Dir W XX Gordon Hall COB¹ XX Jeff Surdej Pres² Keith Lindemulder VP² Delaina Downes Sec² Robert Rhyne, III Treas²
Total votes possible: 26 26 Required to pass: 14 14 Result: 25 0 0 1 26 21 3 0 2 26 PASSES PASSES
¹ non-voting, unless vote could change outcome ² non-voting position Ballot #2019-5 Ballot #2019-6 Date filed: March 7, 2019 Date filed: April 1, 2019 Motion: Rotate USAWSWS Director Motion: Approve revised ramp setting elections update to P&P specifications to match new IWWF rules, with the stipulation that at this year's Regionals and Nationals, the new, longer ramp may only be used in Open divisions. Motion by: Bylaws Cmte Motion by: Richelle Muhlitner Second by: N/A Second by: Jeff Surdej Page 1 of 2 AWSA BOD Electronic Ballot Voting Record For the Period: 5/24/2019 through 7/10/2019 Ballot #2019-7 America's Cup prelims at nationals
Voting Members and Officers Position Region Yea Nay Abstain No Vote Alex Lauretano Ath Rep AAC X Nate Smith Ath Rep AAC Corey Vaughan Ath Rep AAC X Freddy Krueger, IV Ath Rep AAC X Scot Ellis Ath Rep AAC X Karen Truelove Ath Rep AAC X Jim Powell EVP E X Hutch Haines Dir E X Doug Robbins Dir E X Gary Noll Dir E X Dennis Downes EVP MW X Peter Dahl Dir MW X Mike O'Connor Dir MW X Roy Surdej Dir MW X Bob Archambeau EVP S X Kirby Whetsel Dir S X Lyman Hardy Dir S X Jim Jaquess Dir S X Van Parker EVP SC X Jerry Bautsch Dir SC X Julie Krueger Dir SC X Bob Mayhew Dir SC X Brad Corbin EVP W X Barry Young Dir W X Richelle Muhlitner Dir W X Brad Hartwell Dir W X Gordon Hall COB¹ X Jeff Surdej Pres² Keith Lindemulder VP² Delaina Downes Sec² Robert Rhyne, III Treas²
Total votes possible: 26 Required to pass: 14 Result: 24 0 0 2 26 PASSES
¹ non-voting, unless vote could change outcome ² non-voting position Ballot #2019-7 Date filed: May 7, 2019 Motion: For this year's National tournament only, allow skiers who are not skiing under 3.03F overall to do so for purposes of entering the Americas Cup prelims only and not for placement in open. Motion by: Jeff Surdej Second by: Richelle Muhlitner Page 2 of 2 Summer Board of Directors meeting 8-5-19
Nominations Report 2019
The slate of officers intending to run for the 2020 season remain the same that served in 2019:
President: Jeff Surdej
VP: Keith Lindermulder
Treasure: Robert Rhyne
Secretary: Delaina Downs
COB: Gordon Hall
Thank you,
Barry Young (Nominating) AWSA Policies and Procedures Revision 10 Approved January 27, 2018 Page 5/16
American Championships, Pan Am Games, World Trophy and Operation Gold events; OR 2. Demonstrating within the two (2) preceding years, that they actively engaged in amateur athletic competition by finishing in the top half of the Sport Disciplines: (i) National Championships “Open Age” Division; (ii) Elite Team Trials; or (iii) finishing in the top half of the Open Age Division Ranking List; AND
3. Meeting these qualifications by competing in “open age” classifications, not from age- restricted classifications such as “juniors”, ‘’seniors”, or “veterans”.
3 USA-WSWS DIRECTORS
3.1 AWSA members may count time served on the AWSA NGB BOD as time served on the AWSA SD BOD for the purpose of complying with USA-WSWS Article VI-A-2(a) which states that USA- WSWS Directors must have served no less than two full years on the SD BOD, as a voting member, to be eligible for election to the USA-WSWS BOD.
3.2 When the number of seats is less than the number of Regions (see AWSA Bylaws Article VIII A.2) the USA-WSWS Directors shall be selected utilizing an alternating regional process. Commencing with the 2019 election for 2020 seating the following rotation is recommended to be used and shall continue forward. The nominating committee shall ensure the correct number of Directors is seated each year. -East Region -West Region -Midwest Region -South Central Region -South Region
Table illustrating seating of Directors and Alternates from January 2020 onward.
