BULLETIN
November 1998 Volume LXXV Number 3

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OFFICIAL REPORT OF BOARD OF CANVASSERS
East Lansing, Sept. 18, 1998

We, whose signatures appear below, declare the following to be nominees for, or members elect of, the Representative Council or the Upper Peninsula Athletic Committee of the Michigan High School Athletic Association, Inc., as a result of ballots received in accordance with the provisions of Article IV, Section 6, of the Constitution, or as authorized by the Upper Peninsula Athletic Committee at its meeting on Oct.3, 1941.

REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL

NORTHERN SECTION - CLASS A AND B SCHOOLS (#1)
Total number of legal ballots received 38
Robert Riemersma, Manistee 38
Illegal or incomplete ballots received 1
Elected by majority of votes— Robert Riemersma, Manistee

SOUTHWESTERN SECTION - CLASS A AND B SCHOOLS (#2)
Total number of legal ballots 60
Karen S. Leinaar, Delton 22
Michael S. Shibler, Rockford 38
Illegal or incomplete ballots received 3
Elected by majority of votes— Michael S. Shibler, Rockford

SOUTHEASTERN SECTION - CLASS A AND B SCHOOLS (#3)
Total number of legal ballots received 85
Eric C. Federico, Gibraltar 85
Illegal or incomplete ballots received 8
Elected by majority of vote— Eric C. Federico

UPPER PENINSULA - CLASS C AND D SCHOOLS (#4)
Total number of legal ballots received 28
Keith Alto, Newberry 28
Illegal or incomplete ballots received 1
Elected by majority of votes—Keith Alto

NORTHERN SECTION - CLASS C AND D SCHOOLS (#5)
Total number of legal ballots received 69
Tammy Jackson, East Jordan 28
William D. Newkirk, Sanford 41
Illegal or incomplete ballots received 4
Elected by majority of vote— William D. Newkirk

STATEWIDE AT-LARGE (#6)
Total number of legal ballots received 495
Dennis F.Kniola, Stevensville 495
Illegal or incomplete ballots received 36
Elected by majority of votes— Dennis F. Kniola

JUNIOR HIGH/MIDDLE SCHOOLS (#7)
Total number of legal ballots received 167
Keith Eldred, Williamston 167
Illegal or incomplete ballots received 12
Elected by majority of votes—Keith Eldred

PRIVATE AND PAROCHIAL HIGH SCHOOLS (#8)
Total number of legal ballots received 57
Tom Rashid, Detroit 57
Illegal or incomplete ballots received 2
Elected by majority of votes—Tom Rashid

UPPER PENINSULA ATHLETIC COMMITTEE

ATHLETIC COACH (#9)
Total number of legal ballots received 32
Dick Koski, Negaunee 32
Illegal or incomplete ballots received 1
Elected by majority of votes—Dick Koski

CLASS D SCHOOLS (#10)
Total number of legal ballots received 19
Joe Reddinger, Iron Mountain 12
Ron Warner, Lake Linden 7
Illegal or incomplete ballots received 1
Elected by majority of votes— Joe Reddinger

CLASS A AND B SCHOOLS
(1-Year Term) (#11)
Total number of legal ballots received 6
Don Edens, Kingsford 2
James E. French, Escanaba 0
Tim Hall, Sault Ste. Marie 1
Tom Watson, Gladstone 3
Illegal or incomplete ballots received 0
No Majority—Names of Tom Watson & Don Edens submitted to schools

BOARD OF CANVASSERS (Signed)
Rev. Leon Olszmanowski, Principal, Pontiac- Notre Dame
Charles Reddick, Principal, TawasArea
Paul Hornak, Athletic Director, Ithaca
Roger Rush, Athletic Director, Leroy-Pine River
Absent: David Clark, Principal, Albion

We, whose signatures appear below, declare the following to be nominees for, or members elect of, the Representative Council or the Upper Peninsula Athletic Committee of the Michigan High School Athletic Association, Inc., as a result of ballots received in accordance with the provisions of Article IV, Section 6, of the Constitution, or as authorized by the Upper Peninsula Athletic Committee at its meeting on Oct.3, 1941.

UPPER PENINSULA ATHLETIC COMMITTEE

CLASS A AND B SCHOOLS
(1-Year Term)
Total number of legal ballots received 6
Don Edens, Kingsford 4
Tom Watson, Gladstone 2
Illegal or incomplete ballots received 0
Elected by majority of votes— Don Edens, Kingsford

(Signed)
John E. Roberts, Executive Director, MHSAA

Members Present:
Robert Grimes, Battle Creek
Dennis Kniola, Stevensville
Tom Rashid, Detroit
Keith Eldred, Williamston
Eric Federico, Gibraltar

Staff Members Present:
Jerry Cvengros, East Lansing
Jack Roberts, East Lansing (Recorder)

Executive Committee Authority and Responsibility - The Executive Committee was reminded of its authority under Article VII of the MHSAA Constitution and specifically its responsibility to consider each application for waiver of an eligibility requirement on its individual merits, determining if the regulation serves the purpose for which it was intended in each case or if the regulation works an undue hardship on any student who is the subject of a request for waiver. (These underlying criteria may not be restated for every subject of this agenda.)

The Executive Committee was reminded that it was the responsibility of each member school involved to provide sufficient factual information about the specific request for the Executive Committee to reach a decision without further investigation. If information is incomplete, contradictory or otherwise unclear or has been received too late to be studied completely, the Executive Committee may deny the request for waiver or delay action. Such requests may be resubmitted to the Executive Committee with additional information at a subsequent meeting or appealed to the full Representative Council.

A determination of undue hardship is a matter addressed to the discretion of the Executive Committee within the educational philosophy and the place of voluntary extracurricular competitive athletics in the academic environment. The Executive Committee was cautioned to avoid making exceptions that would create precedent that effectively changes a rule without Representative Council action or local board of education adoption, which would exceed Executive Committee authority.

Students for whom waiver of a particular regulation is granted must be eligible in all respects under all other sections and interpretations of the regulations prior to participation.

Consistent with rulings of the Attorney General, schools are not bound by the decisions of the Executive Committee, but the Association may limit participation in the post-season tournaments it sponsors to those schools which apply rules and penalties as promulgated by the MHSAA and adopted by each member school's board of education.

