Proposal

Vote

Decision

Mike Lorenzen: In order to retain voting rights, each institution must provide one staff member to an NACGC/W committee

In Favor: 31

Opposed: 18

Abstain: 11

Fails

WCPC VAULT Proposals 2009

 

  1. Delete under Vault Special Requirements (& Vault Chart Additional Collegiate Rules):

¼ on, ¼ off, in opposite directions should be judged as a handspring vault.

All twisting should be completed at the apex of the vault with increasing deductions taken the later the twist is completed.

 

  1. Touch Warm-up

The competition touch warm-up on vault will be the same as the other events (3 minutes plus 30 seconds/exhibition) with no minimum/maximum number of vaults that may be performed.

 

  1. New Vault:  Tsukahara Tuck 1 ½ - 10.0

 

  1. BONUS – Recommended that we DO NOT follow the JO Bonus Rule for select 10.0 SV Vaults.

 

  1. Vault Values – Recommend no changes in Vault Values.

 

In Favor: 40

Opposed: 20

Abstain: 3

Passes

WCPC Uneven Bar Proposal

 

1.     Adopt new JO Bonus for Level 10:  Two different ÒCÓ elements from Groups 3, 6, or 7 that are connected do not require turn or flight to receive Connection Value.

 

2.     Element values:  Maintain our element values that differ from JO (uprise ½, healies, stalder) and add Ò1 ½ pirouette (turn is in handstand, not a healy) = EÓ.

 

3.     Delete 4.2 f.2:  ÒWhen applying this compositional deduction, consider not only the value part of the release element, but also:

á       The type of release element;

á       The direct connection with other release elements and/or other elements of higher value; and

á       The total number of release elements in the exercise above the minimum

4.     Recommend retain NCAA Special Requirements for Bars.

              

5.     Recommend elimination of Ò4.3 c. Amplitude of body at turn completion for HealiesÓ and use JO deductions for Healy technique.

In Favor: 56

Opposed: 0

Abstain: 2

Passes

WCPC BEAM Proposal

1. Relative to the proposed JO changes, we recommend that

á        NCAA  accept all JO element changes WITH THE EXCEPTION of the layout stepout  which will remain a ÒDÓ :

i.       A straddle jump starting and finishing in a cross position (facing the length of the beam) = ÒBÓ

ii.      Straddle jump in side position and all straddle jumps with ¼ turn = ÒCÓ

iii.     Gainer Back layout stepout = ÒDÓ for difficulty and bonus connection

iv.    The front aerial & kickover (1-foot takeoff) Front Salto, swing through to scale = ÒEÓ

 

á       We do NOT ACCEPT the JO ÒNew Connection Value PrincipleÓ which states Òa 2 acro flight element connection (excluding mount or dismount) B+C = +.1 Connection Value

á       [Our Connection Value Exceptions for Layout Stepouts in BHS combinations will stay the same.]

á       [Our Special Requirements will stay the same (same as JO with the addition of a dance series).]

2.  Recommend that 5.2d. Òup to the levelÓ deductions in relation to Beam Dismounts be ELIMINATED: 

 

3. Recommend change to 5.2 b.

Insufficient distribution of elements..........................Flat .05       Up to .1 (unique to balance beam)     

            CONSIDER:

1.     Level of difficulty not maintained throughout the exercise

2.     Most difficult elements placed in the same section of the exercise

4.  Recommendation for 5.3 Element Values Different from Level 10:

            Add h. #9.309 Gainer salto tucked with 1/1 twist off end of beam = D (C in JO)

In Favor: 48

Opposed:18

Abstain: 9

Passes*

WCPC Floor Proposals

1. Recommend that we adopt the JO Special Requirements in entirety:

    1. One acrobatic series with 2 saltos OR  2 directly connected saltos (same or different)
    2. 3 different saltos within the exercise.
    3. A dance passage with a minimum of 2 different Group 1 elements, directly or indirectly connected, one of which is a leap (one foot take-off) requiring a 180 degree cross or side split position.
    4. C dismount
  1. Recommend that 6.2.d.2 Òup to the levelÓ be changed to:

 

Choice of elements up to the Òcompetitive levelÓ will now be defined by the following basic standards (flat .1 deduction if missing any or all):

á       One D salto or better

á       One Acro SERIES with a C salto or better

á       An acro dismount with a C (minimum) salto in bonus combination OR a D (minimum) salto

  1. Recommended addition under 6.2a Lack of variety in choice of elements:

 

New #1:  Lack of Dance Bonus (From Groups 1 or 2) – minimum of .1 Connective Value  OR .1 Difficulty Value.ÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ.flat .1

  1. Recommend that we retain CV Bonus for Turn + Jump

In Favor: 60

Opposed: 1

Abstain: 0

Passes

Mission Statement: see seperate

In Favor: 63

Opposed:
Abstain:

Passes

Recruiting Calendar: see seperate

In Favor: 48

Opposed: 2

Abstain: 7

Passes

1) no contact until June 1st prior to junior year 2) no verbal offer until after junior year

In Favor: 30

Opposed: 17
Abstain: 13

Fails

I.7: We propose that the exhibition routine at meets be eliminated.  No exhibition routines could take place during the competition.

 

In Favor: 17

Opposed: 26
Abstain: 12

Fails

I.1 For a maximum of 2 exhibition routines per event be permitted at any NCAA regular season competition; however, it is left at the discretion of the host institution to inform the visiting team(s) 1 week in advance if exhibition performers will be allowed.  It is also up to the host institution to determine whether one or two exhibition routines will be allowed per event. An additional 30 seconds per exhibition routine will be added to the 3-minute touch period for that rotation. In other words, when adding exhibitions, touch warm-ups will be set for 3:30 if there is only one exhibition performer per event and 4:00 minutes if there are 2 exhibition routines on any one event. Vault exhibition performers will be allowed 2 times over the vault table during the touch period regardless of time. If a team has vault exhibitions and the opponents do not have any exhibitions, an additional 30 seconds will be added to the warm-up as above per exhibition – 30 seconds for one vaulter and 1:00 for two vaulters. All teams, regardless of whether or not they have an exhibition routine, will receive the total Òtime on the clockÓ for warm-ups. Finally, exhibition routines must be performed at the end of the official line-up.

 

In Favor: 52
Oppose: 5
Abstain: 3

Passes

In regular season gymnastics competitions, unless there is a special occurrence, inquiries may not be submitted when both judges have 10.0 start values

In Favor: 36
Opposed: 18

Abstain: 8

Passes*

In regular season gymnastics competitions, [if we vote that inquiries may not be submitted when both judges have 10.0 start values] we propose that the number of routine summaries be increased from 4 to 6.

 

In Favor: 57

Opposed:1
Abstain: 2

Passes

We propose that the Meet Referees for all Conference Competitions conduct a Conference Call regarding the officiating guidelines at these competitions.

 

In Favor: 53

Opposed:

Abstain: 5

Passes

Ethics Committee: Code of Contact information sheets: see separate

In Favor:  57

Opposed:  0
Abstain: 2

Passes

JAS proposes that the out of area be increased to 200 miles for category A

 

In Favor: 37
Opposed: 6
Abstain: 18

Passes

III.1This proposal requests from the NACGC/W that emergency funds be used for flights when a DIII institution hosts a meet with DI institutions in attendance. This measure will help insure the consistency of the scoring at these meets as compared to meets hosted by Division I schools. Currently, DIII schools are having difficulty securing DI institutions to travel to their meets, with the major reasoning being that the scoring is not the same as a DI meet. Regardless of the validity of this statement, DIII institutions are being put at a disadvantage when attempting to schedule DI teams.  This is a simple and cost effective method of resolving this issue

In Favor: 61

Opposed:0

Abstain: 1

 

Passes

I.4 I propose that we count all meets (regular season and conference) to determine the Regional Qualifying Score (RQS).

 

In Favor: 9
Opposed: 50
Abstain: 8

Fails

II.1 The informational meeting/sounding board meeting take place at 10am on the practice day at the NCAA Regional Championships to go over meet procedures/policies.