Year 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 East Seated Seated Seated Seated Alt Alt Seated Seated Alt West Seated Seated Alt Alt Seated Seated Seated Seated Alt Midwest Seated Seated Alt Alt Seated Seated Alt Alt Seated South Alt Alt Seated Seated Seated Seated Alt Alt Seated South Alt Alt Seated Seated Alt Alt Seated Seated Seated Central
4 REGIONAL DIRECTORS 4.1 Regional National Director Qualifications 4.1.1 Mandatory Qualifications of Candidates for Board membership must possess: 1. U.S. Citizenship 2. Current valid USA-WSWS and AWSA membership In addition, they must meet two (2) of the following qualifications: 3. Current or previous AWSA Director 4. Current or previous voting member on an AWSA Standing Committee 5. Current or previous voting member of an AWSA Regional Council 6. Current AWSA: Regular or Senior Judge, Scorer, or Driver; Technical Controller; or Regional or National Safety Director. B. Desirable Qualifications: In addition, the following background factors are to be considered as desirable for Board membership, and are to serve as guidelines for Regional Elections: 1. Ability to travel and attend AWSA Board meetings 2. Good knowledge of the functions of AWSA 3. Good organizational background 4. Good character and personality traits 5. Ability to communicate well 6. No conflicts of interest 7. Active in the sport of water skiing in some capacity
President Update Summer 2019
It’s been a very busy spring/summer so far dealing with the grievance and preparing for Americas Cup/Nationals with West Palm. Below is an update on some of the main things items out there. PB Stickers-these continue to be a hot item, I’m getting dozens of request a week and our first batch of 1000 PB stickers is almost gone. Kids really seem to be enjoying them. Any suggestions on changes to them before I print the next batch are welcome. Programming-we have not put as many hours into our programming list as we would like, mainly due to Mark Crone’s commitment to HQ with the overhaul of the database but most of the time sensitive items are on track. B1-2-3-4, G1-2-3-4-As you know one of the biggest changes coming right after Nationals from a programming standpoint is the new junior division age groups. Please be patient with rankings as I’m sure there will be some glitches with scores moving from and to new age groups. We will sort them out as we catch any errors. Membership #’s – So far in 2019 we are showing a steady hold on membership, no decline and not much increase. USAWSWS has shown its first overall growth in decades.
Team Skiing-team skiing enters its 4th year. The team captains around the country have been discussing some changes in the format for 2020 and we will present those at the winter meeting National Tourney Records-Certificates for these were sent out this past spring. America’s Cup-This event is coming along great with lots of support. Charlotte and her team have been great with their local support to put on this event. This year was a new challenge as this event moves from being a 100% LOC hosted event to a 50% AWSA 50% LOC. We need huge support for this event so make sure all your regional skiers at nationals come out to watch. We are also selling VIP seats with all you can eat and drink. Go to the America’s Cup link on the Nationals webpage for more info. AWSA Social-Tommy Harrington continues to run our social and has done a great job so thank him if you see him. Team Funding-Ron has taken this to a whole new level. We can not thank him enough. This year he is running a HUGE auction at Nationals. It starts online at 32auctions.com on July 7th and wraps up at 6pm at Nationals on 8/7/19. This year’s auction concludes with a Regina Jaquess edition Malibu Boat to be auctioned off 6 pm Wed August 7th right before the America’s Cup. Wheretowaterski.com-This project has hit some road bumps this year with a new release of word press that messed up the site. John and I are working together to see how much money we want to dump into this project. More to come on this at the meeting Ski School I-pads-These are now installed at 5 ski school across the country. Cory’s, Bennett’s, Travers, Jodi Fisher, and Cobles. We have a tracking code on the sign-up page so at end of year we will see how they did. What’s coming in 2020? I have 2 main goals that I feel we have to launch in 2020 if we are to increase our membership. 1) Virtual Ski League-its time for us to find a way for our members to be able to upload a performance online, where it gets judged by officials across the country and count for a score. Remember back in the day you could do this to get an expert rating? With todays technology I see no reason why we can come up with a system where skiers can video a slalom or trick set, upload it and have it judged online to count as a score. Whether that score counts for as much as a tournament or not or maybe only goes up to Level 7 we can decide, but by doing this we could see an influx of hundreds of new scores and if they have to be a member to do so it would increase our membership. A lot of sports such as crossfit do the same thing.
2) New AWSA Ski Leagues-This was talked about at last years exec, but I was not able to get it off the ground in time for 2019 but we need to draft off the successful Wednesday night ski leagues that are taking place across the country. Its time for AWSA to form its own INT so to speak where members can experience a laid back, fun, minimum ruled event. Sort of grassroots but more in a league format. More to come. AWSA Exec Report Summer 2019 We have no report at this time and have had no exec activity since the winter board meeting. The AWSA Exec committee for 2020 will be selected in early fall and will meet in early December in person.
-We are soliciting bids for 2022 nationals which are due by November 30,2019 to be voted on by the AWSA Board at the 2020 Winter Meeting. We are also soliciting bids for the 2021 Jr US Open. Pan Am Waterski Council
AWSA Representative Report 2Q19
The Pan American Waterski Council accepted nominations for officials for the 35+ Pan Am Championships. We still need more officials.
The ANOC Beach were moved from San Diego to Qatar so the extra local officials that we were able to have in San Diego obviously does not apply to Qatar.
The Pan Am Games in Lima is scheduled for July 27-30 and many preparations are in progress as we approach it. For reference from the 1Q report:
The officials were selected as follows:
Chief Judge ; Felipe Leal ( col)
As. Chief : wakeboard council
Scorers Diego Restrepo ( COL) Nikki Lee ( USA)
Judges Peter Person ( CAN) Angelica Cifuentes ( COL) Jeff Smith ( USA) Robert Ritter ( CHI) Alicia de Julio ( ARG)
Driver for water ski: Mario Pigossi ( DOM) Less Todd ( USA)
Zack Worden has been hired by the Pan Am Games to run the technical equipment.
