Rochester Winter Track League
Minutes from the Pre-season Meeting
Penfield High School
11/10/2004
7 PM
Welcome Dave Hennessey opened the meeting by welcoming all the coaches old
and new. He requested that all coaches sign in and pickup handbooks for the
head coaches and assistant coaches.
Treasurer’ s Report - George Williams explained
the report that was given to all the coaches for last year’s expenses. He advised that all the rentals would
increase in cost not only for the use of the building but because there may be
added cost for security and other required expenses. He then advised that this
year he hopes to cut down on the coast of truck rentals because of newly acquired
bus driver’s license. He also advised that the cost of awards would lessen due
to the fact that there will be no Rochester Relays this year.
He further advised that they have not increased league
dues this year; however that will have to be looked out for next year. There
will be awards for the JV Championships and Invitational. He hopes, if the concessions go well, there
should be awards for the top three in the “Meet of Champions”
Season Passes: Parents and guest will be
able to by a season pass for all league meets for $25. This pass does not include Sectionals and
Intersectionals.
Dave’s Highlights
- All
the order of events are in the handbook for all the meets including
sectionals. The December 23rd Meet has different events, which
have been requested by a number of coaches.
- On
Friday meets, we may have to do a double starting line. Also, in some
meets the athlete will only be allowed six jumps in the High Jump and Pole
Vault.
- Rosters. Please submit your roster as soon as
possible. List the them in Alphabetical order and place a number beside
their name. Make sure your athletes know their number.
4.
If the meet states that athlete can do only
two events; then the athlete can only do two events.
- Pole Vault sheets.
Please make sure that your pole vault sheets are up to date
and accurate. It is the responsibility of the coach to ensure that the
athlete is using the proper pole.
- Boys can now wear one piece uniforms.
- Covering
jewelry. Please do have the athlete tape over their ear rings or other
jewelry. This can be consider a sportsmanship violation and subject to
penalties
- Cards. Please use only 3 x 5
cards to enter your athletes and place the running events in the box and
field to the side on the table.
Please make sure all the information needed to seed the event is on
the cards. Also, make sure that
boy’s cards are with the boys and girl’s cards are with the girls. Each
athlete needs their own card for both running and field events.
- Relays:
Please place the full names of the athletes on the cards. If they finish
in 1st place make sure the information is accurate for the newspapers.
- Please fill out the form in the back of
the handbook and request the four dates you would like your team to
host. The handbook lists the
duties of the host schools. Also, if you are using vouchers, please give
your three vouchers to Dave. If
not using vouchers, please sign up for the meets you or your coaches will
work,
11.
Reporting qualified athletes. The
handbook lists both the class automatic and provisional standard for qualifying
for sectionals. Each coach must
report qualified athletes to their class registrar no later than two weeks. The
coaches email addresses will be on our Internet site.
- Safety:
There have been some on-campus incidents at some of the sites that
could be a concern to all of us.
Your athletes should remain in the facilities at all times. At a
good number of our meets there will concessions stands. The athletes will not have to go out
side to get something to eat.
- Internet
: www.sectionv.org . then go to TRACK INDOOR – all the
information you need should be there.
- All
League: Top six athletes in the each major event will be names all-league.
The top three relays will also be named all-league.
Submitted By Ray
Manuszak