_C_h_a_rt_e_r_ M_e_m__b_e_ r WIAA BulleNationtal Fedieratn ion of ● ● State HS Associations Vol. 90 Issue No. 4 May 2014 Board Approves Girl’s 5k Distance in Cross Country; Split-Season Sports Discusses Formation of Ad-Hoc Committee (Golf, Soccer, Swimming, Tennis) Wonewoc-Center to Join Ridge & Valley Conference for Football in 2015 WIAA rules prevent coaches from The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Board of Control supported in - having coaching contact with their ath - creasing the distance of the girls cross country race in the Tournament Series to five kilo - letes outside the season, during the meters and determined criteria for volunteer appointments to the ad-hoc committee school year, in any sport. The rules fur - assigned to examine competitive equity at its May meeting in Stevens Point. ther prevent schools from offering a The impetus to lengthen the distance of the girls competitive course to five kilome - sport season, except as outlined in the ters from the traditional four kilometers came following a letter received from the Office WIAA Season Regulations. An athlete of Civil Rights acknowledging it received a complaint regarding the difference in distances working as a clinician, under the direc -  See Board Approves, page 9 tion of his/her coach, is considered to be coaching contact. This means, for example, that boy Membership Sends Public/Private Issue to Committee; tennis players cannot serve as assistant coaches, clinicians, instructors, etc., Defeats Realignment Authority Change during the girls' tennis season, in the Beighley and Baumgartner Re-elected; Coleman Elected to Board of Control Positions school program. Obviously, girl tennis The membership of the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association voted to move players are similarly restricted during the discussion regarding the impact of nonpublic schools on the Association to committee the boys' tennis season. Boy tennis and defeated a proposal that would place the authority for conference alignment with in - players cannot practice with the girls' dividual member schools at its Annual Meeting in Stevens Point. tennis team because the boys' tennis An amendment that would have applied a 1.65 multiplier to nonpublic member season is defined in Season Regula - schools for tournament divisional placements did not reach a vote. The amendment origi - tions, and the school cannot make op - nated from a petition submitted to the Board of Control by a segment of member schools. portunities available outside the season. The membership voted to send the issue to committee by a 352-77 count. Again, girls' tennis players are similarly The motion to form a committee contained specific timelines. Recommendations are restricted. Swimming, soccer, and golf to be shared with the Executive Staff prior to Sept. 1, 2014; so they may be presented at are other sports with split seasons the seven Area Meetings for the purpose of generating discussion and determining a di - where these rules apply. ■  See Membership Sends, page 5

Officials Licensing for 2014-15 Now Available In This Issue Acclimatization FAQ ...... 5 The 2014-15 licensing renewal application is now available on our website. You must renew Annual Meeting Director’s Report ...... 2 your license by July 7, 2014, to avoid paying the $30 late fee. Coaches Participating Against You once again have two options to choose from when renewing your 2014-15 official’s li - Athletes in the Off-Season ...... 4 cense. Eligibility Overview for Athletes ...... 2 NOTE: RECIPROCITY AND HIGH SCHOOL-AGED OFFICIALS ARE NOT ABLE TO LI - Fall Sports - Academic Ineligibility ...... 8 High School Out-of-Season Concerns ...... 9 CENSE ONLINE, YOU MUST USE OPTION 2. Keep These Dates in Mind ...... 15 Option 1: Complete the application online and pay with either a Visa or Mastercard. If you NFHS Unified Sport Coaching Course ...... 11 choose this option – do the following: Open Gyms ...... 4 Under the OFFICIALS tab on the red menu bar, please choose Online Registration. You will Penalties for Boarding, Checking from Behind Increase in High School Hockey .....13 select the option to renew your license, it will then ask you to login and you must login with your Recruiting Guidelines ...... 8 current login information. Proceed from there and follow the prompts. If your payment is being Scholar Athlete Recipients ...... 6 made with a credit card that is not under your name, it is required that your name and address School Involvement in be placed where it asks for shipping information. Out-of-Season Activity ...... 9 Option 2: Print the application from our website and send via USPS with a check or money Sport Report “PLUS” ...... 13 Sportsmanship Summit ...... 13 order. If you choose this option – do the following: Summer Contact ...... 7 Under the Officials tab on the red menu bar, choose Become an Official, you will then be Summer Reminders ...... 7 taken to a page where you can print the 2014-15 licensing application. Winter Team Sportsmanship If you want to order extra rules books, there is an order form on our website that you will Award Winners ...... 4 need to complete and mail to our office with proper payment or you may call our office and speak website < http://www.wiaawi.org > with Kristen and she will be able to take your order with credit card payment over the phone. email < [email protected] > General Use Please contact Kristen Spencer [email protected] or Joan Gralla [email protected] if < [email protected] > Officials Department you have any questions. ■ 2014 Annual Meeting Director’s Report

April 16, 2014 duced a new “Pupil Nondiscrimination Booklet,” an immensely Let me begin the Director’s Report by thanking valuable and helpful membership tool. We also now have a Board you for your interest in the well-being of this mem - approved Transgender Eligibility policy to assist members when bership, for making time and for participating in confronting that question. today’s proceedings. Words will not adequately con - Persistence and collaboration with the Wisconsin School vey the importance of your presence and the oppor - Business Officials and the Department of Workforce Development Dave Anderson tunity this meeting and the fall Area Meetings have resulted in a fresh examination and understanding of the provides members to dialogue, face-to-face. role and relationship with contest officials. These efforts culmi - Out of respect for your time and in anticipation of a robust nated in the development of a new WIAA officials contract and open forum discussion, this Director’s Report will be kept succinct joint presentations to school business leaders by Workman Com - and quite narrowly focused. If there are other topics not thor - pensation representatives, the Executive Director of WASBO, oughly addressed, they can be revisited at our Area Meetings their legal counsel and the WIAA. next fall. The year has been marked by strong Board leadership. As Old Business a result of this engaged leadership, the WIAA became one of the The review of Old Business is an important part of this re - charter members of the NFHS Network. A relationship which we port. It provides the membership with an accounting of sorts, a believe will be a net positive for the WIAA and for high school “what we said,” compared to “what we did” over the course of sports across the nation in coming years. The Board also tackled the year. It also provides opportunity for updates to on-going ef - some key financial issues; ultimately doubling—a 100 percent in - forts, issues and discussions. crease—in Tournament Mileage reimbursement in all WIAA Though I will not go into extensive detail, the record of the sports. Another outcome was increased travel reimbursement past year will reflect as busy and productive a year as any in re - and game fees for tournament officials and an increase for all cent memory. Our collaborative efforts with the DPI have pro -  See Director’s Report, page 12 2014-2015 Eligibility Overview for Athletes You Are Not Eligible:

If you are not enrolled as a full-time stu - entry into Grade 9 shall be ineligible for If you, at any time, have received an dent at your school. competition at any level for one calendar award of merchandise value such as e.g. If you reach nineteen (19) years of age year, unless the transfer is made necessary shoes, jacket, sweater, jersey, duffel bag, prior to August 1. by a total change in residence by parent(s). back pack, watch, billfold, gift certificates, If you failed more than one class in the The calendar year will be determined from e.g., in recognition of your talent or accom - most recent grade-reporting period (or a student’s first day of attendance at their plishment as an athlete. failed to meet your school’s academic stan - new school. If you participate in a contest or event dard if that standard is stricter than the You are not eligible to practice or com - other than for your official interscholastic WIAA’s). pete at any level: school team while you are a member of that If eight (8) semesters have passed since If you do not have on file in your school: school team and during the entire school entering Grade 9. (a) evidence of having passed a physical season (start of practice to end of season) If you have participated in school sports examination signed by a licensed of that sport. for all, or part of, four (4) school years. physician, physician assistant or Ad - If as an underclassman you have played If you attend a public high school outside vanced Practice Nurse Prescriber in an all-star contest. the district where your parent(s) reside full (b) signature of parent(s) giving permis - If you let anyone besides your parents time in their primary residence. Exception: sion to participate in sports pay a fee for specialized training, like a Tuition paying and/or open enrolled stu - (c) parent signature affirming receipt of summer camp, or if you are instructed by dents who are entering 9th or 10th grade at WIAA Rules of Eligibility your school coach outside the season of a the beginning of the school year. Refer to (d) emergency locator form. sport (unless the contact is in the summer - Senior High Handbook, Rules of Eligi - If you do not sign and follow the code of time and takes place during an approved bility. conduct established by your school. contact period). If you attend a private school (except If you have violated your status as an boarding schools) and do not reside full amateur athlete by: Your school is a member of the Wisconsin time with parent(s) in their primary resi - (a) accepting any amount of money or Interscholastic Athletic Association, and the dence. Refer to Senior High Handbook, any kind of merchandise Rules of Eligibility. rules and regulations as established by the (b) signing a contract for your services **Transferring schools at any time member schools of the WIAA govern your may result in restrictions being im - as an athlete participation in high school athletics, and posed on eligibility, or in some cases a (c) receiving any benefit for the use of impact/affect your sports activity outside of denial of eligibility. Refer to Senior your name, picture, and/or personal school. High Handbook, Rules of Eligibility. appearance as an athlete The rules above are general state - Note 1 – You may be ineligible and/or (d) providing any endorsement, as an ments only; see your principal, athletic limited to nonvarsity competition if you athlete, in promoting a profit-making director, or coach for further details have transferred from any school into a event and exceptions. member school after the beginning of your (e) playing under another name Your school may have stricter rules than 9th grade year, and you have not received (f) appearing as an athlete (with or those listed here; again contact your prin - a waiver from the WIAA. without permission) in a commer - cipal, athletic director, or coach if you have Note 2 – A student who transfers after cial/advertisement and/or profit- a question on any eligibility rule relating to their 4th consecutive semester following making event, item, plan or service. either your school or the WIAA. ■

