All,
I am less concerned about the resolution of a one year problem with Navy's conflict, and more interested in trying to help MAISA women's teams have a qualification process that accomplishes two ends: 1. Identifies the teams best able to represent MAISA at nationals. 2. Helps teams prepare to qualify out of semi-final round. I think the new women's nationals semi-final format gives up an opportunity to improve our selection system. We could certainly easily move the event. FYI--I AM NOT LOBBYING TO HOST as I do not think this is the best ultimate solution; but just so everyone is aware, SMC now has 18 FJ's (2009) and 18 420's (2004). I have notified Ann Campbell of our intent to host all of our regattas going forward using both fleets. I look forward to brainstorming together to improve the game for women in our district. Enjoy, Adam On 8/4/09 9:01 AM, "Ikle, Scott" <[email protected]> wrote: The simplest "fix" is to keep the same date, but move the location. If we want to improve the regatta in terms of selecting teams for nationals, I would suggest that we move the event to a 420 Location- either KP, NYM, HWS or Cornell. I would be happy to run the event here at HWS. If we held the event here at HWS, all three Nationals qualifiers would be at 420 venues this year. NYM is hosting The Prosser and Cornell the America Trophy. That would leave KP and HWS as possible location for Women's. I do realize that would mean back to back years for the MAISA Women's at HWS, and also the three championship events would be held in the North Region in the spring. However, ODU is already hosting back to back Fall Women's in 2009 and 2010. Plus we are already traveling to the South Region for all the Fall Championships- Sloops, Dinghy, Women's and Women's singlehanded. Neither of this factors seem to create a hardship for anyone. The other possibility which is consistent with what MAISA has done in the past is to maintain the rotation and have the regatta return to the host of the event two years ago- in this case SMC. We did this with the America Trophy with GTN/ HWS in 2007 and the Prosser in 2009 GTN/ NA. Would this be the fairest solution for MAISA? Maybe they will have a fleet of 420's by the spring? Scott From: Adam Werblow [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 12:24 PM To: Michael Callahan Cc: Ian Burman; Ward, William J; Ikle, Scott; Brindley, Mitchell; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: MAISA Wm's '10 I agree with Mike. I would like to see us figure out a better system than the one we have. I don't think any of us believe we are using the best method to prepare or select for the nationals (finals or semis). Adam Sent from my iPod On Aug 3, 2009, at 12:11 PM, Michael Callahan <[email protected]> wrote: All - I'd prefer to keep it on weekend 12 or move to weekend 10 or even better create a formula to qualifiy for nationals and avoid the really bad 7 team MAISA Women's Championships. I can predict that on both of those weekends conditions on the Potomac will be crappy. Mike On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Ian Burman <[email protected]> wrote: FYI. We're scheduled to host MAISA Women's and the Intrepid here at Navy on the same weekend in '10. The Intrepid uses almost all of our resources, so we were hoping to move MAISA Women's to either a different weekend or a different location so that the event has the attention it deserves. Dan's comments re. potential different weekends are below. I personally would prefer that we do not do Women's on weeks 10, 11 or 13 since there are coed qualifiers on all of those weekends and I know that many of us might use some of the same sailors in those qualifiers. What are your thoughts? Ian From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 8:53 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: MAISA Wm's '10 Ann & Ian, I've attached my working copy of the MAISA Regional schedule as I understand it to be at the moment. I've got the intersectional schedule up to date and the schedule for the smaller teams pretty well nailed, at least for the spring. I've highlighted the Women's Spring in Red at it present date on Week #12. Regarding the options: Week #13 is the week of the Semis. I don't think that would work. Week #11 is America Week and that wouldn't be attractive. If the top teams are counting on some of their best women for the America and the Semis, that kills them. Week #10 might be the best with only the President's Trophy at BU. How big is this for the top women's teams? Week #9 has the spring qualifiers, the Arrigan and the Dellenbaugh. Again, how big is the Dellenbaugh for the top women's teams? This is also Easter this year. Week #8 has the Duplin (same question of importance), the Zambecki and the Admiral Moore. Since the Duplin is listed as "Promotional". would this be best or is it too early in the year? Week #7 is the Trux and Week #6 is the Navy Women's and from here it seems too early. I think we need feedback from the top women's teams to determine which weekend offers the fewest or the least impactful competing regattas. I suggest forwarding this info to the appropriate teams for comment. Dan In a message dated 7/31/2009 8:04:08 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, MAISA Ann writes: Dan, Is it easy to move the MAISA Spr women's for 2010 so Navy can still host? That would be my preference rather than mess up the rotation which took some doing to get it done last spring. -Ann- ________________________________ _________________________________________________ maisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.collegesailing.org/mailman/?listname=maisa
