Daniel Brooks, President                                                                               Location: Dreher High School                                             Michael Steward, Secretary- Treasurer

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10:17

Danny Brooks

Meeting Called to Order

Explained the reason for changing the SCTCCCA meeting location. The SCHSL conference room was not available for this date.

Meeting was held at Dreher HS

10:19

Danny Brooks

Pledge of Allegiance

10:21

Danny Brooks

Officers introduction

Vice Presidents: 1A Rodney Adamee (Christ Church), 2A Tony Colizzi (Bishop England), 3A Eric Cummings (Riverside) and 4A Glover Smiley (Spartanburg)

10:22

Glover Smiley

Special Awards

Introduced the State’s Fastest Male Cross Country Athlete – Mark Blackmon (Fort Mills) 15:44

Mark’s coach accepted his award

10:24

Eric Cummings

Special Awards

Introduced the State’s Fastest Female Cross Country Athlete – Tameka Jackson (Seneca) 18:22

Tameka accepted the award with her parents present

10:26

Danny Brooks

Athletes and Coaches Recognition

Recommend recognizing the fastest male/female athletes and state record breakers at their schools during the half-time of a football or basketball game. Coaches will be recognized at the summer and winter SCTCCCA meetings.

Sierra Henderson (Ridgeview) was presented her trophy when her school played Byrnes in football. She received a standing ovation from both sides.

10:28

Glover Smiley

Eric Cummings

Track Coach of the Year

Announced Bryan Squibbs (South Pointe) Assistant Track Coach of the Year

1A Boys Jeremy Darby(Landrum), 1A/2A Girls Rodney Adamee (Christ Church), 2A Boys Tony Colizzi (Bishop England), 3A Girls Bill Wrightson (Hilton Head), 3A Boys Rick Zeller (Wade Hampton), 4A Girls Stephanie Young (Spartanburg) and 4A Boys Jeff Buys (Dorman)

Outstanding Pole Vault Coach

10:33

Danny Brooks

Correction COY

A correction was made in the 1A Girls 2007 Track Coach of the Year to Marshall King (Lamar)

10:35

Bob Jenkins (SP)

Summer Minutes and Budget Report

A motion was made to approve summer minutes and budget report prepared by Ginger Foley (Richland Northeast)

The minutes and budget were approved unanimously.

10:36

Danny Brooks

Advisor/Advisee

Nessie Harris (SCHSL) sent a message to coaches to get their athletes involved in the Advisory Council or Leadership Conference.

Leadership conferences will be held at Mauldin (1-16), West Florence  (2-6), Woodland (2-13) and White Knoll (2-27)  

SCHSL sponsored activities

10:38

John Jones (SV)

Coaches Hall of Fame

Zeke Goode (Emerald) was announced as the spring inductee into the SCTCCCA Coaches Hall of Fame.  

Coached 26 years in SC

Won 7 state championship

10:40

Danny Brooks

CC Asst. COY

Heather Green (Riverside) was recognized as the Assistant Cross Country Coach of the Year. 

Award will be present at the summer clinic.

10:41

Danny Brooks

Illness Recovery

K. B. Brown (Westside) was acknowledged for his recovery and presence. 

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10:42

John Jones

Olympics Athletes Recognition

A motion was made to recognize all SC track and field athletes that qualified for the Olympics. Athletes will be honored at the Coaches Classic.

Approved unanimously (84)

10:44

Mike Moore

(Irmo)

Shrine Bowl Run Report

Mike Moore reported on the success of Shrine Bowl Run. Shriner, Mark Jones did an outstanding job communicating with the media. Encouraged promoting cross country athletes to attend the Shriners Hospital celebration.  

10:46

Larry Sanders (Claflin Univ.)

NCAA Clearinghouse 

Larry Sanders outlined concerns related to athletes getting through the Clearinghouse process. Major concerns: Fee $60.00,waiver granted with receiving a waiver from ACT/SAT, remember to press “submit” with online application, and schools should update core courses

10:54

Danny Brooks

Secretary –Treasurer Change

Ginger Foley (RNE) was acknowledged for her outstanding contributions as Secretary/Treasurer of the association. She relinquished her position to Michael Steward (Lower Richland). Make sure your bookkeeper update change.

