Colorado Judo League Meeting

January 14, 2006

 

Attendees:

 

President – Sam Hashimoto                              Boulder YMCA Judo – Bernard Busch

Vice President – Sherrie Phillips (BJTC)           Denver Judo – Heidi Moore

Treasurer – Verna Larkins                                Aurora Judo Club – Bruce Larkins

Secretary – Matt Simmons (Eastside)                Hyland Hills Judo Club – Grace Jividen

Belt Rank – Page Baptist                                  Northglenn Judo Club – Douglas Payne

Coach Commission – Richard Mignogna           School of Mines Judo Club – Michael Koop

Technical Officials – Diana Cheatum                 School of Mines Judo Club – Chase Ruff

Referees – Jentry Kendall                                 Pat Nading-Amman 

Volunteers – Tami Liddie (OTC)                     

 

With a quorum present the meeting was called to order at 11:30 AM

 

Minutes of the previous meeting were accepted on unanimous voice vote.

 

Reports:

 

Treasurer:  Verna Larkins – Operating account $15,291.20; Scholarship account $3365.  Dennis Johannigmier was hired as the CJL accountant. He will be working with Sam Hashimoto and Verna Larkins on setting up computerized access to the League accounts.  Mr Johannigmier will be tasked to print out a final report on the 2005 CJL Banquet expenses.

 

Public Relations: Jon Miller, Sherrie Phillips – No Report.  But the new “Adopt an Athlete” by USA Judo was announced and it was requested that the information be past to club members.

 

Budget and Finance: Diana Cheatum – No Report.  Diana  once again called for budget submission from the other subcommittee chairman.  It was proposed and approved that the CJL accountant makes a quarterly Budget summary report and passed to the CJL members for review at CJL meetings.

 

Development: Grace Jividen volunteered to chair the committee.  Denver Judo announced plans to hold a competitor’s clinic in the spring.  They plan for Jimmy Pedro or Jason Morris to be the guest instructor.

 

Fundraising: Sherrie Phillips –   The Rocky Mountain Games will include Judo competition this year and some of the proceeds will go to CJL.  The games will be held on August 5, 2006 at the USAFA.  The top three winners are eligible to compete in the American Games.

 

Coaching: Richard Mignogna – The Awards nomination packages were received; the committee will meet and select the 10 All‑stars, coach and referee selected at the end of the month.  The executive committee will select the volunteer.  The committee is looking into the possibility of having coach’s clinic in the spring.  Rich has to renegotiate with Great Crates on the storage and delivery of the CJL mats.  This will not cause a charge increase to CJL member clubs renting the mats, but will decrease the League’s profit margin.  Other organizations are also asking to rent the mats (Brazilian Ju-Jitsu) and the League approved outside rentals when no clubs are holding tournaments.  The award jackets for last years all-stars will be in by the next tournament. 

 

Tournament: Jodi Schwartz, Pat Nading-Amman – The tournament schedule for 2006 was reviewed and Pat will distribute it later.  Denver Judo volunteered to host the 2006 CJL State Championship.  It was tentatively scheduled for April 2, 2006.  Matt Simmons reported on his discussion with USAFA on holding a tournament on March 18, 2006.  The League agreed to set it as a CJL tournament and afterwards donate half the profits to the USAFA Judo Club.  Richard Mignogna suggested the Academy run a Team Tournament and agreed to discuss the option with Carlos Bertha.

 

Belt Rank: Page Baptist – Next Black Belt testing is scheduled for February 12, 2006, at Northglenn at 10: AM.  Lucas Mignogna was promoted to Shodan ahead of schedule.  The next test will be schedule for sometime in May.  The CJL Black Belt requirements were developed before USA Judo published their guidelines.  CJL will revamp our requirements to fall in line with the National organization.

 

Referee: Jentry Kendall , Bruce Larkins – Kenny Hashimoto was awarded National Referee status. Colorado now has seven referees at National level or higher.  A referee clinic was held on December 12 and the committee is willing to hold more.  Denver Judo volunteered their Dojo for future clinics.

 

Registration: Verna Larkins – An incomplete report was received from the national office and there is no way to determine the total number of members or clubs associated with the Colorado Judo League.  The committee should have a complete report by the next meeting.

 

Technical Officials: Diana Cheatum – There were no attendees to the last clinic that was held in conjunction with the last referee clinic.  The committee is willing to hold additional clinics when called upon.  There was a consensus agreement that it is incumbent on tournament directors to assure there volunteers are trained.

 

Volunteer:  Tammie Liddie – No report.

 

Scholarship:  Diana Cheatum – Changes to the requirements are been posted on the CJL web site.  The major change was lowering the required GPA to 2.5.  It was proposed and agreed that the CJL will change its method of distributing scholarship funds.  In the future it will give funds to the institute rather than directly to the student so not to require the student to pay taxes on the scholarship.

 

Other Business:

 

CJL Awards Banquet:  The date of the banquet was changed to March 4, 2006.  The change was made to allow more time to set up the Silent Auction for fund raising.  The committee requested volunteers to help with the banquet and for items in the Silent Auction.

 

Purchase of Special Equipment: It was decided that the purchase of quality scales for weigh-ins was not required for most tournaments. For the special tournaments it is required it is up to the tournament director to arrange for high quality scales.  The purchase of a defibrillator was tabled until the next meeting.  This will give Dr Bush time to research and make recommendations to the League.

 

CJL Sanctioning Guidelines:  Verna Larkins presented the guidelines and they were approved contingent on the change that “Roll Call” would be at the discretion of the tournament director.

 

Kan Geiko:  Was tentatively scheduled for the second week of February.  Richard Mignogna will solicit the various clubs to ast as host.

 

Guidelines for Joint Tournaments:  A sub-committee of Sam Hashimoto, Pat Nading-Amman, Jodi Schwartz and Matt Simmons was appointed to develop the guidelines for the joint hosting of tournaments between the CJL and clubs.  A working agreement will be enacted for the Pikes Peak Tournament.  The guidelines will be presented at the next meeting.

 

Officer Elections:  It was proposed and approved that the current president of the CJL (Sam Hashimoto) would appoint a sub-committee to develop an election slate.  He will appoint the committee later via e-mail.

 

Next Meeting: Tentatively scheduled for May 13, 2006.

 

Meeting adjourned 2:30PM.