Meeting opened at 7:50 PM.

Those in attendance: Roland King, Susan Anderson, Amy, Curt Wilson, Dennis Taylor, Steve Stringer, KZ Li, Chris Lewis.

Treasurer’s Report, OK’d.

Registration to date:

Sanctioned:

Committee Reports:

New Business:

Adjourned 9:10PM

Present: Roland King, Sue Anderson, Mike Goldberg, Coral Minton, Ellen Wilshire, Hongping Li, Amy Kwan, Tori Ishamatsu, Curt Wilson, David Beck, Mary Harrell, Deliang Li, Olivia Palmer, Brian Pritt, KZ Li (kongzhengli@yahoo.com)

Meeting called to order at 7:35

Minutes of Last Meeting - Hongping added to minutes, statement was clarified about not sending young divers to international events. Move to accept by Mike G. Accepted

Treasurers Report - Ellen Wilshire - Account stayed stable. Haven’t received all receipts from everyone. Needs to get list of all sanctioned meets from last season.

Registration Report- Sue Anderson - Diver registrations are same as last year for JO/seniors and down 47 from last year for novice. No renewals are being accepted right now for 2005, only new registrations. She’ll know on Dec. 1.
2 meets were sanctioned.

• 37-410 Chris Vonk novice/jo/senior
• 37-411 McCormick Invite

Committee Reports:

• Senior (Brian Pritt)-
• Junior (Amy Kwan)-
• Novice (David Beck)-
• High School (Larry Brennan)- not present.
• Athletes (Tori)- Athletes decided not to change system to 4 zones but keep as 2 zones. Kimiko said at convention that we need a new system to develop young divers. Senior divers didn’t want to emphasize 1 meter and wanted more synchro. Amy said that the athletes said that they wanted to qualify at zones for synchro and not just try to put a partner together at nationals. Hongping thinks that we will not have a big enough talent pool and it won’t work. Amy said senior athletes want to keep centralized training center at the Woodlands. Tori felt overwhelmed and confused at convention.
• Masters-

Team Reports:

New Business:

• AAU (see www.flipnrip.com/AAU/AUU_vs_USAdiving.htm)
  AAU is becoming involved in diving again and will insure diving and other sports. Curt is going to cover all of his divers with AAU and some of his divers with USDiving. If enough teams join AAU, then there can be AAU meets in Southern California. 1979 was the last fully organized year for AAU. When the national governing body is not serving the needs of the public, then AAU steps in. USDiving has been going in the direction of supporting elite senior divers only and does not care about junior divers in the least. AAU is a program for youth only. Cost to register each diver per year is $12.00 in AAU. USDiving is not sharing with anyone its’ plan for the $800,000 grant it received. Oregon and Washington already have AAU structure in place. AAU novice meets are in the mornings and JOs are in the afternoons. Meets do NOT have to be sanctioned by USDiving. Only USDiving regionals, zones, and nationals have to be USDiving sanctioned. AAU nationals are based on FINA rules. All interested teams need to go to the AAU website and register online. Motion made to move toward All Teams joining AAU. Seconded.
• SPA Calendar
  • Jan 22-23 Cerritos Junior and Senior invite (DOY JO & Sr)
  • Feb 12-13 DTO (DOY JO)
  • March 12 Cerritos HS invitational and Masters invite
  • March 27 SPA Winter Novice Championships MVND
  • March 19-20 SPA Winter JO & Sr. Championships RBAC (DOY JO & Sr)
  • April 2-3 JO Spring region 9 championships Cerritos (DOY JO)
  • April 6-10 US Open Championships Midland, TX (DOY Sr)
  • April 23 Cerritos HS invitational
  • April 29-May 1 Jr Spring West Nationals (DOY JO)
  • May 5 (approx) High School League Champs
  • May 28-30 So Cal Invite & SPA Championships (DOY JO & Sr)
  • June 17-19 Lee Brennan (DOY JO & Sr)
  • June 24-26 Summer region 9 (DOY JO)
  • July 7-10 Summer West Championships (DOY JO)
  • July 22-24 Sr. Prelim (DOY Sr. only)
  • August 3-7 Sr Nationals (DOY Sr only)
  • August 8-11 Jr. Nationals both in Hunterville NC (DOY JO)
  • November 12-14 McCormick Invite (motion made and seconded, carried to make it 2005 DOY JO & Sr meet)
  • December 2-4 Chris Vonk Memorial
  • December 11-12 Safety Certification class
• Available Pools Dennis Taylor is requesting information on available unused pools
• Nominate New Secretary
  Please nominate someone before next meeting. Email Curt right away with suggestions.
• New Meet Sanctions
  • Cerritos Jo & Senior Invite (sanctioned)
  • Cerritos Novice Invite (sanctioned)
• Fundraising Issues
  KZ brought up the fact that sometimes divers switch clubs without fulfilling their financial obligations. Suggests that divers switching clubs must fulfill their financial obligations before being allowed to dive with new club. Roland said that clubs already do that generally as a common courtesy.