During this quarter, Larry Gisler resigned as Chairman of the Pan Am Waterski Council for personal reasons. Jeffry Armstrong, as Pan Am President, held an election in which I was elected as the new Chairman.
I established a Council discussion group similar to the World Council at: http://www.iwsftournament.com/panamtcissues/issuelist.php
Currently we are discussing if there will be divisions beyond 65+ at the Pan Am 35+ Championships being held this October in Peru. Information about this tournament is on the Pan Am web site Panam.iwsf.com No meetings or video conferences were held in this quarter.
Respectfully Submitted,
Bob Corson IWWF Tournament Council 2019 Chairman’s Report June 22, 2019
Competition Water Skiing The section of our sport continues to be very active with over 575 registered International tournaments in the last year from June 22, 2018 to present representing eight divisions with individual performances by more than 4500 competitors. It is currently the middle of the Northern Hemisphere ski season so the numbers may vary by the end of the ski year on November 1. These numbers show a slight decline from the previous year so we will continue to monitor them to see if any trend can be shown.
Operation of Dossier/Results/Ranking List System The system of Dossier/Results/Ranking Lists data input continues to achieve its goals. All Federations and Regional organizations are using the system and as a result, results and ranking data are now publically available on a timely basis.
In addition to the semi-annual ranking lists and the dynamic list that is upated daily, there is a weekly list created each Tuesday. The weekly list is kept for historical reference so that a skier’s rank on any particular week can be checked. Also, as this list is current, the council is considering using it as a tool for qualification in addition to the current ranking list qualification. The weekly list can also be used for listing particular regions, confederations and countries. The number 1 skiers each week are displayed on the Waterski Council web site www.iwsf.com.
A new division, U14, was added to the ranking lists. It is currently only shown in the dynamic list. After a year of results, it will be added to the other list mechanisms. The non-score type lists asked for by the EB in 2016 were calculated for two years but generated no interest whatsoever. Consequently the Placement Points List and the ELO list have been discontinued.
Ranking Lists http://www.iwsftournament.com/
Dynamic (daily list) http://www.iwsftournament.com/homologation/idserverranking.htm
Weekly Ranking Lists http://www.iwsftournament.com/homologation/getRankingList.php
Professional/Elite Skiing Elite skiing is steady and perhaps improving. We continue to require standards of communication and prize levels so that the Elite tournament information is known worldwide on an equal basis with the appropriate time left for skiers to be able to plan their schedules. There are 16 Cash Prize Elite tournaments scheduled for 2019, one less than 2018. The IWSF World Cup program for water skiing has mostly been discontinued and is now focused on wakeboard and cable.
Rules A summary of major rule changes since the EB meeting in 2017 follows: U10 and U14 divisions were established World Beach Games selection method was approved Allow records in U17 in any R tournament Allowable ramp length was increased and a lower angle allowed. Elite tournament notification reduced from 60 days to 30 days
Web Sites The IWWF has changed its domain and is now www.iwwf.sport. The Waterski Council sites remain: www.iwsf.com Water Ski Tournament Council Water Ski News www.iwsfranking.com Elite Tournament Scores and news/sanctions www.iwsftournament,com Ranking Lists www.iwsftournament.com/WorldAdmin All World Championships Entry
Council Operation This year the committee continued its use of issue management blogs. This has proven to be a convenient way to address issues. These mechanisms allow each issue to be discussed and recorded in one place and voted on if required. The Tournament Council dealt with 39 issues in 2018 and 22 so far this year using this mechanism. The 2018 TC meeting was done as a series of three video conferences so that the full range of issues could be covered..
Records The following records were approved: 2017-07-02 Ryan Dodd CAN 77.4 Space Coast 3 Event 2018-07-16 Regina Jaquess USA [email protected]/55 July Heat 2018-04-25 Anna Gay USA 10700 2018 Ski Fluid Classic 2018-10-06 Erika Lang USA 10850 Sunset Fall Classic 2018-07-16 Adam Sedlmajer CZE [email protected]/58 10750 66.3 2819.76 July Heat
Additionally, the TC allowed records in the U17 divisions to be performed at R tournaments rather than just the World Championships. The following records were approved: 2019-03-07 Patricio Font MEX 11050 Junior Moomba Masters Melbourne AUS 2019-03-10 Patricio Font MEX 11090 Moomba Masters Melbourne AUS 2019-03-16 Felipe Franco Belmont PER 11260 South American Beach Games Rosario ARG 2019-03-17 Patricio Font MEX 11430 1er Torneo Acuaski 2019 Acuaski, Morelos MEX
World Championships The World U21 Championships are being held at Shalom Park Water Ski Site, Edmonton,Canada There are 95 entries from 23 countries. The 2019 World Championships are being held in Putrajaya, Malaysia. 33 countries have registered an Intent to Enter
World Games The quadrennial World Games will being held in Birmingham, AL USA in 2021. The World Beach Games were moved from San Diego to Qatar in October of 2019
Respectfully Submitted, Robert K. Corson, Chairman Confederation President
Jeffry Armstrong 621 Gulf Shore Drive Destin, Florida 32541 Telephone: +1-662-417-5333
2019 Pan American Confederation Report To
AWSA
Pan Am Games: A lot of the work for 2019 Season has centered around the Pan Am Games, Lima, Peru. Keeping to the quotas of Pan Am Sports Organization and calculating the Federations qualified, selecting teams and officials is quite a huge undertaking with an Organization the size of these Games . Attended PASO and ACODEPA meeting in September 2018. Will meet again : July with ACODEPA elections.
