Madison Area Lacrosse Association
Board Meeting Minutes
October 6, 2010
Girls Breakout Session:
Meeting called to order at 6:40pm by Barb Hoeft (MALA VP/Waunakee) Chair.
Present: Mark Blume (MALA Secretary/Waunakee), Brad Jackson (MALA
President/Stoughton), Matt Druzba (MALA VP/Middleton), Heather Finnegan
(Deforest), Jody Spencer (Verona), Dave Wollin (WLF).
Deforest – Heather Finnegan stated Deforest is trying to get a high school girls program
started in time for the 2011 season.
As a follow up, Jody Spencer indicated she may offer a girls program in Sun
Prairie/Deforest this Winter. She is working with Amy Jones of Sun Prairie on this.
Barb Hoeft distributed a proposed high school game schedule for 2011. The schedule
will be voted on at the next meeting.
Barb Hoeft distributed the 2011 rules changes. Refer to the US Lacrosse website for
more information.
Open Discussion:
Jody Spencer stated coach certification enforcement should be consistent. Either
enforce it all the time or not at all. Dave Wollin stated this occurs because there is no
good enforcement method. Dave indicated this will be referred to the WLF rules and
regulations committee for consideration.
Jody Spencer indicated consideration should be given paying game officials based on
their rating (higher rating, hiring pay).
Matt Druzba mentioned the youth program is still coming together. Looks like a grades
3-5 and 6-8 split. The Milwaukee area is also trying to get a youth program going. Matt
will meet with Ken Stark on this. Matt mention a former Duke player now in the area is
willing to help out occasionally.
Middleton is looking for an assistant coach.
Meeting adjourned at 7:00pm
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MALA Board Meeting: Meeting Called to order by President Jackson at 7:12PM who
announced Spotted Cows for everyone if the group was able to come to a decision on
the high school boys divisional proposal.
Board Members Present:
Brad Jackson (Pres/Stoughton)
Mark Meyer (VP-HS Boys/Verona)
Mark Blume (Secretary/Waunakee)
John Haney (Past President)
Matt Druzba (VP Youth Girls/Middleton)
Barb Hoeft (VP HS Girls/Waunakee)
Matt Druzba (VP Youth Girls/Middleton)
Board Members Absent:
Margery Tibbetts (Treasurer)
Glenn Teschendorf (Officials Coordinator)
Chris O’Hearn (VP Youth Boys/Sun Prairie)
Also present: Bill Sotis (Regents), Trey Bomier (Waunakee), Randy Dorn (Waunakee
Boys), RJ Binau (Waunakee), Megan Wiserly (Stoughton), Rayanne Pedretti (Verona),
Dave Wollin (Referees/WLF), Lisa Whinnery (Middleton), Heather Finnegan
(Deforest), Bennett West ( Sauk), Steve Hunter (Memorial), Mike Sampson
(Stoughton).
1
Approval of September 1, 2010 meeting minutes:
Mark Blume had previously emailed the minutes to all board members and they were
also posted on the MALA website. Brad Jackson asked for comments. Hearing none,
Motion by Barb Hoeft, second by Mark Meyer to approve the minutes. Motion passed
unanimously.
2
Treasurer’s Report:
President Jackson announced Margery Tibbetts’ resignation as Treasurer. Mark Blume
made a motion, seconded by Matt Druzba, to appoint John Haney as interim treasurer
until the Spring election. Brad Jackson asked for comments. Hearing none, Motion
passed unanimously.
3
Girls Report
Barb Hoeft mentioned a possible new team in Janesville. Youth organization is still
being worked on. Proposed schedule was distributed and will be voted on next month.
4
Officials
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4.1
Dave Wollin reported some new officials are coming on board this season. There
should be no problems with official numbers this season.
4.2
Some possible nationally sponsored programs to improve mens/boys officials.
4.3
The Lacrosse, WI area should be ok for officials but some Madison area officials
may need to travel there for games.
5
Boys High School Conferences & Schedule
5.1
Mark Meyer began the discussion by presenting the MALA Boys Conference
Realignment Proposal for 2011 (copy attached).
5.2
Group decided to continue “Red” and “White” conferences. Conferences were
determined primarily on a competitive basis. The intent is the conference
alignment would be reviewed annually. Teams are free to petition to move
conferences.
5.3
WLF did pass the divisional structure for the state tournament, so there is no need
for a “City”/”MALA” champion. Each conference will have its own champion.
