In This Issue: • 2003-04 Host Availability Card • Executive Committee Meeting • Game Suspension Guidelines • 2003 Officials Banquet Registration • MHSAA Tornado Policy • 2002-03 Scholar-Athlete Award • Junior High/Middle School Committee Winners Announced Meeting • 2003 Forsythe Award Winner Honored • Status of Classification Changes • Track and Field Tournament • Winter Tournament TV/Radio Information Coverage March 2003 Volume LXXIX BULLETIN Number 6 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page February Executive Committee Meeting ................................................................................372 Finance Committee Meeting...................................................................................................376 From the Executive Director: More Than Icons .....................................................................377 From the Executive Director: There’s No Turning Back With or Without Title IX ..............378 Clark Receives WISL Award (Photo).....................................................................................378 2002-03 Scholar-Athlete Award Recipients Named...............................................................380 Notify MHSAA if Adding/Dropping New Sport....................................................................381 24th Annual Officials Banquet Registration Form .................................................................382 Semelsberger to Receive 2003 Forsythe Award .....................................................................383 MIAAA Mid-Winter Conference Notice................................................................................384 MHSAA Finals on the Air ......................................................................................................385 Track and Field/Cross Country Committee Meeting..............................................................386 Track and Field Regional and Final Meet General Information.............................................389 Track and Field Additional Qualifying Standards ..................................................................393 High School Track & Field Order of Events ..........................................................................395 Junior High/Middle School Track & Field Order of Events...................................................396 Junior High/Middle School Committee Meeting....................................................................397 Football Committee Meeting ..................................................................................................398 Boys Basketball Tournament Officials Selection Meeting.....................................................400 Baseball/Softball Committee Meeting ....................................................................................401 Winter Rating Forms Due .......................................................................................................403 Coaches Association Presidents Meeting ...............................................................................404 Wrestling Committee Meeting................................................................................................406 Soccer Committee Meeting.....................................................................................................409 Tornado Policy for Michigan High School Athletic Events ...................................................411 Game Suspension Guidelines..................................................................................................412 Foreign Exchange News .........................................................................................................413 TWO-DAE Clinic Promotes Females in Officiating ..............................................................413 Status of Classification Changes.............................................................................................414 Register All Non-Faculty Coaches .........................................................................................415 ON THE COVER March is one of the busiest months of the year for MHSAA Finals, as champions are crowned in eight sports in the Upper and Lower Peninsulas. The action concludes with the Girls Volleyball Finals on March 13-15 in Kalamazoo, and the Boys Basketball Finals on March 20-22 in East Lansing. Photos by 20/20 Photographic Correction: In the December 2002/January 2003 Bulletin, Ivan Neubauer’s name erro- neously appeared in the 2002 Fall Sport Ejection Listing. Neubauer was in fact an official for a soccer game during which Madison Heights Lamphere coach Kevin Carmichael was eject- ed. March 2003 370 MICHIGAN HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION Published eight times per year, by the Michigan High School Athletic Association, Inc. 1661 Ramblewood, East Lansing, 48823-7392 • Telephone 517-332-5046 FAX 517-332-4071 mhsaa.com Members of Representative Council Melvin Atkins** Kathy McGee* Director of Athletics Athletic Director Grand Rapids Public Schools Flint Powers Catholic High School Appointee Appointee James Derocher* Eunice Moore** Superintendent Director of Health, Physical Education and Safety Negaunee Public Schools Detroit Public Schools Class C-D — Upper Peninsula City of Detroit Ken Dietz** William D. Newkirk* Athletic Director Superintendent Hartford High School Sanford-Meridian Public Schools Class C-D — Southwestern Michigan Class C-D — Northern Lower Peninsula Keith Eldred*, Vice President Fred Procter* Athletic Director Principal Williamston Middle School Beverly Hills Wylie E. Groves High School Junior High/Middle Schools Appointee Paul L. Ellinger**, President Thomas M. Rashid*, Secretary-Treasurer Superintendent Director of Physical Education Cheboygan Area Schools Archdiocese of Detroit Junior High/Middle Schools Private and Parochial Schools Eric Federico* Peter C. Ryan* Assistant Superintendent Athletic Director Gibraltar Schools Saginaw Heritage High School Class A-B — Southeastern Michigan Class A-B — Northern Lower Peninsula Dan Flynn** Randy Salisbury** Faculty Member/Coach Principal Escanaba High School Britton-Macon High School Class A-B — Upper Peninsula Class C-D — Southeastern Michigan Margra Grillo* Michael Shibler* Board Member Superintendent Gladwin Public Schools Rockford Public Schools Appointee Class A-B — Southwestern Michigan Scott Grimes* Don Weatherspoon (ex-officio) Principal Designee Grand Haven High School Superintendent of Public Instruction Statewide At-Large Lansing Karen Leinaar** Athletic Director *Term Expires December, 2004 Benzie Central High School **Term Expires December, 2003 Statewide At-Large Any individual who is a representative of a member school (faculty member or Board of Education mem- ber) may become a candidate for the MHSAA Representative Council. Please contact the MHSAA Executive Director for an outline of procedures. MHSAA Staff Randy Allen, Assistant Director Laurie LaClear, Bookkeeper Tony Bihn, Systems Programmer Sue Lohman, Administrative Assistant Christine Bohnet, Data Processing Coordinator Gina Mazzolini, Assistant Director William F. Bupp, Assistant Director Thomas L. Minter, Assistant to Executive Director Angela Butterwick, Administrative Assistant Leanne Moore, Administrative Assistant Jim Ganong, Network Administrator/Technician John E. Roberts, Executive Director Nate Hampton, Assistant Director Sharla Stokes, Administrative Assistant John R. Johnson, Communications Director Faye Verellen, Administrative Assistant Rob Kaminski, Publications Coordinator Nicole Wilkins, Receptionist Camala Kinder, Administrative Assistant Karen Yonkers, Assistant to Executive Director 371 March 2003 Not all the facts presented to the Executive Committee and Representative Council as part of requests to waive eligibility regulations are included in the reports of those meetings, either because of the volume of material reviewed or the confidentiality requested by schools for their students, parents or faculty. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING East Lansing, February 19, 2003 Members Present: Staff Members Present: Paul Ellinger, Cheboygan Jack Roberts (Recorder) Keith Eldred, Williamston Tom Rashid, Detroit Randy Salisbury, Britton William Newkirk, Meridian Executive Committee Authority and A determination of undue hardship is a Responsibility - The Executive Committee matter addressed to the discretion of the was reminded of its authority under Article Executive Committee within the educational VII of the MHSAA Constitution and specifi- philosophy and secondary role of voluntary cally its responsibility to consider each appli- extracurricular competitive athletics in the cation for waiver of an eligibility requirement academic environment. The Executive on its individual merits, determining if the Committee was cautioned to avoid making regulation serves the purpose for which it was exceptions that would create precedent that intended in each case or if the regulation effectively changes a rule without works an undue hardship on any student who Representative Council action or local board is the subject of a request for waiver. (These of education adoption, which would exceed underlying criteria may not be restated for Executive Committee authority. every subject of these minutes.) Students for whom waiver of a particular The Executive Committee was reminded regulation is granted must be eligible in all that it was the responsibility of each member respects under all other sections and interpre- school involved to provide sufficient factual tations of the regulations prior to