Minutes:
Northern Plains District 4/28/16 Conference Call
Greg Evenson, North Dakota President, District Chairman, District Director
Todd Porter, District Registrar
Vince Foley, District High School Section, District Secretary
Rob Kittay, South Dakota Boys Development
David Hoff, District Coach in Chief, District Development
Traver McLeod, Montana President
Donovan Peterson, South Dakota Girls Development
Chad Vail, Wyoming President
Player Development Report from David Hoff
15, 16 and 17 April: High Performance Symposium with USA Hockey staff and U18 Worlds; 50 coaches attended; with staff 70 - 75
due to Carrie Underwood concert in town.
Northern Plains District Camp. May 6 to 8. Schedule available. Challenge in rooms
Rob Kittay reports on SDAHA camp; 123 players; U16 and U14 teams picked; 99/00/01 and 02/03 sessions. Players picked for NPD camp. Waiting for Tier 2 teams until Tier 1 picked.
Traver reports on Montana Development Camp. 6 to 8 coaches in pods. Boys and girls combined. Al Bloomer presented the High Performance Camp presentation.
Montana Summit September 30, October 1 and 2 weekend in Bozeman, MT. ADM will be present and potentially national office people will attend. A repeat performance of multiple CEP Level training, Referee training, STAR planned.
Greg reported on North Dakota Development Camp. 320 boys and 80 girls.
Traver reported on a participating team in the National High School Tournament. MAHA contributed to the team to bring back High Performance Coaching idea.
Greg reported on Tier 1 teams from North Dakota participating on the boys and girls side.
Chad reported on Wyoming winning Tier 2 1A and U14 and U16.
Discussion was had on the South Dakota participation in the Tier 2 tournament on the Boys side at the 16U and 14U level. Todd Porter reported on the classification issue, and the stratification. He will explore the issue and report back to South Dakota.
Donovan Peterson reported on the South Dakota Girls participation in the Tier 2 National tournament. This year the Girls Development camp had 80 attendees.
Vince presented on the new duties as Secretary. He requested participants search their records for past records and minutes of meetings, organizational documents, enacted policies and records of votes. He will be meeting with Ron Dobesh, web director, to arrange for the web to display the records for the District. Traver asked for the financials to be presented as well. Greg will call on Betty Triplett, District Treasurer, for monthly reports.