State Chairman’s Report

Illinois State Chairman’s Report

October, 1998

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Norbert now part of the 90’s
Norbert’s new e-mail address is NorbertIL@AOL.com

Safety Certification registration procedure

1) All Safety Certification participants must register with the National Office prior to the Date of the Certification (prior to 5 business days of the course)

a) Information sent must include

i) Pro-Number

ii) Social Security Number

iii) Name, address of participant

iv) Name of instructor, Date and site of Certification along with the course code (if possible)

v) Indication of retest or new test

(1) If it is a retest past 30 days of expiration or new Certification you must pay $50

(a) so please include method of payment,

(i) if Faxed type of card, card number expiration date, and name on card

b) There will be absolutely no registrations allowed at the course.

c) Registration is to be received by the office via FAX 317-692-5212 with credit card or received (prior to 5 business days of the course)

2) For those taking your exam close to the date of attending a meet, please make sure that you received verification signed from your Safety Certification instructor that you took the course.

a) If you are attempting to receive both Pro-number and safety certification at the same time please submit them via Fax together. If you apply for a Safety certification before you apply for a Pro-number you will be charged the higher price for Safety.

It is still possible to be safety certified and yet not a Professional member

It is a requirement to be safety certified to receive your Professional number.

Coaches Information needed at meet: When arriving for a meet this year, you will be required to sign a form that represents an extension of the Sanction (similar to what the Judges do). You may be required to do this at

check-in

or where you pickup your rotation sheets

or at the coaches meeting

Either way you

may be required to show your USAG card

when signing Sanction form the information requested is

Signature

Pro-Number

Safety Certification Expiration date

Club number

Please come to the meets prepared to do so and do not leave the meet without doing the above.

Some meet director may ask for this information prior to meet and thus a credential will already be made. Things that might affect

If you were not originally the coach that was sent in by your club you will not have credentials in your name, please make sure that the meet director is aware of this so that a credential can be made.

If you were the coach sent in you will still be required to supply the above information, & sign-in.

Regional Congress Hey! Regional 5 congress is in Illinois for the first time in quite a few years. Hilary and crew are busy beavers getting ready to host the Region at the end of this month. If you have not already done so SIGN-UP NOW!!

Rules and Policies

National There will be a National Rules and policies this year 1998-99 and in your hands soon. National felt that there was too much information change to go with the original plan of the R&P good for 1997-98 & 1989-99

State: The state 1998-99 R&P will be out soon. We will be sending 1 copy per Club this time. Those individuals that wish their own copy may purchase their own copy. More on how to do this in the next newsletter.

National: If you do no receive your National R&P when it seems everybody else is please call the National Office at 1-800-345-4719 and see what has happened. Some times errors occur and they need your call to correct. i.e. if mail is returned to the National office for any reason they put a block on your file so that no further mail goes out and even the state chairman do no receive labels for you.

State same procedure applies with 1 addition. Call Teresa Millmore (our Newsletter editor) or e-mail her at Tmillmore@AOL.com & she will be able to send you a copy of the last newsletter.

Illinois State Series Summery Form: Please find enclosed the Illinois State Meet series Summery Form. This will contain all the information on State Series Meets this year.

Illinois Club information Enclosed in the next newsletter will be the Latest listing of clubs with registered Gymnasts from the National office. I am sorry that some clubs are not listed but we have listed only clubs with registered Gymnasts.

Choreographers interested: The state office receives all kinds of requests. One of them is, Do I know anybody that is interested in Choreographing floor routines? Some of us men just have a hard time doing that for our athletes. If anybody is interested in Choreographing please send/FAX or e-mail me the following information. NorbertIL@AOL.com
Name, Phone, Highest level of routines Choreographed, Years experience, Price per floor or whatever price structure you use.

Address Changes If you are moving or for any reason have changes in address please make the National office aware in writing. The state office receives Labels and electronic information from the National office. We will rely on the information given to us from the National Office. It is imperative that you inform the National office rather than the State Chairman.

How do I become a Meet Director Please find in your current National Rules and Policies in the back an answer sheet. This maybe copied. The questioned are also found in the R&P. Please answer the questions and find the most appropriate answer. Then follow the procedure below

Take test.

Send Test with all information asked for to

Norbert Bendixen
200 S. Shaddle Ave.
Mundelein IL 60060

With a check for $10 to ILWPC (Add $25 rush fee if you need it done immediately)

Couple of things to consider

1) When the new National R&P come out you must use that Exam (I can not except old exam)

2) I will grade exam (give me 10 days unless you have paid for a rush) and I will send results to National Office.

a) I will notify you via the mail whether or not you have passed but you are not considered a meet Director until the National office has sent you a Certificate.

State Board meeting closed This next Board meeting will be closed for a portion of it because we will be discussing Judge assignments to State, Regional, and National meets. We welcome your attendance at other meetings. Thanks!

Skill Evaluator Rob Brown has just been named a Safety Certifier. He will add to the 2 other Certifiers we have in the State Monte Kimes, & Edgar Pulido. Congratulations to Rob. He has asked me to forward this information to you and is interested in hearing from you as to when it is you would like to see another course given. He can be reached at 630-801-9978

Level 4 Registration with National Office: When registering your Level 4 Athletes please be aware of the following

Use the same form as all your other athletes

Under Level signify 4

They will receive a different sequence of numbers than your other athletes

Pay the $40

If you decide to compete them Level 5 this year you MUST

Fax or write that your athlete is moving up to Level 5

Skill evaluator information must be given same as on the Athlete Membership Form and send of FAX to

National Office

Illinois Level 5 Chairman

Illinois State Chairman

If these procedures are not followed the Athletes scores etc. could be in jeopardy.

Trophies: Last year the State Board voted to make a Consensus Statement that

"This year we would not have

Team Competition at any

STATE SERIES MEETS".

We then asked for Input from you guys. We received 2 letters from coaches and approximately 4 letters from athletes disagreeing with our statement. We must take from this that the majority of YOU agree with our consensus and that this year we will try the season without Team Trophies.

Level 4 Invite December 12, 13^th @ Quincy Gymnastics

Athletes USAG athlete Numbers to compete at Invite

Entry Deadline November 22nd

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