SPMA MASTERS SWIMMING

Minutes of the October 16, 2003 Conference call

Call to Order: by Chairman Wayne McCauley at 8:05 p.m.

Attending: Kathy Davids, David Flanders (SWM), Errol Graham (WH2O), Julie Heather (UNAT.), Michael Heather (UNAT.), Lucy Johnson (UCI), Mary Hull (SWM), Wayne McCauley (ELST), Bob Merrick (COAST), Mark Moore (MVN), Steve Schofield (SWM), Jessica Seaton (WH2O), Shannon Sullivan (SBM), Tom Trapp (LBSC), Bekah Wright (SCAQ)

MSP the minutes from August 28, 2003.

Officer Reports:

Chair Wayne McCauley: Lucy Johnson was elected as the new Southwest Zone Chair. Wayne will also post his report on the SPMA website

Vice Chair report: The Short Course Yards meet schedule for 2004 is as follows: January 10(Sat.) Las Vegas, January 25(Sun.) El Segundo, February 14 or 15 in Santa Clarita (new facility), March 7(Sun.) Cal Tech Pentathlon, March 21(Sun.) Mission Viejo (tentative), MSP to have Short Course Regionals at U.C.Irvine on April 30,May 1 & 2. UCLA and Loyola might also have meets during our Short Course Yards season.

Registrar’s report: MSP to allow Swim magazine to continue publishing our newsletter as an insert, at a rate of $2.10 per swimmer with the provision that if paper costs go up we will incur the cost of the paper increase. MSP to let Julie order 10,000 window envelopes at a cost of $631.88. MSP to approve Julies report as written. Julie also submitted her report in writing and it is included in these minutes.

Awards: MSP to award the Jim Marcus Award for 2002 to Gary McDowell and for 2003 to Lucy Johnson

Open Water Report: MSP to hand out as many of the 2002 open water awards as we can at the upcoming swim meets. The awards that we are not able to hand out at the meets will be mailed out prior to the end of the year.

Old Business: none

New Business: We received a request from ISHOF for our mailing list. MSP to not send our mailing list to ISHOF. Re affirming our standing policy that we do not share our mailing list.

MSP to submit Steve Schofield for the Ransom Arthur Award.

Bekah Wright is the new chair in charge of putting more fitness items in the newsletter. The next newsletter deadline is November 15.

Elections of our new officers will be held at our annual meeting on November 20. All our current officers will be running again. The nominees were approved.

Adjournment: 9:05 pm

Next Meeting: Thursday November 20, 2003 at 8:00pm

Mary Hull, Secretary