Quick Reference for the AFA-NIET Committee Meeting

2009 NCA Convention, Chicago, IL

Motions Passed:

Distinguished Service Award given to Lee Mayfield, James Madison University and Leah White, University of Minnesota, Mankato.

Outstanding New Coach Award given to Megan Koch, Illinois State University, Jason Stahl, Belmont University, and Ken Young, James Madison University.

Manchester Scholar Series Grant awarded to Dan Cronn-Mills, University of Minnesota, Mankato and Stephen Croucher, Bowling Green State University.

White/m Pober/s: Web pages shall be cited using either a brief URL or the name of the sponsoring organization and the date on which the page was posted. In absence of ‘posted on’ date students should use the date the page was last updated.

Morris/m Edwards/s: Change wording for All American Team. Now reads:

Nominations must come from a program director/coach and be submitted to the District Chair. <Addition> No more than two nominees may come from the same school. District Chairs will inform member schools of deadlines for submission. Each District Committee will select one recipient from their respective district, and forward up to five additional nominations from their district to the Chair of the Selection Committee. <Deletion> A school may submit at most two nominations to their district. There will be at least one recipient from each of the AFA-NIET districts. At-large recipients may come from any district. District Chairs must submit all nominations to the Chair of the All-American Team Committee no later than March 15, 2010.

Louisiana State U.—Baton Rouge moves from District 3 to District 6.

Schnoor/m Roberts/s: The NIET give a $1000. donation to the National Developmental Conference in Minn. in August 2010.

In Executive session:

The NIET committee decided to support the committee’s findings that a violation occurred.

Cronn-Mills/m Payne/s: To endorse the current IE use of evidence document.

Committee created to examine the criteria for State Tournament waivers.

Committee includes: Young (JMU), Chair—Roberts (UF), Leyes (BCC), Bates (UP), Harrison (WKY), Butler (CC).

Deadline: AFA old business, committee will report back at NCA -11.