Chassell and Painesdale-Jeffers High Schools (Regulation I, Section 1[E]) - The Executive Committee approved a cooperative program in girls volleyball between these schools. Neither school sponsored the sport previously and Chassell will be the primary school. The combined enrollment will be 272, placing the school in Class C of the UP Tournament. These schools and Ontonagon already participate in an ice hockey cooperative program.
Newberry and Engadine High Schools (Regulation I, Section 1[E]) - The Executive Committee approved the addition of wrestling to a cooperative program that has existed between these schools in boys and girls cross country since 1997. Newberry has sponsored the sport previously and will be the primary school. The combined enrollment of 494 will move Newberry to Division 3 of the MHSAA Team Wrestling Tournament.
Brighton and Howell High Schools (Regulation I, Section 1[F]) - The Executive Committee approved a cooperative program in boys swimming and diving between these schools. Brighton has sponsored the sport previously and will be the primary school (Howell has sponsored only girls swimming and diving). The combined enrollment will be 3,068.
Hartland, Highland-Milford, White Lake-Lakeland and Linden High Schools (Regulation I, Section 1[F]) - The Executive Committee reviewed the addition of Linden High School to the cooperative agreement in girls gymnastics that has existed with the other three schools since 1992. Hartland would be the primary school. There is no league.
The application was approved with two conditions: (1) that there be no limit on the number of participants allowed to try out for or make the team from any single school; and (2) that in lieu of a conference resolution since no league exists for this sport, the primary school survey its scheduled opponents in girls gymnastics to obtain their endorsements for this expanded cooperative program.
Oscoda and Tawas City-Tawas Area High Schools (Regulation I, Section 1[F]) - The Executive Committee approved a cooperative program in boys swimming and diving between these schools, neither of which sponsored the sport previously and which have a combined enrollment of 1,179. Oscoda will be the primary school.
Redford Union and Redford-Thurston High Schools (Regulation I, Section 1[F]) - The Executive Committee reviewed a cooperative program application in ice hockey between these schools, whose combined enrollment would be 2,136. Redford Union has sponsored the sport previously and would be the primary school.
The application was tabled with the intent that, before action is taken, Redford-Thurston High School must demonstrate that it could not support its own separate team and Redford Union High School must demonstrate that its program would have insufficient participants to be sustained without a cooperative program.
Grand Haven High School (Regulation I, Section 7) - A late request to waive the previous semester record regulation was made on behalf of a 10th-grade student who struggled academically in the second semester of the 1997-98 school year.
The Executive Committee denied the request for waiver on the basis of the limited information that had been made available, including the absence of documentation that the student and school had exhausted opportunities to make up academic deficiencies through summer school or other means.
Warren-Cousino High School (Regulation I, Section 7) - Request to waive the previous semester record regulation was made on behalf of a student who struggled academically during the process of disclosure of and counseling for sexual abuse by his father prior to his father and mother's divorce. Efforts to make up academic deficiencies in summer school were aborted when the student and his mother were forced into hiding.
The Executive Committee granted the request for waiver.
Adrian High School (Regulation I, Section 9) - Request to waive the transfer regulation was made on behalf of an 11th-grade student who enrolled at Adrian High School on March 26, 1998. She previously attended Sand Creek High School. The request was that she be made eligible for the start of volleyball season on Nov. 23, 1998, 109 school days after March 26.
The Executive Committee denied the request for waiver.
Ann Arbor-Huron High School (Regulation I, Section 9) - Request to waive the transfer regulation was made on behalf of an 11th-grade student who resided with his father in the Pioneer High School attendance area and this year is living with his mother in the Huron High School attendance area. He attends Community High School. The parents have been separated four years but are not divorced.
The Executive Committee reviewed the wording of exception No. 8 of the transfer regulation which specifically calls for a completed divorce and evidence of a dated divorce decree, and the committee discussed the reasons for such wording and abuses that could occur if less than final divorces were required. The committee determined that if separation of some length were to be equated with a divorce, such must be done by the full Representative Council through the regular legislative process. The request for waiver was denied.
Ann Arbor-Huron High School (Regulation I, Section 9) - Request to waive the transfer regulation was made on behalf of a 10th-grade student who has lived previously with his father and attended Ypsilanti-Willow Run High School and who has relocated to his mother's residence in the Huron attendance area. The parents have been separated but not divorced for five years.
Citing its discussion of the previous item and determining that granting waiver would exceed its authority, the Executive Committee denied the request for waiver.
Ann Arbor-Pioneer High School (Regulation I, Section 9) - Request to waive the transfer regulation was made on behalf of a 12th-grade student who has lived with his parents in Macedonia for the past three years. The parents are attempting to obtain visas. The student is living with an aunt.
The Executive Committee concluded that it should not grant waiver in the absence of guarantees that the parents would relocate soon if at all, or within the Pioneer attendance area; so the request for waiver was denied.
Atlanta High School (Regulation I, Section 9) - Request to waive the transfer regulation was made on behalf of an 11th-grade student of divorced parents who utilized exception No. 8 and the Educational Transfer Form in 10th grade when moving from Atlanta to Munising, but he was found to be academically ineligible and did not participate during the first semester of that school year. He and one parent moved to Mt. Morris where, after practicing briefly with the baseball team, he was found to be ineligible. He has returned to Atlanta to live with his other parent, and the school would like to be able to utilize exception No. 8 which was not used a year ago.
The Executive Committee noted that the student never participated with the one-time exception and is returning to the original school; and the committee concluded that the student could be deemed eligible upon completion of a new Educational Transfer Form.
Bay City-All Saints High School (Regulation I, Section 9) - A late request to waive the transfer regulation was made on behalf of a 12th-grade student who moved from her parents' residence in the Saginaw-Swan Valley School District to her grandmother's residence in Saginaw. There are three nonpublic schools closer than All Saints High School to the grandmother's residence.
The Executive Committee denied the request for waiver.
Benton Harbor High School (Regulation I, Section 9[B]) - Request to waive the transfer regulation was made to permit eligibility at the sub-varsity level during the first semester of 1998-99 on behalf of a 10th-grade student who, as a 9th-grader, attended a Lutheran school that does not have a sports program.
The Executive Committee granted the request for waiver to allow sub-varsity participation only during the first semester of the current school year.
Birmingham-Seaholm High School (Regulation I, Section 9[B]) - A late request to waive the transfer regulation was made to permit eligibility at the sub-varsity level during the first semester of the 1998-99 school year on behalf of a 10th-grade student who attended Bloomfield Hills-Brother Rice High School for 1997-98. He practiced and played briefly in a preseason interscholastic scrimmage before a back injury ended his season.
The Executive Committee denied the request for waiver.
Brownstown-Woodhaven High School (Regulation I, Section 9) - Request was made to waive the transfer regulation on behalf of a 10th-grade student who attended Wyandotte-Mt. Carmel High School and participated in three sports during 9th grade while her sister was in 12th grade there. Financial reasons were cited for the transfer.
Reaffirming the stated rationale for the transfer regulation and its previous position that it will not allow financial status to affect eligibility decisions, the Executive Committee denied the request for waiver.
Canton-Plymouth Canton High School (Regulation I, Section 9) - Request to waive the transfer regulation was made on behalf of an 11th-grade student who transferred from Dearborn-Divine Child High School for personal and academic reasons. On Aug. 12, 1998, the Executive Committee denied the request for waiver. The matter was resubmitted with the request that the student become eligible after 90 school days of enrollment since she entered Plymouth Canton on April 23, 1998.
The Executive Committee denied the request for waiver.
Charlotte High School (Regulation I, Section 9[B]) - Request was made on behalf of two 10th-grade students who previously attended a local Christian school that provided on an interscholastic level only basketball for 5th through 9th-grade boys. The request was that they be allowed to participate at the sub-varsity level at Charlotte High School during the first semester of the 1998-99 school year. One of the two boys played on the previous school's basketball team last year. At its Aug. 12, 1998 meeting, the Executive Committee granted immediate eligibility at the sub-varsity level during the first semester of the 1998-99 school year only for the student who did not participate at all in any interscholastic sport at the previous school after 8th grade. The school resubmitted the matter with respect to the ineligible student, citing that he was the only 9th-grader on a team of 7th and 8th-graders who played against other junior high age students. The team was open to any person who attended a certain church, even if not enrolled at that school.
The Executive Committee denied the request for waiver, noting that the student participated as a 9th-grader on a team associated with a school, and the fact that the school had different eligibility rules for team membership did not change the fact that he had participated as a 9th-grader.
Dearborn Heights-Annapolis High School (Regulation I, Section 9) - Request to waive the transfer regulation was made on behalf of an 11th-grade student who attended Annapolis High School for 9th grade, attended Michigan Automotive Academy for 10th grade and is returning to Annapolis High School for 1998-99 because Michigan Automotive Academy has relocated from five minutes from his residence to 30 minutes from his residence.
The Executive Committee granted the request for waiver, noting that the student was returning to his original school after a significant relocation of the school he attended last year.
Dearborn Heights-Annapolis High School (Regulation I, Section 9[B]) - Request was made to waive the transfer regulation to permit eligibility at the sub-varsity level during the first semester of the 1998-99 school year on behalf of a 10th-grade student who, as a 9th-grader, attended The Academy for Business and International Studies where he did not participate in school sports.
The Executive Committee granted the request for waiver to allow sub-varsity participation only during the first semester of the current school year.
Detroit-Benedictine High School (Regulation I, Section 9) - Request to waive the transfer regulation was made on behalf of an 11th-grade student who was prohibited from returning by U of D Jesuit High School where he attended for two years.
The Executive Committee noted that it should not provide exceptions for students who failed to reach academic standards that would not be available to students who met academic requirements; and the request for waiver was denied.
Detroit-Benedictine High School (Regulation I, Section 9[B]) - Request to waive the transfer regulation to permit eligibility at the sub-varsity level during the first semester of the 1998-99 school year was made on behalf of a 10th-grade student who in 1997-98 attended Detroit Redford High School where he did not participate in high school athletics.
The Executive Committee granted the request for waiver to allow sub-varsity participation only during the first semester of the current school year.
Detroit-Loyola High School (Regulation I, Section 9) - Request to waive the transfer regulation was made on behalf of a 10th-grade student who enrolled at Loyola for the 9th grade but became a ward of the state and attended Boysville in Monroe. He is now returning to live with his mother. Loyola is not the closest nonpublic school to his mother's residence.
The Executive Committee granted the request for the student to be immediately eligible at the school where he was previously enrolled.
Detroit-Southwestern High School (Regulation I, Section 9) - Request to waive the transfer regulation was made on behalf of a 12th-grade student who previously attended Detroit-Cass Technical High School. She has relocated from her father's residence to an aunt because, it is alleged, the student's father is a substance abuser and has no medical insurance for his daughter. She played basketball in 10th grade.
The Executive Committee granted the request for waiver contingent upon documentation being submitted which is satisfactory to the executive director to confirm the allegations of substance abuse and/or to substantiate that the father is unable to adequately care for his daughter.
Detroit-Urban Lutheran High School (Regulation I, Section 9) - A late request to waive the transfer regulation was made on behalf of a 10th-grade student who attended Romeo High School in 1997-98. He has moved with his family to Detroit, but Urban Lutheran High School is not the closest nonpublic school to the family's residence.
The Executive Committee denied the request for waiver because there was insufficient information on which to base any other decision.
Gibraltar-Carlson High School (Regulation I, Section 9) - Request to waive the transfer regulation was made on behalf of a student who is a ward of the state recently returned to his father's care and residence in the New Boston-Huron School District with the recommendation that the student not attend Huron High School where he got into trouble.
The Executive Committee granted the request for waiver contingent upon documentation being submitted which is satisfactory to the executive director to substantiate the concerns for the student's attendance at Huron High School.
Grand Rapids-Ottawa Hills High School (Regulation I, Section 9) - A late request to waive the transfer regulation was made on behalf of a student whose parents remain in Hawaii, hoping to relocate before the end of the current semester. The student is living with her older brother and his family.
The Executive Committee concluded that it should not grant waiver in the absence of guarantees that the parents would relocate soon, if at all, and would do so within the Ottawa Hills attendance area; therefore, the request for waiver was denied.
Grosse Pointe North High School (Regulation I, Section 9) - Request to waive the transfer regulation was made on behalf of a 12th-grade student who previously attended Grosse Pointe South High School and, as an 11th-grader, was harassed there and was subject of a death threat by a student there.
The Executive Committee granted the request for waiver contingent upon documentation being submitted which is satisfactory to the executive director to confirm that Grosse Pointe South High School substantiates the facts and supports the request.
Harper Woods-Notre Dame High School (Regulation I, Section 9[B]) - A late request was made to waive the transfer regulation to permit eligibility at the sub-varsity level during the first semester of the 1998-99 school year on behalf of a 10th-grade student who attended Warren-De La Salle Collegiate High School as a 9th-grader where he participated in no sports.
The Executive Committee granted the request for waiver to allow sub-varsity participation only during the first semester of the current school year.
Harper Woods-Notre Dame High School (Regulation I, Section 9[B]) - A late request was made to waive the transfer regulation to permit eligibility at the sub-varsity level during the first semester of the 1998-99 school year on behalf of a 10th-grade student who attended Macomb-Dakota High School as a 9th-grader where he played baseball.
The Executive Committee denied the request for waiver.
Holt High School (Regulation I, Section 9[B]) - Request to waive the transfer regulation to permit eligibility at the sub-varsity level during the first semester of the 1998-99 school year was made on behalf of a 10th-grade student who, as a 9th-grader, attended Holt-St. Matthew where she participated in its athletic program which consists of students in grades 7 through 12 in the sports of basketball, volleyball and track.
The Executive Committee denied the request for waiver.
Jackson Baptist High School (Regulation I, Section 9[B]) - Request was made to waive the transfer regulation to permit eligibility at the sub-varsity level for a 10th-grade student who did not participate in athletics as a 9th-grader in 1997-98 at Parma-Western High School where she was harassed by students, withdrew in March and completed the school year at the Jackson Learning Center.
The Executive Committee granted the request for waiver to allow sub-varsity participation only during the first semester of the current school year.
Jackson-Lumen Christi High School (Regulation I, Section 9) - Request to waive the transfer regulation was made on behalf of an 11th-grade student who has relocated from his parents in Miami, Fla., to Jackson where his grandparents are in poor health, requiring frequent trips to Jackson by his parents.
The Executive Committee denied the request for waiver.
Lake Leelanau-St. Mary High School (Regulation I, Section 9) - Request to waive the transfer regulation was made on behalf of a 10th-grade student who previously attended Leland High School. He had been playing soccer in which the two schools have a cooperative program.
The Executive Committee noted that the Representative Council in May determined that the circumstances presented in this matter should not become the 16th exception to the transfer regulation and that now granting waiver of the transfer regulation would exceed the Executive Committee's authority, essentially establishing an exception which the Council rejected; therefore, the request for waiver was denied.
Mackinaw City High School (Regulation I, Section 9) - Request to waive the transfer regulation is made on behalf of a 12th-grade student who has relocated to a residence in the Pellston School District that is 17 miles from Pellston High School and six miles from Mackinaw City High School.
The Executive Committee denied the request for waiver.
Macomb-Lutheran High School North (Regulation I, Section 9) - A late request was made to waive the transfer regulation on behalf of a 12th-grade student who attended Lutheran High School North through the first semester of 11th grade. Financial difficulties required a transfer to Warren-Cousino. Proceeds from a grandfather's life insurance policy made it possible for the student to reenroll at Lutheran High School North, which his sister had previously attended for four years. Except for last semester, this student had attended Lutheran schools for his entire education. Reaffirming its previous position that it will not allow financial status to affect eligibility decisions, the Executive Committee, at its Aug. 12, 1998 meeting, denied the request for waiver. The school resubmitted the request.
The Executive Committee denied the request for waiver.
Macomb-Lutheran High School North (Regulation I, Section 9) - Request to waive the transfer regulation and specifically Interpretation No. 67 was made on behalf of a 9th-grade student who attended two days of soccer practice at Harper Woods-Lutheran East High School and then enrolled at Lutheran High School North for the first day of class Aug. 24. The student relocated from his mother to his father, who have never married.
Because of the brevity of involvement at Lutheran East High School and the relocation of the student's residence, the Executive Committee granted the request for waiver effective Sept. 21, 1998.
Manistee-Catholic Central High School (Regulation I, Section 9) - Request to waive the transfer regulation and specifically Interpretation No. 67 was made on behalf of a 9th-grade student who attended Manistee High School girls basketball tryouts before enrolling at Catholic Central High School.
Because of the brevity of involvement at Manistee High School, the Executive Committee granted the request for waiver effective Sept. 21, 1998.
Monroe-St. Mary Catholic Central High School (Regulation I, Section 9) - Request to waive the transfer regulation was made on behalf of a 10th-grade student who attended Britton-Macon High School in 1997-98 where she participated in three sports. The student has relocated from her family, who is caring for an elderly man, to her aunt who lives close to St. Mary.
The Executive Committee denied the request for waiver.
Morrice High School (Regulation I, Section 9) - Request to waive the transfer regulation was made on behalf of a student who moved to his mother's residence in Morenci on Jan. 16, 1998, where he participated in wrestling and then returned to his stepfather's residence in Morrice where he began attending classes on Feb. 27, 1998, although official enrollment was March 2, 1998.
The Executive Committee determined that the student had met the required semester of attendance and was eligible insofar as the transfer regulation is concerned.
Niles-Brandywine High School (Regulation I, Section 9[B]) - Request was made to waive the transfer regulation to permit a 10th-grade student to participate at the sub-varsity level during the first semester of the 1998-99 school year. He transferred from South Bend-Grace Baptist High School where he did not participate in athletics.
The Executive Committee granted the request for waiver to allow sub-varsity participation only during the first semester of the current school year.
Northville High School (Regulation I, Section 9) - Request to waive the transfer regulation was made on behalf of a 10th-grade student whose family is building a house in Northville that was expected to be completed in August but is now scheduled for completion in October; so the student remains living in the Plymouth School District.
The Executive Committee granted the request for waiver with the conditions that if the family failed to reside in Northville by the last day of the current semester, the school would forfeit all contests in which the student participated during the first semester and the student would be ineligible for interscholastic competition at any MHSAA member school during the first semester of the 1999-2000 school year.
Oxford High School (Regulation I, Section 9[B]) - Request to waive the transfer regulation to permit eligibility at the sub-varsity level was made on behalf of a 10th-grade student who attended Clarkston-Springfield Christian Academy in 1997-98 where he did not participate in any interscholastic athletics.
The Executive Committee granted the request for waiver to allow sub-varsity participation only during the first semester of the current school year.
Redford-St. Agatha High School (Regulation I, Section 9) - Request to waive the transfer regulation was made on behalf of a 10th-grade student who has moved from Livonia to Farmington Hills with his mother, who is separating from his stepfather of 14 months. Prior to living with his mother and stepfather, the student lived for less than two years with his biological father in what is reported to be an abusive situation. Prior to that, the student lived with his mother.
The Executive Committee noted that for more than 13 of his 15 years, the student has been residing with his mother and that the only option is for him to relocate with her; and the request for waiver was granted.
Richland-Gull Lake High School (Regulation I, Section 9[B]) - Request was made to waive the transfer regulation on behalf of a 10th-grade student to permit immediate eligibility at the sub-varsity level during the first semester of the 1998-99 school year. The student previously attended Gull Lake Christian School where he did not participate in any sport.
The Executive Committee granted the request for waiver to allow sub-varsity participation only during the first semester of the current school year.
Richland-Gull Lake High School (Regulation I, Section 9[B]) - Request was made to waive the transfer regulation on behalf of a 10th-grade student to permit immediate eligibility at the sub-varsity level during the first semester of the 1998-99 school year. She previously attended Kalamazoo Christian High School where she did not participate in any sport.
The Executive Committee granted the request for waiver to allow sub-varsity participation only during the first semester of the current school year.
Saginaw-Buena Vista High School (Regulation I, Section 9) - A late request to waive the transfer regulation was made on behalf of a 12th-grade student who attended Buena Vista High School in 9th grade until being transferred to a Christian high school to avoid what his parents believed were gang activities and an unsafe environment at Buena Vista. He has been returned to Buena Vista because the parents believe he has matured and the school environment has been improved.
The Executive Committee denied the request for waiver.
Suttons Bay High School (Regulation I, Section 9) - A late request to waive the transfer regulation was made on behalf of a 10th-grade student who last year attended Lake Leelanau-St. Mary High School which had a cooperative program with Suttons Bay in several sports, including football, which the student desires to play, and track and field in which the student participated last year. No change of residence has occurred.
Pursuant to the Representative Council's action in May to not make the circumstances presented here the 16th exception to the transfer regulation, the Executive Committee determined that granting waiver in this case would exceed its authority; therefore, the request for waiver was denied.
Traverse City West High School (Regulation I, Section 9[B]) - Request was made to waive the transfer regulation to permit eligibility at the sub-varsity level during the first semester of the 1998-99 school year on behalf of a 10th-grade student who in 1997-98 attended Traverse City Christian High School where she played basketball.
Inasmuch as the criteria of Section 9(B) are not satisfied by this student, the request for waiver was denied.
Walled Lake Western High School (Regulation I, Section 9) - Request was made to waive the transfer regulation for a student born out of wedlock, unknown to his biological father. After the student's mother died of a heart attack, his father learned of the student's existence. The student lived briefly with his father until he asked his son to leave the house, at which time the student was taken in by the best friend of his deceased mother who lives in Novi within the Walled Lake Western attendance area.
The Executive Committee granted the request for waiver.
Waterford-Kettering High School (Regulation I, Section 9[B]) - Request was made to waive the transfer regulation to permit eligibility at the sub-varsity level during the first semester of the 1998-99 school year on behalf of a 10th-grade student who previously attended Farmington Hills-Mercy High School where she did not participate in interscholastic athletics.
The Executive Committee granted the request for waiver to allow sub-varsity participation only during the first semester of the current school year.
West Branch (Rose City)-Ogemaw Heights High School (Regulation I, Section 9) - Request to waive the transfer regulation was made on behalf of a 10th-grade student who lived with her grandmother for many years. She attempted to live with her mother in Mt. Clemens and New Baltimore. She has returned to live with her grandmother in the West Branch-Rose City School District because her mother was remarrying and relocating again.
The Executive Committee noted that for more than 13 of her 15 years, this student has been residing with her grandmother, who has been acting as her only parent and provided her only viable option for residence; so the request for waiver was granted.
Williamston High School (Regulation I, Section 9) - Request to waive the transfer regulation was made on behalf of a 10th-grade student who moved with his family from Arkansas to an apartment in Okemos while awaiting completion of the home they are building in Williamston.
The Executive Committee granted the request for waiver with the conditions that if the family failed to reside in Williamston by the last day of the current semester, the school would forfeit all contests in which the student participated during the first semester and the student would be ineligible for interscholastic competition at any MHSAA member school during the first semester of the 1999-2000 school year.
Detroit-Redford High School (Regulation II, Section 7(B) - Pursuant to Regulation V, Section 4(A), early in 1997, Redford High School was placed on probation for the 1997-98 school year for failures to rate any officials for two years in boys basketball and one year in girls basketball; and when the school failed to rate any baseball officials later that spring, the school was contacted in writing that loss of MHSAA tournament participation privileges might follow future violations. Then, in the fall of 1997, the school failed again to submit any ratings for girls basketball officials. Therefore, on March 31, 1998, the school was placed on probation for the 1998-99 school year with the stipulation that it must show cause by Aug. 1, 1998, why it should not be prohibited from participation in the MHSAA tournament in any sport where there is a violation of this regulation during 1997-98, meaning that the school at this time may not participate in the 1998 MHSAA Girls Basketball Tournament.
The school's response of April 23, 1998, stated the school was without an athletic director some of the 1997-98 school year, and it included assurances that Redford High School will be represented at all future coaches meetings (which is not the regulation at issue here). The school failed to submit any ratings for girls volleyball this past winter, suggesting that the problems may continue. Pursuant to earlier notice by staff, the school was given notice on May 22, 1998, that it would not be permitted participation in both the MHSAA Girls Basketball and Volleyball Tournaments in 1998-99 unless it conveyed a satisfactory response by Aug. 1, 1998.
At its June 10, 1998, meeting, the Executive Committee found the school's response to be deficient and determined that, as a condition for participation in the 1998 MHSAA Girls Basketball Tournament, the school's administration must meet with the Executive Committee to show cause why it should not be prohibited from MHSAA post-season tournaments in sports where violations of this regulation continue.
Athletic Director Roy Walter met with the Executive Committee which, after providing ideas for improving the school's compliance, determined the school may participate in MHSAA postseason Girls Basketball and Girls Volleyball Tournaments during the 1998-99 school year if the following two conditions are met by Oct. 1, 1998: (1) The school must submit in writing, signed by the principal and athletic director, its plan to assure compliance with the officials ratings requirements of MHSAA member schools; and (2) The school must affirm in writing, signed by the principal and athletic director, its commitment that the athletic director will attend the Athletic Director In-Service program at the MHSAA office in August of 1999, or a mutually agreeable alternative program.
Troy High School (Regulation II, Section 11) - The Executive Committee approved the executive director's handling of a request by the two Troy high schools to practice in girls swimming and diving in the same pool at the same time due to construction at one of the district's pools after the start of classes in the fall of 1998.
Ellsworth and Central Lake Junior High Schools (Regulation III, Section 1) - The Executive Committee approved a cooperative program in boys and girls track and field commencing with the 1998-99 school year.
New School - Pursuant to procedures approved by the Representative Council in March 1997, the Executive Committee approved the membership of Dearborn-Henry Ford Academy of Manufacturing Arts and Sciences, a public school academy of 200 9th and 10th-graders (it intends to add 11th and 12th grades during the next two years for an enrollment of 400) which intends to sponsor basketball and baseball for boys and volleyball and softball for girls.
Television and Radio - The communications director reviewed MHSAA postseason tournament telecast plans for 1998-99 which were soon to be released to the public and would include no fewer than eight sports. He also reported that plans for a statewide radio network for Girls Basketball Semifinals and Finals would be fulfilled in 1998.
Next Meetings - The next meeting of the Executive Committee is at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 14, in East Lansing. Thereafter, the committee will meet at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 17, in East Lansing and 8 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 2, in Traverse City.