Councils : Four years ago at 2015 Pan Am Games the Pan Am Confederation supported mainly Tournament/Waterski as a Council. Pan Am began nurturing Wakeboard, Cable and Barefoot. Wakeboard has had two Confederation Championships with a third on its way. Barefoot is planning its first Confederation event November 1-2, 2019, Chapala, Mexico. Cable Wakeboard hosted its first Pan Am Champs in November 2018 in DOM. Constitutional changes are in place now for all Councils.
Tournament/ Waterski broke its Championships into two divisions, the Elite and the Seniors. The first IWWF Pan Am Senior Division event will be held in Lima, Peru, October 23-27, 2019. The divisions are currently 35-65+ yrs., with the possibility of a 70s category in the wings. We currently are looking for an Organizer/sponsor for the 2020 IWWF Elite Pan Am Championships.
Education has been a high priority of the Exe. Board. We have purchased a GoToMeeting program for all Councils to use. Wakeboard held three highly successfully Clinics in COL, MEX and USA with 30 judges recertifying or going up to a new level. Waterski had an online Clinic over four weekends with participants of over 60 persons in some sessions. Officials in the Confederation gave their time and efforts to produce this event. There was a concerted effort to help standardize judging of tricks. Participants have been overwhelmingly praising this process. Pan Am has had over 20 officials take the Pan Am Test with a good percentage certified. Official Retest: We are having ALL judges holding a Pan Am rating have a ‘retest’. This includes a written and practical portion. Both tests are ready and officials have started with the process. Cable Wake and Barefoot are getting started in education too.
Membership: We are sorry to report no new Federations, but in fact one is considering coming back into the fold. (Puerto Rico) Other contacts have been made and we have budgeted to work in this area.
Multi-Sport Games: 2019 South American Beach Games Rosario, Argentina, March 23-24 th very successful
2019 Pan Am Games Lima, Peru, July 26-30 th
2020 Bolivarian Youth Games Sucre, Bolivia
2021 Pan Am Youth Games Cali, Colombia
2023 Pan Am Games Santiago, Chile, Oct. 6-22
Congrats to: Canada for the IWWF World U21s July 4 th weekend
Respectfully submitted by, Jeffry Armstrong, President
AWSA BOD Meeting AAC Report July 5, 2019
At this time the AAC does not have anything to report. 2019 Announcers Report
Everything is going well with the announcers. I sent out a newsletter this spring looking for volunteer announcers to help at this year’s Nationals and got a great response. We will have the 5 appointed announcers and at least 9 volunteers. We are getting young people involved which is great. We need to encourage young people to get involved and in doing so reading the Announcers Manual and Guidelines, found in the Officials’ Resources, in the AWSA section of the USA Water Ski Website. If you are hosting a future Nationals, please contact me early on to help you with appointing your Chief Announcer and Appointed Announcers and the sound system you are using and where the Announcer’s Stage is being located. Thank you! Hank
July 5, 2019
To: AWSA Board of Directors
From: Jeff Clark, Chair AWSA Bylaws Committee
Re: 2019 Summer Report, AWSA Bylaws Committee
The committee members Jeffry Hardin E, Lisa Holland SCR, Bill Murbach MW, Ryan Nason W, Brian Detrick AAC, Karen Truelove AAC, and I would like to express our appreciation for allowing us to serve the organization.
The AWSA Bylaws Committee has not had any issues to consider since the January meeting of the board.
The USOC has just completed their second compliance review of the USA-WSWS, the NGB for our sport. The corrections that were made for the NGB were accepted and now they will be moving forward on the changes that will need to be made by the sport disciplines and address outstanding issues.
At this point we will need to give verbal and/or supplemental reports as we move forward on these issues. I would anticipate some of our issues will not be fully addressed until this fall for presentation at the January 2020 board meeting.
We remain open to the membership and the Board of Directors for issues to consider.
Gordon Hall
Re: Call for Reports for the 2019 Summer AWSA Board Meeting
Tony Drake
Gordon;
Sorry been traveling.
The jr development committee has been working on fundraising for the team and the banquet for nationals. Charlotte has been very helpful.
Additionally we increased funding for the national team as we took over calculation of the team this year.
We are still considering some changes to team selections.
We are also working on a proposal for the rules committee to further adjust the youth age groups.