 

In favor: 46

Opposed: 0

Abstain: 13

Passes

II.4 Proposal to advance the top two teams from each preliminary round on the first day of the National championships to the team finals on Friday.

 

In Favor: 60

Opposed: 3
Abstain: 0

 

Passes

I. 8 We propose that six routines are competed on each event and count all six scores for a total of 240 possible

 

In Favor: 30
Opposed: 29
Abstain:3

Fails

II. 3 The winner of a sanctioned conference championship meet* will receive an automatic bid to the NCAA regional championships.  If a conference winner is in the top 36, they will assume their position assigned by their seasonÕs RQS. If a team is outside the top 36, they will assume the 36th position in the rankings. If there is more than one team outside the top 36 that win their conference championships, they will be assigned the final spots in the 36 qualifying schools, based on RQS.

Example: School A has an RQS of 194, is outside the top 36, and wins their conference championship.

School B has an RQS of 193, is outside the top 36, and wins their conference championship.

School A will be assigned the 35 position, and school B will be number 36.

* NCAA Sanctioned Conference Meets- Southeastern Conference, ECAC, Mid-American, Big 12, WAC, Pac 10, Big 10.

In Favor: 10

Opposed: 43

Abstain: 7

 

Fails

WCPC Floor Exercise

See above WCPC

In Favor:60

Opposed:1
Abstain: 0

Passes

II. 2 Four NCAA Regional sites:
1) 8 teams/individuals assigned to each regional site

2) 2 sessions Saturday (1pm and 7pm) with 4 teams/ individuals in each session

3) Winners of each session (highest ranking individuals not on qualifying team) move to Semi Finals at NCAA Champs site

- NCAA Committee may have to adjust pairings according to site hosts and geographic location

-Regional pairings and site assignments will be announced on Sunday at 4pm ET via live streaming video

-Draw for event rotations at regiaonls sites and NCAA semi finals will also be conducted at that time

NCAA Championships site:

1) Simi Final sessions conducted on Thursday at 1pm and 7pm

2) Top 2 teams from each session qualify to Finals

-NCAA Committee may have to adjust so that host competes in 7pm session

-Top 4 in each event from each session move on to event finals

3) Team finals conducted on Friday at 7pm

4) Event finals conducted on Saturday at 7pm

In Favor: 6

Opposed: 51

Abstain: 4

 

Fails

Revise collegiate modifications to include one mat rule (gymnast canÕt punch off one mat and land on another)

In Favor:58

Opposed: 0

Abstain 0

Passes

New Business #1: Touch warmup on vault guaranteed to be two turns over table: The competition touch warm-up on vault will start immediately after the team reports to the event to ensure the safety of the athletes.  Each competitor will be guaranteed two attempts over the table.  All efforts should be made to expedite this warm up period so competition of both/all events start at the same time.  ItÕs recommended the announcer of the meet state the vault warm up begins before the other touch warm-ups.

 

IN Favor: 5

Opposed: 47

Abstain:  6

Fails

New Business #2: Change in format for NCAA Championships:

1) Practice Day on Thursday

2) Preliminary Team Competition: Friday: Session 1 at noon/ Session 2 at 6:00pm

3) Team Finals: Saturday: 2:00pm

4) Individual Event Finals: Sunday: 2:00pm

In Favor: 45

Opposed: 0

Abstain: 12

Passes

New Business #3: A time keeper must be provided for the 3-minute touch at vault due to the new change in the vault touch procedure.

Unanimous Voice Vote

Passes

New Business #4: Five athletes will compete on each event and all five athletesÕ scores will count for the team score.

In Favor: 29

Opposed: 28
Abstain:6

Fails

New Business #5: The regional qualifying score will be based on the team scores from every meet, except the lowest score.  The average of the remaining scores will determine the RQS.

