Central - SportsEngine€¦ · for volleyball, membership thought we should be able to do 6 safely. Our required space is less than volleyball. ** Concerns about JV schedules and

Central

MWA Fall Coaches Meeting

Agenda

Date: 10/14/2020 Time: 7:00

pm Location: Zoom meeting

Brian Martel

Region Director:

Brain Martel

Meeting Comes To Order: 7:00 pm Meeting Adjourns 8:20 pm Board Members & Chairpersons Present:

AGENDA ITEM NOTES

Old Business

Treasurer’s Report (Cost of Meeting)

New Business

I. Membership

A. Standard Membership sign up link will be

available at

https://www.michigangrappler.com/mwa

B. Coaches signing up for the Fall Clinic DO

NOT need to do this also.

II. Fall Clinic

A. Fall Clinic will be a virtual clinic to

be held on November 6-7, 2020

1. Registration LINK:

https://michiganwa.coachesinsider.com/

2. Registration provides: MWA

Membership, MHSCA

Membership and NOCAD Liability

Insurance for school coaches (6-

12), over 40 hours of national level

sessions. Registrants can view all

videos through the end of January.

B. Hall of Fame banquet postponed until Fall 2021

1. 2020 Hall of Fame Inductees will be

announced by December 1 and will

be invited to the 2021 Fall banquet

I. Covered by Brian Martel

II. Covered By Brian Martel

Clarity provided on Fall Clinic fee covering your MWA membership fees

Question: What if I already paid my MWA fee but I now want to also sign up for the Fall Clinic? Reimbursement through the MWA?

Dan Coon provided extra information about Fall Clinic - Coaches Round Table, COVID sessions, and overall format.





2. Special Awards Winners

a) AD: Bill Kennedy (West Ottawa)

b) Officials: Matt Field

c) Volunteer: Jan Jackson

d) Media: James Cook (Record

Eagle-Traverse City)

e) Youth/Middle School: Charlie

Beaver

2. Head and Assistant Coach of the Year

plaques will be mailed in the first week of

November.

III. Nomination for open executive board positions

A. OFFICERS 1) Officers of the Executive Board shall

serve a 2-year term which starts at the fall

membership meeting and will end 2 years later at the

annual fall membership meeting.

B. Three (3) officers will be elected to the Executive

Board in the odd years and three (3) officers in the

even years.

C. Nominations for elected officer positions of the MWA

shall be submitted on the MWA website for two (2)

weeks, starting three (3) weeks prior to the fall

general membership meeting. Nominees must be

current members of the MWA.

D. Submit nominations to Chris Dunham - Membership

Chair

IV. MWA/MHSAA proposals

A. Late arrival skin check (Mark Holdren)

1. Submit a proposal to the state to allow late

wrestlers to go through skin checks when they

arrive at Saturday duals if it has been

pre-arranged with the official during skin

checks. If the wrestler has an educational

reason.

B. Girls State Tourney

Postponement of HOF induction covered

Special Awards covered No questions or concerns on either topic

III. Covered by Brian Martel

No immediate nominations made Email provided to members to submit any possible nominations to Brian Martel ASAP

Explanation given about “reshuffling” of the positions once the Board is official

Unanimous support for late skin check procedures

Unanimous support for Girls State Tourney to continue

Comments/Questions on Girls Wrestling: ** Looking to add Districts/Regionals? ** One Division? ** Will girls have to declare to be in the boys

V. MHSAA Season update/proposal

A. Powerpoint Explaining proposals

tournament or the girls? The question was brought up because of the possibility of knocking boys out of the individual tournament when there is already a girls state tournament being run

Powerpoint slides: Covered by Brian Martel

** The Possibility of face masks is very worrisome to members. This was also a worry to Fall sports and they are making it work - can we? ** Scheduling: is this going to be a mad scramble in late October/early November to create a schedule? ** Will smaller schools who can’t necessarily fill a varsity line-up be on the outside looking in when it comes to finding events - team or individual, because of the 4 or 6 team limit? ** Interest in meeting/planning/designing practice plans that could work for our sport ** Even though the MHSAA is going with “4 Teams” for volleyball, membership thought we should be able to do 6 safely. Our required space is less than volleyball. ** Concerns about JV schedules and whether this is going to turn into a ‘varsity only’ type of season ** What about schools with 2 gyms? Run a bigger tournament, or run JV and V at the same facility? ** Temp Checks? Testing for kids during the season? Mandatory Track Wrestling usage during matches? ** Larger league possibly putting together 6-team or 4-team schedules that include all of their teams. ** Smaller league possibly pairing up with another league to do the same thing. ** What will be our geographical limitations? Is it that big of a deal to travel somewhere, as long as it isn’t considered an ‘overnight trip’? ** Friday night JV quads, and Saturday Varsity quads? ** Split start times? ** Referee availability if everything is a quad format?