From the Executive Director

There's a lot of attention being given by technocrats and bureaucrats to the crisis in technology that may occur if there is failure to adequately plan and convert data processing systems for the year 2000. I wish we would worry as much and prepare ourselves as well for other challenges of the next millennium.
As I think about my professional goals for the year 2000 and beyond, a lot of thoughts of doing things bigger or better pass through my mind. But I think the following event motivates me most as I look to the challenges for the year 2000 and beyond.
Several years ago I spoke to a parents group at an elementary school. Most were parents of elementary school students. Most were moms.
During our discussion, the mothers pleaded with me—that's not too strong a word—to help develop policies that would preserve a place on high school teams for their children. "Just a jersey," one mom said. "Just a spot on the team."
These parents were almost sick with worry that if their sons and daughters did not play one sport, year-round, starting now, they wouldn't make the team in high school. And they believed that not making the team would doom their children to absenteeism, drug use, pregnancy, and every evil known to youth.
They saw the high school program becoming a program for only elite athletes, only the specialists, with no room for their kids who would meet the standards of eligibility but lack the necessary athletic experience to make the team because they didn't belong to a private club, go to all the right camps, or make a certain travel team in the third grade.
Did these parents overstate the problem? Yes. But there's some validity in their worries.
Those moms gave me a goal, and later my own sons personalized that goal: to work for this generation of high school students and the next, to preserve a place in our programs for all students, regardless of athletic ability, who meet all the essential standards of eligibility and who want a place on the team, who want to work and sweat after school rather than cruise and loiter, and who want to participate in more than one school sport and activity.
Can we have winning as a goal? You bet. Can we have rules that disqualify some kids? Yes; and as one of the last places in society where discipline is taught and consequences are learned, we must have rules that are enforced.
But we can do better; for example, enlarging volleyball varsities from 10 to 20 players, splitting 9th-grade basketball or JV soccer squads to give two teams 10 games each rather than one team 20 games, giving more kids playing time so that more will come out and stay out for the sport.
We can allow students to taste the variety of experience that school has to offer: academic and non-academic, athletic and non-athletic, to be a star in one activity and a substitute in another, to be on-stage and back-stage, in solo and ensemble, experiencing winning and losing, success and failure.
Recalling that evening in the elementary school, and many similar conversations in years hence, I know that our work is not trivial. Providing opportunity for as many students as possible to participate as meaningfully as possible, and to do so with safety, sportsmanship, competitive equity and academic integrity—fundamentally the same objectives as we've had for decades—are wonderfully challenging goals for the end of this decade and the start of the next.
Not much conversion is necessary; just more commitment.

WHAT'S IN A NAME? Astute administrators and coaches will examine the names given to drills and exercises required of players to assure nothing inappropriate is associated with school sports. Eliminate words like "killer" and "suicide," even "basher" or "cruncher;" and in some cases, it may be appropriate to eliminate the activity altogether.

Reviewing the Regulations

Some state high school associations across the country have tossed out their transfer or residency rules, most involuntarily, to the point that students may be eligible wherever they start the school year. Meanwhile the MHSAA, which historically has had one of the shorter periods of ineligibility after transfers (one semester), has been busy refining its regulation so that it will apply to more of the multiple moves and athletic-motivated transfers and to fewer of the innocent, one-time changes that might serve a student's better interests.
The MHSAA is far from reaching perfection on this matter, but the following review demonstrates progress in attempting to keep up with a changing society while continuing to pursue the basic philosophy that students are to be in school first and foremost for academics and, secondarily for some students, also to participate in the privilege of voluntary extracurricular interscholastic athletics.
Prior to the second semester of 1982, if two school principals granted waiver, then eligibility for a transferring student was immediate. But that didn't work well: virtually no students were declared ineligible as a result of local pressures. Principals generally, and the Michigan Association of Secondary School Principals particularly, requested a change.
That change came in the form of an expanded transfer regulation in 1982 that stated every student was ineligible for one semester unless their circumstances met one of 12 exceptions. The next year a 13th exception was made for students enrolling for the first time in a boarding school. In 1996, the MHSAA Representative Council added 14th and 15th exceptions, for certain previously expelled students who had met certain requirements, and for students enrolling the first day of the first grading period of a school being opened and operated for the first time.
In 1991, the Representative Council gave the Executive Committee authority to grant eligibility 90 school days after enrollment for students in certain circumstances not covered by any of the 15 stated exceptions.
In 1998, the Representative Council gave the Executive Committee the authority to grant eligibility immediately at the sub-varsity level for certain 9th and 10th-grade students who had not participated previously in any interscholastic athletics at the 9th or 10th-grade levels.
In addition to expanding the stated exceptions, modifying the period of ineligibility for some students, and providing limited or sub-varsity eligibility in specific cases of some 9th and 10th-graders, the MHSAA has also tackled some of the problem of recruiting and athletic-motivated transfers.
In 1992, undue influence went from being a single paragraph of the transfer regulation to its own special section with elaborating interpretations. Much more guidance has been provided to schools and staff to deter recruiting of students for athletic purposes.
In 1997, a section was added to the transfer regulation to describe "athletic-motivated" transfers and to establish a system by which the one-semester period of ineligibility could be extended to two semesters for students who transferred primarily for athletics.
MHSAA member schools continue to express in surveys, calls and letters that a carefully worded and consistently implemented transfer regulation is important to keeping educational athletics in proper perspective within schools and their communities. The better we refine the application of the transfer regulation, the more effective it will be to curbing abuses and the more confident the Executive Committee can be in granting waiver for deserving students without establishing unfavorable precedent that might undermine enforcement of transfer rules when they are most needed.n

NOTE: Schools voluntarily join the MHSAA and, to that end, it is necessary that each school district sign each year a Membership Resolution adopting the rules and regulations of the MHSAA as their own and agreeing to primary enforcement of those rules. While a school district is not bound by the decisions rendered by the MHSAA regarding rule violations, the MHSAA may condition eligibility for its tournaments on compliance with its rules and its determinations concerning rules violations and the penalties to be imposed for violations of the rules. See Attorney General Opinions No. 4795 (1977) and No. 6352 (1986).
Many school districts have additional rules that may also apply to the subject matter of this column.