Thanks,
Tony Drake
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AWSA Rules Committee Board of Directors Summer Meeting August 5, 2019
The Rules Committee still tends to be very active. We have had a few items that have needed discussion since the approval of the National Board of Directors meeting. We also have one action item to vote on from SQC.
Action items discussed by the Rules Committee since the BOD meeting:
There were changes to trick #5 that were voted on by the National BOD. Originally, the Rules Committee expanded the amount of tricks under that trick number. When IWWF came out with their rulebook, it was expanded even more. Now there is a possibility of 24 tricks between one and two skis that are allowed along with all the reverses. Since we are now in the middle of summer, has anyone had feedback on how that is working for skiers and officials?
IWWF also increased the ratio to allow for longer jump ramps. The BOD was polled to approve the increase; but, for Regionals and Nationals 2019, the tolerances will stay within the 2018 specifications. This change was implemented for the safety of the Open skiers when going to sites that are more challenging and expanded to all ratios. Previous ratios still apply so no one had to modify their ramps immediately. This will also give us time to get feedback from sites that can adjust their ramps.
There was one error in the 2019 Rulebook regarding Men 7 & 8 jump speeds which was fixed, and a revised edition was published.
After adopting the rule that only USA Citizens may populate the AWSA ranking list, we have not been able to get that into the system. There is currently nowhere for those skiers’ scores to populate without the foreign federation code. By using the USA code, our AWSA skiers are impacted, which can hold those skiers back from competing in Regionals or Nationals.
An overall table has been created for Regional and National Tournaments regarding where to ski and what is required when skiing Elite and/or Age divisions. This will be in our Rules section on the USA-WSWS web site.
Regional Recommendations:
Eastern Region: Eliminate the $100 challenge fee for trick timing as this happens more because of positional tricks. Action Items: The Skiers Qualifications Committee would like to make the following recommendation to rules to be effective for ski year 2020. There are 2 concepts that SQC is recommending based on its research to establish L10 ratings in S,T,J, and O for ski year 2020. a) Overall should be excluded from L10 in both open and masters. Rationale-The main concept of L10 is to assure competition within the event, i.e., anyone running 41 off should not be skiing against someone running 28 off. But, when you incorporate L10 into Overall, it gets messy. Most skiers who are L9 or L10 in overall only have 1 event, maybe 2 events in which they are also L9/L10 qualified. This forces said skier to compete in some events in elite for which they are not qualified. Now I know we have recently fixed that; but, in the end, overall overly complicates an already complicated L10 concept. But the other main issue is finding a good L10 score to use for overall. Now, as we shift to more IWWF scores and try to combine M3/M4 to form an L10 overall rating, it’s not easy due to M4 jumping on different ramp speeds and heights. Yes, NOPS can tie it all together; but there are equivalent flaws to truly come up with a fair overall score for L10. We therefore think it might be best to just leave overall out of L10 as we evolve this concept.
b) L10 should not be mandatory for anyone in W5/M5 and up. Rationale-When establishing L10 ratings for ski year 2020, some of the skiers that would be forced into L10 would be forced to ski at speeds and ramp heights that no longer exist in their current divisions/events. Example, Joy Kelly. Most of the complaints about L10 have also come from skiers aged 55 and up who think it is not fair to force them to compete against 35 year olds. It is also interesting to note that the American Barefoot Association, which recently moved to Ability based divisions, maintained age groups for 55 and up for many of the same reasons.
RULE BOOK CHANGES 3.03 C. Open Qualifications: 1. A skier of any age shall be ELIGIBLE to compete in the Open Division in an event (or in Overall) if his ranking score in any reported division for that event equals or exceeds the Level 9 Cutoff ranking score for that event on any date within the current ski year. 2. Additionally, a skier age 18 or greater shall be REQUIRED to compete in the Open Division in an event (or in Overall) slalom, trick, or jump if his performance score(s) in any reported division for that event equals or exceeds the Level 10 Cutoff rating score for that event by 3:00 a.m. Eastern Time on the first Thursday of July within the current ski year. This rating score for each event will be established annually by the Skiers Qualification Committee. a. Junior Skiers (Boys 1-3 4 or Girls 1-3 4) are exempt from this mandatory requirement to compete in the Open Division…….
3.03D. Masters Qualifications: 1. A skier age 35 or greater shall be ELIGIBLE to compete in the Masters Division in an event (or in Overall) if his ranking score in any reported division for that event equals or exceeds the Level 9 Cutoff ranking score for that event on any date within the current ski year. 2. Additionally, a skier age 35-54 or greater shall be REQUIRED to compete in the Masters Division in an event (or in Overall) Slalom, Trick, or Jump if his performance score(s) in any reported division for that event equals or exceeds the Level 10 Cutoff rating score for that event by 3:00 a.m. Eastern Time on the first Thursday of July within the current ski year. This rating score for each event will be established by the Skiers Qualification Committee.
The Rules Committee is in favor of the SQC proposal.
Rule Change requests which will be discussed at November meeting:
1) Match IWWF wording on gate vs. turn buoy.