Are AD’s getting nervous and looking to “pull the plug” early on wrestling? Should we be doing more PR with AD’s in the coming weeks?

Middle School Wrestling questions asked - MHSAA directive coming Thursday

East

MWA Fall Coaches Meeting Agenda Date: 10/13/2020 Time: 6:00 pm

Location: Rogers Roost Zoom meeting

Presented by: Greg Mayer

Region Director: Greg Mayer

Meeting Comes to Order: 6:30 pm Meeting Adjourns 8:05 pm

AGENDA ITEM NOTES

Old Business


$206.85 (Pizza and Salad)

New Business

I. Membership

A. Standard Membership sign up link will be

available at


B. Coaches signing up for the Fall Clinic DO NOT need to do

this also.

I. Fall Clinic

A. Fall Clinic will be a virtual clinic to be held on November

6-7, 2020



2. Registration provides: MWA

Membership, MHSCA Membership and

NOCAD Liability Insurance for school

coaches (6-12), over 40 hours of national

level sessions. Registrants can view all




announced by December 1 and will be

invited to the 2021 Fall banquet


a. AD: Bill Kennedy (West Ottawa)

b. Officials: Matt Field

c. Volunteer: Jan Jackson

d. Media: James Cook (Record Eagle-Traverse City)

e. Youth/Middle School: Charlie Beaver

3. Head and Assistant Coach of the Year plaques will be mailed in the first week of November.

All Items Covered

Greg Mayer

Nominations to Board:

Shawn Murray (Sterling Heights) Ed

Skowneski (Dakota) Via email




III. Nomination for open executive board positions A. OFFICERS 1) Officers of the Executive Board shall

serve a 2-year term which starts at the fall membership meeting

and will end 2 years later at the annual fall membership meeting.

B. Three (3) officers will be elected to the Executive Board in the odd

years and three (3) officers in the even years.

C. Nominations for elected officer positions of the MWA shall be

submitted on the MWA website for two (2) weeks, starting three (3) weeks

prior to the fall general membership meeting. Nominees must be current

members of the MWA.

D. Submit nominations to Chris Dunham - Membership Chair



1. Submit a proposal to the state to allow late wrestlers

to go through skin checks when they arrive at

Saturday duals if it has been pre-arranged with the

official during skin checks. If the wrestler has an

educational reason.


.MHSAA Season update/proposal

. Powerpoint Explaining proposals

In favor of late arrival skin check

proposal

In favor of supporting Girls State

Tournament

Questions, Comments & Concerns Regarding Proposals:

Squashed rumors of season with no post season NOT ONE proposal suggests this!

If we are wrestling under the C: would we do away with team seeding and go to a

draw since we would not get the chance to seek out common opponents

Under C would we still be able to practice during xmas concerns about wrestling

district only: lack of competition and travel (Richmond and Algonac would travel to Detroit to wrestle charter schools with few wrestlers)

• could we have a separate JV schedule (other sports do)

• Thought wrestling in conference would still provide teams a chance to win something outside

postseason

• Could we wrestle Friday/Saturday quads to alleviate referee shortages

• Friday night Duals Saturday Quads?

• What can we offer middle school and youth programs to keep them intact?

• Temp checks limited to once per day not after every match as kids warm up their temps will

elevate?

• Guidance on practice schedules/structure requested

Who would host team and individual states? How would this be determined?

As last, LAST resort Team Champions decided by Individual Tournament team score, if season was delayed or pushed

back

Metro

MWA Fall Coaches Meeting Agenda

Date: 10/14/2020 Time: 7:00 pm Location: Zoom meeting Presented by: Regional Director Region Director: Bill Polk

Meeting Comes To Order: 7:00 pm Meeting Adjourns 8:30 pm

Board Members & Chairpersons Present: Polk, Durocher, Cheney, Hebestreit, Hanna, Donders, Meadows, Borg, Little,

Emery, Voight, Unger, Henderson, Scillian, Roberts, Keyes, Wisniewski 17 Members, 1 Official

AGENDA ITEM NOTES

Old Business

Bill Polk


New Business

I.Membership

A. Standard Membership sign up link will be available at


B. Coaches signing up for the Fall Clinic DO NOT need to do this also.

II.Fall Clinic

A. Fall Clinic will be a virtual clinic to be held on November 6-7, 2020

1. Registration LINK: https://michiganwa.coachesinsider.com/ 2. Registration provides: MWA Membership, MHSCA Membership

and NOCAD Liability Insurance for school coaches (6-12), over 40

hours of national level sessions. Registrants can view all videos

through the end of January.


