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Saint John of the Cross Parish School Athletic Association

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AAB Meeting September 24, 2024

Attending:

Carl Rhineberger

Julie Martin

Kim Grimes

Tom Cassidy

Renee Bagdon

Janet Ziarno

Brandon Calvert

Volleyball

● New league is working well, great competition, some sites are a little farther than what we are used too.

● Fines currently for coaches not entering information and coaches not entering scores by Sunday night, we will look at making this more efficient for the league.

● Carl will ask if we can have a grace period for the fines, a lot of schools in this same situation.

● Do we need to create a line item for new league fines, Kim to look at

● Playoffs will be at the schools but championships will be at the high schools.

Basketball

● Looking at tryouts in early November after VB and Football are done.

● New league rule - no basketball until November 1

● Girls cannot do the Hodgkins tournament because of this rule, Carl asked league for parents

● Games are in the 1st week of December.

● New league has an A team for the 5th grade boys and girls.

● Planning for three 5th grade girls teams, two at 6th, 7th, 8th.

● Planning for two 5th grade boys teams, three at 6th, 7th, 8th.

Cross Country

● All going well, three meets done.

● Getting ready for the second annual 3rd and 4th grade meet.

● About 20 kids will be leaving for the sectional meet on Oct 10 because it is downtown at 3:15, this is a day when the school gets out at 1:00 which will help.

● Can have tents for Cross Country, need different weights without sand. 40 lbs each x 4

Track and Field

● Need to look for javelins and all other equipment which may have been sold in garage sale!

Football

● All going well, program has 65 kids this year.

● Varsity no wins, JV about 50/50, other teams have religious education kids which seem to make the teams better since they can be more selective in who plays.

Cheer

● Planning a Homecoming, out of uniform day on Friday October 4. Cheer will perform at the lunch periods, all sports can wear their uniform shirts. Mrs. Bagdon cleared all with Mrs. Kennedy.

● Planning for new uniforms, we will look at options.

Fundraising

● Men’s Social still the Saturday before the Superbowl.

● Spirit Wear strong and lots of sales for the fall. Open most of the year.

● MPR needs cleaned - may need to purchase a new pad for the machine to clean it.

● Maybe fundraise for a new Willy the Wildcat costume also.

AAB Meeting November 13, 2024

Attending:

Carl Rhineberger

Julie Martin

Kim Grimes

Renee Bagdon

Brandon Calvert

Tom Cassidy

Mark Monahan

Bill Page

Andrew Wilson

Janet Ziarno

Volleyball

Season is over, New league was good to work with, 5A won championship
6 home and 6 away games
We didn’t get any fines, grace period of learning, in this new league we have to enter the scores when a game is finished, see if the two coaches agree before it is final
New handbook is being worked on to combine it with the TCC handbook, if there is question we use the TCC handbook during a game
The SPL complete merged into the TCC

Cross Country and Track and Field

Still part of the SPL
CC girls took 2nd place at Sectionals
Will look for the Track and Field equipment before season starts

Football

All going well, Monahan revived the program which has 65 kids this year.
Varsity has no wins, JV about 50/50, other teams have religious education kids which seem to make the teams better since they can be more selective in who plays.
JV made the semi-finals where they lost
Monahan thinks we have a good SJC program without as many wins because of good team spirit and it is a good teaching mechanism. If we let YC kids play then more school kids would not play.
Dan Forrer will take over for Monahan’s coordinator position.

Cheer

Planning for new uniforms, we will look at options. Julie, Carl and Kim should look at the budget. Need to give Renee a “per uniform” idea.
We have a school parent, Elizabeth Scumaci, who owns a cheer supply store.
School pep rally went well, lunchtime hosting was a good idea.
Board brought up the idea of having a few cheerleaders at the basketball games.
Kim should let Renee know when these games are.

Basketball

Tryouts have happened
Games are in the 1st week of December

Fundraising

Men’s Social is still the Saturday before the Superbowl. Nawrocki and Santilli in charge of this event.
Spirit Wear for the fall made $2000
Tom Cassidy presented options for Willy the Wildcat. We raised $500 for a new one. The board thought the $500 ones were fine, Kim narrowed it down to three. Waiting for approval to order.

School Board Discussion

Mr. Calvert recommends combining the SJC and TCC handbooks
Implement policies in handbooks
SAB would like to meet to discuss revisions
SAB would like to see more parent meetings
SAB would like to discuss coach evaluations
Carl likes the SAB coming to the AAB meetings and being involved in what is going on, very open to any suggestions
Recommended to have the parents sign off that they have read the AA Handbook
Possible Player evaluations, but AAB including Cassidy recommended this is not adopted, players change a lot each year
Bagdon recommended attendance is looked at for team evaluations, not just skill based but behavioral based
Martin recommended that coach feedback can be more generalized and not too specific to make it more feasible
Page - like evaluating coaches in the sense that 1) did the payer have a good experience and 2) did the player learn something
A team vs B team discussions
Bagdon - coach evaluations have to be general because they are volunteers
Carl could use evaluation just to have a conversation with the coaches but all evaluations would be confidential
Andrew Wilson also liked the idea that evaluations are confidential