Page 2 May 2014 WIAA B ULLETIN FRoM The NATioNAl FeDeRATioN oF STATe high School ASSociATioNS Officials Dan Schuster Named Corner NFHS Director of Coach Education Dan Schuster, who has played a significant role in the growth of the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) Coach Ed - Congratulations! ucation Program for the past six years, has been named NFHS Director of Coach Education. 2014 Winter Tournament Officials Schuster was an education program specialist BOYS SWIMMING & DIVING - Divi - Anderson, Eleva; Claudia Quam, Stoughton; from 2008 to 2012, and has served as NFHS Assis - sion 2: Meet Referee – Thomas Miller III, Ann Renn, Baraboo; Renee Schude, Custer; Menomonie; Diving Referee – William Susan Vielgut, Glendale; Cyndie Zocher, tant Director of Coach Education for the past two Benson, Fond du Lac; Starter – John Kit - Middleton years. He has handled many administrative tasks slaar III, Monona; Stroke Judge – Stephen BOYS BASKETBALL - Chad Andrew of the Coach Education Program since 2012 and Good, Manitowoc; Turn Judges – William Austin, Wausau; Chris Barr, Wausau; James will assume the director’s position Au - Benson, Fond du Lac & Scott Hertting, Ap - Brockman, Oshkosh; David Brost, gust 1. He will succeed Tim Flannery, pleton; Division 1: Meet Referee – Janesville; Adam Brzezinski, Rothschild; Thomas Miller III, Menomonie; Diving Ref - Darren Budahn, Milwaukee; John Claus - who is retiring this summer after 16 eree – William Benson, Fond du Lac; nitzer, Stetsonville; Patrick Colgrove, Ash - years on the NFHS staff, including the Starter – Stephen Good, Manitowoc; land; Joe Coyle, DeForest; Gregg Dati, past seven years as director of the NFHS Stroke Judge – John Kitslaar III, Monona; Brookfield; Larry Dietz, New Holstein; Jeff Coach Education Program. Turn Judges – William Benson, Fond du Dorschner, Green Bay; Jed Durni, Eau During his four years as a coach education Lac & Scott Hertting, Appleton Claire; Louis Eisenman, Schofield; Paul Fis - INDIVIDUAL WRESTLING - Tony cher, Alma Center; Rob Frenchick, Hayward; specialist, Schuster started and supervised the pro - Antczak, Hillsdale; Michael Blasczyk, Apple - Andy Hansen, Elkhart Lake; Jon Hegge, gram’s social media campaigns, assisted with ton; Matt Boyer, Baraboo; Scott Brookman, Evansville; Thaddeaus D. Hilliard Sr., Mil - course development, and promoted the program to Tomah; Dan Engelke, Rewey; Jeff Gross, waukee; Scott Huffman, Beloit; Doug John - NFHS member associations and other groups Delafield; Richard Legler, Oregon; David Os - son, Howards Grove; Steve Johnson, throughout the country. For the past two years in terbrink, Nelsonville; Jeremie Ott, Glendale; Milwaukee; Thomas Kempen, Menomonee his administrative role, Schuster has assisted with Daniel Parlier, Marathon; Daniel Scharen - Falls; Ken Koester, Wauwatosa; Bob LeCap - brock, Menasha; Steve Schutte, tain, Appleton; Steve Lyles, Oconomowoc; development of the program’s budget and goals Menomonie; John Shefchik, Green Bay; Jason Mangin, Appleton; Todd Mangin, and has managed the development of a new Learn - Henry Stillman, Waukesha; Michael Wille - Reedsville; Joshua Manske, Germantown; ing Management System that will debut this sum - man, East Troy B.J. McMahon, Oregon; Ellis Miles, Jr., Mil - mer on www.nfhslearn.com. TEAM WRESTLING - David Black, River waukee; Tyler Moy, Eau Claire; Dale Nelson, Schuster has earned his Certified Athletic Ad - Falls; Bill Coker, Athens; Larry Gorres, Mondovi; Ryan Nelson, Eau Claire; Tyler Menasha; Kevin Guilette, Forestville; Harold Nelson, Eau Claire; Scott Otten, Sheboygan; ministrator (CAA) designation through the National Hellen, Barneveld; Kirk Layer, Richland Cen - Michael Pfeil, Evansville; Wayne Prom, Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association ter; Off-Mat Officials – Scott Ness, Lodi & Oconomowoc; Pete Reinders, Oconomowoc; and has completed the Accredited Interscholastic Russell O’Leary, Milton Greg Rigoni, Hurley; Ken Schimpf III, Pe - Coach (AIC) professional development coursework HOCKEY - Travis Ahlberg, Birchwood; waukee; Michael Tust, Luxemburg; David designed for interscholastic coaches. He also has Curtis Beecher, Madison; Dave Bestul, Mon - Vaara, Medford; Terry B. Ver Straate, Kiel; dovi; Mark Bray, Appleton; Leah Buysse, Mark Woelfel, Sheboygan completed all 34 online courses in the NFHS Coach Waunakee; Daniel Costello, Butler; Patrick GIRLS BASKETBALL - Ryan Bakken, Education Program on www.nfhslearn.com. Courtney, Milwaukee; Mike Delong, Madison; Brad Baumgart, Kaukauna; Abby In addition to his work in coach education, Woodville; Tom Fitzgerald, Mosinee; Jon Bickel, West Allis; John W. Blaskowski, Rice Schuster has served as editor of the NFHS Ice Haas, Fitchburg; Jeff Hanzlik, Chippewa Lake; Todd Boivin, Shawano; Wayne Brevik, Hockey Rules Book and liaison to the NFHS Ice Falls, Ryan Humpal, Amery; Michael Jager, Fairchild; Wayne Czyscon, Cameron; Shelley Hockey Rules Committee since 2010. Madison; Brian Keith, Monroe; David King, Dietz, Green Bay; Vincent Diplaris, Wauke - Appleton; Andrew Krahenbuhl, Cameron; sha; Jared Fern, Hammond; Mike Feucht, Schuster earned his bachelor’s degree in ki - Jason Lassen, Onalaska; Bryce Maphis, Rubicon; Rhoderick Fields, Appleton; Jerry nesiology from Indiana University in 2007. He was Waukesha; Buckley Marsh, Rice Lake; Scott Frei, Jackson; Rich Fronheiser, Columbus; a sport communication major with a double minor Noles, Dousman; Karl Olm, Madison; Eric Wes Gaedtke, West Bend; Ryan Hausmann, in sport marketing/management and telecommu - Olson, West Allis; Ryan Reischel, Sun Germantown; Tammy Hutchison, Mount nications. One year later, he earned his master’s in Prairie; Tim Richter, Madison; Brad Roethlis - Pleasant; Paul Jaglinski, Marathon; Chris berger, Green Bay; Jill Schleis, Madison; Jenny, Edgerton; Bryant Johnson, Brown athletic administration from Indiana with a focus Ryan Schroder, Cottage Grove; Mitch Deer; Curt Johnson, Antigo; Denita John - on budgeting, sport law and marketing. Strehlow, Madison; Scott Swid, Mosinee; son, Milwaukee; Steve Kafka, Antigo; Prior to joining the NFHS staff in 2008, Schus - Taylor Willert, Sun Prairie Thomas Kaster, Mount Horeb; Jeremy ter worked with the NFHS Coach Education Pro - GYMNASTICS - Patricia Abraham, On - Kautza, McFarland; Michael Klein, Hewitt; gram as an intern at Creative Street Media Group alaska; Jan Adkins, Sun Prairie; Melissa Michael LoCicero, Milwaukee; Justin Marien, Bremmer, Verona; Debbie Brown, Sun Pewaukee; Todd Mayr, Antigo; Michael Mur - in Indianapolis. During his years at Indiana Univer - Prairie; Lori Castleberg, Sun Prairie; Brucie phy, Weston; Jason Nate, Kimberly; Travis sity, Schuster assisted in the athletic department Chapman, Sharon; Kim Chynoweth, Wauke - Parr, Mondovi; Daryl L. Pries, Cadott; Dan at Bloomington High School North and the IU sha; Helen Culliney, Grafton; Karen Doll, Quarberg, Durand; Rick Reuter, West Bend; School of Health, Physical Education and Recre - Middleton; Barb Fotsch, Sussex; Becky Gril - Todd Rusniak, Hartford; Erich Schaser, ation. ley, Elroy; Cheryl Hancock, Holmen; Pamela Greenville; Gregg Scott, Mosinee; Steve In addition to leading the future development Hansen Ruben, Menomonee Falls; Cindy Schultz, Rice Lake; Tim Shaw, Edgerton; Hoenisch, Eau Claire; Christine Kalupa, James Stadtmueller, Menasha; David of the NFHS Coach Education Program, Schuster Kaukauna; Julie Kleist, Milwaukee; Mari Strysick, Hustisford; Don Van Deurzen, Lit - will supervise the NFHS Coaches Association and Lucas, Prescott; Brenna Lutter, Reedsburg; tle Chute; Rick VanDrisse, Oshkosh; Claude its national recognition program for coaches. He Carrie Osswald, Whitefish Bay; Mary Pica W. Williams, Jr., Brown Deer ■ also will retain his duties with ice hockey. ■