5.4
MALA schedules conference games. Coaches in opposite conferences can and are
encouraged to schedule games against each other.
5.4.1
Dave Wollin noted any changes MUST get posted to the MALA website.
5.5
Conference assignments will be review each year with the criteria established in
the proposal.
5.6
The WLF State Tournament Committee (which needs volunteers, hint, hint) will
determine tournament seeding.
5.7
Mark then discussed the proposed 2011 schedule. Coaches can agree to move
games. Also included is a ‘potential’ Saturday schedule for games against the
Lacrosse Lighting team. These are simply suggestions to cut down on travel.
5.7.1
John Haney discussed the JV game schedule will get complicated depending on
how many teams there are. Perhaps a separate JV schedule will need to be done.
John is confident he can come up with a workable schedule. At this time is looks
like all Red Conference teams have JV teams, Waunakee will have two and
Middleton may also have two. In the White Division, Deforest is not sure but is
optimistic, Memorial probably not but maybe, Sauk not sure, Stoughton yes.
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5.7.2
“The sooner the JV schedule is finalized the better” requested Waunakee who
has to get busing arrangement set up and budgeted.
5.8
Mark Meyer stated co-op team rules are being addressed at the WLF level. Dave
Wollin mentioned some of the ideas being proposed.
5.9
A motion was made by Mark Meyer, seconded by Matt Druzba to approve the
proposal as written.
5.9.1
Discussion:
5.9.1.1 Can MALA step in and move a team from one conference to the other? – YES.
Dave Wollin suggested establishing a “competition committee” to review
conference designations of each team annually.
5.9.1.2 Suggestions by Mike Sampson that referee travel costs (for example to
Lacrosse) be paid by MALA and not the individual teams. The group felt this
was an excellent idea.
5.9.1.3 RJ Binau suggested MALA look at financial incentives to support all MALA
teams to promote playing the Lacrosse Lighting. For example, cover the $300$350 cost of a school bus from Madison to Lacrosse and back. Someone
suggested MALA ask WLF for funds to do this.
5.10 The question was called. Motion passed unanimously. (at this point President
Jackson did in fact serve the Spotted Cows!)
6
Contact Information
Dave Wollin mentioned current team rep and coach information needs to be updated for
each team. Some teams do not get reps assigned for a few more months. Brad Jackson
will think about how to update this info and make a suggestion next month.
7
Youth Update
7.1
Discussion that youth teams played too many games last year. Some teams played
18-20 games. That is too many. Too many Sunday games (Mothers Day games).
This was somewhat cause by last minute team additions that required extra games
to be scheduled. Some clubs do not mind their teams playing each other
(Waunakee White v. Waunakee Purple for example) but other clubs are against
this. Brad Jackson will follow up with Chris O’Hearn on this.
7.2
Dave Wollin suggested a March 15 deadline for clubs to finalize how many youth
teams they will have so that a schedule can be done. So Members are asked to get
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organized EARLY and determine how many youth teams they will have at each
level.
8
True Lacrosse Event – No one had any news on this
9
New Business –
9.1
Barb Hoeft suggested MALA look into requiring medical personnel be in
attendance at games. A nurse, EMT, trainer, something, even if it is a parent. It
might be easiest for the home team to contact the local EMT and ask them to
attend the game.
9.1.1
Barb would like more discussion on this, especially with so much focus on being
put on concussions. US Lacrosse may be looking into this also. There was a side
discussion about mouth guards at this point.
9.1.2
Perhaps screeners can come on and do brain scans before the season starts so
there is a comparison in case of a head injury?
9.2
Per John Haney, Kristen of Lacrosse Lightning would like White Division teams
to contact her to get game schedules, fields, times,ect set up since she has to work
with multiple high schools in the Lacrosse area.
10 Announcements – No other announcements
11 Next Meeting – October 3, 2010.
There being no addition business, motion by Hoeft, second by Blume to adjourn.
Motion passed unanimously. Meeting Adjourned at 8:35pm.
Respectfully submitted: Mark Blume, Secretary
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MALA Boys Conference Realignment Proposal 2011
MALA RED
Janesville
Middleton
Regents
Sun Prairie
Wauankee
Verona
•
MALA WHITE
DeForest
La Crosse
La Follette
Memorial
Sauk Prairie
Stoughton
The proposed conference structure would be revisited every year and teams
are able to petition MALA for movement (red or white)
• Long term MALA could consider migrating to two conferences one made up of primarly D1 programs
and the other D2. The two conferences proposed above are the first step in that direction.
