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LOC’s Please Take Note of 2013 Sanction Deadlines

For the past several years we have used a December 31 deadline to sanction events to assure inclusion in the Regional Guide. This results in 85% of the sanctions being initiated between Christmas and New Year’s Day. This has created a burden on the volunteer who compiles all of the sanctions to develop the Guide and get it to the printer by the deadline. One of the major components is simply getting a count as to how many sanctions will be included in the guide. The other major component is then adding the content for each tournament. In an effort to spread out the work a little we are going to move the sanction deadline to December 15 starting in 2012. This does not mean that you need all of your content included. If you will simply initiate the sanction process by setting up the name and date of the tournament, that will allow for the correct number of events to be provided for in the Guide. Then between December 15th and January 10th you may go back in and edit your tournament to include all of the information you want to be in the guide. While we have moved the date up 15 days, we have also allowed an additional 10 days to fully complete. We understand that many of you need to wait to see what happens at the State meetings but feel this provides enough time after the meetings to get started. Also it would be greatly appreciated if you can sanction early and complete the update early to ease the workload compression for the volunteer who also has a real job. Thank you for your consideration of this request. Another tip is that each sanction is allocated a quarter of a page. So the more information you wish to be in the guide, the smaller the font will be.

January Jr Dev. News Letter

January Junior Development Newsletter

2012 Regional Guide Sanctions

Get a sneak preview of the 2012 Guide. Send any changes to Jim Babcock

2012 Regional Guide

Winter Council Meeting in Indy a great success

Thanks to everyone who attended the meeting yesterday with special thanks to Delaina Downes for taking the minutes and to Peter Dahl for handling Skype. Skype worked great from the meeting room side. I will be interested to hear feedback form those that joined in. Jim Babcock who was unable to attend due to heavy snowfall on Friday, was able to give reports and even vote, Bill Murbach was able to sit in as an HND and present his committee report, and Scott Wright, another HND, gets the distance award as he joined us from halfway around the world on a layover in Japan!

The minutes will be coming out soon and once proof read will circulate for additional comments.

Some highlights include:

· Selection of the 2013 Regional Site – Thank you and congratulations to the folks in Center City, MN! We had such a great time in 2011 we are going to come back for 2 more years!

· Selection on Chief Officials for the 2012 Regionals:

o Chief Judge – Scott Wright
o Chief Scorer – Delaina Downes
o Chief Driver – Roy Surdej
o Safety – Jim Babcock
o TC – Peter Dahl

Thanks to all of you for your willingness to serve this year. Let’s give them our support by volunteering to help them out!

· Selection of Appointed Officials for the 2012 Regionals:

ACJs & Appointed Judges:
Janice Prociw
Dean Chappell
Kevin Klingbeil
Janet Piercy Bud Piercy
Jim Petersen
Cory Piercy
Dennis Downes

Please note the CJ will be selecting 3 ACJs from the above list and each ACJ will work 2 of 3 days.

Drivers:
Jim Beebe
Greg Chapman
Tom Danford
Darren Janzig
Larry Knafla
Chris Kosek
George Lindy
Jim McClure
Brian Porter

· Selection of Appointed Officials for the 2012 Nationals to help out the Midwest Region’s Dan VanDyk who will be CJ: Appointed Judges:

Dean Chappell
Buddy Piercy
Cory Piercy
Jeff Smith
Don Bucher/Tom Danford

Appointed Scorers:
Janice Prociw
Janet Piercy

Appointed Drivers:
George Lindy
Roy Surdej

Safety (recommendation to Safety Committee who selects)

Tami
McLaughlin

TC: Peter Dahl

Tony Knight and Mary Koenig Makes Senior Teams

USA Water Ski is pleased to announce the selections of three U.S. 35+ Water Ski Teams that will compete in major international tournaments in 2012. The U.S. 35+ Water Ski World Championships Team will compete in the 35+ Water Ski World Championships (dates and location TBD), and the U.S. 35-44 Pan American Water Ski Championships Team and U.S. 45+ Pan American Water Ski Championships Team will compete in the 2012 Pan American Water Ski Championships, Sept. 12-15, in Santa Rosa Beach, Fla. The American Water Ski Association's 35+ Veteran Sub-Committee selected the teams.

Selected to the U.S. 35+ Water Ski World Championships Team were: Brenda Baldwin (Windermere, Fla.), Women 35-44; Janie Fausold (Pleasant Grove, Calif.), Women 55+; Leza Harrison (Chuluota, Fla.), Women 55+; Tony Knight (Wentzville, Mo.), Men 45-54; Mary Koenig (Waterford, Mich.), Women 45-54; Lori Krueger (Gonzales, La.), Women 35-44; Stephen Miller (Marysville, Wash.), Men 55+; and Marc Shaw (Orlando, Fla.), Men 35-44.

The U.S. 35+ Water Ski World Championships Team won the overall team gold medal at the 2010 World 35+ Water Ski Championships in Segrate, Italy. Great Britain earned the silver medal and Germany earned the bronze medal at the biennial event.

Selected to the U.S. 35-44 Pan American Water Ski Championships Team were: Brenda Baldwin (Windermere, Fla.), Lori Krueger (Gonzales, La.), Brandy Nagle (Sacramento, Calif.) and Marc Shaw (Orlando, Fla.). The U.S. 35-44 Water Ski Team won the overall team gold medal at the 2010 Pan American Water Ski Championships in San Bernardo, Chile. Mexico earned the silver medal and Argentina earned the bronze medal at the biennial event.

Selected to the U.S. 45+ Pan American Water Ski Championships Team were: Connie Bergmark (San Diego, Calif.), Leza Harrison (Chuluota, Fla.), Tony Knight (Wentzville, Mo.) and Mary Koenig (Waterford, Mich.). The U.S. 45+ Pan American Water Ski Championships Team won the overall team gold medal at the 2010 Pan American Water Ski Championships. Canada earned the silver medal and Brazil earned the bronze medal.

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