Colorado Judo League Meeting

May 6, 2006

 

Attendees:

 

Sam Hashimoto – President

Heidi Moore – Denver Judo

Sherrie Wilson – Vice President

Chris Goodwin – Boulder YMCA Judo

Verna Larkins – Treasurer

Steve Anderson – Boulder YMCA Judo

Matt Simmons – Secretary

Grace Jividen  – Hyland Hills Judo Club

Diana Cheatum – Delegate at Large

Page Baptist  – Northglenn Judo Club

Richard Mignogna  – School of Mines Judo Club

Pat Nading-Amman  – Northglenn Judo Club

Bruce Larkins – Aurora Judo Club

Douglas Payne – Northglenn Judo Club

Tammie Liddie – Delegate at Large/OTC Junior Judo

Paul Truong – Ju Shin Kan Judo

 

 

With a quorum present the meeting was called to order at 10:30 AM

 

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

 

Reports:

 

Treasurer:  Verna Larkins – Operating account $15,781.22; Scholarship account $3365.08 Still to be posted is the $250 scholarship awarded to Lucas Mignogna.

 

Public Relations: Sherrie Wilson – No Report. 

 

Budget and Finance: Diana Cheatum – An incomplete report was given because not all expenses or income has been reported.  Bottom line is that CJL will show a loss of $5964.  To aid in financial planning, the budgeting process will begin in November 2006 for the 2007 year.  Sherrie Wilson suggested that an increase in club dues may be needed to cover the cost short fall for next year.  It was decided not to enact the proposal until a complete Finance report could be made.

 

Development: Grace Jividen – No official report was given but there are plans to have several clinics in the summer and fall.

 

Fundraising: Sherrie Phillips –   The Awards Banquet and clinics cover most of the fundraising.  The biggest hole in fund raising was the lack of a State Championship Tournament.

 

Coaching: Richard Mignogna – There will be coaching clinic offered in either the summer or the fall.  Rich will send out an e-mail to find out if anyone requires certification the national tournaments this summer.

 

Tournament: Pat Nading-Amman – The Denver Buddhist Temple has set their tournament for October 7, 2006, and Denver Judo would host a Novice Tournament on August 27, 2006.  An update schedule of events will be posted later.  It was proposed to have the Colorado State Championships scheduled early and set a tentative date for other tournaments and events to plan around.  The State Championships were tentatively set for the last half of March 2007.

 

Belt Rank: Page Baptist – Thirteen of the sixteen submitted promotions were approved.  The three not yet approved were for ranks above Sandan and are awaiting the official approval from the National committee.  (Unofficially all have been approved and official notice will be coming.)  The next promotion board is scheduled for Saturday August 12, 2006 at the Boulder Judo Training Center.

 

Referee: Bruce Larkins – Edson Mallo was certified as a Level B referee and Bruce Larkins was certified as a Level A during the Junior PanAms.  The new “Dynamic Boundary” rule is still on a trial basis but it will become the standard within the next year.  The CJL has been using the European Judo Union’s interpretation, however this is  far too liberal and National Tournaments will be using the stricter PanAm Judo Union’s method.  Coaches need to remind their athletes that stepping out of bounds (unless attacking or countering an attack) is still a shido penalty.  Throws are valid at the boundary area as long as one of the participants is touching the contest area.  It needs to be emphasized that four meters between contest areas needs to be applied for safety, especially for senior competitors.  To increase the CJL referee pool and develop future referees, it was requested that coaches push for senior competitors to help referee the juniors.  Certification for regional referees will require a written test on the rules, but probational referees at local tournaments do not require full certification.

 

Registration: Verna Larkins – The CJL has 414 members according to the National office.

 

Technical Officials: Diana Cheatum – Recommended that the Technical Officials Kit (score boards, stop watches etc.) be set up and rented out to the tournaments for nominal fee to cover maintenance and repair of the items.  It was suggested that she developed a syllabus or training check list that tournament directors can use to train their table workers.  Diana stated she was willing to come to individual clubs up to a week before any tournament and give a clinic.  Heidi Moore said she has a power point presentation on running brackets that she will make available for the league to help train table workers.