Television and radio coverage of MHSAA championships reaches a new high in 1998-99 through a combination of packages which will provide event exposure for eight sports, and promotion for all Association tournaments.
In September, the MHSAA entered into a three-year agreement with FOX Sports Detroit to air selected championship events and provide a substantial amount of on-air promotional time.
Last March, the first event televised in the MHSAA-FOX Sports Detroit partnership was the 1998 Boys Basketball Finals. Under the terms of the new agreement, FOX Sports Detroit will televise live MHSAA Finals in girls and boys basketball, as well as football.
In addition, FOX Sports Detroit, which reaches over 2.4 million cable homes, has been providing since early September the MHSAA with on-air time to promote the Association, its programs and will be airing commercials to promote upcoming championships events on a weekly basis.
Both entities will also work toward the involvement of new corporate partners for the MHSAA, enabling the Association to promote, on a year-round basis, the valuable elements of participation in educational athletics. The MHSAA already has year-round sponsors in Farm Bureau Insurance, which promotes athletic and academic achievement through the Scholar-Athlete Award; and the United Dairy Industry of Michigan, which promotes healthy eating lifestyles through the Sports Nutrition Award. On-going efforts are being made to seek sponsors for programs promoting sportsmanship, safety, and coaches and officials education.
"Our partnership with FOX Sports Detroit will bring high school sports into more television homes in Michigan than ever before, and in a more meaningful way," said John E. "Jack" Roberts, executive director of the MHSAA. "What FOX Sports Detroit brings to the table in this partnership is the ability to assist the Association in recognizing the efforts of its schools and student-athletes at a higher level than ever before."
"High school athletics is sports in its purest form and FOX Sports Detroit is proud to associate with the MHSAA," said Tom MacLean, Vice President/General Manager of FOX Sports Detroit. "The package of championship games and other promotional efforts reaches out to the many communities throughout Michigan where loyalties run deep for their local high school teams."
Now in its 12th year, the MHSAA Championship Network will televise five championships events for cable viewers across the state, and expand its radio efforts to cover the semifinals and finals of both the Girls and Boys Basketball Tournaments.
Working in cooperation with the programming consortium of the Michigan Cable Telecommunications Association, the MHSAA Championship Television Network will provide coverage of Association finals in Girls and Boys Soccer, Girls Volleyball, Girls Competitive Cheer and Ice Hockey. Participating cable systems include Comcast Cablevision, Media One and TCI Cablevision. Approximately 1.4 million cable homes will be able to view the telecasts. A complete list of participating cable systems and the local channels on which games can be viewed locally and air times will be announced at a future date.
In addition, MCTA member systems will provide the MHSAA with air time on cable channels to promote upcoming Association championships.
Between the FOX Sports Detroit and MCTA packages, a total of eight events—four for girls and four for boys—are now scheduled to be televised in 1998-99.
"Just a year ago, we were very concerned about the future of our television package," Roberts said. "We now have put into place a program which will be our best ever."
On the radio side, the finals of the MHSAA Girls and Boys Basketball Tournaments will be broadcast on a statewide network of stations, and the semifinal games of both tournaments will be aired locally in the communities in which those games are played. Arrangements are also pending for the final games to be available through the MHSAA Web Site—www.mhsaa.com.
Stations already committed to airing the Girls Basketball Finals on Dec. 5 are: Flagship stations WMMI/WCZY-FM, Mt. Pleasant; WMPL, Hancock; WIDG, St. Ignace; WCBY, Cheboygan; and WBBL, Grand Rapids. Additional stations will be announced as they are added to the network. WMMI/WCZY will also carry all eight semifinal games on Dec. 3-4.
Sponsors of all MHSAA broadcasts on FOX Sports Detroit and the MHSAA Championship Network broadcasts are Farm Bureau Insurance and the United Dairy Industry of Michigan.

MHSAA TIE-BREAKER -Team Tournament - (The National Federation suggested tie breaker has not been adopted for MHSAA competition.) In the event two teams tie in the team tournament, only one team shall advance to the next level of competition. The team to advance will be determined by applying the following criterion in order. If a tie occurs in the MHSAA Final Match, no tie-breaker is used, and both teams will receive a trophy and medals. In the district and regional rounds, the tie-breaker must be used, and a duplicate trophy and medals will be ordered for the team which advances. The team to advance to the next level of competition in the event of a tie shall be:

1. The team (individual on the team) whose opponent has been penalized the greater number of times for unsportsmanlike conduct.
2. The team which has accumulated the greater number of victories.*
3. The team which has accumulated the greater number of falls.*
4. The team which has accumulated the greater number of technical falls.
5. The team which has accumulated the greater number of major decisions.
6. The team which has accumulated the greater number of total match points.
7. The team which has accumulated the greater number of near-fall points.
8. The team which has accumulated the greater number of takedowns.
9. The team which has accumulated the greater number of reversals.
10. The team which has accumulated the lesser number of team penalties.
11 If a tie remains, the official shall, with the captain from each squad, meet in the center of the mat to decide the team to advance by flipping his colored disc and letting it fall to the mat. Green shall represent the home team, while red shall represent the visiting team.

* A default or forfeit shall count as a fall which is a win.

Members Present:
Keith Alto, Newberry
Russ Bailey, Ewen-Trout Creek
Dan Flynn, Escanaba
Dick Koski, Negaunee
Don Poshak, Calumet
Ron Warner, Lake Linden-Hubbell

Staff Member Present:
Jerry Cvengros, (Recorder)

1. Assignment of Girls District, Regional and Quarterfinal Basketball Tournament Sites and Officials
Class A - Escanaba will play at Marquette in the first round of District 12 play while four Lower Peninsula schools enter play through an open draw. The Escanaba-Marquette winner will enter the bracket in the second slot.
Class B - Kingsford will host the four-team tournament (Kingsford, Gladstone, Westwood and Menominee)
Class C - District tournaments will be held at St. Ignace, Negaunee, Ironwood, and West Iron County
Class D - District tournaments were assigned to Cedarville, Brimley, Superior Central, Republic-Michigamme, Ewen-Trout Creek, and Ontonogan.
Class C Districts 93, 94, 95 and 96 and Class D Districts 125, 126, 127 and 128 will play Regional Competition at Northern Michigan University on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov. 23, 24 and 25.

Monday, Nov. 23--6:00 Class C; 8:00 Class C
Tuesday, Nov. 24--6:00 Class D; 8:00 Class D
Wednesday, Nov. 25-- 6:00 Class C; 8:00 Class D

Upper Peninsula Class D District winners from Cedarville and Brimley will play at the Regional 31 site at Pellston.
If the winner at Region 31 is from the Upper Peninsula, the quarterfinal 16 game will be played at Escanaba. If the winner is from the Lower Peninsula, the game will be played at Cheboygan.
The Committee reviewed a list of Upper Peninsula Approved officials who are presently registered and were in attendance at 1998 Basketball Rules Meetings and have indicated their availability to officiate tournaments. Officials were selected for District and Regional sites. In addition, James Dompier of Keweenaw Bay was selected to officiate a Semifinal game and Phil DeGabriele of Marquette to officiate a Final game at the MHSAA Final Tournament.
2. 1998 UP Cross Country Run will be hosted by Ishpeming H.S. at the Red Fox Golf Course in Gwinn on Saturday, Oct. 17.
Three classes for both boys and girls will be run in the following order: Girls Class D, Boys Class D, Girls Class C, Boys Class C, Girls Class A-B, Boys Class A-B.
3. Golf - Boys and Girls MHSAA Finals are scheduled for Friday, June 4, 1999, at the following locations:

Class A-B (Boys & Girls)--Menominee
Class C--Norway - (Boys); Iron Mountain (Girls)
Class D (Boys & Girls)--TBA

4. Gymnastics - Menominee High School will host the 1999 UP MHSAA Finals on Saturday, March 6.
Correspondence regarding using four scores rather than three for the team score was discussed. The Committee referred the issue to MHSAA staff and Final tournament management.
5. Ice Hockey - The Committee reviewed the format for the 1999 Ice Hockey tournament and assigned Hancock High School to host the class B-C-D Regional at Michigan Technological University.
6. Skiing - Regional and final sites will be selected by the MHSAA Ski Committee.
7. Boys and Girls Swimming & Diving - Tournament will be hosted by Marquette High School on Feb. 20, 1999.
8. Tennis - Girls Tennis sites were scheduled for Kingsford and Negaunee on Oct. 2, 1998. Boy's Tennis Finals are scheduled for Kingsford and Ishpeming for June 4, 1999.
9. Track & Field - Marquette High School will host the 1999 UP Finals on Saturday, June 5. This is the second year of a two-year agreement. The committee will receive requests from UP schools interested in hosting future track finals.
10. Volleyball - UP Final Volleyball meet is scheduled for Saturday, March 20, 1999. This will be the first year of the expanded format with three separate championships. Currently, there are seven Class A-B, 19 Class C and 23 Class D schools sponsoring volleyball.
The committee selected Escanaba H.S. to host the Class A-B tournament on March 20. All seven schools will compete; there will be no Regional tournament.
Regional and Final sites for Classes C & D will be selected at the committee's next meeting in Marquette on Oct. 15. There is a need for schools to volunteer to host finals in both Classes C & D.
11. Wrestling - The UP Individual Final Meet will be held at Menominee on Feb. 19-20, 1999. This is the second year of a two-year agreement. Committee members were appraised of a change in the weigh-in procedure that eliminates the Saturday weigh-in.
12. Additional Items - The committee reviewed a survey, prepared by MHSAA staff and an ad hoc Representative Council Committee regarding UP schools' participation in statewide tournaments. The ad hoc committee met in June to review current practices regarding separate tournaments for both boys and girls in a variety of sports as well as those sports that UP teams participate in at the state level. It was recommended that a survey be prepared and distributed to UP schools to determine changes in current opportunities. The ad hoc committee recommended that UP schools, beginning in 1999-2000, participate in the statewide volleyball and cross country tournaments.
The UP Committee reviewed the survey which was sent to 55 UP school districts on Sept. 17, 1998.
Future Meetings - The committee will meet in Marquette on Thursday, Oct. 15, 1998 and again in Escanaba on Friday, Jan. 15, 1999.

Responding to a request of the Kent Intermediate Superintendents' Association, the MHSAA Representative Council voted in May to conduct another survey to determine member schools' preferences for sports seasons.
This specific request was to determine if school administrators, including superintendents, favored the alignment of high school seasons with their intercollegiate counterparts, which would have the following effect in Michigan:

•Move LP Boys Golf from Fall to Spring
•Move Girls Tennis from Fall to Spring
•Move LP Girls Swimming & Diving from Fall to Winter
•Move Girls Basketball from Fall to Winter
•Move Girls Soccer from Spring to Fall
•Move Girls Volleyball from Winter to Fall.

Of 573 responding schools, 101 (17.6%) favored the change while 472 (82.4%) did not.
Of the 20 school districts of the Kent Intermediate Superintendents' Association, which in September of 1997 signed a letter requesting the alignment of high school sports according to intercollegiate seasons, only five voted in the affirmative on this summer's survey.
The most recent effort represents at least the fifth time in 20 years that the MHSAA has sought its membership's input regarding the placement of girls basketball and girls volleyball seasons.

•In 1979, a mail survey of all member high schools indicated that 90.2% preferred girls volleyball in the winter and girls basketball in the fall.
•In 1981, a mail survey of all member high school principals indicated 88% opposed a combined season for girls and boys basketball.
•In 1985, a mail survey of all member high school principals indicated that 85.5% opposed rescheduling girls basketball and boys basketball in the same season.
•In 1994, 63.8% of 782 respondents at MHSAA Update Meetings opposed changing girls basketball to winter and girls volleyball to fall.