WIAA B ULLETIN May 2014 Page 3 Winter Team Sportsmanship Award Winners Selected The Wisconsin Interscholastic Ath - State champion Verona, 3-0, in the State It is the first time the Pirates have won letic Association, in cooperation with quarterfinals. Honorable mention for the the award as a single program and com - Rural Mutual Insurance, has award went to Eau Claire Memorial. munity. They were included in the gym - chosen the recipients of the The River Falls Co-op, which in - nastics co-op program that won the team Sportsmanship cludes River Falls/Baldwin-Woodville/ award with Gale-Ettrick Trempealeau and Awards for the 2014 winter Boyceville/Glenwood City/St. Croix Cen - Melrose-Mindoro in 2002. The Pirates at - State Tournaments. tral, wins its fourth sportsmanship award The winners of the prestigious in girls hockey. The Fusion were recipi - sportsmanship honor are Superior in ents of the award three consecutive boys ice hockey, the River Falls Co-op in years from 2009-11. They were edged 4- girls ice hockey, Brodhead in girls basket - 3 in overtime in their State semifinal ball, Cochrane-Fountain City in boys bas - match-up with the Onalaska Co-op, ketball, Evansville/Albany in wrestling which received honorable mention for the and River Valley in gymnastics. Sportsmanship Award, as did the D.C. Superior was presented the award Everest Co-op. for its sportsmanship at the State Boys Brodhead is this year’s Sportsman - Hockey Tournament. It is the fifth time ship Award recipient in girls basketball. overall the school and community have The Cardinals earn the honor for the first tempted a valiant comeback but fell a received the sportsmanship honor, all time in any sport. The school and com - basket short in their 54-52 loss in the Di - coming in the sport of hockey. They also munity’s respectful contigent displayed vision 5 semifinal to eventual champion received recognition in 1993, 1996, 1997 outstanding sportsmanship in a 51-43 Thorp. Blair-Taylor, Brillion, Brown Deer, and 2008. The Spartans fell to eventual overtime loss to Neillsville in the Division Elk Mound, Lodi, Roncalli, Sheboygan 3 semifinals. It was the Cardinals’ first- Lutheran and West De Pere received hon - ever State appearance in girls basketball. orable mention. Schools receiving honorable mention The Evansville/Albany co-op re - were Cuba City, Oak Creek, Oconto Falls ceives its first Sportsmanship Award in and Superior. team wrestling, and it’s also the first Cochrane-Fountain City made its Sportsmanship Award by either of the first-ever appearance in the State Boys two schools and communities. Its display Basketball Tournament and is the recipi - ent of this year’s Sportsmanship Award.  See Winter Team Sportsmanship Award, page 14 Open Gyms Coaches Participating Coaches and schools cannot be involved in out-of-season practice for athletes. However, open gyms do not violate WIAA rules if they are conducted Against Athletes according to the following guidelines: 1. The open gym is made known and available to all students in the des - In the Off-Season ignated population of that school that is interested in attending. Open gyms Except during Board of Control approved may be gender specific. It is also acceptable to include people from the com - coaching contact days, WIAA rules indicate that munity. Schools may conduct “open gyms” in any activity. It is not acceptable coaches may not provide sport instruction to, to include athletes from another school, public or nonpublic. or have coaching contact with student-athletes 2. There is no instruction during the open gym by a coach or anyone during the off-season. This rule and its inter - else. pretation had prevented coaches from partici - 3. Coaches may supervise open gyms, but they may not instruct, organ - pating against their athletes in structured, ize drills, etc. Coaches can also recreate with students in school sponsored, non-school league competition, during the off- open gym settings that are purely recreational in nature, i.e., there is no in - season. The WIAA Board of Control approved struction by the coach or anyone, sport skill demonstration, organized drills a request by the WIAA staff for a change in in - or resemblance of a practice being conducted. terpretation. The present interpretation allows 4. There is no organized competition, such as established teams partic - coaches to participate against their athletes in ipating in round-robin competition, etc. league competition, organized by a non-school 5. A member school is permitted to supervise conditioning programs entity, during the off-season. This means a vol - under the open gym provisions, which may include weight lifting, speed, agility, and/or fitness. The program must be limited to non-sport and non- leyball coach, for example, could be participat - sport-skill-specific instruction. Basic 'instruction' e.g., safe lifting, safe spot - ing in a volleyball league which included his/her ting, training regimen and rationale, are permitted. No sport implements volleyball players as members of other teams. and/or sport specific movement/drills should be part of the open gym or It continues to be a violation of WIAA rules weight room. These conditioning programs must be made known and acces - for coaches to participate on the same team as sible to all interested students and must be voluntary. their athletes, in out-of-season play, and to be Schools and coaches must clearly understand that the philosophy of the involved in playing pickup activity with their open gym is that youngsters from that school may attend, for wholesome athletes during the off-season except in school recreation, or for purposes of improving their skills if they choose, but it's sponsored Open Gyms. The other obvious ex - something they do on their own. It would be a violation of WIAA rules to man - ception to this is in the sports of baseball, cross date attendance at open gyms, or to provide incentives for athletes to attend country, golf, gymnastics, soccer, softball, open gyms, or to limit participation based on athletic status, or to allow ath - swimming & diving, tennis, track & field and letes from other schools to come and work out or compete against your wrestling, during the summertime, when school school's athletes. (BL – Art. II and RE – Art. VI, Sect. 2) ■ is not in normal session. ■

Page 4 May 2014 WIAA B ULLETIN Membership Sends from page 1 ______Acclimatization rection. Applicable data and a recommendation from the committee shall be presented to the Board of Control by Dec. 1, 2014, and advanced to the 2015 Annual Meeting. FAQ Subsequent discussions identified the authority of the ad-hoc committee to request ad - ditional time as it may deem necessary. An amendment at the 2015 Annual Meeting, if Q: Does the acclimatization plan apply approved, would take effect at the start of the 2015 fall season. to summer contact? The authority to determine conference affiliations remains with the Board of Con - A: Yes. The rule was passed by the mem - trol after the membership voted down the amendment to change the process by a re - ber schools at the 2014 Annual Meeting stat - sounding 400-26 vote. The existing policy requires a member school, or schools, to ing when the school is involved then the petition or declare a request for conference realignment at the Area Meetings. The Ex - acclimatization plan must be followed. Re - ecutive Staff is responsible for identifying a realignment plan. The staff proposal is then stated: (1) If you use school resources such presented to the Board for first consideration before final action is taken following a 40- as funds, transportation, etc., you must follow day appeal period. the acclimatization plan. That is unrestricted. Of the three amendments passed by the membership, two of them impact the (2) If you don't use those resources, then you can coach (as part of your five contact days) Rules of Eligibility section of the Senior High Handbook and one alters the Bylaws. your athletes and they would not have to fol - The first amendment to the Rules of Eligibility, ratified by a 265-56 vote, requires low the acclimatization plan. football coaches to follow the fall acclimatization policy during the unrestricted school Q: Does this mean the contact days contact days in the summer. The second provides all sports with the same unlimited are not "unrestricted"? Also, what about nonschool coaching contact opportunities in the summer, adding soccer to the list that the teams that have signed up for the includes baseball, cross country, golf, gymnastics, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, college sponsored "team camps"? Is track and field, and wrestling. The measure passed by a 346-74 vote of the member - there a summary of this decision any - ship. where? The new rule to be added to the Bylaws requires all coaches, including A: If you don't use school monies, trans - assistants, to attend the rules meeting and/or watch the rules video when portation, etc., coaches could work with their they are offered. Previously, only head coaches were required to attend the kids at the camps and the athletes who at - meetings and/or watch the video. The membership supported passage of tend voluntarily on their own and pay all costs the amendment by a 292-131 tally. would not have to follow the acclimatization The assembly also approved all but one of the editorial changes to the Mike Beighley plan. Constitution, Bylaws and Rules of Eligibility by a vote of 369-16. These al - Q: We have three contact days in June and two in July. We typically do a Tues., terations clarify existing rules without making any change in the interpre - Wed., Thurs. and then a Tues., Thurs. tation of the rule. The proposed editorial change to clarify language format. I assume that we would have to regarding the Association’s restitution rule in the Constitution was amended start over for the second two days and to remove all of the proposed alterations. That amendment passed 316- 105 to maintain the existing language. would not be able to have helmets or Corey pads for the contact days, correct? In the 2014-15 Board of Control elections, president-elect Mike Beigh - Baumgartner A: The days do not have to be consecutive. ley, the district administrator at Whitehall, will serve his second consecutive Therefore, days one and two are helmets term representing District 1, and treasurer Corey Baumgartner, principal at only. Days three through five can be Kiel, will return to the Board representing District 4. Eric Coleman, the stu - helmet/shoulder pads. dent services coordinator with Milwaukee Public Schools, was elected as the Q: If you only have one practice a day, ethnic minority at-large representative. He replaces Keith Posley, who you still must have a 30-minute recovery served the maximum two successive terms. period which must occur no later than 2 Incumbents re-elected to the Advisory Council were Todd Sobrilsky, Eric Coleman hours into practice. Is this an accurate athletic/activities director at Brookfield Central, and Dave Steavpack, assistant princi - statement? pal/athletic director at Ashwaubenon, representing large schools; and Barry Rose, su - A: Yes. If you practice for 2.5 hours, you must take a one-hour recovery break at 2 perintendent at Cumberland, representing medium-sized schools. Joining the Council hours. The limit for practice is 3 hours total are Ty Breitlow, principal at Chilton, representing medium-sized schools; Mark Gruen, physical activity. district administrator at Royall, representing small schools; and Mark Holzman, assistant Q: What if a football player comes out superintendent in the Sheboygan Area School District, serving as the ethnic at-large late on August 11 rather than August 5? representative. Elected individuals serve a three-year term on the Advisory Council. Do they have to follow the acclimatiza - A total of 546 delegates from 443 schools were in attendance. ■ tion plan individually? A: Yes. The plan is implemented for each athlete. It used to be a team rule. It is not ✂ just a team rule any longer. BULLETIN Subscription Renewal Notice! Q: My staff and I are looking at the sit - uation and are trying to avoid the "long The BULLETIN has a circulation of over 20,000 for each of its 4 issues. 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City ______State ______Zip ______If I read the materials correctly, on "long days" we can have practice/coach - Renewal ______New ______✂  See Acclimatization FAQ, page 10

WIAA B ULLETIN May 2014 Page 5 WIAA Announces 2014 Scholar Athlete Award Recipients Wisconsin’s 32 top scholar athletes, 16 Jefferson Street Inn in Wausau. Each 2014 • Jon Averkamp from Germantown is the senior girls and 16 senior boys from public winner received a medallion and certifi - seventh WIAA Scholar Athlete from and nonpublic high schools, have been se - cate, and took with them a special plaque Germantown High School. lected as the 2014 State Scholar Athlete for display in their school’s trophy case. • Grantsburg High School has its seventh recipients by the WIAA. A Webcast of the awards ceremony is WIAA Scholar Athlete, Jacob Ohnstad. These individuals achieved the top com - available at www.wiaawi.org. • Drummond High School has its seventh bined classroom and sports performances All 825 students nominated for the WIAA Scholar Athlete, Jake Fibert. during their four years in high school to be award by their high school athletic direc - • La Crosse Central High School produced selected as winners for the 31st annual tors will be presented with a medal at their two WIAA Scholar Athletes in 2014— 2014 WIAA Scholar Athlete Awards under - school in a manner to be determined by Brittany Baldwin and Ben Thornton. • Owen-Withee High School produced two written by Marshfield Clinic. the school administration recognizing them WIAA Scholar Athletes in 2014—Albert To determine the top 32 finalists, four as their school’s top male or female scholar Goerlitz and Bailey Karaba. boys and four girls are selected from each athlete. of four WIAA divisions based on both ath - This year’s list of scholar athlete finalists 2014 letic and academic achievement. Sixteen features these items of interest: Scholar Athlete Recipients of this year’s 32 WIAA Scholar Athlete fi - • Of the 425 high schools submitting * indicates that the student is that school’s first statewide winner nalists have a grade point average of 4.0 nominations this year, three had WIAA DIVISION 1 to date, while the average GPA is 3.85. All Scholar Athlete finalists for the first BOYS 32 scholar athlete finalists earned a total time in the 31-year history of the WIAA Jon Averkamp, Germantown, Germantown High School of 308 letters (an average of nine letters Scholar Athlete program. Michael Marchese, Sun Prairie, Sun Prairie per athlete) during their first 3 1/2 years • Algoma High School has its first WIAA High School* of high school. Scholar Athlete, Kennedy Blahnik. Peter Rentzepis, Eau Claire, Eau Claire Me - • The first WIAA Scholar Athlete from Sun The 32 scholar athlete finalists were morial High School Prairie High School is Michael Marchese. chosen from among 825 seniors nomi - Ben Thornton, Stoddard, La Crosse Central • Nicholas Zander is the first WIAA nated by more than 425 high schools in High School the state. Every year since 1984, each of Scholar Athlete from McDonell Central DIVISION 1 the WIAA-member high schools has been High School, Chippewa Falls. GIRLS invited to nominate one boy and one girl • Tyson Miehe from Darlington High Brittany Baldwin, Stoddard, La Crosse for the WIAA Scholar Athlete award. The School is the second member of his Central High School average grade point of all Wisconsin stu - family to earn statewide Scholar Athlete Elizabeth Flatley, Brookfield, Brookfield dent athletes nominated this year was honors. His brother, Kent, was a WIAA Central High School 3.85 and 136 of the nominated student Scholar Athlete in 2012. Jessica Lindstrom, Superior, Superior High athletes had perfect 4.0 GPAs. • Albert Goerlitz from Owen-Withee High School The 2014 WIAA Scholar Athlete recipi - School is the second member of his Marissa Matushak, Merrill, Wausau West ents, as well as their families and school family to earn statewide Scholar Athlete High School representatives, were recognized at an honors. His sister, Aleyna, was a 2013 DIVISION 2 BOYS awards ceremony Sunday, May 4, at the WIAA Scholar Athlete. Jason Balts, Barron, Barron High School Gaelin Elmore, Somerset, Somerset High School Matt Ferris, Menasha, Xavier High School Brett Harms, Whitewater, Whitewater High School DIVISION 2 GIRLS Lexi Brost, Nekoosa, Nekoosa High School McKenna Larsen, Oconto Falls, Oconto Falls High School Andrea Thomas, New Lisbon, Mauston High School Kelsey Thompson, Waupun, Waupun High School DIVISION 3 BOYS Ben Fischer, Crivitz, Crivitz High School Jackson Margis, Crivitz, Coleman High School Jacob Ohnstad, Cushing, Grantsburg High School Tyson Thomas Miehe, Darlington, Darling - ton High School DIVISION 3 GIRLS Kennedy Blahnik, Algoma, Algoma High School*