2) How long may the skier hold the handle on tricks while using the toe strap? 3) Kurt Mechler’s wording regarding skiers being responsible for where they ski when skiing twice for overall.
Unfortunately, there is too much discussion regarding a grievance process which doesn’t help our volunteer group of officials or committee members. Hopefully, we are soon past that and can continue to enjoy and be proud of what we are doing to help our sport.
Respectfully submitted,
Richelle Muhlitner, AWSA Chair AWSA Safety Committee Report 2019 Summer AWSA Board of Directors Meeting
The AWSA Safety Committee had no action items. There was one item left over from the winter meeting that was passed along to the Rules Committee (see below). We were looking for something, either a rule or further instructions for to Boat Judges serving as Safety swimmers. There was also an item about boat drivers on their phones during driving events at a tournament. This we thought was a Boat Judge / Judges or Boat Drivers issue because Safety in no position to see what is going on in the boat. Safety might only hear about the problem after the fact.
Respectfully Submitted,
James Babcock, Chairperson
A safety person in the boat (boat judge) has the ability and responsibility to stop a skier from continuing if he/she observes a potential or serious safety condition. The situation then should be reported to the Chief Safety Director and Chief Judge before the skier may continue.
Skier Qualifications Committee Report Summer 2019
Kelvin Kelm has stepped down as SQC chair. Barton Rachwal has replaced Kelvin Kelm as of April 15, 2019.
SQC has the 5 proposals for the board:
1) reduce G2-3 and B2-3 level 8 threshold to 50% for all events for the 2020 ski year.
We voted to approve said change by over 2/3 vote based on analyzing the data regarding qualification versus attendance at Nationals in these age groups. Our goal was to maintain the integrity of Nationals while fostering youth development in the sport and to reduce attrition.
In analyzing the SL data, it appears that attendance at Nationals is optimized at the current percentages EXCEPT in G2-3 and B2-3 where it appears more skiers would attend if they were qualified. The current threshold for SL in G2-3 is 68th and 65th percentiles respectively and 68th and 66th in B2-3. However, the percentage of those that qualify that attend is very high (96% and 87% for B2-3 and 63% and 84% in G2-3). Given the very high nationals participation rate, it appears more kids would attend if qualified (which is very important for the future of the sport).
The SQC proposes; 1) that we lower the L8 threshold in B2-3 and G2-3 to 50% (down from basically 68%) in order to maintain interest and to foster support for the youth skiers (the future of our sport) and to help reduce attrition at the G3 and B3 levels. We have a threshold of 40% for G1/B1. This would still be a step up and make it harder to qualify as a G2-3/B2-3 than G1/B1, but be a more inclusive approach for the younger skiers;
2) L10 methodology and ratings for Open
The SQC would like to propose to make the Open L10 ratings equal to the #20 ranked skiers on IWSF weekly rankings list as of July 1st, 2019. This is the threshold it takes to qualify for the elite worlds. So for 2020 ski year they would be
OMS-2.5@41 OMT-9690 OMJ-205 OWS-.5 @ 39 OWT-6855 OWJ-153
3) SQC is recommending to rules to eliminate Overall from L10 4) SQC is recommending to rules to eliminate W5/M5 and up from L10
5) SQC is recommending the following methology for Masters L10 ratings. The L10 rating will be set by either the top 10 on IWWF skiers aged 35-54 or top 3% on US, whatever is higher and thus for 2020 the L10 ratings for Masters will be:
MMS-1.5@ 41 MMT-6905 MMJ-183 MWS-1.5@38 MWT-4135 MWJ-126
Towboat Committee Report August 2019
To: AWSA Board of Directors
From: Will Bush George Lindy
ACTION ITEMS:
None
INFORMATION ITEMS:
Activities, Decisions and Deliberations
1. The Eastern Region asked that we consider increasing towboat participation to 40% to qualify for Regionals and Nationals. George requested the towboat participation numbers from headquarters and manually calculated the percent participation by manufacturer and event in the Eastern Region for July 1, 2017-June 30, 2018:
Slalom Trick Jump Mastercraft 40% 60% 48% Malibu 40% 52% 44% Correct Craft 40% 52% 40%
It appears that the manufacturers are participating to the 40% threshold in the East. When the numbers come in for July 1, 2018 - June 30, 2019, we will manually analyze the percentages and compare to HQ results. Based on participation numbers, we will look at further discussion regarding increasing the percent participation requirement to qualify boats for Regionals and Nationals.
2. AWSA needs to improve the process so that HQ that can accurately record towboat participation. Currently the system does not account for “closed tournaments” in calculating towboat credit. From the Committee review, and manual cross checks, there are consistently discrepancies between number of events and manufacturer participation. As we have noted to others previously, we need to fix the accuracy issue first before we begin to consider changing participation requirements.
3. The Committee’s request to raise the amount clubs are responsible for in the event of damage to boats provided was approved, increasing from $500 to $750.
Changes in Committee Membership
1. Brett Brandau replaced Doug Robbins as the Towboat Committee representative from the Eastern Region.
2. Jerry Jackson replaced Peter Dahl as the Technical Controller for the 2019 Model Year Towboat tests that were held in October 2018. We will ask that Jerry continue in this role for the 2020 Model Year Towboat tests.