The placement of MHSAA season-ending tournaments has been determined throughout history by the time of year when most schools have conducted their sports.

MHSAA Wrestling in the Spotlight

While 48 NCAA Division I colleges and universities nationwide have dropped intercollegiate wrestling programs in the past 16 years, school sponsorship of interscholastic wrestling in Michigan is thriving. In the Michigan High School Athletic Association, 445 member high schools sponsored wrestling in 1997-98, up 12 schools in two years.
One factor fueling this growth is that high school wrestling in Michigan is among the safest and healthiest in the nation for those who participate. This is the result of education and regulation.
First, there is a nutrition education program for wrestlers, their parents and their coaches that for the past four years has been coordinated statewide by the MHSAA and the United Dairy Industries of Michigan, and delivered locally by trained nutrition liaisons who present and promote the information.
Participation in this education program is encouraged by an award program underwritten by UDIM to recognize the most effective, imaginative and comprehensive nutrition education programs among the MHSAA's 445 wrestling schools. Eight schools received $2,000 grants and eight wrestlers received $1,000 scholarships through this program this year.
After several years of phase-in, the 1997-98 wrestling season saw MHSAA member schools implement the mandatory Weight Monitoring Program that included skinfold measurements of body fat of more than 14,000 high school wrestlers and regulated their minimum weight and rate of weight reduction. Radical variations of wrestlers' weights are a thing of the past in Michigan high school wrestling.
Another of the factors credited with not merely maintaining high school wrestling programs but actually increasing school sponsorship is the renewed emphasis on team competition which followed the MHSAA's introduction of a team tournament in 1988, a good idea gaining increasing popularity nationwide over the past decade.
At the time of its adoption, a team tournament separate from the individual championships was not widely accepted by the high school wrestling community of Michigan. The vision of what could occur in Michigan was limited to what had occurred here in the past.
Today in Michigan we are confronted with similar thinking about plans to host all four divisions of the 1999 MHSAA Individual Wrestling Finals in one facility over 2 1/2 days.
A decade ago, the Individual Wrestling Finals were conducted simultaneously in four different towns; and small school competitors, coaches and spectators didn't see larger schools' matches, or vice versa.
By 1997, the Finals were consolidated into two sites, Battle Creek's Kellogg Arena for Divisions I and II and Kalamazoo's University Center for Divisions III and IV; but because neither site could accommodate crowds for two divisions simultaneously, sessions for each division were conducted separately from one another.
Meanwhile, in many states, huge crowds were assembling in large arenas to witness wrestling showcases. So popular are these multi-class, one-site events that, for example, Wisconsin's three-day Wrestling Tournament attracts more spectators than Michigan's three-day Boys Basketball Tournament.
Because it's never been done in Michigan and few Michigan people have observed the success of our neighbors, there is some skepticism of plans to conduct the 1999 Individual Wrestling Finals for all four divisions at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit.
A total of 12 mats will be laid on the arena floor, accommodating the desire to have all of the action take place under one roof. Spectators will be able to purchase tickets for seats closest to the division where they have the most interest. When set up in the wrestling configuration, the Joe Louis Arena will accommodate approximately 16,500 spectators for the event.
The new format will provide for a less compressed wrestling experience for participants and fans than in the past. The 2 1/2-day format will see all of the first-round activity conducted on a Thursday afternoon and evening; and progress so that just four mats, one in each division, are prepared for a Saturday night session of exclusively championship activity which the Joe Louis Arena and FOX Sports Detroit have agreed to televise.
Approximately one-third of the wrestling schools belonging to the MHSAA are located within a 45-minute drive of the Joe Louis Arena. Parking is convenient and reasonably priced. There are 3,300 parking spaces available in the Joe Louis Arena parking structure. The event parking charge will be $3 per vehicle per session.
Along freeways from all directions to Joe Louis Arena are thousands of hotel rooms. Within a 10-minute walk or short "People-Mover" ride of the Joe are hundreds of hotel rooms where rates to participating schools will be $72 per night in 1999.
Because Michigan wrestles all 14 weight classes, wrestles to eight places and has four divisions, in terms of participants, the 1999 MHSAA Individual Wrestling Finals will be the largest high school wrestling tournament in America. Michigan high school wrestling is indeed on the move.

 The Michigan Wrestling Weight Monitoring Program was a featured component of a presentation on the "Status of Youth Wrestling in the United States of America" by James R. Scott, Associate Professor of Movement Science at Grand Valley State University, delivered at the Moscow Conference on "Wrestling with Children and Youth" July 10, 1998. Here is a portion of what Dr. Scott had to say:
"The state of Michigan, through the Michigan High School Athletic Association, has instituted a 'Wrestling Weight Monitoring Program' (WWMP). It is based on similar programs in Wisconsin and Connecticut. The intent is to improve participation in the sport of wrestling by providing education, regulation and training related to nutrition and weight management. A brochure accompanies this presentation which details the three components of the WWMP.
"The first component, 'Nutrition Education,’ provides wrestling coaches in our state with a required annual seminar which presents the scientific information related to diet, nutrition, hydration, and rapid weight loss in wrestling. This component also provides wrestlers with a required presentation of scientific information related to diet, nutrition, hydration, and rapid weight loss and performance in wrestling. The second component, 'Regulation,' provides the minimum wrestling weight recommendation established by the American College of Sports Medicine. This component also establishes a maximum weight loss schedule for attainment of minimum wrestling weight. The third component, 'Training Skinfold Assessors,' establishes a group of capable individuals to assess the secondary school wrestlers six weeks prior to the opening of the wrestling season. This assessment leads to computation of the wrestler's percent body fat, a minimum body weight, and minimum weight class assignment.
"In Michigan, over 300 individuals attended the 'Training Skinfold Assessors' educational seminars. Approximately 170 of these individuals assessed skinfolds on about 14,000 secondary school wrestlers during a two-week period, six weeks prior to the opening of the wrestling season. The computation of minimum weight and reports back to the school were accomplished electronically in the Michigan High School Athletic Association office. These reports are to be used by coaches to monitor appropriate weight class placement of their own and opposing teams.
"This author has been involved in the development of the WWMP for the last five years in an effort to contribute to the growth of the sport of wrestling. The sport of wrestling has come under attack for a number of reasons. One of these is certainly the 'making weight' issue presented above. Those of us in the sport science and wrestling area of study must search for ways to increase participation and participant safety in our sport. Providing programs that discourage unhealthy weight loss practices and promote the scientific basis for sport nutrition education can be productive for the future of wrestling. If such programs lead to a larger number of wrestlers in our pool of participants, it can be productive for the future of wrestling. If such programs encourage young wrestlers to remain in the sport for a longer period of time, it can be productive for the future of wrestling. We are currently investigating these issues by research conducted in conjunction with the WWMP in Michigan. It is at least one answer to the question of 'What can the scientific community do to help?'
"In the state of Michigan, the press and the general public viewed us as being way ahead of the problem when questioned about the recent deaths of wrestlers, one of whom was in our state. We have developed a program that is now viewed as the model for other state secondary school governing bodies. It is also viewed as a model for the programs currently being set up for the colleges and universities. Michigan's program involves an ongoing evaluation of wrestlers' and coaches' diet, nutrition, and weight monitoring behaviors.
"In addition, the Michigan Minimum Weight Monitoring Program has provided a database for the largest study of weight distribution and body composition in the USA. We have data on over 14,500 current youth wrestlers and will continue to gather this data over successive years. It can help us define the weight class distribution and body composition distribution of this population both now and in the future."

After the welcome and introductions, the committee was reminded of its responsibility and reviewed the accepted criteria for selecting the 1998 hosts for MHSAA Girls Basketball Tournament contests.
Drawings were conducted for District qualifiers to Regional Tournament competition as well as Semifinal bracket placement in all classes.

Four Team Regional:
Tournament Advance Master Draw

Lowest District No. vs. 2nd Lowest District No.
2nd Highest District No. vs. Highest District No.

Semifinal Bracket Placement in All Classes:

Class A --3 vs. 4; 1 vs. 2
Class B -- 6vs. 8; 5 vs. 7
Class C--9 vs. 12; 10 vs. 11
Class D--13 vs. 15; 14 vs. 16

The committee then selected Quarterfinal, Regional and District centers in all classes except schools located in the Upper Peninsula.
Discussion was presented regarding Representative Council action concerning selecting sites for the 1999 Boys Basketball Tournament in November 1998 and 1999 Girls Basketball Tournament in the spring of 1999 with selection of the 2000 Boys Basketball Tournament in the fall of 1999.
Further discussion centered on Representative Council action which approved that spring sports will not begin practice until after Boys Basketball Districts have been completed.

1998 MICHIGAN HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS BASKETBALL TOURNAMENTS

The Representative Council has attempted to set up schedules of division of proceeds and allowances for team expenses of schools participating in the 1998 Girls Basketball Tournaments which will be as adequate as possible in view of probable receipts. The financial format will be the same as that scheduled for the Boys Basketball Tournaments. It should be kept in mind by schools that participating in MHSAA Tournaments is voluntary and that expenses of teams competing in tournaments are not guaranteed although the MHSAA generally has reimbursed competing teams and entertaining schools where local receipts did not meet the allowed expenses. The cooperation of all schools competing in the 1998 Girls Tournaments is asked in order that there may be an equitable return both to entertaining and competing schools, and to the MHSAA so that its services to schools and the broad program of meets and tournaments in sports other than basketball may be continued.

ADMINISTRATION OF TOURNAMENTS
Classification of Schools
By action of Representative Council, assignment to classes is based upon the 1997-98 enrollment for all 1998 fall sports. The classification limitations for 1998-99 are as follows:

Enrollment 249 and below -- Class D
Enrollment 250-501--Class C
Enrollment 502-991--Class B
Enrollment 992 and above--Class A

Tournament Centers
128 — District Centers
32 — Regional Centers
16 — Quarterfinal Centers
1 — Semifinal Center and Final Center

Dates of Tournaments
District Tournaments—Nov. 16-21
Regional Tournaments—Nov. 23-25
Final Tournament—Quarterfinal—Tuesday, Dec. 1; Semifinals—Thursday, Dec. 3 and Friday, Dec. 4; Finals—Saturday, Dec. 5.

FINANCIAL PLAN
Transportation Expenses of Competing Teams at District, Regional and Finals Tournaments
1. At all tournament levels, competing teams will absorb their own travel expenses where the distance to the tournament site is 50 miles or less from the competing school.
2. Beginning with the 51st mile one way a competing team at District, Regional or Final Tournament level will be reimbursed at the following rate per mile from the home city to the tournament center city for each trip:
051 to 100 miles - $l per mile
101 to 150 miles - $1.50 per mile
151 to 250 miles - $2 per mile
251 to 350 miles - $2.50 per mile
351 miles and over - $3 per mile
3. Those schools which travel 100 or more miles (one way) to a tournament center are allowed up to a maximum of $200 for hotel expenses (receipts required). A school cannot receive both hotel and additional travel allowances if games are played on successive days. This applies to travel in all levels of the tournament.

Other Expenses of Teams Competing at Final Tournament
1. Meal Allowance - The maximum allowance for meals is three dollars ($3) for breakfast, four dollars ($4) for lunch, and six dollars ($6) for dinner, per person for a maximum of fifteen individuals.
2. Lodging - The maximum allowance is the current hotel rate secured for a maximum of fifteen individuals. Allowance for expenses of competing schools at the Final Tournament will continue 24 hours after the time of their elimination, provided they remain at the tournament center city. Schools which are defeated in Quarterfinal games (Tuesday, Dec. 1) will not receive expense allowances for coming to the Final Tournament Center to attend Final games. Overnight lodging will not be arranged or reimbursed for schools within 50 miles of the tournament site, unless competition begins before 10 a.m. the next day.
3. Additional Per Diem School Allowance - In addition to the above allowances, schools competing in the Final Tournament are to be paid one hundred dollars ($100) for each day their team plays in Quarterfinal, Semifinal, and Final games. Any of the four Upper Peninsula schools that win Quarterfinal games on Tuesday, Dec. 1, will be paid the additional $100 above allowed expenses for Wednesday, Dec. 2, if they cannot return home Tuesday night.
4. Payment of Bills - Competing schools at all levels of competition are to pay for their own housing, meals etc. The MHSAA will mail checks to schools competing at the Final level after the Finals are played.
Division of District and Regional Tournaments Proceeds
1. Before any division of proceeds is made, the following are to be deducted from the admission gross receipts: cost of officials; the amount paid to scorers and timekeepers (payment to each of above $10 for a single game on one date: $5 for each of the above officials for each additional game scored or timed on the same date). All other administration costs not specified above must be deducted from the school's share of the proceeds.
2. The balance is to be divided as follows: 30% to entertaining school (includes management, liability insurance, rentals, heat. lights, janitor, honorarium, etc.); 70% to MHSAA (includes allowed expenses for competing schools)
—or—25% to the entertaining college or university. (includes management, liability insurance rentals, heat, lights, janitor, honorarium, etc.) 75% to the MHSAA (includes allowed expenses for competing schools).
Division of Final Tournament Proceeds
The entertaining schools for Quarterfinal and Semifinal games of the Final Tournament will receive ten percent (10%) of the gross receipts plus $450 for administration expenses and security.
The cost of administration of the entire Final Tournament (officials, trophies, medals, management, etc.) will be deducted from the total of the balances from Quarterfinal games plus the proceeds from the Semifinal and Final games. The balance will be divided among the competing schools to the amount of allowed expenses as indicated above.

