NCYSA CHALLENGE COUNCIL
Meeting Minutes
Saturday, June 3, 2006 – 10:00 a.m.
Meeting Called to order: by Keith
Price (VP Challenge)
Members in attendance: Kim Kerns
(BAYSA), Vinny Mangelli (CASL), Bryan
Mogford (CUFC), Todd Wright (FCCA), Karin Sedivy (FVAA), Pat Hunt
(GRYSA), James Zeitler (GUS), Steve Allison (GYSA), Douglas Wickman (HVSA) Monty Griffith (ICRD),
George Karl (JYL), Scott Bauer (LNSC),
Jim Hoffer (NBASA), Thomas Finlay (NMYSA),
Garry Norman (NTSC), Jo S Mitchell
(OYSA), Greg Lewis (PGSA), Jose Saco (PGSC), Douglas Rogers (PSA), Mike Reilly
(SYSL),
Doug Atkinson (TUSA), Lee West (URYSA), Wally
McCaffety (
Carl Carter (YCSBC)
Associations represented by Proxy: Robert Somerville
(ABYSA, HCSA), Garry Norman (CCSC,WOW), Bill Furjanic (CFYSA), Jeff
Thomas (CSC), Stephen Crane (GUSC), Douglas Rogers (PTFC), David Wiggins
(SASL), Henk-Jan van Ettehoven (SCSA), Steve Waters (TCYSA)
Others in attendance: Robert Somerville (WNCCL), William Mallet (DESA),
Manny Comas (GUS),
Ed Harris (MYSA), Steve McCoy
(FVAA), Robert Gaston (ICRD), Debbie Morton (Asst. Dir. Classic-NCYSA), Darae
Hamilton (Asst. Dir. Challenge –NCYSA)
A quorum was established
Vote: passed
Announcements:
Board of Directors Meeting
Date: Saturday, June 24, 2006
Time: 10:00 a.m.
Location:
The agenda for the Board of Directors meeting
will be posted on the website the week of June 5, 2006.
Membership renewals for
associations and challenge scheduling leagues were due June 1, 2006.
Proposal regarding offside and one official submitted
by Chris Little, Director of Coaching Education-NCYSA.
The motion was presented by Keith Price as a
recommendation from Chris Little. NCYSA
staff members cannot make proposals.
Motion to adopt recommendation – Bill Furjanic
(CFYSA)
Seconded – multiples
Discussion: Keith Price (VP-
Challenge) opened the discussion that NCYSA is the only state under USYS still
using the offside rule with the three referee system during state cup for U-10.
Bill Furjanic (CFYSA) also addressed
the council of the confusion during tournament play within the U-10 age group.
Some of the confusion is based on the fact that each of the challenge
scheduling leagues has a different set of off-side rules. Therefore, referees are not consistent with
calls outside their geographical area.
The challenge scheduling league members were polled about their rules
for offside and the leagues were split in half; some of the scheduling leagues
use offside and others do not. Vinny
Mangelli (CASL) stated that the CASL scheduling league uses offside and the
three man system which works effectively in their association; other members,
such as Bill Furjanic (CFYSA) and Byran Mogford (CUFC), feel that the
developmental stage in the U-10 age group is more important than teaching the
tactical part of the game at this point.
Bill Furjanic also stated that
NCYSA is highly recognized within the USYS but feels that we are moving
backward instead of forward if we don’t follow the other states with no offside
rule and one referee.
Proposal: “At U-10 in Challenge State Cup, NC Youth
Soccer Association adopts the policy of no offside and only one official to be
in line with national US Youth soccer recommendations.”
Motion: Bill Furjanic (CFYSA)
Seconded: multiples
Vote taken by vote count
cards
Yes: 24 No: 27
Vote: Failed
Proposal regarding teams playing in NCYSA sanctioned
challenge leagues must be registered with NCYSA.
Discussion: The motion was presented by Keith Price
(VP-Challenge NCYSA). Some scheduling
leagues are allowing recreation teams to play in challenge scheduling league games
as challenge teams.
Proposal: “For
a team to participate in a NCYSA sanctioned Challenge Scheduling League, said
team must be registered with NCYSA as a challenge team.”
Motion: Keith Price (VP Challenge-NCYSA)
Seconded: Steve Crane (GUSC)
Vote: Passed (unanimously)
Proposal to NCYSA tournament committee for a three
year bid to host state cup preliminaries.
The motion was sent in by
Jerry Healy (PGSC) and presented to the council by Keith Price. NCYSA has
trouble securing bids for host sites.
Locking in age groups would help the host sites with fields and state
cup preparation. NCYSA cannot predict
number of teams entering state cup. If
requirements are not met, host bid could be pulled. Guidelines would be put in place to the host,
if recommendation is agreed on by the NCYSA tournament committee.
Motion: Pat Hunt (GRYSA)
Seconded: Monty Griffith
(ICRD)
Vote: Passed (2 opposed)
Old Business: None
New proposals need to be sent
in 30 days prior to challenge council meeting on Aug. 12, 2006 to be voted on.
New Business:
The current policy for players who are
multi-rostered on a challenge and classic team are only eligible for the
highest level (classic) as their state cup team. The roster freeze date is (30 days) prior to
state cup. Classic teams playing in the
fall that transfers to challenge in the spring, must be registered as a “new”
challenge team for spring play.
Keith Price revisited the issue of uneven number
of challenge teams in state cup and he would like the council to consider the
possibility of having play-in games.
Currently, uneven teams are being drawn out based on the date
application was received. Higher seeded
teams can possibly be drawn out with the current policy. Keith Price suggested to the challenge
council that during the August meeting this issue needs to be further
discussed.
William Mallet (DESC) is
looking to find friendly matches for the U/13 and U/14 age groups.
(CAYSL) will support U/14
challenge teams in their scheduling league this fall.
(YCVSA) will have a U/15 girl’s
team playing in (TCL) this fall.
Scheduling leagues that cannot schedule games for older teams, will work
with each other to help teams play in scheduling leagues outside of their
geographical boundaries
Announcements
Recognition of all spring
state cup winners.
Total challenge teams entered
into the spring state cup = 186
All challenge scheduling
leagues by-laws are being reviewed.
Reminder: The next challenge council meetings will be
on Saturday, August 12, 2006 (Location:
TBA) and on Saturday, December 2, 2006.
Any business that needs to be added to the agenda needs to be sent into
NCYSA by July 14, 2006.
Meeting Adjourned