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WIAA BOARD APPROVES SITE FOR 2011 GIRLS STATE GOLF MEET; DISCUSSES OTHER TOPICS

STEVENS POINT, Wis. – The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Board of Control supported an Executive Staff recommendation to relocate the 2011 Girls State Golf Championships and were apprised of a number of topics relating to the general administration of the Association at its September meeting today.

The Cherokee Country Club in Madison, Wis., was selected as a one-year alternate site for the girls State meet venue while University Ridge undergoes renovations to its greens next fall. University Ridge has served as the site of the meet since 1994.

In other action, the Board approved extending the contract with the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board, renewing the agreement that makes milk the official beverage of the WIAA. The Board also approved amendments to the agreement with the membership’s video production partner When We Were Young Productions. The current agreement, which began in 2005, extends through 2015.         

The Executive Staff and the Board assessed the reaction and impressions from the Barneveld Area Meeting, the first of seven Area Meetings around the state this fall. The review included discussions on the early start date for the football season in 2011. The Board is interested in feedback from all Area Meetings and from all levels of the membership regarding a recent WFCA survey and the Board’s decision to begin the 2011 football season five days earlier. The early-season start date was enacted to reduce the overexposure of student-athletes playing  three games in 10 days at the end of the season.

Among the topics discussed at the meeting include the routine preliminary development of the 2010-11 operational budget scheduled to be formally voted on in October and an update of a position available on the Advisory Council. Ten individuals have submitted their candidacy for the available medium-school position on the Council. The special preliminary election ballot will be sent to member schools on Sept. 13 and due in the WIAA office by Sept. 24, 2010. The special general election ballot will be sent to member schools on Sept. 27 and due in the WIAA office by Oct. 8, 2010.

Other dialog addressed procedures and methods of payment for fees to tournament managers hosting membership tournament events and National Activities Week scheduled for Oct. 10-16, 2010.

The WIAA oversees interscholastic athletic programs for 506 senior high schools and 85 junior high/middle level schools in its membership. It sponsors 25 championship tournament series. For more information, please contact the WIAA office at (715) 344-8580 or access our Web site at www.wiaawi.org.