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NCAA REPORT Division l Track & Field and Cross Country RON MANN PRESIDENT, NCAA DIVISION I TRACK AND FIELD COACHES BARRY HARTWICK PRESIDENT, NCAA DIVISION I CROSS COUNTRY COACHES Iwould like to take this opportunity to thank Beth Alford-Sullivan for her leadership as President over the last two years. In addition to faithfully discharging the regular duties of our President, she also led us through a challenging restructuring process of the Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Having experienced the new Championships format for the last two years, the competition at our National finals is the finest I have seen during my career in Division I Track and Field. Our Association will continue to work with the NCAA and the NCAA Division I Track and Field Sport Subcommittee to improve the conduct and administration of the Preliminary Championship Competition and Final Championship Competition. As a part of those ongoing efforts, following the work done by your Executive Committee and the Division I coaching body at the last USTFCCCA Convention, we recently submitted requests for funding for participants and hosts of the Preliminary Championship Competition. Now, as I begin my term as President, I look forward to continuing our work with the NCAA Sport Subcommittee, the Executive Committee of USTFCCCA, and the Division I coaching body at large to make the Division I Track and Field experience more exciting for all athletes, coaches and fans. Over the next two years of my term as President of Division I Track and Field Coaches, I ask that we continue to focus on the strategic plan that we adopted in 2009. That plan includes making our sport more valuable and valued on our campuses and throughout our society. The USTFCCCA has some of the brightest and most dedicated individuals on university campuses across this country. As such, my challenge and request of each of you during my tenure is that we unite to present to our public a sport that is marketed, presented and administered using all of the technology and creativity available to us at this time. Athletic administrators want to see their university Track and Field teams in competition on their campuses. Fans want to see an exciting, timely, visually stimulating event - one that they can follow and understand. Our student-athletes want to be proud alumni of their universities and of the oldest and best sport in the world - track and field. Finally, we as coaches should continue to swell with pride as we train our athletes to become the best they can be on and off the track. Ron Mann is the Head Men’s & Women’s Track & Field Coach at the University of Louisville. Ron can be reached at ron.mann@louisville.edu As you read this letter, over 300 Division I cross country teams will be preparing for the 2011 season. I am opening my report with that thought because I don’t think that we can emphasize enough how wide-sweeping our sport is throughout the NCAA. As president of our coaches group, my goal is to have all of our plans and decisions be made in the best interests of all of these programs. My term as president started this summer and I would like to thank outgoing president Bob Braman for all of his hard work during his term. In addition to his leadership of the coach’s association he also guided Florida State to the runner-up finish at the 2010 NCAA meet. Bob has been a great example of a coach who not only takes care of his own program but looks at the big picture of our sport as well. Joining me in leadership roles for the next two years are Sean Cleary and Dave Smith as vice-presidents. Sean and Dave are incredibly talented coaches who annually produce tremendous teams at West Virginia and Oklahoma State respectively. I am going to count on their experience and enthusiasm to help us move forward. Our association voted overwhelmingly to change the date of our national championships from Monday to Saturday. We need to keep pushing so that this can be enacted for the 2012 championships. We need to nail down the date, and sites, for the 2012 regional meets. We have had long discussions on how many days prior to the championship to host the regionals. Now is the time to get a final decision approved. We also need to select our regional sites at least two years in advance. I think we have a reasonable chance of increasing the size of our championship field. Providing greater access to the championship would be a major plus for our association. We are working on this already for indoor track and field; the time is ripe for cross-country as well. A second and even easier change is to increase the number of schools ranked at the end of the season. We can use the existing formula that we use for the 13 at large spots to rank teams from 32 to 64. This is a win-win. It is recognition for more schools and allows cross-country to be an even more important part of the Director’s Cup rankings. I hope to work with the national office on this project. Finally, as you make a variety of travel plans this fall for your team or for recruiting, please keep the national convention in mind. It is a little disappointing to see how may schools do not send even a single representative to the convention. You will have a chance to have your voice heard. Believe me, I understand that it can be frustrating to vote on something at the convention and then see the motion disappear into the NCAA swamp. The more voices that are heard, the more coaches that follow up with their AD and conference commissioner, the more likely we are to control our own destiny. I am looking forward to a great season with the Dartmouth crosscountry team. Best of luck to you and your team as well! Barry Hartwick is the Head Men’s Track & Field and Cross Country Coach at Dartmouth College. Barry can be reached at Barry.Harwick@Dartmouth.EDU 4 techniques AUGUST 2011