In favor: 8

Opposed: 34

Abstain:20

Fails

WCPC Beam Proposal: *note that this information is included in the WCPC beam package at the beginning of this list

Recommend that 5.2d (up to the level) deduction will be eliminated

Recommend that 5.2b: distribution will be up to one tenth rather than .05

In Favor: 51
Opposed: 4
Abstain:3

 

Passes

New Business #8: Requirement to have a running score board at every competition

Unanimous Voice Vote

Passes

New Business #9: Propose that we run dual meets by sending 3 athletes to vault and 3 athletes to bars from each team and alternate teams and events.

 

Tabled by unanimous voice vote

Tabled

New Business #10: WCPC proposes that the NCAA Inquiry Form and the statement (2.h under Regular Season Meet Procedures) in our handbook be revised to (1) use terminology consistent with USAG and (2) include Compositional Requirements as an allowable inquiry.

Tabled by Unanimous voice vote

tabled

New Business #11: I propose that a full twisting backhandspring as well as a full twisting backhandspring swing down on beam upgrade from a D skill to an E skill.

In Favor: 51
Opposed: 3
Abstain: 6

Passes

New Business #12: Propose that we allow a dual meet against a collegiate club team to be defined as a countable meet as long as the officials are assigned by the JAS.

 

In Favor: 65

Opposed:0
Abstain: 1

Passes

Ray Corn, Suzanne Yoculan and Bob Nelligan receive lifetime memberships

Unanimous voice vote

Passes

WCPC Proposal – General

Proposal:  NCAA Inquiry Form

WCPC proposes that the NCAA Inquiry Form and the statement (2.h under Regular Season Meet Procedures) in our Handbook be revised as follows to include Compositional Requirements as an allowable inquiry.

á      HANDBOOK: 

Inquiries must be made in writing before the beginning of the next event, and must pertain strictly (1) Start Value (difficulty, special requirements, bonus values), (2) Specific (flat) compositional deductions and (3) Clarification of neutral deductions or unusual performance occurences / falls.   When all Start Values are 10.0, only inquiries about items 2 & 3 are allowable.

á      INQUIRY FORM:

This score inquiry is based upon the following:

1.     Start Value – if less than 10.0 only (difficulty, special requirements, bonus values)

2.     Specific (flat) Compositional Deductions

3.   Neutral Deductions

4.     Unusual Performance Occurences / Falls

Routine Evaluations would stay at 6 as approved earlier.

In Favor: 44

Opposed: 10

Abstain: 8

 

Passes

New Business #13: Propose that we allow a total of 50 days to go see recruits in their gyms throughout the year.  All competitors would remain unlimited other than limits on contact and evals.

In Favor:38
Opposed: 10

Abstain: 10

Passes

New Business #16: Proposal: To use the current rules as written in the NCAA manual and add a rule that no offer can be made prior to two weeks before the 1st day of the NLI signing.

IN Favor: 3

Opposed: 29

Abstain:11

Fails

New Business # 14 Proposal: That we put in writing in our ethics document that we are not permitted to make any offers or suggestion of possible future offers until July 1st before senior year.  The same day we can initiate a phone call.

In Favor: 9

Opposed: 30
Abstain: 14

Fails

Propose to eliminate contact with a  prospective student athlete prior to June 1st of the athleteÕs junior year in high school.

In Favor: 47

Opposed: 0
Abstain: 5

Passes

New Business #15: I propose we compete six athletes on each event and all six scores count towards the team score.

No provision for injury will be needed due to the fact that under the current format we do not have an injury provision

In Favor: 47

Opposed: 12

Abstain:  2

 

Passes

Proposal: Implement a comprehensive meet format: 5 minutes after end of event finishes (last score flashed) and before next event starts

-5 minute time block is event set up and warm up

In Favor: 7

Opposed: 44

Abstain: 1

Fails

Proposal to rescind the final four to go back to the super six, if the six for six does not pass through the NCAA committee

 

In Favor:4
Opposed: 46

Abstain:11

Fails

Proposal:

All new business that has not been previously submitted before the convention starts, should be discussed and then tabled for next year.  If the simple majority supports the new rule change (rule change year), an e-mail vote will be made between the finish of our meeting and prior to the NCAA committee

Motion to table

IN favor: 42
Opposed: 4

Abstain: 8

 

Tabled