Old Business: SPA Diver of Year Party

• Awards
• Raffle Items-every team needs to bring one item of value for the raffle unwrapped. Could be a basket. Minimum value $40.00 per team.
• Tickets-no expiration date. 200 tickets need to be sold at $13.50 each

Meeting adjourned at 9:32 pm
Respectfully submitted by Mary Harrell

Meeting called to order at 7:45

Minutes of Last Meeting: - (none) will be photocopied and passed out at the next meeting.

Treasurer’s Report: - none—Ellen said there is about $10,000 in the general fund and can fund about $600 per person for convention SPA banquet may be changed to a cheaper option. Maybe second week in November. Info could be posted on the website

Registration report: - Sue Anderson (see attached) Diver registrations are down from last year. There are two new SPA teams. 10 meets were sanctioned.

Committee Reports:

Senior- Brian Pritt: Would like to go to convention. Wants to get bids for Mission. Summer and Kellie are still diving and will continue until the next Olympics

Junior-Amy Kwan: Very busy summer. For the east and west meets, people were saying how tough it was, but seemed to go smoothly. She thinks that there won’t be a lot of adjustments in the system this year. There are a lot of people that believe that the east is better, and with more zones, the east feels they would have had more divers at nationals. Amy feels that the west is at a disadvantage since nationals have been on the East Coast. Feels that format fixes need to stand for four two eight years without being changed. Focus needs to be on junior diving. We don’t send young divers to international meets. We don’t have enough sponsors and the people in charge are not held accountable. At Nationals, 16-18 girls were predominantly from the west on 3m. 11^th place got 414 points and last year that would have gotten 4^th place. Curt feels that for most divers, 2 weeks after school let out the season was over for them. In the proposal there is a junior site selection committee. West championships next summer are in Oklahoma City. Amy feels that any member of US Diving should have access to any centralized training center. Winter regionals are at Pacific Diving. Summer Regionals are at Rose Bowl. West Nationals are at Woodlands. Summer Nationals are in NC. Dwight and Tori made world team

Novice- David Beck: Dive Thousand Oaks meet will be on 10/2-10/3.

High School- Larry Brennan (not present)

Athletes- Tori will be athlete rep for convention only. New athlete rep will be voted on at next SPA meeting.

Masters- none

Team reports:

New Business

1. Going to convention: Hongping Li, Dennis Taylor, Amy Kwan, Curt Wilson, Brian Pritt, and Tori Ishamatsu. Ellen says there is enough money to send 5 reps, Curt thinks SPA can send 6.
2. Bidding for Sites: Trojan Dive Club would be interested in hosting summer JO nationals 2006, Rose Bowl would be interested in hosting west zones 2006
3. Rule discussions: Delegates should look at proposed rule changes.
4. SPA Diver of Year banquet: Second weekend of November (Sunday 11/14) at Boomers with food from McDonald’s possibly at 4pm. Info will be emailed and posted on SPA website only. Boomers pass is for all day.

