One of the issues when the MIAA determined to go to a statewide match format was discovering appropriate impartial website taking part in fields for semifinals and finals.
Burlington athletic director Shaun Hart is hoping a proactive method will assist alleviate this down the highway.
At Wednesday’s Tournament Management Committee assembly, Hart, who serves because the committee’s chairman, instructed getting districts concerned within the course of. His concept was for every district to submit two appropriate amenities that the MIAA might use down the highway.
“This would give us a lot of different avenues to look at it,” Hart stated. “The reason I ask for two is in the event that one of those teams happens to be in the semifinals, then we can use the other venue.”
In different information, TMC liaison Sherry Bryant stated revenues from the autumn match have been just about the identical as a 12 months in the past, the distinction being a mere $2,003. She did say that bills have been up practically $100,000, although it was one thing MIAA factored in given the rise in police and custodial duties, a lot of it being soccer associated.
Bryant additionally broke down the alignment enchantment information for the autumn sports activities within the subsequent two-year cycle (2023-24 and 2024-25). There have been 339 appeals among the many eight sports activities (cross-country, discipline hockey, soccer, golf, boys soccer, women soccer, women swimming/diving and volleyball). Of these appeals, 323 have been interesting to go down, whereas 16 seemed to choose up.
The subsequent step within the enchantment course of was the primary stage choices the place 159 of the 323 appeals have been granted, whereas 68 extra have been authorised with modifications. The 96 which have been denied got one final probability to enchantment and 50 of these have been granted with seven others authorised with modifications, leaving simply 38 denials.
“The Board of Directors wanted consistency across the board,” Hart stated. “What I did as TMC chair was meet with the heads of all the various sports committees and we went with the data supplied to us. I just want to stress that the decisions made were data driven and there was no subjectivity involved.”
The TMC, performing on the recommendation of MIAA Executive Director Bob Baldwin, mentioned the prospects of permitting the lacrosse committee to maneuver its cutoff date again 4 days to the Monday after Thanksgiving. There was some give and take amongst committee members however after a brief dialogue, the committee voted 11-3-1 in favor of sending the movement to increase the cutoff date to Monday to the Board of Directors for closing approval.
Spring match codecs for baseball, golf, boys lacrosse, women lacrosse, rugby, tennis and volleyball have been authorised 15-0. Outdoor monitor and softball are nonetheless engaged on their format and it needs to be able to be voted upon by the following TMC assembly.
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