Other Items
1. Working on date and location for 2020 Model Year Towboat tests.
2. Clarified with HQ that participation as a driver at the Towboat test fulfills the Drivers Clinic requirement.
3. We requested from each manufacturer’s representative the number of 2019 Model Year promotional boats currently in use. The numbers were not readily shared but it is estimated that the total number is well under 100. In many areas, 2018 Model Year boats and older are currently being used.
Updated 7/30/2019
Agenda
American Water Ski Association Board of Directors Meeting Embassy Suites by Hilton 1601 Belvedere Road West Palm Beach, FL 33406 Monday, August 5, 2019 8:00 a.m.
1) Call to Order 2) Introductions & Roll Call 3) Announcement of Quorum 4) Opening Administrative Motions 5) Appointment of Parliamentarian 6) Confirmation of Voting Roll * 7) Adoption of Agenda 8) Presentation of Service Awards 9) Review and Approval of Jan. 26, 2019 BOD Meeting Minutes * 10) Ratification of BOD Electronic Ballots since last Meeting * 11) Nominating Committee Report * 12) Election of Officers for next year 13) Election of two USAWSWS Directors, for seating in Jan. 2020 * 14) AWSA President’s Report & AWSA Executive Committee Report * 15) AWSA Treasurer’s Report 16) USAWSWS Executive Director’s Report 17) IWWF Tournament Council AWSA Representatives Report * 18) Pan Am Confederation IWWF Report * 19) International Activities Committee Report 20) Athlete Advisory Council (AAC) Report * 21) Standing Committee Reports a) Announcers Committee b) Awards Committee – No report c) Boat Driver’s Committee d) Bylaws Committee * e) Judges & Scorers Committee * f) Junior Development Committee * g) Rules Committee * h) Safety Committee * i) Seeding Committee j) Skier’s Qualification Committee * k) Technical Committee l) Towboat Committee * 22) Special Committee Reports a) Team Funding 23) Regional Recommendations a) East b) Midwest c) South d) South Central e) West
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24) Old Business 25) New Business 26) Date & Time of Next Meeting 27) Pending Complaint – 2018 Nationals 28) Adjourn
* Supplemental information provided in Board Package
Note: In accordance with the bylaws, the board may vote to enter into Executive Session at any time during the meeting, to discuss information that is either private or privileged, in which case the minutes will reflect only a general description of the subject(s) discussed and any board resolutions enacted during the session.
Page 2 of 2 0070C0 USA WS American Water Ski Association Budget vs Actual June 30, 2019
AWSA 35 + Fund Elite Team Fund **U14 U17 Fund U21 Fund America's Cup **Other Team General (RTF) (RTF) (RTF) (RTF) (RTF) Restricted Funds Budget Actual Budget Actual Budget Actual Budget Actual Budget Actual Budget Actual Budget Actual Budget Actual Budget Actual Begin Balance 1/1/19 56111.97 1208.25 3709.15 3045.55 5040.68 2776.00 0.00 5606.94 77498.54 Income 0.00 0.00 Contributions 121.00 665.00 1495.00 378.00 825.00 75.00 38250.00 0.00 3675.00 0.00 7234.00 Unrestricted Fund Dist 12/31/18 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 General Support 27000.00 27408.00 0.00 0.00 27000.00 27408.00 Interest Income 50.00 24.89 0.00 0.00 50.00 24.89 National Entry Fee 14000.00 0.00 0.00 14000.00 0.00 Regional Support 1500.00 0.00 0.00 1500.00 0.00 Fund Consolidation 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 MW General Fund 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 **$1150 to Membership 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 **$1150 to Yr 2019 Programming 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 CanAM 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 World Games 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 U21 Worlds 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 Total Team Support 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Total Income 42550.00 27553.89 0.00 665.00 0.00 1495.00 0.00 378.00 0.00 825.00 0.00 75.00 0.00 38250.00 0.00 3675.00 42550.00 72916.89
Expense Awards 7000.00 3454.49 0.00 0.00 7000.00 3454.49 Membership/USAWS 5000.00 4793.88 0.00 0.00 5000.00 4793.88 Directors Insurance 600.00 535.00 0.00 0.00 600.00 535.00 Officials Maintenance 500.00 0.00 0.00 500.00 0.00 Meeting Expenses 1600.00 1100.00 0.00 0.00 1600.00 1100.00 Travel 2000.00 600.00 0.00 0.00 2000.00 600.00 Scoring Website 1000.00 552.00 0.00 0.00 1000.00 552.00 Bank Service/Credit Card Fees 0.00 0.00 58.30 0.00 70.50 0.00 70.50 Fundraising Expenses 0.00 227.00 0.00 500.00 0.00 500.00 Team Expenses 0.00 2841.35 0.00 0.00 0.00 2841.35 Elite PA World Team 25530.00 8337.00 1500.00 0.00 27030.00 8337.00 Programming 1350.00 1150.00 0.00 2500.00 0.00 Total Expense 44580.00 22213.72 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 285.30 2650.00 570.50 47230.00 22784.22
