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USAT Mid-Atlantic Regional Annual Meeting
2008
DATE:
March 21/22, 2008
Present: Vigorito-MD, Laurie
Mehler-ATL, Bob Wendling -VA, Nic Jafarieh-DC,
Alan Morrison-DE, Andrew Southerling-ATL,
Melanie Fink-NJ, Mark Schneider-ATL , Todd
Wiley-RADC, Vinnie Monseau-WV, Greg Hawkins-NC
Not Present: Steve
Brown–ATL, Bill Hauser-PA, John Elliot-DU,
Agenda
created by Robert Vigorito- Regional President
Minutes
taken by Laurie Mehler-Regional secretary and
Melanie Fink
Call to order Meeting: 7 pm
Bethesda, MD
Roll Call of the States/Reps
1. Welcome: Vigorito to
BOD for the 2008 year season
2. Financials as submitted to
USAT, last week: Vigorito
3. Officers review, nominations
and voting/selections for 2008-09
4. 2007-08 in Review Reports:
5. USAT National Planning Comm.
Review: Vigorito
6. Regional Championships and the
Program; Wendling
2008 Reg Champ review of
races/selections. Regional champs due Monday
March 24, 2008 for 2009
7. RADC/Junior Program: Wiley.
13-19 ages.
8. Officials Report: Bob Wendling;
mktg idea, what’s the hook to get more
officials? if you are hurt, older in the sport,
knowledgeable, love the sport… Can Charlie
Crawford start this? Can it be subsidized by
region and reimbursed by national office?
9. Club Championships and The
Program: Southerling : club grants available for
$1000, usatriathlon.org . Program started in
2001. Capped participation to 20 to be fair for
small and large clubs.
DC tri club won again in 2007, Not necessarily the fastest club, Criteria
was effective. Could do a bonus for fastest
club.
36 clubs in region. This year club champs July
27 up in NJ. Total cash $3500. Possible
traveling cup trophy?
7 clubs from 4 states attended. Goal is to make
it a regional festival party, centrally located
in the region.
10. Collegiate Championships:
Mark Schneider presented a summary of the
current Collegiate Scholarship Program…written
document describing the program, awards and
rules. Vigorito moved to increase the money for
the top finishers from $750 to $1000 and were we
pay $250 increase to $500 and go to 1,2 3.
Motion on the floor is $1000- 1st m/f, $750 – 2nd
m/f, $500 – 3rd m/f, $500 – random. This
increases total to $5000. All accepted motion by
those present. (Currently 1st m/f-
$750, 2nd m/f-$250 and random $250 to
another finisher USAT member on official college
team.) Todd Wiley suggested contact cycling
clubs to get the word out about the college
scholarship program. Vigo says to push through
Clubs to get word out about the program and
promote it through the monthly newsletter. A
couple of other regions have scholarship
programs and is Mark willing to bring it to the
next level. Alan Morrison asked if there are
formal programs out there. Mark says the
biggest issue is the pure expense of triathlon
to the college clubs. He suggests to give the
college clubs a 50% discount to entrance fee for
races and possibly providing bike vouchers to
create a wave of interest in the collegiate
program. Vigo suggested Mark speak with Tim
Yount in regard to this. Todd suggests it is key
to have it on regional level. Mark wants to
know what the region wants to do to increase
collegiate level participation. Mark’s question
“what to we want to see accomplished during the
year?” Mark says biggest Issue for college
athletes is cost of race. Mel suggested we
select 3 to 5 races in the region that would be
willing to support collegiate teams (i.e., give
discount.) Club must be USAT registered and
have enough participants. Mark to revise
description of program and put in monthly
newsletter.
11. Website review: Wendling up
3% on homepage; up 39% total hits; page views
down 13%; most popular pages (calendar, du, tri
pages, clubs, juniors etc. see Bob’s full
report) follow up with Hauser to email the board
a link for now to the newsletter so the race
director’s can email it out to their email
bases.
12. Regional rankings review;
Wendling, see Bob’s report
13. ENEWS Program : Hauser=
tabled
14. Regional Magazine: ?? New
Vigorito. Florida region produces booklet and
sells it with sponsor ads, articles, etc mailed
out to usat regional members.
15. Regional Tri Series review
and 2008 Announcements: 2007 Top 3 Awards to be
distributed ASAP, Mel to provide names to Vigo.
Issues with 2007 distribution of
awards/certificates…..need email or addresses
from USAT or race directors. Committee has
finalized the 2008 race selections and list will
be sent to BOD for final approval.
16. Regional DU Series Review
and Selections2008: See report from John
Elliott
17. DU Committee Reports: See
report from John Elliott
18. Special Regional Events in
2008 : Bob Wendling says USAT is recommending
that we go with 2 year designations for regional
championships in all categories. Bob opens it
up for discussion and guidance and we need to
make a decision. Greg thinks locking it in for 2
years is not good for our region because of the
geographic size of our region. Vigo thinks the
key is we get a slate today for 2009. Bob says
we have to do something this month in terms of
selecting regional championships for two years
out (2009 and 2010). Bob says we will not have
the benefit of knowing when the National
Championships. Hold off on selection of special
Qualifier even though we are selecting the
regional championship ahead of time. Policy
will stay the same based upon the discussion.
We will give one year awards and consider
offering two years at a time. Vig suggested we
have a regional race director meeting to discuss
regional championships so they understand
selection process, etc.
Nic moves to designate Over the Mountain
Triahtlon (May 30/31st) as the 2009
International Distance Regional Championship
will the special qualifier to be determined at a
later time. Bob seconded the motion and all
present accepted.
19. The New Annual Meeting, Fall
2008 : Alan Morrison…looking at putting a big
multisport expo in South philly in March
timeframe and trying to find a venue that has a
pool and track to offer other things to members
to do while there. He will let us know is
30-60 days if after doing the due diligence
determine if it is viable in our region.
20. New Committees: ??
21. Old Business: Camps, Clinics
22. New Business for 2008
23: Miscellaneous: Mark Schneider raised the
issue of technology and setting up a website
(e.g., google groups) where data regarding the
region can be stored for access by the board.
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