USATFAssociationsCommittee
August 2015 e-letter
In This Issue:
- Template for association member IAAF World Champs promotion
- Annual Meeting and Association Workshop information
- National office contacts update
- Coaching Education Association 2016 Level 1 School notification
Templatefor association members at the IAAF World Champs
Attached is a template for Associations to use to promote athletes named to the Team USA roster for World Outdoors. Associations should promote athletes who live in their Associations, grew up or maybe even went to college in the Association. For most athletes, you can pull biographical information from the USATF bios pages. Generally speaking, information to include is how they did at USATF Outdoors and general career and season highlights if you wish.
In the attachmentare names of USATF staffers for the purpose of examples …these are place holders to give you asense of what it should look like.
Annual Meetingreturnsto Houston 2-6 December
The USATF Annual Meeting returns to the Association's Committee birthplace forty years ago at the Houston Hyatt Regency. The Associations Workshop will be all day on Wednesday, 2 December, with the general opening sessionthe afternoon of Thursday, 3 December concluding with the closing Session Sunday morning. A working schedule will be posted soon. Save this link for meeting information and updates as posted
Updated National Office Contact Sheet
Attached is the most recent national office contact by topic sheet as of 9 August for your reference.
Regarding Sanctions-From Sarah Austin: Please be advised that Jerilyn Zeigler is no longer with USATF. Our customer service team will continue to address your sanction questions and assist with the day-to-day sanction operations; however, the management of the sanction process will be reoriented to the Legal Department in conjunction with USATF’s overall insurance programs. We thank you, in advance, for your patience as we make this transition. Should you require sanctions assistance, please send an email r call the office to speak to one of our customer service representatives at317-261-0500. We will keep you apprised of updated information once this transition has been completed.
Coaching Education 2016 Level 1 School Notification
Attached is a letter from Caching Education providing associations first opportunity on scheduling 2016Level 1 Schools. CE Liaison Lauren Gonzalez would like all responses by 30 September. CEwill ask all regional coordinators and school directors to follow up with the association CE person as a courtesy when the school is approved.
If anyassociationwishesassistancein hosting a Level 1 School inyourassociationyou are encouraged to contactthe followingCERegional Coordinators:
North East:Jonathan Hill
South East-Texas:Shawn Venable
Mid West-East:Dave Pavlansky
North West-Rockies:Matt Lydum
Far West:Dave Shrock
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