NCAA REPORT Division ll Track & Field and Cross Country STEVE GUYMON PRESIDENT, NCAA DIVISION II TRACK & FIELD COACHES MARLON BRINK PRESIDENT, NCAA DIVISION II CROSS COUNTRY COACHES Ihope as we enter August that everyone has been enjoying the summer. As we have now put the 2011 Outdoor season behind us, I would like to thank Kim Duyst and her staff at Cal State Stanislaus once again for all the hard work they put in while making the Outdoor Championships a success. Congratulations to Abilene Christian and Grand Valley State on winning the team titles for both indoor and outdoor and to all the athletes and coaches for a good year. I would also like to congratulate the Division 2 Hall of Fame inductees and their institutions. We need to express our thanks as well to the NCAA for allowing us to have the awards presentations and Hall of Fame included in the banquet program. I felt it went well and in a timely fashion. I know how much it meant to the inductees and their families. I would like to remind you that the 2012 HOF nominees are due on Dec. 5, 2011. You can find the form on the USTCCCA website. We are combining the cross country and track and field Halls of Fame and presenting them at the outdoor championships, which will be at CSU-Pueblo in 2012 and 2013. The 2012 indoor championships will be in Mankato, Minn. 2013 is an NCAA Sports Festival year and the site has not been determined at this time. All of you should have received emails on the new rules for pole vault for the upcoming season, as well as emails on the submission of proposals for the convention. Please refer to the Division 2 handbook on the USTFCCCA website for the procedures on how to submit a proposal and what the deadlines are. The first deadline is September 15 for a proposal to be considered for the convention agenda. Late proposals may be accepted for this convention or may be tabled to the following year. Again, please refer to the handbook. I would like to send best wishes to Joplin, MO and the staff at Missouri Southern State University as well as so many others that were affected by the devastation the tornado brought to that area. I would also like to thank Chris Asher for his dedication and leadership for the past few years as our president. I will do my best to represent you (the coaches) and the sport throughout my term as your president. As we head into the 2011-12 academic year, it is a time of renewed excitement as teams are busy with the start of a new cross country season ahead. I am equally excited for this year as it is the beginning of my two-year tenure as USTFCCCA Cross Country DII President after having served the past two years as First Vice President and two additional years as Second Vice President. The USTFCCCA organization, under the direction of our CEO Sam Seemes, is always striving to help better the sports of cross country and track and field. I hope that I can help guide our sport as a voice for your ideas and proposals in the meetings in which I will be representing you. I encourage you, if you have ideas or concerns, to contact your conference representative or myself as we will have monthly conference calls where we will discuss issues that can help promote the betterment of our sport. You should have received, or will soon receive, information regarding the 2011 DII Cross Country Preseason Polls. You should have the formal request and team outlook form sent to you by your regional poll rater, which you should return by August 15. As a former regional poll rater, I can tell you that these are very helpful in creating the initial polls as teams can change significantly from year to year. Please take the time to submit your information to your region rater. Your coordinators are Ray Hoffman (women’s poll) and T.J. Garlatz (men’s poll) and Michael Friess (poll committee chair). The proposal to increase field expansion is moving through the NCAA. If it passes it would increase the number of qualifiers to the NCAA II Cross Country National Championships by one team per region and one individual per region. A new policy adopted by NCAA DI, DII, and DIII USTFCC- CA members states that hosts (of regular season meets) offer a preferred entry fee to those teams who are members of UST- FCCCA. Meet hosts are to offer a $50 discount to those member institutions. The purpose of this is to help increase involvement in USTFCCCA. Finally, it is not too early to start thinking about booking your room and flight to the 2011 USTFCCCA Convention, Dec. 12 to 15, in San Antonio, Tex. All information is posted on the USTFCCCA website. Your attendance and participation is crucial to the betterment of our sport! Good luck in the upcoming cross country season! Steve Guymon is the Head Men’s and Women’s Track & Field Coach at Harding University. Steve can be reached at sguymon@harding.edu Marlon Brink is Head Men’s and Women’s Track & Field and Cross Country coach at Wayne State College. Marlon can be reached at mabrink1@wsc.edu AUGUST 2011 techniques 5
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