 See 2014 Scholar Athlete, page 11

Page 6 May 2014 WIAA B ULLETIN WIAA Eligibility – Summer Reminders By: Wade Labecki, WIAA Deputy Director

Now is a good time to download updated tivities for students in grades 10-12. interested students on a voluntary versions of all eligibility forms from the The only exception is during the sum - basis. WIAA website. mertime within the unrestricted 7) Open gyms can be conducted in the There are a few the things that athletic coaching contact period. School facili - summer but open gym rules apply includ - directors might want to review relative to ties are sometimes used by nonschool ing restricting students from other schools WIAA rules, as students participate in their groups for out-of-season camps and from attending. summer activities. clinics. If this is to be done Board of 8) Remind students of amateur status 1) Remind those that might need to Education policy for nonschool use of and all star rules. You may wish to ask stu - know, the rules affecting transfer students. the facility must be followed. This may dents to contact you prior to participating Download and distribute the Transfer Rules involve rent, and it is advisable that in all summer sport activities so you can and Waivers Quick Facts (available on the those conducting the activity have in - assess the activity and help protect their el - WIAA website) to the appropriate people surance protection. igibility. including your guidance and admissions a) If conducted, a nonschool camp 9) Remind students they must conclude staff. should be available to students from sur - their nonschool activity when the school 2) Review with coaches as necessary, rounding areas and not just returning ath - season in that sport starts. the out-of-season coaching contact rules letes at your school. An acceptable 10) It is important to remind students for their sport. Provide coaches with the non-school program may not be restricted and coaches that out-of-season and sum - summer contact form so they can provide based on school and/or team status. mertime activities must be voluntary. Tak - you with a schedule of their planned con - b) Out-of-season coaching rules apply. ing or requiring attendance, providing tact days in advance. Remember that vol - 4) Schools cannot conduct summer incentives or connecting playing time unteer coaches are the same as paid school classes in sports fundamentals, and/or lettering requirements to out-of- coaches for purposes of this rule and that etc., in excess of the approved unre - season programs is prohibited. the second time someone shows up at stricted contact days and community 11) A reminder that the academic eligi - practice to help coach they are considered education is a school program with the bility requirements apply to spring tourna - a school coach. same restrictions and exceptions. ments and an athlete can become a) All WIAA sport coaches are allowed 5) Schools may issue uniforms and/or academically ineligible and miss the oppor - up to five days of unrestricted coaching protective apparel for nonschool activity, tunity to play in a state tournament. Also, contact in the summer, between the end of only with formal approval of their school the period of ineligibility for the fall is 15 school and July 31. board or governing body. scheduled school days or 21 calendar days, b) A reminder that varsity and junior 6) Students must pay their own way depending on when school starts. The varsity coaches can have coaching contact to any camp, clinic, or specialized WIAA publishes a chart each spring to help with 8th grade students on down up until training. Nonschool groups can pay ex - you determine when eligibility is regained. the point of those 8th graders actually penses related to actual competition, These rules apply to high schools. Some starting their 9th grade year. Someone des - such as entry fees into summer may also apply to middle level but the rules ignated as a frosh coach cannot have leagues, e.g. The school cannot have at the middle level are significantly differ - coaching contact with the 8th graders ex - any involvement with out-of-season ent. These are not all-inclusive but hope - cept as a part of the approved unrestricted camps, clinics or competition unless fully will serve as a reminder in a number contact days. the activity is part of the approved un - of important areas. Working to prevent the 3) Remember that schools cannot restricted contact opportunity, is loss of athletic eligibility is always worth the be involved in out-of-season sports ac - school sponsored and available to all effort. ■ Summer Contact

All sport coaches have five days of unrestricted coaching con - dents on the basis of school or team affiliation. An 'acceptable non- tact opportunity during the summer, between the end of school and school program' is one which is not limited based on school and/or July 31; the days do not need to be consecutive. Unrestricted oppor - team status. Unlimited contact is open to any and all interested stu - tunities allow you to use school support and facilities as you would dents in your community and other communities. No school monies during the season. Unrestricted means teams can assemble with and resources can be applied, schools cannot sponsor the events/ac - coaches, school monies and resources can be applied, schools can tivities. Use school support and facilities must be done in the same manner as any other non-school group such as 4-H, boy scouts, or sponsor the events/activities. The five contact days must be the same local rotary. for all levels within a sport program. Unrestricted contact days are Unlimited contact is open to any and all interested students open to any interested student in your school. They are not allowed in your community and other communities along with being volun - during the school year. tary . NOTE: In 2014, football which begins on August 4 During the summer and school year out of season, athletes may (equipment/fitness testing) & 5 (practice) unrestricted coaching con - assemble in any manner they wish without school or school coach in - tact must end on July 26 in order to meet the dead week rule. If school volvement (other than the five contact days). The Booster club is con - resources are used, the acclimatization plan must be followed. sidered non-school. In the sports of baseball, cross country, golf, gymnastics, soccer, What Types of Contact Allowances are Provided to Coaches in softball, swimming & diving, tennis, track & field and wrestling, unlim - the Summer? ited “non-school” contact may used by coaches during the summer - Unrestricted Contact time. The summer being defined as when school is not in normal Students on your school teams can assemble with coaches,  session, provided such non-school programs are not limited to stu - See Summer contact, page 14

WIAA B ULLETIN May 2014 Page 7 Recruiting Guidelines WIAA rules prevent the recruitment of students for athletic • Providing game tickets to selected students, based on athletic reasons. The specific rule in question states: "No eligibility will potential or ability. be granted for a student whose residence within a school’s at - • Providing promotional pamphlets to selected students, based tendance boundaries, with or without parents, or whose atten - on athletic potential or ability. dance at a school has been the result of undue influence (special • Providing tuition reduction to selected students, based wholly consideration due to athletic ability or potential) on the part of or in part on athletic potential or ability. any person, whether or not connected with the school.” • Community or booster club member(s) contacting a potential It’s important to note that persons not connected with the student, because of athletic ability or potential, and encour - school can violate this rule, resulting in a loss of eligibility. aging attendance. Schools are ultimately responsible for the eligibility of all of their • Providing items of apparel and/or other incentives to stu - students and the school needs to communicate rules and pay dents. close attention to the circumstances that bring students to the Additional Examples school. • Interpretation of this provision now allows youth athletic Obviously, public schools and private schools encourage stu - teams to receive invitation/complimentary admission to high dents to enroll and this certainly can be done without violating school sporting events and to be acknowledged or introduced the undue influence rule. The following gives some examples of at those events. acceptable and unacceptable practices. This list cannot be con - • Teams may also perform and/or scrimmage in connection sidered all-inclusive, but should be helpful as an example. with a high school event Acceptable • Under no circumstances may a youth team be introduced, • High school personnel visiting a middle school/elementary etc., at more than one contest per season. school to explain programs and encourage all interested stu - • This interpretation provides for admission, acknowledgment dents to attend. and performance and/or scrimmage opportunity. • Inviting all interested students from a middle school/elemen - • These events may not extend or prolong the contest or peri - tary school to visit. ods beyond the limits provided by rule. • Providing game tickets to all interested students and/or team • Participating in the high school team's game preparations is members from a middle school/elementary school or area not permitted (e.g. pregame, half-time, sidelines, locker youth teams. room). • Providing informational pamphlets which describe the high • Under no circumstances will it be considered acceptable to sin - school to all interested students at a middle level/elementary gle out any individual youth/middle level student athlete sep - school. arate from or disproportionate to the remainder of the team. • Providing tuition reduction to prospective students, based on need and/or scholastic achievement. It is the responsibility of schools to contact other schools Unacceptable and report any possible violations of WIAA rules. The WIAA is al - • High school personnel visiting a middle school/elementary ways willing to provide rules clarifications and, where necessary, school sport team to encourage players to attend. will impose sanctions on schools and programs. It is far better • Inviting selected students, because of athletic potential or for schools to provide leadership and control to prevent problems ability, to visit. than to have to deal with these issues after the fact. ■ Fall Sports – Academic Ineligibility

A reminder: When the earliest allowed WIAA ity is regained on the school day following the period of in - game/meet takes place before the first day of classes at eligibility (16th school day) . Note 1: An interschool scrim - a member school, “the minimum ineligibility period shall be mage does NOT count as a game or meet for purposes of this the lesser of: a). 21 consecutive calendar days beginning with rule. Note 2: If a multi-school meet is counted on your schedule the date of the earliest allowed competition in a sport; or as one meet, it also counts as one meet as it applies to the num - b). one third of the maximum number of games/meets allowed ber of meets an ineligible student must sit out. Note 3: in a sport (rounded up if one-third results in a fraction).” Games/meets at different levels of competition (varsity, JV, In those instances where a member school has begun fall freshmen) may NOT be combined to reach the number of meets classes on or before the date of the earliest allowed WIAA an athlete must sit out. game/meet in a sport, ineligible students in these situations are When your school year begins after the earliest allowed subject to the standard rule applied when school is in session game/meet you may use this chart to determine the period of (15 scheduled school days and nights). In this situation, eligibil - ineligibility: Fall 2014 Dates

Boys Girls Boys Cross Girls Girls Girls Sport Soccer Volleyball Volleyball Football Country Golf Tennis Swimming

Minimum Ineligibility 8 games 5 meets 5 meets 3 games 4 meets 5 meets 5 meets 5 meets Period: 21 Days or Earliest Allowed Aug. 19 Aug. 26 Sept. 2 Aug. 21 Aug. 26 Aug. 14 Aug. 16 Aug. 20 Game/Meet – Fall 2014 Student Regains Eligibility on this Date or After Sitting Sept. 9 Sept. 16 Sept. 23 Sept. 11 Sept. 16 Sept. 4 Sept. 6 Sept. 10 Out the Required Number of Meets

*Do not use this chart if you begin classes on or before the date of the earliest allowed game/meet.