Coaches Classic entry fee should be mailed to Michael Steward

Lower Richland HS

2615 Lower Richland Blvd.

Hopkins, SC 29061

10:58

John Blackmon (NSSF)

NSSF Meets

Announced the indoor championship will be held in Boston, MA March 13-14, Nike Outdoor Nationals June 18-20 (NCA&T) and Great American XC Festival October 2-3 (Cary, NC). NSSF will continue to provide outstanding athletes travel to meets such as Taco Bell.

Emerge elite standards have been established to allow younger athlete to participate in the national meet.

11:00

Danny Brooks

Indoor Meets

Reminded schools could not compete in the Eastern HS Challenge Indoor Meet unattached or register under their high school name.

11:08

Jonathan Lagulli (CF)

Track  Officials Body

Presented the track officials idea to SC HS Football Official and received great interest. Expressed a need to have certified officials in place to certify records, for the National HS Federation will not accept records unless a certified track official is available.

Establishing a Track Officials Body was Approved unanimously at the summer meeting.

11:32

Jeff Byers (Dorman)

Communications

Encouraged coaches to add themselves to the email list by emailing him.

Email: BuysJS@spart6.org

11:35

Ed Boehmke (Eastside)

Website

Indicated that there were some problems with the old website, and SC Runners website (http://sc.milesplit.us/) will handle our needs. All sanctioned events can be accessed through SC Track World (www.sctrackworld.us/). Site is for coaches only. No Kids

Meet results should be sent to John Olson in “Flat HTML” format.

11:42

Danny Brooks

All-State Certificates

Encouraged establishing a committee to set bench marks for track and field All-State honors. All-State Certificates can be present to athletes at the State Meet. 

11:48

John Jones

All-State Honors

Made a proposal that All-State track and field honors be changed to the State champion and everyone that makes a certain standard.  A Committee will determine the standards.

 Motion Approved with one opposed vote

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11:52

Danny Brooks

All-State Honors Committee

Volunteered to head the committee. Other volunteers include: Rick Crumpler (SV), Jeff Byers(D), Michael Steward(LR), John Javis (EC), Carolyn Bostic (Beaufort), Bob Jenkins (SP) and George Moss (JL Mann)

11:56

Bob Jenkins

Association Membership  Fees

Motioned to increase association membership fees from $5.00 to $10.00. SCTCCCA works with two sports (5.00 XC & 5.00 T&F).

Motion approved with a 65-1 vote.

12:05

John Jones

Extend Track Season

Recommended changing date that you can start practice. Extend practice season by adding one week on the front end. 

Approved unanimously (84)

12:11

John Jones

Skill Practice Proposal

Proposed asking the SCHSL to change their rule to allow track and field to practice 11 people in preseason skill sessions rather than the current three. The eleven athletes come from applying the 75% rule to the 14 individual events in track and field. Danny and John encouraged coaches to sell this proposal to their principals.

Approved unanimously (84)

12:22

John Jones

Indoor Track Participation

Proposed asking the SCHSL to allow the schools in SC to participate in two indoor track meets per year as long as schools submit eligibility, and count the two indoor meets against the 16 meets allowed during the season.

Approved unanimously (84)

12:34

Joseph Dion (JL Mann) & Dan Shonka (Daniel)

XC State Qualifying Proposal

Both coaches provided proposals to change 3A Cross Country State Qualifying procedures. The SCTCCCA coaches allowed 3A coaches to discuss both proposals and come to some consensus.

Both proposals did not receive approval by 3A coaches.

12:42

Danny Brooks

Online Registration

Reminded coaches to check rosters and eliminate athletes that are not in their program with Direct Athletics. Direct Athletics charges for every athlete on your roster.  Encouraged using PTEntry.com of Atlanta, for they charge a flat rate of $35.00. 

12:58

John Jones

Summer Clinic

Proposed having high school coaches present at the summer clinic. The new Clemson coaching staff was considered at first for this summer according to Danny Brooks.                  

Proposal will be considered

1:06

Danny Brooks

Closed Meeting

Attendance: 84

IMPORTANT DATES

SCHSL Track Rules Meetings: 1/20 West Florence & 1/22 League Office

First Practice- 2/2     First Scrimmage – 2/9    Schedules Due – 3/1

First Contest – 3/9    Region Directors Meeting – 4/15

Dates on SCHSL Web

www.schsl.org