Rules Meetings

2009-10 Online Rules Meeting Schedule

Online Rules Meetings are available in all sports!

Spring Sports Online Schedules:

Sport
 1st Date
Last Date
Baseball February 1 April 1
Golf February 1 April 1
Boys Lacrosse February 1 April 1
Girls Lacrosse February 22 April 1
Soccer February 1 April 1
Softball February 1 April 1
Tennis February 1 April 1
Track & Field February 1 April 1
View and Complete an Online Meeting

2009-10 On-Site Rules Meetings Schedule

Coaches and officials may attend the face-to-face meetings listed below, or satisfy the requirement by taking an online rules meeting.  BEFORE YOU GO TO ON-SITE MEETINGS, double-check this listing for locations and times. 
 
BASEBALL/SOFTBALL RULES MEETINGS
(All meetings at 6 p.m. except where noted)
MT PLEASANT - CANCELLED
LANSING (Causeway Bay Hotel) - Michigan Softball Coaches Assoc. Conference - Feb 5, 2010 - 3 pm
CALEDONIA (Caledonia High School) – Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010
WARREN (Warren Woods Tower High School) – Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010  CANCELLED
DEWITT (DeWitt High School) – Wednesday, Mar. 24, 2010

BASKETBALL RULES MEETING
BCAM - LANSING (Holiday Inn South) – Friday, Oct. 2, 2009 (3:30 p.m.)

BOWLING RULES MEETINGS
Tuesday, October 20, 6 p.m. – MHSAA Office, East Lansing
Monday, October 26 – 6 p.m. at Sunnybrook Lanes, Sterling Heights

COMPETITIVE CHEER RULES MEETINGS
(All meetings at 6 p.m. except where noted)
CCCAM Conference-East Lansing (Kellogg Center) - Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009 (5 p.m.)
MCCA-Grand Rapids (Amway Grand) – Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 (6 p.m.)

FOOTBALL RULES MEETINGS
(All meetings at 6 p.m. except where noted)
These meetings are Football ONLY.
FLINT (Luke M. Powers Catholic High School) – Monday, Aug. 3, 2009
DEARBORN (Divine Child High School) – Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009
KENTWOOD (East Kentwood High School) - Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009
ESCANABA (Escanaba High School) - Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2009
OKEMOS (Okemos High School) - Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009
INDIAN RIVER (HS) - Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009
BEVERLY HILLS (Wylie E. Groves High School) – Saturday, Aug. 15, 2009 (8:30 a.m. – FB officials clinic only)
*CARSONVILLE (Carsonville Port-Sanilac HS) – Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009 (8-Player Rules Included)

GOLF MEETINGS
Coaches Association Clinic – Feb. 2010 TBA
Coaches Association Clinic – May 2010 TBA

GYMNASTICS RULES MEETING
EAST LANSING (MHSAA) - Monday, Nov. 16, 2009 (6 p.m.)
FARMINGTON (Maxfield Training Center) – Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009  (1 p.m.) 

ICE HOCKEY RULES MEETING
WARREN (Warren Woods-Tower High School) - Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009 (6 p.m.)
EAST KENTWOOD (East Kentwood High School) - Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009 (6 p.m.)

BOYS LACROSSE RULES MEETING

GIRLS LACROSSE RULES MEETING
EAST LANSING (MHSAA) – Wednesday, March 24, 2010 (6 p.m.)

BOYS AND GIRLS SOCCER RULES MEETINGS
EAST LANSING (MHSAA) – Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009 (6 p.m.)
EAST LANSING (MHSAA) – Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010 (6 p.m.)

BOYS AND GIRLS SWIMMING AND DIVING RULES MEETINGS
(All meetings 6:30 p.m. except where noted)
EAST LANSING (MHSAA) – Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009
BATTLE CREEK (MISCA) – Sept. 18, 2009 (10:30 a.m.)
EAST LANSING (MHSAA) –Date & Time TBD (Nov)

BOYS AND GIRLS TENNIS RULES MEETINGS
None

TRACK AND FIELD RULES MEETINGS
ATOM - CLARE (Doherty Hotel) – Feb. 2010 8:30 a.m.
MITCA - LANSING (Holiday Inn South) –Feb. 12, 2010 5 pm

VOLLEYBALL RULES MEETINGS
(All meetings 6 p.m. except where noted)
MIVCA Clinic – Battle Creek (McCamley Plaza Hotel) – Friday, July 31, 2009 8 a.m.
EAST LANSING (MHSAA) – Monday, Aug. 10, 2009

WRESTLING RULES MEETINGS
(All meetings at 6 p.m. except where noted)
CALEDONIA (Caledonia High School) – Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009
WARREN (Warren Woods Tower High School) – Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009
MT PLEASANT (Comfort Inn) Mich. Wrestling Association Conference – Friday, Nov. 6, 2009 - 2 pm
DEWITT (DeWitt Junior High School) – Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009

Rules Meeting Policy

By Representative Council Action:

Rules Meetings Required for Officials and Coaches:  Each head coach of a varsity team in a sport under MHSAA jurisdiction shall complete the MHSAA rules meeting for that sport for the current school year. If the head coach does not complete the rules meetings, an administrator or designee from that coach’s school shall do so.

SECTION 8 (B)—Each head coach of a varsity team in a sport under MHSAA jurisdiction shall complete (in person or online) the MHSAA rules meetings for that sport for the current school year if meetings are provided and attendance is required. If the head coach does not complete a rules meeting that coach shall be prohibited from coaching in that season's MHSAA tournament for the sport involved and shall not be present at the facility where the MHSAA tournament involving that coach's team is being held. An administrator of that school shall be present with supervisory capacity over the school's competitors. 

By Representative Council Action :  There is no exam substitute for head coach attendance in sports for which an online rules- meeting option exists.  A head coach who fails to complete a meeting when offered on-line or in person shall be prohibited from coaching in that season's MHSAA tournament for the sport involved and shall not be present at the facility where the MHSAA tournament involving that coach's team is being held.  An administrator of that school shall be present with supervisory capacity over the school's competitors.

SECTION 8 (C)—If a school fails for two consecutive years to have any representative (head coach or other school coach or administrator) complete or attend a rules meeting (either in person or online) at the start of a sport season as designated for that sport, that school will be placed on probation and will be barred from participation in the next MHSAA tournament in that sport.

NOTE: If a school is represented at meetings preceding the fall season for a sport and that sport is conducted in another season for another gender, the school fulfills the minimum requirements of the regulation.

It is necessary for officials to attend rules meetings in person or online if they wish to be considered for tournament play in that sport.  Officials who are extended invitations to officiate MHSAA Tournament contests in  baseball, basketball, football, soccer, softball, volleyball, and wrestling shall be members in good standing of a Local Approved Association.