Page 8 May 2014 WIAA B ULLETIN Board Approves from page 1 ______for the genders. The boys currently run a 5-kilometer distance. last month. The action to form a committee contained specific The Board approved the change beginning this fall after hearing timelines including recommendations to be shared with the Ex - presentations by representatives both in support and opposed ecutive Staff prior to Sept. 1, 2014, and eventually advanced to the recommendation. to the 2015 Annual Meeting. The ad-hoc committee was also Extensive Board consideration was given to the parame - granted the authority to request additional time as it may deem ters and representation that will comprise the ad-hoc commit - necessary. tee to analyze the membership’s state of competitive equity. In other action, the Board gave final approval of a plan Appointments to the committee will be representatives from a to move Wonewoc-Center from the Scenic Bluffs Conference cross section of the membership, including various levels of to the Ridge & Valley Conference for football beginning in school administrative experience from public and private 2015. schools; small, medium and large schools; gender; and geo - In other action, the Board approved adding language to graphic districts. The Board also determined that current mem - the Spectator/Crowd Conduct Policies in the Senior High Hand - bers of WIAA committees or the executive staff will not be book that publishes the interpretation of the membership’s pol - eligible to be assigned to the committee, but will serve in a fa - cilitating and resource role. icy regarding the commercialization of images taken during The membership voted to send the competitive equity dis - WIAA Tournament Series events, as well as retransmissions of cussion to committee by a 352-77 vote at the Annual Meeting video originated at tournament games. ■

High School School Involvement Out-of-Season In Out-of-Season Activity Concerns

A reminder that schools cannot be involved in WIAA Bylaw, Article II, Section 2, A., 2), indicates "A conducting out-of-season competition during the school school may not assemble athletes or prospective athletes in year or during the summer. This means a school can - physical education classes, or some other manner, for pur - not conduct 3-on-3 basketball tournaments, co-educa - poses of teaching fundamentals, techniques, plays, etc., ex - tional volleyball tournaments, softball tournaments, cept during the designated school season of a sport." This etc., outside the designated school season for that par - includes the summer period, meaning that schools cannot con - ticular sport. The one exception is in the summertime duct a summer school class, or community education program, during the Board of Control approved unrestricted con - on basketball fundamentals, for their basketball players. It tact period between the end of school and July 31 (5 doesn't matter if the class is open to all students. The one ex - days for all WIAA sports). This does not prevent out - side organizations, such as recreation departments ception is in the summertime during the Board of Control ap - which are not a part of the school, service clubs, etc., proved unrestricted contact period between the end of school from renting school facilities and conducting these and July 31 (5 days in all WIAA sports). types of competitions, but the school itself cannot be This same Bylaw has another provision, indicating "A directly involved. school may not organize conditioning programs limited to stu - A further reminder that the WIAA has a rule which dents with athletic team status, or to prospective athletes, ex - states "A school may not conduct intramural programs cept during the designated school season of a sport." which involve athletes with past status on a school Off-season weight-training programs are fine, as long as they team (varsity, junior varsity, sophomore, freshman), are not sport specific. If a weight-training program is con - except during the established school season of a sport." ducted, and is available to anyone interested, and the activities A school cannot, for example, conduct intramural vol - that go on are not sport specific, then it is acceptable under leyball during the spring, with girls' volleyball players WIAA guidelines. There cannot, however, be incentives put in participating. It wouldn't make any difference how place to encourage athletes to be involved in these off-season many were on a given team, or whether it was co-ed programs. For example, it is not appropriate to indicate that volleyball, if girls' volleyball players were involved, it would be a violation. any football player attending a given number of weight-train - WIAA rules do not prevent students from partici - ing programs, will receive a T-shirt. It is also unacceptable for pating in nonschool out-of-season competitions. How - schools to provide a T-shirt to a basketball player, who at - ever, school facilities cannot be used for students to tempts so many shots during the off-season. Another exam - practice for these competitions, unless a nonschool ple, of unacceptable incentives, would be to include off-season group or organization has made arrangements through activities into the determination of who gets to start during normal procedures, to use these facilities. the season, or who gets to play, or for participation in these WIAA Bylaws state that schools, including their activities to be included in eligibility for a letter in that partic - administrators, athletic director and coaches, shall not ular sport. become involved directly or indirectly with the coach - Captains Practices: WIAA Rules of Eligibility allow stu - ing, management, direction, and/or promotion of any dents to voluntarily assemble during the school year and in kind of all-star game or similar contest involving stu - the summertime without school and/or coach involvement. dents with remaining WIAA high school eligibility in any These assemblies may sometimes be referred to as “captains sport, if such all-star games or similar contests are held practices.” ■ during the established school year. ■

WIAA B ULLETIN May 2014 Page 9 Acclimatization FAQ from page 5 ______ing contact for three hours (with no Day 9 (Thursday) One last thing - During Days 1-14, break required), and then don't have (full pads - short) the only difference between a "long" to bring the kids back in after a 3 hour 2 hours on field day and a "short" day is if you bring break for 1.5 hours with helmets only. 1 hour in classroom the kids back after the 3 hour break? Is that correct? 1 hour on field Otherwise all days are considered I'm also confused by the language Day 10 (Friday) "short" days, with 3 hours of total on- of the numbering of the days. Assum - (full pads - long) field time with a max of 2 hours in one ing that equipment issuing on August Scrimmage **Must follow acclimatization stretch, which then must have at least 4 is Day 0, and the first practice on plan with Recovery Period a 30 minute break. Tuesday, August 5 is Day 1 - the ac - Day 11 (Saturday) A: Days are days. climatization goes INTO the week of Run & stretch You have to have 8 days of practice be - practice before our first game? I guess Film of scrimmage fore a scrimmage. Day 12-15 I thought we would be onto our "reg - You have to have 14 days of practice be - (Monday through Thursday) ular season" practice schedule that fore the first game. **Missing Recovery Period On the 15th day of practice, you change week. The start of the regular season Practice for up to 2.5 hours, max. JV game to 2.5 hours without a recovery period. happens (in my mind) at Day 11 or on Thursday. All days are short and every other day Day 12 (depending if you "practice" on A: You can divide the 3 hours up as you could be long if you can come back after 3 Saturday, August 16) - the Monday of wish, but one session should not be longer hours for 1.5 hours of helmet only. our week 1 game. than 2 hours without the one-half hour re - Here is what I was thinking: covery break. You must take the recovery Q: The question I have is in regards Day 1 (Tuesday) break. It is required anytime you go over to the Acclimatization in respect to our (helmets only - short) two hours in one practice not longer than 3 Summer Team camp we take our stu - 1 hour of agility drills, conditioning, tech - hours. dent-athletes to in July. You men - tioned about us not being able to nique, form, skills. • 1.5 (half hour break) 1.5, provide transportation for them. I 1 hour break - classroom to go over installs • 1 hour (15 min break) 1 hour (half hour have a couple questions about that. of offense/defense/special teams break) 1 hour, In the past we have had our school 2 hours of periods installing offense/de - • 1 hour (half hour break) 2 hours, bus company (which is not associated fense/special teams • 2 hours (half hour break) 1 hour. The first 2 days with helmets only, the with the school-Student Transit) bus Day 2 (Wednesday) next 3 days with helmets and shoulder our kids down. Since that is not a (helmets only - long) pads. After that you get 3 hours in full pads school owned busing company and in - 1 hour of agility, conditioning, technique, and anything more (not more than 1.5 stead is essentially a chartered bus form, skills hours) is restricted to helmets only. company, is that ok or do we need to 2 hours - install and review from Day 1 Your days 2, 4, 6 and 8 would have to look elsewhere? **Missing Recovery Period have the half hour recovery break. Secondly, I have gathered that we 45 min lifting Only with practice 15 do you not have to can't provide financially, the funding 45 min film of practice session take the recovery break and are limited to for this bus. Could our Booster Club Day 3 (Thursday) 2.5 hours. Your days 12-15 would need the pay for that or could we have parents (helmets & shoulder pads - short) break. So you could go half hour, half hour donate to that cause? 1 hour of agility drills, conditioning, tech - in classroom, 2 hours full pads. We would like to continue to get our nique, form, skills. Q: Just to make sure I have this kids there together on a bus. It is a 1 hour break - classroom to go over installs straight. No matter whether a long day safer option than our kids driving and it of offense/defense/special teams or a short day, we cannot have a pe - also offers peace of mind for 2 hours of periods installing offense/de - riod on the field of more than 2 hours parents...although we want to make fense/special teams without having at least a 30 minute sure we do things the right way! Day 4 (Friday) break. A: If the unrestricted contact is school I'm still not certain on the first week (helmets & shoulder pads - long) related, transportation, funds, etc. may be of the regular season. We still must 1 hour of agility, conditioning, technique, used. have the break after 2 hours, even Unrestricted Contact form, skills though we are into the regular season Students on your school teams can as - 2 hours - install and review from Day 3 - Correct? So what we do in Week 1 of semble with coaches, school monies and **Missing Recovery Period the regular season may (likely) be dif - 45 min lifting ferent than what we do in Week 2 of resources can be used, schools can sponsor 45 min film of practice session the regular season? the events/activities. Day 5 (Saturday) I think that part will need LOTS of • Contact is limited to 5 days from the (helmets & shoulder pads - short) clarification. I don't think most last day of school until July 31. 2 hours of periods working installation and coaches are going to track the day • Days do not need to be consecutive but review of Day 4 numbers as much as figure that the 2 must be the same for all levels within a 30 minute break hours and required break ends after program. 45 minutes - traditional running of the hill the scrimmage and that all practices However, you must follow all other rules including the acclimatization passed by the at River Hill Park followed by picnic after that are under the 2.5 hour limit. schools in April. If you don't want to use lunch A: Correct until the Day 15 physical ac - the acclimatization rules, then you cannot Day 6 (Monday) tivity is limited to 3 hours plus .5 hour re - covery break. First week of regular season use school resources which would include (full pads - long) is the third week. You have the above lim - funds to pay a private bus company. Stu - 3 hour practice **Missing Recovery Period itations. After your 14 days are in, it's 2.5 dents would have to pay for all camp and Day 7 (Tuesday) hours no recovery period required. clinic costs. (full pads - short) Q: Is there anything that says what It does not matter whether the buses 2 hours on field constitutes a "day" in this numbering are owned by the district or by a private 1 hour in classroom system? I know that some coaches company. Booster clubs could not pay for 1 hour on field give their kids the weekend off after a transportation outside the five unrestricted Day 8 (Wednesday) game - and that may be the same with school contact days. Basically, in order to (full pads - long) their scrimmage, if they scrimmage on use funds to pay for camp, you must follow 3 hour practice **Missing Recovery Period Friday. the acclimatization plan. ■