Net Income -2030.00 5340.17 0.00 665.00 0.00 1495.00 0.00 378.00 0.00 825.00 0.00 75.00 0.00 37964.70 -2650.00 3104.50 -4680.00 49847.37
Ending Balance 6/30/19 61452.14 1873.25 5204.15 3423.55 5865.68 2851.00 37964.70 8711.44 127345.91 Notes: **Other Team Restricted Fund Balances 6/30/19 Accounts Recievable ****Junior Development Funds held in AWSA Bank Accounts Physician 3,463.24 America's Cup Funding Balance Dec 31, 2018 23,584.34 Can Am Team - -Goode $2500 MW Genl Team 1,150.00 -Mastercraft $8000 Income - World Games - -Malibu $4000 Expenses (2,700.00)
Unallocated Team Funds 4,098.20 Balance June 30. 2019 20,884.34 PanAm Funds - Total 8,711.44 NOTE**Accured Exp - Membership $7500 0070C0 USA WS American Water Ski Association Budget vs Actual June 30, 2019
**Physician **CanAm **MW General **World Games **Pan Am ***Unallocated Team Junior Development Restricted Funds Restricted Funds Restricted Funds Restricted Funds Restricted Funds Restricted Funds Restricted Funds Restricted Funds Budget Actual Budget Actual Budget Actual Budget Actual Budget Actual Budget Actual Budget Actual Budget Actual Begin Balance 1/1/19 3463.24 0.00 1150.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 993.70 23584.34 Income
Contributions 3675.00 Unrestricted Fund Dist 12/31/18 General Support Interest Income National Entry Fee Regional Support Fund Consolidation MW General Fund **$1150 to Membership **$1150 to Yr 2019 Programming CanAM World Games U21 Worlds Total Team Support 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Total Income 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 3675.00 0.00 0.00
Expense Awards Membership/USAWS Directors Insurance Officials Maintenance Meeting Expenses Travel 2700.00 Scoring Website Bank Service/Credit Card Fees 70.50 Fundraising Expenses 500.00 Team Expenses Elite PA World Team 1500.00 Programming 1150.00 Total Expense 1500.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1150.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 570.50 0.00 2700.00
Net Income -1500.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 -1150.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 3104.50 0.00 -2700.00
Ending Balance 6/30/19 3463.24 0.00 1150.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 4098.20 20884.34 INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE AWSA Board Report August 2019
The AWSA International Activities Committee has continued its active agenda since the January Board meeting.
Several teams have been selected for 2019 Competitions:
Athletes: Taylor Garcia Regina Jaquess Erika Lang Adam Pickos Coach: Jay Bennett Manager: Scott Greenwood Physician: Brad Harman
2. U21 World Championships
Athletes: Anna Gay Kennedy Hansen Quinn Haines Ben Leutz Kassidy Hawkins Ryan Canepa Manager: Erin Kalkbrenner
3. Elite World Championships
Athletes: Taylor Garcia Anna Gay Regina Jaquess Freddy Krueger Erika Lang Adam Pickos Coach: Jeff Surdej Manager: Jody Johnson Physician: Marc Aiken
Teams remaining to be selected (as per the relevant Q&P documents, which are available on the website) are:
- Pan American 35+ Championships
31598327.1 - Can Am Challenge
Our teams have benefitted from the many contributions of team staff, which is greatly appreciated. It continues to be a challenge to find staff for many events. Additionally, for certain teams we have had challenges finding interested and qualified athletes. Likewise, it continues to be a challenge to find judges and scorers for many international events.
The next meeting of the IAC will be November 2, 2019 in Orlando.
Respectfully submitted,
Jeff Smith Chair
31598327.1
JULY 14,2019
APPLICATION FOR SENIOR JUDGE EMERITUS
JEFFREY K CLARK Sr., 628 REMINGTON W, LAKELAND FL 33813
QUALIFICATIONS: 8 Years AWSA Officials Qualifications Committee 3 Years as Chairman Officials Qualifications Committee Author of AWSA Judges Manual 1976 Regular Judge 1969 to 1974 Senior Judge AWSA 1974 To Present Pan American Judge 1974 To Present
EXPERIENCE: Chief Judge AWSA Southern Regional Tournament 7 Years Assistant Chief Judge AWSA Southern Regionals 4 Years Appointed Judge AWSA Southern Regionals 26 Years Chief Judge AWSA National Tournament 1984 Assistant Chief Judge National Tournament 3 Years Appointed Judge National Tournament 25 Years Qualifications Judge National Tournament 9 Years Chief Judge AWSA Intercollegiate Nationals 1977 Appointed Judge Intercollegiate Nationals 12 Years Chief Judge Pan American Championships 1 time Appointed Judge Pan American Championships 3 times Appointed Judge US Team Trials 11 Times Professional Water Ski Tour Judge 17 Years Chief Judge or Judge for more than 200 local tournaments over the years Chief Judge of over 100 World Record Tournaments over the years