Admission Prices for Tournament Games
The Representative Council has set the following prices for all tournament game tickets: Districts $4 and Regionals $4 for students and adults; Quarterfinal games—All tickets $4 each; Semifinal tickets are $4 per session; Final game $5 per session.
District and Regional Managers are authorized to conduct a pregame ticket sale but all ticket prices are standardized for students and adults regardless of pregame sale.

DRAWING AT DISTRICT TOURNAMENTS
Drawings at both Upper and Lower Peninsula District Tournaments will be by lot with the names of all the teams placed in the hat on an even basis. Any school which has played four or more games on a District Tournament floor during the 1998 season is not to draw a first-round bye at that District Tournament.
Drawings are to be completed not later than Saturday preceding the week of the tournament and should be made in the presence of as many representatives of the competing schools as desire to attend. At Districts, drawings may not be made in any class prior to Monday Nov. 9. Notification should be sent to all competing schools as to the time and place of drawing. Attendance of school representatives is optional on their part.
The surest method of drawing so that no confusion will result is to place the names of the teams on individual slips of paper, fold each of them, and place them in a hat or container so that they may be drawn one at a time. Have some neutral party draw one name, read it aloud, display it to the group and place the name of the team drawn on the first line numbered. Repeat the procedure placing each name in its bracket as drawn. If this method is followed, there can be no confusion or mistake.
Whenever the home or any other team that is participating in a District Tournament on a floor (one on which it has played four or more games, during the 1998 season) and there are byes involved, do not place the name of such team or teams in the hat until after the byes are drawn. Home teams (or those having played four or more games in tournament or regular schedule play on the floor during the current season) are not entitled to byes on such floors in District Tournaments. This assures an open draw to all contestants and eliminates any chance of such a team drawing a bye.

OFFICIALS
Assignments and Fees
By Representative Council action in May 1989, officials will be assigned by a Committee selected for this purpose. All District, Regional, Quarterfinal, Semifinal and Final game assignments will be determined by this committee.
District Fee—Officials working one game per day in District Tournaments will be paid thirty-five dollars ($35) plus the round trip allowance of $.15 per mile (minimum allowance $3) from home city of the official to District Tournament Center City for each day the official works.
Regional Fee—Officials working one game in a Regional Tournament will be paid forty dollars ($40) plus the round trip allowance of $.15 per mile (minimum allowance $3) from home city of the official to the Regional Tournament Center City for each day the official works.
Final Tournament Fees—Officials working in Quarterfinal games, will be paid forty-five dollars, ($45), Semifinals and Final officials will be paid fifty dollars ($50) per day and expenses, the latter being limited to one round-trip allowance at $.15 per mile from home city of official to Tournament Center City (official highway map mileage). Semifinal and Final officials will receive single occupancy lodging at the current hotel rate and an allowance will be provided for meals. Officials assigned to Semifinal games only will receive lodging and meal allowance if their home city is 70 miles or more from the tournament site (map mileage).

ADVANCE MASTER DRAWING FOR 1998 REGIONAL TOURNAMENTS
Advance drawings of 1998 District Tournament qualifiers to Regionals were authorized by the Representative Council. The advance master draw was conducted by the Lower Peninsula Site Selection Committee members and the draw applies to all 1998 Girls Regional Tournaments.

Four-Team Regional Tournament
Advanced Master Drawing (Winners from District Tournaments As Drawn Below)
1. Lowest
2. 2nd Lowest
3. 2nd Highest
4. Highest

FINAL TOURNAMENT PAIRINGS
Quarterfinal, Semifinal and Final Pairings appear on the following pages. Quarterfinal pairings were made, in general, on a geographic basis. Semifinal and Final pairings were made by an open draw.

BASKETBALLS
Balls that meet National Federation Rules code standards that are of top-grade, catalogue numbered, leather covered or composite cover, molded, orange-tan color will be used in all tournaments. Each tournament manager will provide a ball of the above description for use in their Tournament.

PROGRAM
Teams still participating in the 1998 tournament after Nov. 17 are required to prepare and submit the following materials to the MHSAA office for use in the souvenir programs produced for the Semifinals and Finals:
1. Horizontal team photograph, either 5 x 7 or 8 x 10, with typed identification (photo may be black & white or color).
2. Team Data Form with the following information:
a. Numerical Roster
b. School Facts
c. Season Results
d. Head Coach Information
e. Miscellaneous Information
f. Pronunciation Guide
g. Statistical Data
h. Probable Lineups
Information kits will be sent directly to all schools, and also may be obtained via the MHSAA Web Site at www.mhsaa.com.

PRESS, RADIO, AND TELEVISION
All requests for press credentials are to be directed to the game manager (MHSAA for Final games). Radio and television requests for all games are to be directed to the MHSAA.
Live Television Coverage/Radio Coverage—No radio or television origination is permitted at any site until application has been made through the MHSAA, fee paid and authorization given by the MHSAA through the tournament manager.
Delayed Television—Arrangements for tape delayed broadcasts must be made through the MHSAA office and only one origination will be allowed at a tournament center. A fee is required for each game at each site. Tape delayed telecasts of games for which live television is contracted will not be permitted. Contact the MHSAA office for additional information.

BANDS, HALFTIME PERFORMANCES,LOTTERIES
By action of the Representative Council, pep bands are allowed at Semifinal and Final Tournaments only. This regulation was adopted to conserve space, lessen expense to schools, and avoid unnecessary confusion.
Also by Council action, halftime performances shall not be permitted. This would apply to such activities as demonstrations for dance, trampoline and any other similar performances.
Schools should not conduct lotteries or drawings for distributing money or merchandise either before, during or after any tournament basketball contest.
Nonplayers are not to shoot baskets at half time. The distribution of miniature balls is prohibited. The sale of merchandise such as tee shirts, belts, etc. is not permitted at MHSAA sponsored events, except at the Final Tournament when coordinated with the MHSAA staff.

VIDEO TAPING OR FILMING AT MHSAA SPONSORED MEETS AND TOURNAMENTS
Competing Schools—A competing school desiring to videotape or film an athletic event in which that school competes must receive permission in advance from the tournament manager. The film/tape is not to be used to second-guess decisions made by game/meet officials. The film/tape may not be sold, rented, or loaned for commercial purposes.
Media Filming—The filming/taping of MHSAA events must be cleared through the Michigan High School Athletic Association. Members of the media may, without paying a fee, arrange with the local tournament manager to take clips of MHSAA events for public showing. Under no conditions may an entire athletic event be filmed or taped for showing without advance clearance through the MHSAA and the local tournament manager.
Spectator Videotaping/Filming for All games except State Semi and Final Games —If permission is granted for spectators to film/tape the entire event or take clips, it is to be with the understanding the tape/film may not be sold, leased, borrowed, or rented for commercial purposes. The tournament manager should not permit spectators to interfere with the view of other spectators or news media personnel covering the activity, and if there is any question as to the purposes of filming or taping, the request should be denied by the local tournament management.

ADVANCE SALE OF TICKETS TO NON-COMPETING SCHOOLS FOR FINAL SERIES
An unlimited number of tickets may be ordered from the MHSAA in advance for Final Games at Rose Arena, Central Michigan University.
Afternoon Session Finals:
Class D-11 a.m.
Class A-1 p.m.
Evening Session:
Class C-5 p.m.
Class B-7 p.m.
The price of tickets to each session is $5 per ticket.
An application for schools to order tickets for Final Sessions will be sent directly to individual schools. The deadline date for ordering tickets in the advance sale is Nov. 13, 1998. There will be no advance sale of tickets for Semifinal Games on Thursday or Friday.

CONTESTANT, CHEERLEADER AND PEP BAND TICKETS
The Council has instructed that tournament managers and competing schools be advised that the limit for number of contestants' tickets is twenty. Twelve (12) tickets for cheerleaders, including mascots, are to be made available to each competing school provided there is that number dressed for cheering. Up to 12 cheerleaders may lead cheers from the floor and sidelines. Local tournament management may limit the number of sideline cheerleaders to any number under 12 if circumstances of the venue require.
Teams are limited to 15 players in uniform, two (2) statisticians, and five (5) other persons including all coaches.
Player Exception: The only exception allowed will be for those basketball teams that have had more than 15 players on their regular season rosters.
Pep bands up to the limit of 21 persons including the director will be admitted free of charge to Semifinals and Finals only.

ADVANCE PURCHASE BY COMPETING SCHOOLS OF TICKETS FOR DISTRICT, REGIONAL, QUARTERFINAL,
SEMIFINAL AND FINAL GAMES
Competing schools are urged to contact tournament managers in advance if they plan to bring groups of students or adults to tournament games. Usually tickets for such spectators should be purchased in advance to assure seating accommodations. Managers at Quarterfinal, Semifinal, and Final games will reserve tickets for competing schools. Representatives of competing schools are to contact managers immediately after their team qualifies to the next round of competition to obtain ticket information and make arrangements for ticket pick-up, sales, etc.

SALE OF TICKETS TO FINALIST TEAMS IN FINAL TOURNAMENT GAMES
Because Rose Arena will accommodate the anticipated demand for Final tickets, all tickets may be purchased at the gate on Saturday, Dec. 5.

1998 Girls Basketball Tournament Sites, Pairings and Schedules--Click here

COMPETITIVE CHEER
1-2-3 A swan dive is an aerial stunt in which the top person is cradled in a swan position (face down).
Rationale: Better definition of what the rules committee does not want to permit.
2-2-4 The single partial/whole manufacturer's logo/trademark shall not be more than 2-1/4 square inches with no dimension exceeding 2-1/4 inches.
Rationale: Accommodates a wider variety of shapes of manufacturer logo/trade marks.
2-7-5 All multi-base stunts to a cradle dismount shall have at least 2 catchers and a separate head-and-shoulders' spotter.
Rationale: Ease of interpretation, eliminates decision on where the stunt was released.
2-7-6 Dismounts landing in a layout position (face up) are permitted from shoulder height or below provided there are four catchers who were not an original base(s).
Rationale: Safety.
2-10-1 Participants are not permitted to move under or over a mount or pyramid.
Rationale: Safety.
2-10-2 The following extended stunts may brace each other: Chair, double/triple-base dead-man lift, double/triple base straddle lift, torch and extensions provided top people have both feet in both hands of their bases.
Rationale: It is as safe for the additional stunts to brace each other as extensions bracing extensions.
2-11-1b The top person in a suspended roll dismount must maintain continuous hand-to-hand/arm contact with the two original bases.
Rationale: Safety.