Present: Mary Harrell, Michael Baker, Sue Anderson, Abel Sanchez, Larry Brennan, Curt Wilson, Roland King, Amy Kwan, Olivia Palmer, Ryan Rincon, Iris Meister, Kelly Sattler, Arsen (DTO), David Beck, Hongping Li, Ellen Wilshire

Minutes of Last Meeting - David Beck asked to be added to the minutes. Motion (Amy) to accept, seconded. Minutes approved.

Treasurers Report - Ellen Wilshire - See attached. Will be able to get rid of the All Star fund. SPA will need about $20,000 income this year just to cover the banquet, travel. SPA will no longer be funding travel to Nationals. If $3.50 for each diver’s entry goes to SPA, then expenses will be covered. Proposal (Curt) to raise entries to $20.00 per event. Late fees will stay at $15.00. Motion (Curt) made to raise fees, seconded. Carried.

Registration Report - Sue Anderson-see attached report. Registered divers are down from last year. 117 JO/SR and 129 Novice, down from 160 JO/SR and 206 novice. Gave out 1 sanction:

1. Cerritos Novice/JO/SR Invitational #37-396 (correction from report)

1. DTO Invitational Feb 14-15 Will be starting at 9 AM instead of 8. Rules will be 2004 rules. Date for entry deadline is changed to February 4. Morning warm up will be just for JO divers, then the afternoon warm up will be for novice. 14-15 and 16-18 boys will be combined. 11 & under boys will be combined with 13 & under boys. #37-397
2. 3rd Mission Viejo Master Diving Meet Feb 28 #37-398

1. MVND
2. Alhambra Dive Club
3. Trojan Dive Club
4. GM Diving (new club)
5. Chula Vista Aquatic Diving Team
6. UCLA Diving
7. Dive Thousand Oaks

Committee Reports:

Senior (Abel)- Olympic qualifying has changed for seniors. If seniors are not already qualified for World Trials, it will be hard to qualify for Olympic Trials. America’s Cup top divers may qualify for Olympic Trials. There are only about 6 or 8 female divers that have already qualified and have the minimum DD.

Junior (Amy)- Says that 2004 rules allow for 11 & under AND 13 & under for winter qualifying meets. Divers will have to choose one age group. New rulebook should be coming out soon. Scottsdale has not posted a format or schedule for winter regionals. Amy suggests that it should be a 3-day meet. Las Vegas will not host summer regionals. MVND and Rose Bowl want to host. Discussion. Motion (Curt) to have RBAC host summer regionals. Seconded. carried

Novice (David Beck)- .

High School (Larry Brennan)- tentative dates: Mission -April 10. Sonora- March 20, Simi valley- March 27, open dates are March 6,13,27, April 3, 24. Looking for invitationals on those dates. Spring break is April 5-11 or 12-18. Edison HS has dive coach opening. Salary is $2000.00. CIF is May 11, Roland would like to host and Curt at Irvine. Looking into having CIF on 11, 12, and 13. Amy is Cerritos HS new diving coach. New email address is larry.brennan2@verizon.net

Athletes (Ryan)-Has handout of guidelines for bringing in a new athlete representative. Any one that is interested should tell their coach and coach will submit.

Masters - not present

Team Reports:

Old Business:

New Business:

1. SPA needs someone to run Splash System
   1. Dan has retired from running the systems.
   2. Curt suggests that after each meet, the next team to host a meet will take the Splash and PA systems with them. Ellen suggests a sign out sheet with an inventory list. The team that is holding the system will be responsible for it.
   3. Curt wants to ask Dan to give a seminar to teach Splash system.
   4. Splash System costs $50.00 per day, and SPA will pay for paper rolls for mini printer.
2. Diver of Year Meets-