Page 10 May 2014 WIAA B ULLETIN Coaches Education Information Joan Gralla If you have coaches that are not licensed to teach (CNLT) in Being unpaid the state of Wisconsin, it is a WIAA requirement that they com - Being an occasional, but regularly scheduled plete the required coaches education training before they can lecturer or demonstrator. begin to coach their second year. Having been a student teacher, but is not longer officially in The following do not have to take this required train - that capacity. ing: Being a nonvarsity coach A student teacher while student teaching. Being an assistant coach. An individual with an administrator’s or counselor’s license. CNLT’s can meet the WIAA coaches education requirement Guest lecturers (one time appearance). by taking either the American Sports Education Program (ASEP) Anyone that has coached in an educational institution for Sport First Aid and Coaching Principles courses or the National five or more years (prior to the 1994-95 school) with or without Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) Fundamen - a current teaching license. tals of Coaching and First Aid for Coaches courses. The following must take the approved courses before Both the ASEP and NFHS courses are offered online and can they can coach a second year: be accessed from the WIAA homepage. Anyone that does not fit one of the above listed categories. The cost of the NFHS Fundamentals of Coaching is $35 and Anyone that does not have a current license to teach in Wis - the First Aid for Coaches is $35. The cost of the ASEP Coaching consin. Principles is $70 and Sport First Aid is $50. The following conditions do not exempt a person from If you have any questions about the coaching course offer - the requirement: ings or about the WIAA coaches education requirements, please Holding a license that has expired. contact Joan Gralla at the WIAA office 715-344-8580 or Being a volunteer [email protected]. ■

2014 Scholar Athlete from page 6 ______NFHS Unified Sport DIVISION 3 GIRLS - Continued Coaching Course Maddy Reed, Oshkosh, Lourdes Academy Delaney Sinnen, Random Lake, Random Lake High The National Federation of High School’s is proud to introduce the School Special Olympics Sports Course for Coaches. Unified Sports is an in - Danielle Weber, Cuba City, Cuba City High School clusive sports program that unites Special Olympics athletes (individ - DIVISION 4 uals with intellectual and other disabilities) and partners (individuals BOYS without intellectual disabilities) as teammates for training and compe - Jake Fibert, Grand View, Drummond High School tition. Albert Goerlitz, Withee, Owen-Withee High School While many of the coaching challenges are similar (i.e., defining Cullen Pedersen, New Lisbon, New Lisbon High School roles in line with ability and fostering teamwork), coaching a Unified Nicholas Zander, Chippewa Falls, McDonell Central Sports team is unlike any other coaching position. Goals, motivations High School* and even the meaning of winning are different. With an introduction DIVISION 4 by Brenda and Kurt Wagner, this course will help you understand and GIRLS implement the most successful coaching strategies for this very special Bailey Karaba, Owen, Owen-Withee High School mix of teammates. Mary Sigler, Port Edwards, Assumption High School To enroll in Coaching Unified Sports, all you have to do is go to: Mackenzie Swiggum, Gays Mills, North Crawford High www.nfhslearn.com/electiveDetail.aspx?courseID=36000 School THIS IS AN ELECTIVE COURSE THAT IS FREE OF CHARGE and all Jennifer Wellnitz, South Wayne, Black Hawk High an interested coach has to do to review it is hit the “COURSE PREVIEW” School button. To login and order the course, simply hit the “PLEASE LOGIN Release prepared by Kirk Howard of Kinziegreen Marketing Group TO ORDER” button. For additional information on UNIFIED SPORT opportunities in your area, please contact: Special Olympics Wisconsin 2310 Crossroads Drive, Suite 1000 Madison, WI 53718 Phone: (608) 222-1324 Toll Free: (800) 552-1324 www.SpecialOlympicsWisconsin.org Interested parties can also go to: http://www.specialolympicswisconsin.org/community/ Special Olympics Project Unify is a youth-centered, school-fo - cused initiative that brings students with and without intellectual dis - abilities together through education, sports and youth leadership to provide them with the knowledge, attitudes and skill necessary to cre - ate and sustain school communities that promote acceptance, respect and human dignity. ■

WIAA B ULLETIN May 2014 Page 11 Director’s Report from page 2 ______contest managers. The Board also took action to initiate back - ground checks on all licensed sport officials for the first time in Association history. This past year we re-examined elements of our amateur status rule and provided opportunity for discussion of emerging sports. We made you aware of questions and assertions regard - ing the seasonal placement of some of our sports and provided updates on the Office of Civil Rights reminders that created a stir just over a year ago and spurred interest in the Special Olympics based, unified sport movement. With the contributions of new staff members, we have seen improvements in technology, our website and ticketing operations. With the steadfast help of Brian Smith and WADA, we were able to see the state’s concussion law amended, and with the help of the Football Coaches Association and the WIAA’s Sports Medical Advisory Committee, a new football pre-season acclima - tization plan will be implemented beginning this fall. Given the of school requests and disagreements we engage in, it suggests existing research and current focus on this topic, we believe this to us we need to continue to search for the “sweet-spot” in these is a model that serves the best interests of Wisconsin high school areas—and want your guidance. football, student athletes and our member schools. Given the outcome of your vote on the conference realign - At the fall Area Meetings, we made you aware of move - ment amendment, in the year ahead we want to engage you and ments in other states toward compulsory coaches education and all appropriate WIAA committees and the Board to talk about re - examined some of the reasons and catalysts for those initiatives. alignment and see if there may be helpful guidelines, parameters The sport meeting requirement amendment acted upon here or alterations to the process which might be of benefit. Football today is a defendable and reasonable step in the “coaches edu - only realignment has been a useful tool, as example. A question cation” direction. It is interesting to note that just a couple weeks for consideration is at what point should realignment be en - ago, the Minnesota State High School League has made contin - gaged? Should the displeasure of one or two schools result in 50 uing education for athletic administrators compulsory every or 60 schools being realigned? There are no preconceived posi - three years. tions on this topic. We want the opportunity to see if there’s any From this brief review, I hope you may agree, the past year better way of coming at this. has been a productive one. The executive staff is concerned by what appears to be a New Business declining number of girls in school athletic programs. We will be As we turn to New Business, it is my intention to again keep looking at our own participation reports, data from other states the topics restrained for now in anticipation that the discussions and anecdotal observations, both local and national and look to which took place here today may result in new membership dis - share this information with you this fall and determine if this is cussions and priorities, once our work here today has been fully cause for membership concern and if so, what we can do to re - absorbed and processed. verse that trend. In addition to the items generated by today’s discussions, To conclude this report on a couple positive notes, I’d like over the course of the coming year we will be seeking your guid - to invite everyone here to join us for the WIAA’s Sportsmanship ance on tournament representation. As club and professional Summit on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014, our seventh biennial sum - sport culture continues to grow and their attributes dominate so - mit. ciety, the WIAA is increasingly challenged and criticized about its Mr. Clark will be getting information out to you soon. philosophy of geographic representation, as compared to popular I’d also like to invite all of you to join us in celebrating the tournament design where emphasis is placed on best-teams. 100th Anniversary of the WIAA Boys Basketball State Champi - This conversation will be an important one, either to the planning onships—next March 19-21, 2015. For now I can share this, Ms. and charting of a new tournament model or the reaffirmation of Hauser, the Basketball Coaches Association, the City of Madison the broader membership aims and philosophy, inherent to the and the Convention & Visitors Bureau, along with our state tour - existing tournament design model. nament broadcast partners have already begun planning to make This past year we talked about emerging sports and the this event one that will properly recognize this milestone in our status of those interests within the membership. We reviewed Association membership’s history—We will have more details to the policy for adding a sport and tournament opportunity. In the share at our Area meetings—but for now, please save the date; coming year, we will begin a conversation about developing a March 19-21, 2015, at the Kohl Center in Madison. policy or position on when/how a sport or tournament should be retired or discontinued. It is guidance that could well-serve the Parting Thoughts Board and membership in the future, when decisions are made Newly elected, President Abraham Lincoln on March 4, that will undoubtedly be unpopular with some. 1861, confronting secession and a looming war, concluded his With the Board committing to an 8-player football tourna - first inaugural address: “I am loath to close. We are not enemies, ment opportunity in the season following the first year 30 or but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passions may have more 8-player teams start and finish the season, our discussion been strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mys - of that opportunity will become timely. The basics, how-when- tic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and pa - where it will be held, need to be addressed, as does its impact triot grave to every living heart and hearth all over this broad on the 11-player football playoffs and the existing seven divisions land will yet swell with the chorus of union, when again touched model. Whatever the decisions and outcomes, they will need to as surely they will be, by the angels of our better nature - - -“ be defended. On behalf of the WIAA Board of Control and Executive Staff, At our fall meetings, we intend to bring forward some we thank you for your participation here today. thoughts on the transfer rule and school loyalty—the non-school The Annual Meeting minutes can be found on the WIAA competition rule and exceptional athlete provisions. Even though website http://www.wiaawi.org/AboutWIAA/AnnualMeeting.aspx we have discussed these topics in recent years, given the volume and will also be published in the 2013-14 WIAA Yearbook. ■

