Updates
Compiled from AIA District AD Meeting
AD/SLAC Summit
April 13
- Registration will open mid-March
- Will include four breakout sessions throughout the day
- The first two sessions will have repeats
- Each school should bring one male and one female student for the SLAC portion.
- You must fill out a survey at the end to receive credit for attending
Leglislative Council
G talked about this in our AD meeting. This is generally about cleaning up the language and removing past practices. Make sure you read over these proposed changes.
Opiate Education Course
There is a state requirement that says students must participate in opiate education and the AIA online option would fulfill this. The course will be provided in both English and Spanish and would be required just like Brain Book.
- David Hines said the course wouldn't be ready until June or July and their would be a grace period for fall sports.
- This creates issues with schools using RMA. If you add a document late, the students already cleared will appear incomplete.
- Discussed that fall sports would need to produce the actual certificate and winter/spring could upload the document.
- Discussion that there could be an opiate link and check a box that they read it.
This created more discussion and questions than anything. AIA will need to go back and figure out how to remedy the challenges with RMA.
Football Reclassification
Football Schedules will not be released anytime soon due to a pending lawsuit. The hearing for this is not until April 9th.
State Basketball Information
- There will be court side championship seat available for $25. AD's will be handed the tickets following the semi's.
- Semis will be held at the higher seed and the AIA will have an alternate official. The official can be behind the score table and is monitoring the book and score board.
Ejection Update
This was the hottest debate of the entire meeting. Steve Hogan communicated the east valley schools were admittedly opposed to the proposal. Brian Gessner just kept saying, "we have to change behavior." It was very clear that schools and the AIA are not even close on this issue. I think the AD's tried to communicate that the issue is the officials, but Brian kept saying he is harder of the officials than admin is on the coaches.
The state will end up with more coaches ejections this year than last year. The data only gave numbers so, in my opinion, you really can't talk about totals until you why athletes/coaches are ejected.
This will be breakout session to encourage dialogue with schools.
Other Discussion
- 4A is going to be looking at the soccer tie. Due to rain a game was cancelled and that left a #23 being region champ vs the #9 ranked school.
- If you didn't know, all baseball must be NOCSEA balls. If you are playing without NOCSEA balls the head coach has to remain in the dugout. NFHSA put this in place three years ago and has allowed a grace period until now.
- Read your emails from the AIA-only 20% of all emails sent are read. This is especially important with rule changes.