• Each conference would play for their own conference champion (by record or by a game, TBD)
• Each team would play ten conference games. Five home and five away within their conference.
•
Teams are free (and encouraged) to play teams from the other MALA
conference as non-conference games. Scheduled between coaches.
• As in past years, teams are free to move the MALA scheduled games to different dates or locations as
they see fit. MALA will also schedule all games for Tuesday and Friday nights, however, teams may
move the games to Monday or Thursday nights if agreed u
• One important caveat to the schedule listed below, La Crosse lacrosse games are scheduled during
the week for scheduling consistency. MALA knows that these will be nearly impossible to make,
therefore we have offered suggestions for Saturday games. Team
• When restructuring the above realigned conferences, the following criteria were considered.
• Total enrollment
• Ability to field a JV team
• Youth infrastructure
• Division Classification
• Competitve balance
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MALA 2011 Boy's High School Schedule (Proposed)
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
March
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
March
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
March
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
March
27
29
30
31
1
2
Spring Break Week - Stoughton, Sauk Prairie, DeForest
4
5
6
7
8
Earliest Practice
April
3
April
17
April
24
Easter Sunday
May
May
May
May
22
Bullrush
29
Memorial Day
June
5
La Crosse at Stoughton
12
18
Spring Break Week - Madison, La Crosse
25
MALA Scheduling Game 2
Sun Prairie
Middleton
Verona
Memorial
La Crosse
Sauk Prairie
1
2
MALA Scheduling Game 4
Janesville
Waunakee
Regents
DeForest
Stoughton
La Follette
8
9
MALA Scheduling Game 6
Waunakee
Sun Prairie
Middleton
Stoughton
Memorial
La Crosse
15
16
MALA Scheduling Game 8
Waunakee
Regents
Janesville
Stoughton
La Follette
DeForest
23
MALA Scheduling Game 9
Sun Prairie
Middleton
Verona
Memorial
La Crosse
Sauk Prairie
30
Earliest Day for 1st game
13
19
20
26
27
14
MALA Scheduling Game 1
Janesville
Regents
Verona
DeForest
La Follette
Sauk Prairie
21
28
MALA Scheduling Game 3
Waunakee
Sun Prairie
Middleton
Stoughton
Memorial
La Crosse
5
MALA Scheduling Game 5
Middleton
Verona
Regents
La Crosse
Sauk Prairie
La Follette
12
MALA Scheduling Game 7
Regents
Verona
Janesville
La Follette
Sauk Prairie
DeForest
19
Waunakee
Regents
Janesville
Stoughton
La Follette
DeForest
3
4
Sun Prairie
Middleton
Verona
Memorial
La Crosse
Sauk Prairie
10
11
Janesville
Regents
Verona
DeForest
La Follette
Sauk Prairie
17
18
Sun Prairie
Middleton
Verona
Memorial
La Crosse
Sauk Prairie
24
25
15
Janesville
Waunakee
Regents
DeForest
Stoughton
La Follette
Sun Prairie
Waunakee
Janesville
Memorial
Stoughton
DeForest
31
1
7
8
29
23
30
Regents
La Crosse at Memorial
Verona
La Crosse at Sauk
Janesville
(one site? Sauk Prairie?)
La Follette
Sauk Prairie
DeForest
6
7
Sun Prairie Stougthon at La Crosse
Waunakee
La Follette at La Crosse
Janesville
Memorial
Stoughton
DeForest
13
14
Waunakee
DeForest at La Crosse
Sun Prairie Memorial at La Crosse
Middleton
Stoughton
Memorial
La Crosse
20
21
Bullrush
26
MALA Scheduling Game 10
Middleton
Verona
Regents
La Crosse
Sauk Prairie
La Follette
2
27
28
3
4
Sectional Semifinals
State Semis
16
Waunakee
Sauk at La Crosse
Sun Prairie
Middleton
Stoughton
Memorial
La Crosse
22
MALA Make-up Day
Regional Finals
6
9
La Crosse at La Follette
La Crosse at DeForest
(one site? La Follette?)
Spring Break Week - Waunakee, Verona
10
11
April
May
Spring Break Week - Janesville, Middleton
28
Sectional Finals
9
10
State Championship
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