Page 12 May 2014 WIAA B ULLETIN Penalties for Boarding, Checking From Behind Increase in High School Ice Hockey More stringent penalties for boarding and checking from be - Equally dangerous is the act of checking from behind, and hind in high school ice hockey have been approved for the 2014- the committee increased the first penalty level to an automatic 15 season. major. A violation of Rule 6-7-1, which states “No player shall Changes to Rule 6-4 (boarding) and Rule 6-7 (checking from push, charge, cross-check or body-check an opponent from be - behind) were recommended by the National Federation of State hind in open ice,” will now be a major penalty instead of a minor High School Associations (NFHS) Ice Hockey Rules Committee at and misconduct. its April 28-29 meeting in Indianapolis. The committee’s recom - Schuster said, “increasing the penalties for boarding and mendations were subsequently approved by the NFHS Board of checking from behind, the committee wanted to make it clear that Directors. this type of dangerous play has no place in high school ice In its ongoing attempt to minimize the risk of injury in the hockey.” “The NFHS Ice Hockey Rules Committee continues in its sport, the committee increased the penalty for boarding (Rule 6- belief that the main threat to the health of high school ice hockey 4-1) to an automatic major. Previously, it was only a major for a is violent and reckless play,” said Tom Shafranski, assistant direc - flagrant violation of the rule, which states: “No player shall check, tor of the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association and chair cross-check, elbow, charge or trip an opponent in such a manner of the NFHS Ice Hockey Rules Committee. “The safety and well- that causes the opponent to be thrown violently into the boards.” being of the participants is paramount and the primary focus of Now, if a flagrant violation of boarding (6-4-2) occurs, or if this committee.” the check causes the player to crash headfirst into the boards, ei - ther a major and misconduct penalty, or a game disqualification Among the points of emphasis formulated by the committee penalty, must be assessed. for the coming season are player safety/dangerous hits, concus - “Increasing the first level of penalty for boarding should act sion recognition and management, proper communication to elim - as a deterrent when combined with proper teaching and educa - inate unsportsmanlike conduct and taunting, and proper tion,” said Dan Schuster, NFHS staff liaison to the committee who equipment. also serves as NFHS director of coach education. “Boarding is According to the 2012-13 NFHS High School Athletics Par - one of the most dangerous plays in the sport, and a flagrant ticipation Survey, a total of 35,198 boys participated in ice hockey boarding act can carry severe consequences to participants and in 1,601 schools and 17 states. An additional 9,447 girls partici - must be accompanied with stiff penalties.” pated in the sport at 608 schools. ■

Sports Report “PLUS” Exemplary sportsmanship as submitted by licensed officials.

The following reports of good sportsmanship have been submitted to the WIAA. Appreciation goes out to those officials taking the time to give recognition ® to those schools and individuals deserving of acknowledgement.

______GIRLS SOCCER ara. They were excellent representatives of leadership, coaches of Madison Memorial showed great sportsman - Notre Dame at Kenosha Bradford – May 10, 2014 respect, determination and teamwork. Coach Arlin ship and positive attitude toward the umpires and play - Head coach Bob Rickards is the consummate edu - Grandow and Coach Duane Blagec, Crivitz High School, ers. After leading the entire game, giving up the lead two cator and coach. One of his players made a hard tackle. Niagara High School, and the cities of Crivitz and Niag - separate times and eventually losing in the bottom of the The player received a warning and Coach Rickards im - ara can be proud of their high school softball teams. 10th inning, the players remained positive. There were Reporting Official: James Kostura multiple close pitches and calls, and the demeanor of the mediately pulled his player off the field and benched her BASEBALL ______for 10 minutes. This is a big deal because she was one team remained positive. It was obvious to me that the at - titude of the coaching staff has a positive affect on their of his two strongest players. He sat her down and talked Green Lake at Lourdes Academy – May 6, 2014 players. The players always hustled and worried about to her. Coaches like this are few and far between. As a I want to recognize two teams that have repeatedly their responsibilities and not the calls the umpires made. ref and educator, it's refreshing to see a coach who val - showed excellent sportsmanship before, during and after It was a long and intense game but the character of the ues life lessons and ethics over winning. Coach Rickards baseball games. Both Green Lake and Lourdes Acad - entire Memorial team remained great. made the game better and, what's more, helped teach emy are to be commended for their spirit and positive at - Reporting Official: Nic Betts valuable life lessons to his players. Coach Rickards de - titudes in a recent game we worked. Hats off to Coach serves the highest praise possible. Tyriver and Coach Poock for great leadership and pas - Reporting Official: Matthew Tuttle sion. it is truly appreciated. Keep up the great work both Superior at Osceola – May 1, 2014 teams! Both coaches were outstanding and a joy to work a Reporting Official: Brent Thompson 2014 game with. Osceola was great, chatting with me during Appleton West at Neenah – April 25, 2014 the game. One girl apologized to me during a stoppage I want to take the time to acknowledge the fine for a warning she received. They played clean; they sportsmanship displayed by the athletes and coaches of Sportsmanship cheered for each other; and after the game each one these varsity baseball programs. Coach Piepenbrink and thanked us before they walked off the field. It didn't stop Gassner your positive relationships with your students there. We were thanked by coaches, the ball boys and were noticed. Thanks for giving Brent and I the opportu - Summit people in the concession stand as we walked by, and nity to work the game. even some fans. It was by far my best experience in my Reporting Official: Phil Punzel short time officiating. Our entire crew talked about it and Little Chute at Freedom – April 8, 2014 Wednesday, December 3 had the same impression. I think this group is an exam - I wanted to take the time to recognize the sportsman - ple of what the WIAA is striving for, and they should be ship of the athletes that are part of your varsity baseball Holiday Inn Convention Center commended as a whole. programs. The words of encouragement shared by Kody Stevens Point, WI Reporting Official: Mike Hoepner Theobald of Freedom and Matt Wagner of Little Chute to SOFTBALL ______their teammates were noticed. Kyle Biese of Freedom hustled and helped with the bats, which was appreciated. Niagara at Crivitz – May 5, 2014 I enjoyed the opportunity to witness Coach Fox’s and For registration or During both games of a softball doubleheader, I only Coach Birling’s zeal for the game of baseball. Finally, I for more information heard words of encouragement from the coaches. The would like to thank the Little Chute staff for their work in call (715) 344-8580 or visit the fans from both teams were well-mannered and encour - getting the diamond ready for a baseball game under wet WIAA website www.wiaawi.org. aging to their teams. The players were very courteous, conditions. not only to the coaches and players on their teams, but Reporting Official: Phil Punzel to their opponents as well. I heard "please" and "thank Madison Memorial at Middleton – April 8, 2014 you" throughout the games. The four players that stood I was the plate umpire for the game. There wasn't a above all the other players were Brook Ermi, Peyton single event, but rather continued sportsmanship Rural MutualInsurance Company Aderman, Maria Miller and Casey Spigarelli from Niag - throughout the 10-inning game. Both the players and

WIAA B ULLETIN May 2014 Page 13 Summer Contact from page 7 ______school monies and resources can be used, schools can sponsor the mum of 6 days during the summer (when school is not in session). events/activities. Using students as clinicians in such a manner must conclude no later • Contact is limited to 5 days from the last day of school until July than July 31. 31. Q.: Could you provide a definition of each of unrestricted • Days do not need to be consecutive but must be the same for vs. unlimited non-school contact in your "WIAA By-Laws for all levels within a program. Dummies" language? I am trying to explain to a parent the dif - • Football must follow fall acclimatization if school resources are ference between the two and the fact that our high school base - used. ball coach cannot do as he pleases during the summer. Unlimited Non-School Contact (limited to certain sports) A.: Unrestricted is five school contact days where coaches may Open to any and all interested students in your community and use school facilities, equipment, monies, and transportation. Unlim - other communities. NO school monies and resources can be used, ited is summertime nonschool contact where the coach can work schools cannot sponsor the events/activities. School facilities must be with their athletes through a nonschool organization. They may not contracted for in accordance with your school district policies. use school monies or transportation. They must rent school facilities • Contact may occur from the end of school (including the last as any other group. And may use school equipment if the school day of school) until the first day of school in the fall. board allows it (and rent equipment if policy). Summertime contact What Type of Contact Can Coaches Have With Their Athletes? must be open to any and all interested students along with being vol - All Sport Coaches untary. Your baseball coach has five days to use school resources • Unrestricted Contact (see definition above) and has the entire summer to be a coach for a club team or Legion Baseball, cross country, golf, gymnastics, soccer, softball, swimming team. In a sense, he can do anything as the American Legion coach with the exception of using school resources as stated above. But it & diving, tennis, track & field and wrestling Coaches. must be voluntary and cannot affect future team status, etc. No coach • Unrestricted Contact (see definition above) may work with their kids out of season, during the school year. • Unlimited Non-School Contact (see definition above) Q.: Can you explain why some sports are allowed “unlim - How Can Athletes Assemble on Their Own? ited” contact days and other sports are only allowed five contact Summer (Last day of school until first day of school in the fall) days? There must be a reason behind this; I just want to know • During the summer, athletes may assemble in any manner they why. wish. There are no restrictions as to the number of athletes from A.: There are two types of contact: unrestricted school and un - the same school allowed on a given team. limited nonschool. Most of the sports where coaches were allowed • During the summer, captain’s practices are allowed. summer contact were allowed to do being so called summertime ac - School Year (First day of school until last day of school) tivities of baseball, cross country, golf, softball, swimming and diving • During the school year, students may voluntarily assemble at and track and filed. Gymnastics was added in 1979 due to the limita - any time without school and/or school coach involvement. Team tions based on qualified coaches or risk minimization. Wrestling who makeup may not be restricted based on school or team status. had asked for summertime contact for three or four years, received • During the school year, captain’s practices are allowed provided unlimited summertime contact around 2005 and soccer coaches pur - the opportunity is voluntary and there is no school and/or school sued summer contact for several years until finally receiving permis - coach involvement. sion in 2012 as it is a summertime activity. Four sports remain limited Using Athletes as Clinicians to five contact days. Basketball and volleyball were denied by the During the school year, you may only use your athletes as clini - schools at the 2013 Annual Meeting. Football coaches have no inter - cians during the sport season. In the summertime, a school may con - est in summertime contact beyond five days. Hockey may have lim - duct a clinic for students in grade 8 and below, where high school itations due to the cost of ice time during the summer. varsity and junior varsity coaches may use some or all of their athletes Find more frequently asked questions on the WIAA website ■ as clinicians. Individual students may be used as clinicians a maxi - under Schools / Eligibility-Rules.

