NJSIAA 2015 Cross Country Committee Meeting Minutes

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2015 Cross Country Committee Meeting Minutes and Results

11/24/2015

NJSIAA Office @ Robbinsville, NJ

1)       Continue the use of bibs with chips attached for Group and Meet of Champions.

 Cost and time effective.

2)       The # of 8 per team will remain for next year.  The # of changes were minimal.

 For roster changes, the same format used this year will once again be employed for next year.

3)       The due date for BOTH Public and Non-Public will be the SAME-10/19/2016.

4)        Amend the Rules& Regulations for the Non-Public entry procedure.

5)        Non Publics will have until mid-night of the Thursday before the group meet to make

  Roster changes.

6)        Starting September 2016, the Non-Publics will be grouped strictly by population.

  There will be no shifting of groups.

7)        Next year sites were approved---same as this year.

8)        Awards stand, with permission of the parks, will be moved to the concrete patio by the visitors       

  Center.  A three foot elevated stage will be secured.

 

The committee also discussed the need for evacuation plans for each site for the sections, group and MOC.  Each site director, park supervisors and tournament directors will meet to develop said plans. Once completed, the plans will be included in the meet packet information.

Dates for the Sections, Groups and MOC are:

Sections  11/5       Group   11/12       MOC   11/19 

The order of running for the Sections on 11/5/16 will be:

10:00 am    B- 4                                   11:40 am             B- 3

10:25 am    B- 1                                  12:05 pm             B-2

10:50 am    G- 4                                  12:30 pm             G-3

11:15 am    G -1                                  12:55 pm              G-2

The order of running for the Groups on 11/12/16 will be:

10:00 am              B-A                         Noon            B-4                  2:00 pm               B-3

10:30 am              B-B                         12:30 pm    B-1                   2:30 pm               B-2

11:00 am              G-A                        1:00 pm      G-4                   3:00 pm               G-3

11:30 am              G-B                        1:30 pm      G-1                     3:30pm               G-2

MOC:      Boys @ 11:00am,  Girls @ 11:40am

 

Adjustments for Advancing from Sections to groups.

Individuals:

The top ten individuals whose team did not qualify will advance to the Group Meet

The number of team's qualifying will remain the same. This is a one year pilot.

Teams:

We will add one more overall wildcard team from the group meet to the MOC.

So that number of total wildcard teams is 3!  This is also a one year pilot.

 

Those in attendance today!

John Hein (CJ Meet Director)       Ed Colona( SJ/Group/MOC Director)      Bob Byrnes (NJ II Meet Director)

Lou Fraulo (NJ I/Timing System)  Carl Rickershauser (NJ Referee)                Stan Fryczyinski (exc Member) 

Chris Lynch (Kingsway)                  David LaGamba (Millville AD)                     Pam Wilson (Hackettstown)

Tim Grant (Pingry)                           Jack Martin (at retired coach)                    Len Pietrewicz ( MCTCA)

 Pat Montferrat (Media)                               Robert Kellert (Media)                                 Bill Bruno (Assist Director)