 

Volunteer:  Tammie Liddie – No report.  She did ask the club representatives to pass her thanks for the support the CJL gave to the Junior PanAms and Junior US Cup.

 

Scholarship:  Diana Cheatum – A report on the process and application procedures was presented.  She pointed out that applications were to be mailed to Verna Larkins and not to Diana Cheatum.  There were no new funds added to the scholarship fund.  This is brcause the only source of funding is $1 from each entry of the State Championships going to the fund, and with no state championships there were no funds.  Diana reported that she was stepping down from the committee chairmanship.  Having chaired the committee for the last three years she felt it was time for others to take the lead.  Verna Larkins accepted the chairmanship of the Scholarship Committee.

 

Other Business:

 

Election of the Executive Committee:  Before the elections the slate had to be modified and Verna Larkins had to removed form consideration for Treasurer since the CJL bylaws allows for only two consecutive terms and Verna has completed two terms.  The results are as follows:

President:                              Sam Hashimoto 13 votes, Grace Jividen 11 votes

Vice President:      Pat Nading-Amman – unopposed

Treasurer:                              Tammie Liddie – unopposed

Secretary:                              Matt Simmons – unopposed

Delegates at large:                Verna Larkins 20 votes, Grace Jividen 19 votes, Jentry Kendall 17 votes, Paul Truong 16 votes

 

Process of Selecting Delegates to the National Meeting: Sherrie Wilson presented the proposal that the delegates to the national meeting be selected on a rotational basis.  There is a concern about sending delegates unfamiliar with the national meeting to vote on very politically charged issues.  Additionally, the changes in the national governing body and the by-laws make the position and power of the delegates uncertain.  The discussion was tabled until executive committee had a chance to review the national by-laws, but it was agreed that the pool of selecting delegates would be expanded.

 

Purchase of Special Equipment: Pat Nading-Amman gave Dr Bush’s report on purchasing a defibrillator.  He recommended the league purchase one and the model he suggested cost about $3000.  The league rejected the recommendation since many of the tournament venues will be installing defibrillators of their own this would be redundant.

 

Guidelines for Joint Tournaments:  Pat Nading-Amman presented the draft that she and Matt Simmons developed. After some discussion it was decided to table this guideline until league representatives had a chance to review it and submit comments.

 

Lessons Learned from Joint Tournaments: Matt Simmons shared some of the lessons he learned from running a Joint tournament.  He pointed out that the biggest concern is the intimidation factor of running a tournament for the first time.  He suggested a “mentor”, who has directed a tournament before, should be available to advise a new tournament director.  He also suggested that a listing or database of Technical Officials, Referees and Medical support would be good to have.  This would cut down much of the stress by having these key volunteers committed before the day of the tournament.

 

New Business:

 

Review of League By-laws:  Sherrie Wilson proposed that the CJL by-laws be reviewed and come in line with the national by-laws.  It was agreed the executive committee would undertake this action.

 

Native American Games: Club representatives were reminded that this was scheduled for July 5, 2006 and Judo has been added.  The representatives need to endorse it to their students that meet the Native American requirements.

 

Rocky Mountain State Games: The games are scheduled for August 5, 2006 and Judo will be held at the USAF Academy.  Registration forms can be found on the Rocky Mountain Games web site.  Since the USAFA is a government installation tournament volunteers will have to fill out paperwork to have access to the Academy.  This paperwork will be available at the OTC and Boulder tournaments.

 

Funding of Elite Athletes:  It was agreed that all three Colorado athletes selected for the 2006 PanAm games would receive $200 to defer their expenses.

 

 

Next Meeting: Tentatively scheduled for August 20, 2006.

 

Meeting adjourned 1:00PM.