Ussa Awards Manual
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USSA AWARDS MANUAL July 1, 2013 July 1, 2013 TO: USSA Sport Committee Chairs USSA Sport Directors USSA Awards Working Group FROM: Tom Kelly, Awards WG Liaison Bill Slattery, Chairman, USSA Awards Working Group Following is a complete outline of USSA’s organizational awards, designed to honor athletes, coaches, officials and volunteers for service on behalf of our ski and snowboard athletes. This manual is designed to assist you in management of awards selection within your sport, and to represent your sport in selection of organizational awards. It also includes a guideline for future awards you may wish to consider in your sport. As a sport committee chair, sport director, we would like you to be working on your nominations during the course of the season, so that you can provide detailed nominations no later than April 4. We will send out nomination information and convene a conference call on April 10 at 11:00 a.m. mountain time (call in information to be provided to the working group at a later date) so that the working group can participate in a discussion of the award nominations. Thanks for your cooperation! USSA Awards 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page USSA AWARDS WORKING GROUP..................................................................................................................................... 5 AWARDS RESPONSIBILITIES OF SPORT COMMITTEES .................................................................................................. 6 DISCRETIONARY AWARDS SELECTION PROCESS ..........................................................................................................6 USSA AWARDS TIMELINES 2013 ........................................................................................................................................ 7 USSA AWARD NOMINATION FORM .................................................................................................................................... 8 USSA DIAMOND AWARD ......................................................................................................................................................9 USSA GOLD AWARDS ........................................................................................................................................................10 BECK INTERNATIONAL AWARD .................................................................................................................................... 11 WESTHAVEN AWARD ..................................................................................................................................................... 12 USSA COACH OF THE YEAR .......................................................................................................................................... 13 USSA DEVELOPMENT COACH OF THE YEAR ............................................................................................................. 13 USSA CLUB OF THE YEAR AWARD ............................................................................................................................... 14 USSA SILVER AWARDS .....................................................................................................................................................15 PAUL BACON AWARD ..................................................................................................................................................... 16 JOHN J. CLAIR JR. AWARD ............................................................................................................................................ 17 BUD AND MARY LITTLE AWARD .................................................................................................................................... 18 BUDDY WERNER AWARD .............................................................................................................................................. 19 WEST FAMILY AWARD .................................................................................................................................................... 20 RUSSELL WILDER AWARD ............................................................................................................................................ 21 DR. J. LELAND SOSMAN AWARD .................................................................................................................................. 22 USSA ATHLETES OF THE YEAR .................................................................................................................................... 23 USSA COACHES OF THE YEAR ..................................................................................................................................... 24 USSA SPORT CLUBS OF THE YEAR ............................................................................................................................. 28 SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARDS.................................................................................................................................... 30 USSA SPORT AWARDS ......................................................................................................................................................33 AL SISE OUTSTANDING ALPINE MASTERS AWARD ................................................................................................... 34 BURCKETT-DODGE AWARD .......................................................................................................................................... 35 WHITE STAG/DAN BEAN AWARD .................................................................................................................................. 36 DICK ZUE AWARD ...........................................................................................................................................................37 SALLY DEAVER AWARD ................................................................................................................................................. 38 WILLY SCHAEFFLER AWARD ........................................................................................................................................ 39 FINLANDIA AWARD .........................................................................................................................................................40 ALASKA CUP AWARD ..................................................................................................................................................... 40 USSA JUNIOR OLYMPIC CLUB TEAM AWARDS ...........................................................................................................41 ROGER WESTON AWARD .............................................................................................................................................. 41 DAVE QUINN AWARD...................................................................................................................................................... 42 ERIK JUDEEN AWARD .................................................................................................................................................... 42 MARTHA ROCKWELL AWARD........................................................................................................................................ 43 USSA Awards 3 GALE COTTON BURTON AWARD .................................................................................................................................. 44 MIKE GALLAGHER AWARD ............................................................................................................................................ 45 TONY WISE AWARD ........................................................................................................................................................45 AL MERRILL NORDIC AWARD ........................................................................................................................................ 46 MITTELSTADT SKI JUMPING OFFICIALS AWARD ........................................................................................................ 46 PAUL NASH LAYMAN AWARD ........................................................................................................................................ 47 SONS OF NORWAY JUMPING AWARD ......................................................................................................................... 48 PAUL BIETILA AWARD ....................................................................................................................................................49 TORGER TOKLE AWARD ................................................................................................................................................ 50 DOROTHY GRAVES AWARD .......................................................................................................................................... 50 SKIING MAGAZINE DEVELOPMENT CUP ......................................................................................................................51 SKI MAGAZINE CUP AWARD .......................................................................................................................................... 51 HART CUP AWARD..........................................................................................................................................................51 ANN HANSEN AWARD ...................................................................................................................................................