GIRLS GYMNASTICS
3-1-3e A specially manufactured mat may be used around the front and sides of the board
6-1-2e for the vault event.
Rationale: Safety.
3-3-1 A single partial/whole manufacturer’s logo/trademark (no more than 2 ¼ square inches in size with no dimension exceeding 2 ¼ inches) is permitted on the leotard.
Rationale: Better accommodation of varying shapes of manufacturer’s logo.
5-1-4 Coaches may now inquire concerning event requirements and bonus.
Rationale: Expands the areas of inquiry without requiring judges to necessarily agree in these areas.
5-1-6m Use of profanity, verbally abusing or disrespectfully addressing a judge/meet official is now a 2.0 deduction from the team score. If a coach is removed from the premises for misconduct and there is no authorized school personnel available, the team shall forfeit the meet unless state association regulations determine otherwise.
Rationale: More appropriate considering other conduct deductions.
6-1-1 The height of the horse shall be 47 ¼ - 49 ¼ inches measured from the floor. Each gymnast may adjust the height of the horse within the legal range.
Rationale: Safer accommodation of varying heights of gymnasts.
6-2-6 Half on - half off to front salto = 10.0 vaults.
Rationale: Appropriate for high school level gymnastics.
6-4-2 A 2.0 deduction shall be taken for the head touching the horse on a vertical vault.
Rationale: More appropriate deduction for this MAJOR execution error.
6-5-1b When a gymnast falls and is spotted simultaneously, no deduction is taken for the
7-3-4b spot and 0.5 is deducted from Execution.
8-3-4b Rationale: More appropriate deduction than taking 0.5 neutral deduction for the spot.
7-1-1 Beginning with the 2000-2001 season, round fiberglass rails are required.
Rationale: Most schools already have round rails, and it could be a safety factor if gymnasts are forced to compete on oval rails.
8-4 Revised some difficulty values in addition to deleting the following from the BHS list for beam: jump to handstand full pirouette mount, walkover facing out, one-arm handstand and handstand, full pirouette. Added the following to the BHS list: Tuck jump with 1/1 twist, Wolf jump with at least ¾ twist, pike jump (45° angle) with ½ twist.
Rationale: Consistent with the purpose for adding BHS.
9-4 Revised the difficulty values in addition to deleting the following from the BHS list for floor: tour jete to ring leap/jump with foot head high, switch leg leap, 180° split after switch, ¼ twist, front layout salto and flyspring to front salto series. -Added the following to the BHS list: wolf jump with 1 ½ twist, pike jump with 1 ½ twist, jump 1/1 twist to Schuschunova, front salto with 1/1 twist or more.

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL
1-2-2 By state association adoption, rally scoring may be used in the fifth game of any 3-out-of-5 game match.
Rationale: Reduces the time required to play a five-game match.
3-2-3 Beginning with 1999-2000 season, the ball shall include the NFHS authenticating mark.
Rationale: Interscholastic sports rules developed by the NFHS describe dimensions and specifications of certain facilities and equipment. The use of conforming equipment promotes fairness and consistency. The NFHS Board of Directors has approved the use of an authenticating mark that manufacturers may use to demonstrate to players, coaches and officials that the balls conform to NFHS rules. Use of balls bearing the authenticating mark shall remain voluntary under NFHS rules until the 1999-2000 season.
4-2-8 A single partial/whole manufacturer's logo/trademark (no more than 2-1/4 square inches with no dimension exceeding 2-1/4 inches) is permitted on each piece of the uniform.
Rationale: Better accommodation of the various shapes of manufacturer's logos.
5-3-3a Referee shall replace a scorer, timer or line judge who is not performing duties properly.
Rationale: As the head official, referee has the authority to maintain an effective officiating crew.
5-3-3c(2) The referee no longer blows the whistle for time-outs and substitutions.
5-4-3b(1) The umpire blows the whistle and gives the signal for time-outs and substitutions.
Rationale: The umpire is positioned on the same side of the court as the team benches, so it is more efficient for the umpire to make this call.
7-1-1 Rosters must be submitted 10 minutes prior to end of timed prematch warm-up.
Rationale: Accuracy of timing the deadline.
7-1-2 Team lineups must be submitted two minutes prior to the end of timed prematch warmup.
Rationale: Accuracy of timing the deadline.
9-6-5 Blocking a served ball is not permitted.
Rationale: Permitting the block of a served ball reduces the offensive power of the serve which the committee did not believe was beneficial to the high school game.
9-6-6 Attacking a served ball is not permitted.
Rationale: A play which is rarely seen and is consistent, in concept, with the elimination of the block of serve.
10-2-5a A team member may report the number(s) of the subtitute(s) and the player(s) being replaced when substitution occurs during a timeout.
Rationale: It is often more efficient for a coach to report numbers to the scorer.

Listed below are the coaches, ADs, principals, superintendents, other faculty members and board of education members of MHSAA member schools who have been selected by the MHSAA Executive Committee to serve on the 1998-99 sport committees, and committees of special interest.
Committee appointments are made on an annual basis after receiving nominations of schools and recommendations of MHSAA Representative Council members. Potential committee members are notified of their appointments early in September as the school year begins. At that time, committee members receive a description of committee responsibilities and the dates and times of the meetings. The MHSAA requests that schools do not send substitutes.
Each year school representatives who serve as committee members meet in the MHSAA building to provide staff members with an array of opinions and information. Sport committees meet to select tournament sites, specify tournament procedures, and set time schedules. Sport committees may also recommend changes to the Representative Council regarding regular-season play and tournament qualification procedures.
Each committee is comprised of representatives from Class A, B, C and D schools if possible and the members are from several geographic areas of the state. A committee may be comprised mainly of coaches or administrators, depending on the responsibilities of each particular committee. Several of the sport committees will include a representative, if not the president, of the coaches association of that sport.
Beginning with 1990-91, MIAAA and/or MASSP representatives have been appointed to committees for most sports, and officials where appropriate.

5 - Athletic Equity
Thursday, October 15, 1998, 9 a.m.
Charmaine Balsillie, Athletic Director, Whitmore Lake H.S., Whitmore Lake (C)
Carol Brewis, Athletic Director, Divine Child H.S., Dearborn (B)
Lorin Cartwright, Athletic Director, Pioneer H.S., Ann Arbor (A)
Delores Elswick, Athletic Director, Renaissance H.S., Detroit (B)
Linda Ishmiel, Athletic Director, Michigan School For The Deaf, Flint (D)
Earl Jaramillo, Assistant Principal, T. L. Handy Intermediate Sch, Bay City
Karen Leinaar, Athletic Director, Delton Kellogg H.S., Delton (B)
Terry Mileski, Assistant Principal, Escanaba H.S., Escanaba (A)
Joyce Seals, Office of Minority Equity, Department of Education, Lansing
Ruth Watson, Athletic Director, Benton Harbor H.S., Benton Harbor (A)

7 - Awards Committee
Monday, October 19, 1998, 1 p.m.
Keith Alto, Athletic Director, Newberry H.S., Newberry (C)
Keith Eldred, Athletic Director, Williamston Middle School, Williamston
Paul Hornak, Athletic Director, Ithaca H.S., Ithaca (C)
Bernie Larson, Athletic Director, Pennfield H.S., Battle Creek (B)
Jean LeClair, Athletic Director, Pinconning Area H.S., Pinconning (B)
Melanie Miller, Athletic Director, J. W. Sexton H.S., Lansing (A)
William Newkirk, Superintendent of Schools (C), Meridian Public Schools, Sanford
Dail Prucka, Athletic Director, Jefferson H.S., Monroe (B)
Bill Scaletta, Principal, Lakeshore H.S., Stevensville (B)
David Snyder, Principal, Petoskey H.S., Petoskey (B)

10 - Baseball/Softball
Thursday, January 28, 1999, 9:30 a.m.
Jack Anderson, Softball Coach, Portland H.S., Portland (B)
Sue Barthold, President Softball Coaches Assn., East Kentwood H.S., Kentwood (A)
David Briggs, Softball Coach, Addison H.S., Addison (C)
Frank Deak, President Baseball Coaches Assn., Dewitt H.S., Dewitt (B)
Darby Decker, Baseball Coach, Tawas Area H.S., Tawas City (B)
Marty DeJong, Softball Coach, Kalamazoo Christian H.S., Kalamazoo (C)
Timothy Flahive, Official, Muskegon
Doug Guenther, Baseball Coach, Valley Lutheran H.S., Saginaw (C)
David Hoard, Softball Coach, Cass City H.S., Cass City (C)
Linda Hoover, Official, Marshall
Brian Kelly, Baseball Coach, De La Salle Collegiate H.S., Warren (A)
Diane Laffey, Athletic Director, Regina H.S., Harper Woods (A)
Pam Lee-Campbell, Softball Coach, Brighton H.S., Brighton (A)
Jim Leonardo, Baseball Coach, Grandville H.S., Grandville (A)
Fred Ligrow, Prinicpal, Ubly H.S., Ubly (C)
Doug Noch, Baseball Coach, Utica Eisenhower H.S., Shelby Township (A)
Jeff Phillips, Athletic Director, Mt. Pleasant H.S., Mount Pleasant (A)
Dail Prucka, Athletic Director, Jefferson H.S., Monroe (MIAAA) (B)
Roger Rush, Principal, Pine River Area H.S., Leroy (C)
Ron VanSloten, Athletic Director, Rudyard H.S., Rudyard (C)

15 Basketball
Thursday, December 10, 1998 9 a.m.
Ken Dietz, Boys Basketball Coach, Hartford H.S., Hartford (C)
Cindy Elliott, Athletic Director, St. Francis H.S., Traverse City (C)
Terry Evanish, Athletic Director, Gladwin H.S., Gladwin (B)
Jim Feldkamp, District Athletic Director, Troy Public Schools, Troy (MIAAA)
Eric George, Athletic Director, Mt. Clemens H.S., Mount Clemens (B)
Dorothy Gill-Jackson, Girls Basketball Coach, Muskegon Heights H.S., Muskegon Hts. (B)
Jim Gilmore, Athletic Director, Tecumseh H.S., Tecumseh (B)
Leteia Hughley, Girls Basketball Coach, Northern H.S., Flint (A)
Lori Hyman, Athletic Director, Dexter H.S., Dexter (B)
Gary Jenkins, Official, Westland
Grover Kirkland, Boys Basketball Coach, Northwestern H.S., Flint (A)
John Malatinsky, Official, Holt
Peter Olson, Principal, Benzie Central H.S., Benzonia (C)
Stephen Piereson, Superintendent of Schools, Ishpeming H.S., Ishpeming (C)
David Soules, Assistant Principal, East Catholic H.S., Detroit (D)
Dennis Starkey, Basketball Coach, Petoskey H.S., Petoskey (B)
Tom Valko, Pres. Basketball Coaches Assn., Marysville H.S., Marysville (B)

20 - Lower Peninsula Girls/Boys Basketball Tournament
Wednesday, September 9, 1998, 9 a.m.
Wednesday, November 11, 1998, 9 a.m.
Wednesday, May 12, 1999, 9 a.m.
Rick Arpin, Asst. Director of Athletics, Grand Rapids Public Schools, Grand Rapids
Doug Becker, Athletic Director, Gaylord H.S., Gaylord (A)
Dave DeCou, Athletic Director, Marcellus H.S., Marcellus (C)
Curt Ellis, Athletic Director, South Lyon H.S., South Lyon (A)
Ken Fletcher, Athletic Director, Kalamazoo Christian H.S., Kalamazoo (C)
Keith Froelich, Athletic Director, Okemos H.S., Okemos (A)
Jamie Gent, Athletic Director, Haslett H.S., Haslett (B)
Jim Glazier, Athletic Director, Grandville H.S., Grandville (A)
Lori Hyman, Athletic Director, Dexter H.S., Dexter (B)
Dewayne Jones, Athletic Director, Ferndale H.S., Ferndale (A)
Glen Kelly, Athletic Director, Northwestern H.S., Flint (A)
Maureen Klocke, Athletic Director, Capac H.S., Capac (C)
Kathy McGee, Athletic Director, Luke M. Powers Catholic H.S., Flint (B)
Vic Michaels, Associate Director, Catholic H.S. League, Detroit
Jack Murcie, Principal, Mason County Central H.S., Scottville (C)
Craig Nartker, Athletic Director, Allegan H.S., Allegan (B)
William Newkirk, Supt. of Schools (C), Meridian Public Schools, Sanford
Charles Nichols, Supervisor, Detroit Public Schools, Detroit
Dave Price, Athletic Director, Rockford H.S., Rockford (A)
Pete Ryan, Athletic Director, Heritage H.S., Saginaw (A)
Charles Schankin, Principal, Dundee H.S., Dundee (C)
Don Selon, Athletic Director, Roscommon H.S., Roscommon (B)
Ken Semelsberger, Athletic Director, Port Huron H.S., Port Huron (A)
Terri-Lee Smith, Athletic Director, Inland Lakes H.S., Indian River (C)
John Sonnemann, Athletic Director, Traverse City Central H.S., Traverse City (A)
Jolyn Vita, Athletic Director, Carman-Ainsworth H.S., Flint (A)
Dave Wheeler, Athletic Director, Watervliet H.S., Watervliet (C)

35 - Board Of Canvassers
Friday, September 18, 1998, 9:30 a.m.
David Clark, Principal, Albion Middle School, Albion
Paul Hornak, Athletic Director, Ithaca H.S., Ithaca (C)
Leon Olszamowski, Principal, Notre Dame Preparatory H.S., Pontiac (B)
Charles Reddick, Principal, Tawas Area H.S., Tawas City (B)
Roger Rush, Athletic Director, Pine River Area H.S., Leroy (C)