1. 2020 Hall of Fame Inductees will be announced by December 1 and

will be invited to the 2021 Fall banquet



Bill Polk- Online Clinic-

Michigan Grappler. $65-

per coach

Great videos, Access

until January.

Registration Link in

email.







3. Head and Assistant Coach of the Year plaques will be mailed in the first week

of

November. III. Nomination for open executive board positions

A. OFFICERS 1) Officers of the Executive Board shall serve a 2-year term which

starts at the fall membership meeting and will end 2 years later at the annual fall

membership meeting.

B. Three (3) officers will be elected to the Executive Board in the odd years and three

(3) officers in the even years.

C. Nominations for elected officer positions of the MWA shall be submitted on the

MWA website for two (2) weeks, starting three (3) weeks prior to the fall general

membership meeting. Nominees must be current members of the MWA.




1. Submit a proposal to the state to allow late wrestlers to go through

skin checks when they arrive at Saturday duals if it has been pre-

arranged with the official during skin checks. If the wrestler has an

educational reason.




(other notes)

-If gyms are split at the building(a part) can we wrestle varsity and JV quads in the same

facility? Teams must remain separated and can't go back and forth.

Wipes discussed for wrestlers after each match.

Plaques will be mailed.

Hope for banquet in

Fall.

Special awards winners

read.

Open Positions: Elected

to board then assigned

position.

Nominations: Patrick

Durocher- Plymouth

High School (current

metro secretary)

Eric Hebestreit: Nothing

has been set for this. Bill Polk:

Prearrangement-

wrestler needs to get

checked in on arrival.

Todd Cheney: Current rule- if you’re not at skin check, you don’t wrestle. Notes: Worries about schools being able to provide transportation to tournaments.

Bill Polk: Middle school wrestling is moving forward, will have to wear masks while wrestling. HS will be required

to wear masks as of now.

Meeting dates: 10-19-20 to decide on our sport 11-4-20 decisions on rule changes and safety precautions.

Suggestions: Give each kid a face mask(For broken nose) with cloth mask inside. Mask only off on the mat. Look at USA wrestling guidelines and safety precautions from Senior Nationals.

Bill Polk: Slide Show Worries of referee shortages. Numbers down plus more competition sites. **Register all assistants as officials $50

each**

League wrestling? No answer right now. Will be designated if we wrestle league. JV Wrestle during the week?

How to feed kids on weekends? Biggest hurdle- Redoing schedules.

If there is a season, POST SEASON WILL HAPPEN Would rather eliminate Semi-state. 16-man state bracket as normal.

Spectators? How will this work? Eric H: How to register as officials MHSAA.com->Officials->Register->New Official

Mask that attaches to headgear? Todd: not sure yet Future Meetings: Send whole membership links to all 6 region meetings. Let coaches choose the meeting that works

for them. Try to get more involvement.

North


Date: 10/14/2020 Time: 7:00 pm Location: Zoom meeting Presented by: Regional Director Region Director:

Meeting Comes To Order: _________ pm Meeting Adjourns __________ pm

Board Members & Chairpersons Present: Jaime Smith, Mark Grant, Richard Cullen, Cody VanDonkelaar, Ben Bryan, Ryan Hopkins, Jeff Demory, Dan Carlson,

Del Craven, Josh Lovendusky, Michael Smith, Mike Hinkle, Corey Crew, Scott Gray, Dom Goulette, Eli Hoffert, Tony

Lopez, Andy Moore, Buddy Goldsworthy, Tim Jones

AGENDA ITEM NOTES

Old Business


New Business

I.Membership



B. Coaches signing up for the Fall Clinic DO NOT need to do

this also.

II.Fall Clinic

A. Fall Clinic will be a virtual clinic to be held on November

6-7, 2020


https://michiganwa.coachesinsider.com/ 2. Registration provides: MWA Membership,

MHSCA Membership and NOCAD

Liability Insurance for school coaches (6-

12), over 40 hours of national level

sessions. Registrants can view all videos

through the end of January.


November 4th, Hutch meeting with MHSAA

Rep Council for wrestling

Will have MWA General Membership meeting. Need to sign up prior to the conference to be

included on the Executive Board voting and the

General Meeting.




announced by December 1 and will be

invited to the 2021 Fall banquet







3. Head and Assistant Coach of the Year plaques will be

mailed in the first week of


A. OFFICERS 1) Officers of the Executive Board shall serve a

2-year term which starts at the fall membership meeting and will

end 2 years later at the annual fall membership meeting.

