| NCWSA Winter Meeting Wrap Up |
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The NCWSA Board and Committee Chairs had their annual winter meeting last week in Orlando, FL. Here are some of the details from the meeting: *All officers were relected, Jeff Surdej as Chairman, Harley Wallace as Vice Chairman, Amanda Wilson as Secretary, and Brian Telano as Treasurer *Scot Snape was awarded Honorary National Director *We are waiving new teams the NCWSA team fees and dues for thier first season *Added 2 appointed scorers to the list of national officials *Academic team will be year round with ability to submit grades to awards chairman’s via website, to be acknowledge a gpa of 3.5 or higher for the academic period *Medical Redshirt passed-skiers can submit a medical reshirt application if they have not competed in a qualifying tournament. There are a number of forms and stipulations that you can view once the new rulebook is released in a few weeks *Slalom at all-stars will be a record event *Rankings list penalties for not having 2 scores was elimnated *Team event rankings will be used for seeding nationals. Last event still seeded based on scores *Clarification that all-stars does not count toward spring eligiblity but skiers limited to 4 all-star appearances *Changed Team trial qualifications to the following. Scores in paranthesis indicates single eventer. 3 eventers can drag their 3rd event as well. Men 1.5/11.25m (1.5/10.75m slalom only) 4000 (6,000 tricks only) 159' (179’ jump only) Women 1.5/12m (1.5/11.25m slalom only) 3,300 (5,300 tricks only) 96' (116’ jump only) *Score frame for team trials extended until the weekend before allstars. So for 2010 team trials it will be August 14th 2008 until weekend before team trials 2010 *NCWSA stickers for sale and more items coming *Mens and womens slalom speeds lowered to 25K (15.5 mph) *Texas awarded 2010 Nationals *2010 Team Trials and All-stars bids now open until April 1st *No towboat fees for manufacturers to pull 2009 all-stars and nationals *All-stars Tourney Committee *Harley Wallace , Robert Rhyne and Jeff Mitchell *Chris Eller, chief driver; Dave Clark, chief scorer; John Harris, Chief judge;Harley Wallace, safety;Chip Shand-TC *2009 Cal Poly Nationals-Tourney Committee: Amanda WIlson, Harley Wallace, Jeff Surdej |