Winter Team Sportsmanship Award from page 4 ______of sportsmanship at the State Team Wrestling Tournament conduct and sportsmanship displayed by athletes, coaches, made it a clear choice as recipient of the honor. The Blue Devils cheer and support groups, mascots, bands and spectators. Ad - were victims of a powerful Ellsworth program that captured the ditional consideration is given for the effort of school adminis - Division 2 championship, falling 65-6 to the Panthers in the trators and chaperones to insure support for their teams are semifinals. Burlington, Ellsworth, Kaukauna, Riverdale, Spring positive and that the highest ideals of sportsmanship are up - Valley/Elmwood, Stoughton, Wittenberg-Birnamwood received held. Award winners receive a plaque and banner in recognition honorable mention for the award. of the honor. Schools receiving honorable mention are acknowl - River Valley receives the Sportsmanship Award in gym - edged with a certificate of recognition. nastics. It’s the first State sportsmanship honor for the Black - Rural Mutual Insurance has been a sponsor of this award hawks in any sport. The team and spectators received positive for over 40 years, and their participation is essential to promot - evaluations for their support of all participants, including other ing of sportsmanship and education-based athletics as a valued competitors. The Blackhawks finished seventh in the Division 2 corporate partner of the WIAA. team standings at the WIAA State Championships in March. The The selection process in - schools and communities receiving honorable mention include cludes contributions and eval - Arrowhead, Burlington/Badger/Catholic Central/Wilmot, Madi - uations from contest officials, son Memorial, Mount Horeb, River Falls, Viroqua/Cashton/Hills - tournament management, po - boro/ North Crawford and West Bend West. lice and security personnel, The WIAA/Rural Mutual Insurance sportsmanship award is crowd control and ushers, presented to one school and community in each of the State WIAA staff members, area ho - team tournaments. The award winners are determined by the tels and restaurants. ■

Page 14 May 2014 WIAA B ULLETIN EDITORIAL Competitive Equity Discussion Engages Membership The turnout for the 2014 Annual Meeting goes down as the most accommodate a membership option for private schools, the transition attended and with the most member schools represented in the history went as well as could be expected. As we can now identify with, the most of the association, according to membership records. difficult aspect of the transition planning was with divisional placement of A contingent of 546 delegates representing 443 of the 505 schools the private schools in the Tournament Series. Ultimately, it was deter - currently comprising the senior high membership were determined to ex - mined that all members would be placed in divisions based on their face ercise their responsibility to engage in the Association’s business. While value enrollments with the exception of single-gender schools. The gen - other items of interest were on the agenda, the one topic creating the eral consensus of the group was that all members were to be treated uni - most pre-meeting buzz was the proposed amendment to alter the land - formly. scape of competitive equity for the membership’s Tournament Series. Nearly two decades later, we are having the identical discussions on A petition to apply a 1.65 multiplier to nonpublic member schools this topic. It has proven to be an extremely complexing topic with various for tournament divisional placements served as the catalyst to form an idealogical perspectives and data that may be twisted to fit any predispo - ad-hoc committee to re-examine the competitive equity perception. The sition. Moreover, the committee is tasked to review the data and produce membership voted 352-77 to establish the committee. a recommendation that is best suited for the membership as a whole, all The fact that a resounding 82 percent voted not to support the pe - with the knowledge there will be the perception of winners and losers by tition-driven amendment as written may have had as much to do with the respective interests. Whether or not any recommendations for change general acceptance of our decision-making process as anything else. The comes forward, the committee has its work cut out for them. timing of the petition prevented any review through the customary course State associations that include both public and private schools in of discussion with Area Meetings in the fall, proceeding through the their membership have wrestled with the same concept of competitive eq - elected committees and presented to the membership for a vote at the uity long before 2000, when private schools were first provided a mem - Annual Meeting. bership option in this state. Many hours and many intelligent individuals, Despite the comments of two delegates at the Annual Meeting nationwide, have yet to discover a magic solution. There have been mul - claiming the contrary, the topic, and the opportunity to express opinions tipliers and various success factors implemented to impact tournament and concerns, have been available in a number of different forums each placements elsewhere, but have failed to produce desired results. There - year. In addition, the topic has regularly been part of executive staff and fore, to do something for the sake of just doing it–even if it isn’t the right committee discussions over the past decade. In fact, the move to five di - solution–is a bit counter intuitive. visions in basketball in 2011 was the result of competitive equity con - To address the competitive equity concern, the first consideration is cerns. to determine if there truly is a “problem,” and if so, define it. Consensus At its May meeting, the Board of Control deliberated to carefully de - on either of these initial steps may be a challenge in themselves. If one termine the parameters that will comprise a representative ad-hoc com - can assume moving beyond those discussions, what will fix the issue with mittee and study the current state of competitive equity. To alleviate any the least amount of divisiveness within the membership? And lastly, any hint of inappropriate influence, the Board concluded that no current mem - plan to improve the perceived inequities must contain an evaluation plan bers of WIAA committees or executive staff will serve on the committee, to measure and define success within a specific timeline. but act only in a resource role. It has often been expressed, and reiterated by a delegate at the An - The criteria and the appointments to the committee may be the eas - nual Meeting, that this may be less of a public/private issue than an iest steps in the process. urban/rural or socio-economic one. It was also stated by a member dele - The membership included specific timelines that would produce rec - gate that students in private schools are different from the students in ommendations to be voted on by the 2015 Annual Meeting. To have the small public schools based on various circumstances and available re - membership review and react to any recommendations by this fall’s Area sources. Meetings, the recommendations would need to be available by the begin - However, one thing is for sure. The desire to play in the State Tour - ning of September. In recognition of the challenging timeline, the com - naments and win championships is something every student-athlete mittee may request additional time if needed. We can appreciate how the shares. Whether those ambitions become reality or not usually depends volunteer committee appointees will spend their summer. on many factors, including the time and effort invested by individuals, tra - Reviewing the original competitive equity committee’s minutes from dition, and quality coaching. That’s just another concept to add to an al - 1996-2000, the insight of that committee was remarkable. With the ready complex set of dimensions the competitive equity committee can amount of language and administrative policies that needed amending to consider in their deliberations this summer. ■ ———— Keep These Dates in Mind ———— May 22, 27 & 29 ...... Softball Regionals July 15 & 18 ...... Summer Baseball Regionals May 26 ...... Memorial Day July 21 ...... Summer Baseball Sectionals May 27 ...... Track & Field Regionals July 21-22 ...... New AD Workshop Boys Tennis Subsectionals July 25 ...... State Summer Baseball May 27-28 ...... Boys Golf Regionals August 1 ...... Deadline for Paying Membership Dues May 28-29 ...... Boys Tennis Sectionals August 4 ...... Earliest Day to Issue Football Equipment May 30 ...... Track & Field Sectionals August 5 ...... Earliest Day for Football Practice June 3-4 ...... Boys Golf Sectionals August 11 ...... Earliest Day for Girls Golf Practice June 3 & 5 ...... Softball Sectionals Earliest Day for Boys Soccer Practice June 5-6-7 ...... State Boys Individual Tennis Tournament (Madison) August 12 ...... Earliest Day for Girls Swimming & Diving Practice June 5 & 7 ...... Girls Soccer Regionals Earliest Day for Girls Tennis Practice June 6-7 ...... State Track & Field Meet (La Crosse) August 14 ...... Earliest Date for First Girls Golf Meet June 9-10 ...... State Boys Golf (Madison) August 15 ...... Board of Control Meeting June 10 ...... Spring Baseball Sectionals August 16 ...... Earliest Date for First Girls Tennis Meet June 12 & 14 ...... Girls Soccer Sectionals August 18 ...... Earliest Day for Boys & Girls Cross Country Practice June 12-13-14 ...... State Softball (Madison) Earliest Day for Girls Volleyball Practice June 13-14 ...... State Boys Team Tennis (Madison) August 19 ...... Earliest Date for First Boys Soccer Meet June 16 ...... Sports Advisory Committee Meeting August 20 ...... Earliest Date for First Girls Swimming & Diving Meet June 17-18-19 ...... State Spring Baseball (Appleton) August 21 ...... Earliest Date for First Football Game June 19-20-21 ...... State Girls Soccer (Milwaukee) August 25 ...... Earliest Day for Boys Volleyball Practice June 25-26 ...... Advisory Council Meeting August 26 ...... Earliest Date for First Girls Volleyball Match June 26 ...... Board of Control Meeting Earliest Date for First Cross Country Meet

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BOARD OF CONTROL EXECUTIVE OFFICE District 1 – Brad Ayer, Clear Lake DAVE ANDERSON Executive Director ATTN: Assistant Coaches District 2 – Terry Reynolds, Pittsville Every season – fall, winter and spring – the WIAA pro - District 3 – Mike Beighley, Whitehall (President-Elect) WADE LABECKI Deputy Director vides a series of sport-specific rules meetings, completion District 4 – Corey Baumgartner, Kiel (Treasurer) of which has been a requirement for high school varsity District 5 – Brian Busler, Oregon DEBRA HAUSER Associate Director head coaches and WIAA registered officials who want to District 6 – Dean Sanders, Lake Mills (President) TOM SHAFRANSKI coach or officiate. Assistant coaches were only required District 7 – Steve Knecht, Kenosha Unified School District Assistant Director to complete the sport-specific rules exam which high Wis. Assoc. of School Boards – Bill Yingst, Sr., Durand school varsity head coaches and officials also are required MARCY THURWACHTER At-Large Representative – Pam Foegen, La Crosse Assistant Director to complete. A significant change will occur for the 2014- At-Large Representative – Keith Posley, Milw. Public Sch. 15 school year. TODD CLARK At-Large Representative – Ted Knutson, Aquinas (La Crosse) Communications Director For the first time in 2014-15, all assistant and nonva - rsity high school coaches must complete the same meet - Michael Thompson, State Department of Public Instruction Liaison ing requirement as the high school varsity head coach. Greg Harvey, Wausau East, Wisconsin Athletic Directors Association Liaison High school athletic directors will need to be aware of the John Ashley, Wisconsin Association of School Boards Liaison need to check that all their assistant and nonvarsity © 2014 By the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association. Any copying, reproducing or trans - coaches for that season have completed this require - lating of any portion of this publication is prohibited without the expressed consent of the WIAA. ment. ■