B. TMHSAA Season update/proposal

C. Powerpoint Explaining proposals three (3) officers will be

elected to the Executive Board in the odd years and three (3)

officers in the even years.

D. Nominations for elected officer positions of the MWA shall

be submitted on the MWA website for two (2) weeks, starting three

(3) weeks prior to the fall general membership meeting. Nominees

must be current members of the MWA.

E. Submit nominations to Chris Dunham - Membership Chair




wrestlers to go through skin checks when

they arrive at Saturday duals if it has been

pre-arranged with the official during skin

checks. If the wrestler has an educational

reason.


V.MHSAA Season update/proposal

. Powerpoint Explaining proposals

Tim Jones was nominated for an officer position

for the Executive Board. He is universally

respected across the state and continually does

more with less while promoting the sport in a

respectful way while exuding class on a daily

basis. Tim Jones Accepts

This was universally well regarded in the spring. We are extremely supportive of this division being present in the future.

Proposal B which seems to be where we are going at this point. Wrestle on Saturdays, with 6 or 4 teams.

Questions about flexibility on Friday instead of Saturday. Schedule was really hard to read, coaches asked for it to be sent to them to digest.

Proposal C Geographic Limits/Individual District Pairing only until end level state tournament. Obvious North Concerns.

Limit on Saturday will still have limits for 5 matches?. MASKS: Questions about using NUWAY meets that are running now with masks off only during a match, but they

are back on before hand shakes. Masking is a rule until it isn’t. Talked about the nose facemasks but each kid would need one, so it would be EXTREMELY expensive (those run

about $50) is Addix working on anything?

Someone reached out to Tony Greathouse RE contract tracing from GFC in South Carolina.

Suggestion: Using Trackwrestling - requiring it either to be used at meets or being updated within 24 hours. Suggestion: NO Parents so Teams can spread out in the stands. . There has been no information regarding out of state meets. - Western UP wrestles in Wisconsin a bit. Will there be

restrictions?

If you aren’t in the school district, make sure to get with the coaches in your district and ask as many questions as

possible about their protocols and be as strict & diligent as possible.

If you have 6 teams, it can be either dual or individual. Round Robin could definitely be doable. We really might

be stuck with only 4, but with a ref shortage, it might be a huge problem.

Some schools are having problems with MS and Youth because they are technically outside organizations and

schools are banning anyone from outside using facilities.

Tri-Cities


Date: 10/14/2020 Time: 7:00 pm Location: Zoom meeting Presented by: Regional Director Region Director: Matt Bishop

Meeting Comes To Order: 7:00 pm Meeting Adjourns 8:10 pm

Board Members & Chairpersons Present: Matt Bishop 29 Members & Chip Hills AD.

AGENDA ITEM NOTES

Old Business


New Business I.Membership



B. Coaches signing up for the Fall Clinic DO NOT need to do this also.

II.Fall Clinic

A. Fall Clinic will be a virtual clinic to be held on November 6-7, 2020

1. Registration LINK: https://michiganwa.coachesinsider.com

2. Registration provides: MWA Membership, MHSCA

Membership and NOCAD Liability Insurance for school

coaches (6-12), over 40 hours of national level sessions.

Registrants can view all videos through the end of January.


1. 2020 Hall of Fame Inductees will be announced by December 1

and will be invited to the 2021 Fall banquet







Discussed registration -

Coaches are familiar, did not

spend much time on this.

Discussed the access of the

videos through January. Provided registration links

for MWA registration and

clinic registration via email



3. Head and Assistant Coach of the Year plaques will be mailed in the first

week of


A. OFFICERS 1) Officers of the Executive Board shall serve a 2-year term which

starts at the fall membership meeting and will end 2 years later at the annual fall

membership meeting.

B. Three (3) officers will be elected to the Executive Board in the odd years and

three (3) officers in the even years.

C. Nominations for elected officer positions of the MWA shall be submitted on the

MWA website for two (2) weeks, starting three (3) weeks prior to the fall general

membership meeting. Nominees must be current members of the MWA.




1. Submit a proposal to the state to allow late wrestlers to go

through skin checks when they arrive at Saturday duals if it has

been pre-arranged with the official during skin checks. If the

wrestler has an educational reason.




Notes the changes to the

HOF banquet...