40 - Classification
Wednesday, January 13, 1999, 1 p.m.
Jim Dittmer, Board Member, Mason County Central H.S., Scottville (MASB) (C)
Keith Eldred, Athletic Director, Williamston Middle School, Williamston
Dan Flynn, Teacher/Coach, Escanaba H.S., Escanaba (A)
Ron Hart, Principal, New Buffalo H.S., New Buffalo (D)
Thomas Kowalski, Superintendent, St. Louis H.S., Saint Louis (MASA) (C)
Larry Lethorn, Superintendent, Reese H.S., Reese (MASA) (C)
Terry Maier, Principal, Fulton Middle School, Middleton (MASSP)
Lillian Mason, Board Member, Grand Blanc H.S., Grand Blanc (MASB) (A)
Dan McShannock, Athletic Director, H. H. Dow H.S., Midland (MIAAA) (A)
Tom Rashid, Director, Health, Ath., P.E. & Safety, Catholic H.S. League, Detroit
Robert Riemersma, Principal, Manistee H.S., Manistee (B)
Norm Schichtel, Athletic Director, Buckley H.S., Buckley (D)
Fred Smith, Athletic Director, Comstock H.S., Kalamazoo (MIAAA) (B)

42 - Competitive Cheer
Wednesday, March 17, 1999, 10 a.m.
Patricia Christiansen, Competitive Cheer Judge, Riverview
Deb Gaines, Competitive Cheer Coach, Breckenridge H.S., Breckenridge (C)
Joe Haines, Athletic Director, Kenowa Hills H.S., Grand Rapids (MASSP) (B)
Bobbe Johnson, Competitive Cheer Judge, Portland
Debbie Karaba, Competitive Cheer Coach, North Muskegon H.S., North Muskegon (D)
Tracy Lentz, Competitive Cheer Coach, Portage Central H.S., Portage (A)
Kelli Matthes, Competitive Cheer Coach, Lake Orion H.S., Lake Orion (A)
Brenda Moore, Competitive Cheer Coach, Houghton Lake H.S., Houghton Lake (B)
Gary Morris, Athletic Director, Bishop Foley H.S., Madison Heights (B)
Phyllis Olszewski, Competitive Cheer Coach, East Jordan H.S., East Jordan (C)
Kelli Piatt, Competitive Cheer Coach, West Ottawa H.S., Holland (A)
Jahn Stahr, President, Comp. Cheer Coaches Assn., Flat Rock H.S., Flat Rock (C)
Beth Taylor, Competitive Cheer Coach, Bedford H.S., Temperance (A)
Marc Throop, Athletic Director, Gull Lake H.S., Richland (MIAAA) (B)

45 - Cross Country/Track & Field Regulations
Thursday, January 21, 1999, 9 a.m.
Ron Allen, Athletic Director, West Ottawa H.S., Holland (A)
Phil Bedford, Director of Athletics, Midland Public Schools, Midland
Gary Bruns, Assistant Principal, Frankenmuth H.S., Frankenmuth (B)
John Carlson, Cross Country Coach, Newberry H.S., Newberry (C)
Don Dickman, Cross Country Coach, Petoskey H.S., Petoskey (B)
Ross Donley, Track/Cross Country Coach, Ludington H.S., Ludington (B)
Ted Duckett, Cross Country Coach, Loy Norrix H.S., Kalamazoo (A)
Lafayette Evans, Supervisor, Detroit Public Schools, Detroit
Rudy Godefroidt, Principal, Hemlock H.S., Hemlock (C)
Jennifer Goodpaster, Cross Country Coach, Hamilton H.S., Hamilton (B)
Doug Grezeszak, Cross Country Coach, Ogemaw Heights H.S., West Branch (B)
Judy Johnson, Girls Track Coach, Clare H.S., Clare (C)
Lee Kahler, Track/Cross Country Coach, Bad Axe H.S., Bad Axe (B)
Dale Kutchey, Director of Athletics (A), Waterford School District, Waterford (MIAAA)
Joan Ludtke, Track/Cross Country Coach, White Cloud H.S., White Cloud (C)
Brian Macomber, Official, Comstock Park
Chuck Meredith, Track/Cross Country Coach, Bethesda Christian H.S., Warren (D)
Rick Miotke, Cross Country Coach, Renaissance H.S., Detroit (B)
Lou Miramonti, Athletic Director, Shrine H.S., Royal Oak (C)
Dave Patterson, Track/Cross Country Coach, Mayville H.S., Mayville (C)
Charles Pelham, Cross Country Coach, Pittsford H.S., Pittsford (C)
Don Selon, Athletic Director, Roscommon H.S., Roscommon (B)
Bertha Smiley, Dean of Students, Central H.S., Detroit (A)
Fred Smith, Athletic Director, Comstock H.S., Kalamazoo (MIAAA) (B)
Chris Sura, Cross Country Coach, Houghton Lake H.S., Houghton Lake (B)
Inge Taylor, Cross Country Coach, Lakeshore H.S., Stevensville (B)
Linda VanTol, Cross Country Coach, Garber H.S., Essexville (B)
Ron Waldvogel, Cross Country Coach, St. Joseph H.S., Saint Joseph (B)

50 - Football
Tuesday, January 26, 1999, 9:30 a.m.
Jim Coady, Football Coach, Lawrence H.S., Lawrence (D)
Fred Cromie, Principal, Reese H.S., Reese (C)
Peter Dewitt, Football Coach, Britton-Macon H.S., Britton (D)
Bart Estola, Faculty Member, Shelby H.S., Shelby (B)
Dave Farris, Football Coach, Petoskey H.S., Petoskey (B)
Jim Feldkamp, District Athletic Director, Troy Public Schools (A), Troy
Mike Grulke, Faculty Member, Posen H.S., Posen (D)
Donald Gustafson, Official, St Ignace
Barry Hobrla, Athletic Director, Lowell H.S., Lowell (A)
Bruce Kefgen, Superintendent of Schools (C), Bentley Community Schools, Burton
Doug Kinter, Principal, Hill Mc Cloy H.S., Montrose (MASSP) (C)
Rick Ledy, Athletic Director, La Salle H.S., Saint Ignace (C)
Dan McShannock, Athletic Director, H. H. Dow H.S., Midland (A)
Mike Rea, Athletic Director, Kingston H.S., Kingston (D)
George Sahadi, Athletic Director, Bishop Gallagher H.S., Harper Woods (D)
Jack Schugars, President Football Coaches Assn., Oakridge H.S., Muskegon (C)
Stephon Thompson, Football Coach, Pershing H.S., Detroit (A)
Jerry VanHavel, Football Coach, Mason H.S., Mason (A)
Jim Venia, Athletic Director, Marysville H.S., Marysville (MIAAA) (B)
Robert Watkins, Football Coach, Baldwin Community Schools, Baldwin (D)
Jim Webb, Football Coach, Cadillac H.S., Cadillac (A)

60 - Golf
Monday, December 7, 1998, 1 p.m.
Bob Artymovich, Girls Golf Coach, Regina H.S., Harper Woods (A)
Dennis Atkinson, Golf Coach, Lake Fenton H.S., Fenton (C)
Rob Boden, Golf Coach, Ithaca H.S., Ithaca (C)
Dave Gilpin, Boys Golf Coach, Hanover-Horton H.S., Horton (C)
Margaret Iding, Golf Coach, Catholic Central H.S., Lansing (B)
Ed Irvin, Golf Coach, Coloma H.S., Coloma (B)
Greg Kirchen, Golf Coach/Pres. Of Golf Coaches Assn., Holland H.S., Holland (A)
Cathy North, Golf Coach, Linden H.S., Linden (B)
Pete Ryan, Athletic Director, Heritage H.S., Saginaw (MIAAA) (A)
John Rynbrandt, Golf Coach, Shelby H.S., Shelby (B)
John Schilling, Boys Golf Coach, Albion H.S., Albion (C)
Randy Thomas, Golf Coach, Gaylord H.S., Gaylord (A)
Jolyn Vita, Athletic Director, Carman-Ainsworth H.S., Flint (A)
Mike Vondette, Athletic Director/Asst. Principal, Hemlock H.S., Hemlock (C)
Chris Wigent, Superintendent of Schools, Olivet H.S., Olivet (C)

65 - Gymnastics
Thursday, September 24, 1998, 1 p.m.
Jack Bamford, Assistant Principal, East Lansing H.S., East Lansing (MASSP) (A)
John Cunningham, Pres. Gymnastics Coaches Assn., Plymouth Canton H.S., Canton (A)
Jeff Dwyer, Gymnastics Coach, North Farmington H.S., Farmington Hills (A)
Deb Heck, Gymnastics Coach/Finals Manager, Hartland H.S., Hartland (A)
Wendy Marshall, Gymnastics Coach, Pioneer H.S., Ann Arbor (A)
Melanie Miller, Athletic Director, J. W. Sexton H.S., Lansing (MIAAA) (A)
Laura Moyers, Gymnastics Coach, Northville H.S., Northville (A)
Jill Scheurer, Gymnastics Coach, Rockford H.S., Rockford (A)
Carol Schneller, Gymnastics Coach, Mona Shores H.S., Norton Shores (A)
Linda Scholl, Official, Parma
Tammie Wierengo, Gymnastics Judge, Muskegon

75 - Ice Hockey
Wednesday, September 30, 1998, 1 p.m.
Brian Dallas, Ice Hockey Coach, Divine Child H.S., Dearborn (B)
David Durkin, Tournament Manager, Lapeer East H.S., Lapeer (A)
Eric Federico, Athletic Director, O. A. Carlson H.S., Gibraltar (MIAAA) (B)
Paul Helber, Official, Ann Arbor
David Messner, Principal, Dexter H.S., Dexter (MASSP) (B)
Art Missias, President Ice Hockey Coaches Assn., Portage Northern H.S., Portage (A)
Mike Popson, Athletic Director, Brother Rice H.S., Bloomfield Hills (A)
Don Poshak, Athletic Director, Calumet H.S., Calumet (C)
Pete Ryan, Athletic Director, Heritage H.S., Saginaw (A)
Mike Turner, Ice Hockey Coach, Trenton H.S., Trenton (B)

85 - Junior High/Middle School
Wednesday, January 20, 1999, 1 p.m.
Judy Branch, Athletic Director, Parchment Middle School, Parchment
Rob Dilday, Director of Athletics, Utica Community Schools (A), Sterling Heights
Keith Eldred, Athletic Director, Williamston Middle School, Williamston
Paul Ellinger, Superintendent of Schools (C), Hartford Public Schools, Hartford
Sue Gaudet, Principal, Dundee Middle School, Dundee
Donald Gustafson, Principal, St. Ignace Middle School, Saint Ignace
Dennis Kniola, Principal, Lakeshore J.H.S., Stevensville
Sarah Lintemuth, Faculty Member, Holland West Middle School, Holland
Mark Martin, Athletic Director, Wayland Middle School, Wayland
Tom Mecsey, Athletic Director, Cranbrook-Kingswood Middle Sch, Bloomfield Hills
Bill Regnier, Athletic Director, Bedford H.S., Temperance (A)
Ardis Resen, Asst. Athletic Director, Galesburg-Augusta H.S., Galesburg (C)
Allen Skibbe, Principal, Upton Middle School, Saint Joseph (MASSP)
Nathaniel Washington, Principal, Edward Cerveny Middle School, Detroit
Brian Zdanowski, Athletic Director, Greenville H.S., Greenville (A)

90 - Ski
Tuesday, October 27, 1998, 1 p.m.
Jim Bartlett, Nub's Nob Ski Area, Harbor Springs (Advisory)
Randy Bingham, Athletic Director, Harbor Springs H.S., Harbor Springs (C)
Bob Bonetti, Assistant Principal, Negaunee H.S., Negaunee (C)
Heidi Clark, Ski Coach, Bellaire H.S., Bellaire (D)
Tom Halsey, Ski Coach, Cranbrook Kingswood H.S., Bloomfield Hills (B)
John Lewis, Ski Coach, Farwell Area H.S., Farwell (C)
Nancy Malinowski, Athletic Director, Mercy H.S., Farmington Hills (A)
Sue Miller, Ski Coach, Charlevoix H.S., Charlevoix (C)
Kent Reynolds, Superintendent of Schools (B), Crawford-AuSable Schools, Grayling
John Sonnemann, Athletic Director, Traverse City Central H.S., Traverse City (MIAAA) (A)
Rick VanTongeren, President Ski Coaches Assn., Forest Hills Central H.S., Grand Rapids (A)

95 - Soccer
Wednesday, February 17, 1999, 1 p.m.
Alan Alsbro, Assistant Principal, Brandywine H.S., Niles (MASSP) (C)
Brian Burtch, Athletic Director, Holland H.S., Holland (MIAAA) (A)
Tim Hall