Read off the special award

winners, noted two were

from the Tri-City Region

nominations

Reviewed the constitution

and how this works for

nominating and

voting. Dunham to provide

a “Survey Monkey” for

election

Nominations: Justin Brandel

- Swan Valley Head Coach

1.

Discussed this proposal… no concerns, everyone feels like this is a no brainer.

Noted we’re waiting on more details to come regarding girls wrestling.

Went through PP. Focused on the three proposals to MHSAA Noted 4 main takeaways;

1. We will have a wrestling season that plans to start on time

2. MHSAA seems to be leaning towards proposal B.

3. Most likely masks will be required during matches and training

4. Be prepared to adjust practice plans in order to limit the number of kids in the wrestling room at a time.

Noted Rep Council Dates/Decision timeline of; 10-19-20 to propose 11-4-20 vote

CONCERNS:

1. Scheduling - How will this work? Will ADs be involved? Will this be up to coaches? Will it all go through

the “Games Wanted “ portal - This could be the biggest concern. We talked about it quite alot.

2. Masks - Will the MHSAA be providing a set of guidelines on what is accepted as a mask and what is

not? Our memberships feel very strongly that if this is mandated by the MHSAA then they need to be very

clear about what is acceptable and what is not.

3. MS wrestling - When will the MHSAA provide info about that? Is it going to happen, are they establishing

rules right now? When do they plan to notify schools on what is going to happen? Bishop noted there is a

plan to communicate that tomorrow 10/15/2020

4. Concerns about postseason for teams that get knocked out. Can teams then wrestle each other if they are no

longer in the postseason tournament.

5. Membership did like the idea of having a separate sub-varsity season, however, with scheduling questions

came up about what that would look like, considering the shortage of officials.

6. It was asked, why wasn’t the membership allowed to vote on what proposal they like best? Why did the

executive board submit plans without the input from the membership. Bishop explained that a request was

sent to the membership looking for suggestions.

West


Date: 10/14/2020 Time: 7:00 pm Location: Zoom meeting Presented by: Regional Director/Brad Anderson Region Director:

Meeting Comes To Order: _____7:02____ pm Meeting Adjourns _____8:23_____ pm

Board Members & Chairpersons Present: 63 Members joined

AGENDA ITEM NOTES

Old Business


New Business

I.Membership



B. Coaches signing up for the Fall Clinic DO NOT need to do this

also.

II.Fall Clinic

A. Fall Clinic will be a virtual clinic to be held on November 6-7,

2020


https://michiganwa.coachesinsider.com/ 2. Registration provides: MWA Membership,

MHSCA Membership and NOCAD Liability

Insurance for school coaches (6-12), over 40 hours

of national level sessions. Registrants can view all



1. 2020 Hall of Fame Inductees will be announced by

December 1 and will be invited to the 2021 Fall

banquet



I.Covered by Brad Anderson

II. Covered By Brad Anderson







3. Head and Assistant Coach of the Year plaques will be mailed in

the first week of


A. OFFICERS 1) Officers of the Executive Board shall serve a 2-year

term which starts at the fall membership meeting and will end 2 years later

at the annual fall membership meeting.

B. Three (3) officers will be elected to the Executive Board in the odd

years and three (3) officers in the even years.

C. Nominations for elected officer positions of the MWA shall be

submitted on the MWA website for two (2) weeks, starting three (3) weeks

prior to the fall general membership meeting. Nominees must be current

members of the MWA.





wrestlers to go through skin checks when they

arrive at Saturday duals if it has been pre-arranged

with the official during skin checks. If the wrestler

has an educational reason.




III. Covered- West Region

nominations-

Chris Dunham Email Brad Anderson

nominations

IV. Covered by Brad Anderson

V. Covered by Brad Anderson

Brad Anderson, Middle school

wrestling will happen per

MHAA this year.

Likelihood wearing masks are

very high.

Proposals are all moldable and

moveable.

BJ Schroder, spoke on facemask

and proposals

Some worried about Saturday

only. No one knows what it will

look like until MHSAA decides.

Brad Anderson mentioned

Practice plans ideas.

Brian Richardson asked/spoke

about scheduling.

Practice scheduling and

procedures were discussed in the

group.

HOT TOPICS/Areas of Concern

Wearing Masks during wrestling

Last minute scheduling to be an

issue

AJ Cook created a forum website

for MWA regions to

coordinate/share ideas

https://miwrestling.boards.net/

SafeMate masks

https://miwrestling.boards.net/

Documents

Central - SportsEngine€¦ · for volleyball, membership thought we should be able to do 6 safely. Our required space is less than volleyball. ** Concerns about JV schedules and