WIAA Board of Control Holds December Meeting
Monday, December 9th, 2019 -- 6:55 AM
The WIAA Board of Control conducted its December meeting and approved a number of action items at the executive staff office on Friday.The Board approved an Executive Staff recommendation to place a moratorium on requests to move between 8-player and 11-player football sponsorship or enter into a football co-op arrangement until Dec. 1, 2020, which aligns with the conference realignment timeline. Programs declaring a change to sponsor 8- or 11-player football or co-op in 2020 will be eligible for participation in the 2022 season.
The Board also voted to support a revision to the membership’s tournament Harassment Policies and Procedure guidelines. Unacceptable behaviors by participants or spectators, if witnessed by event management, security and/or supervisors, will result in violators being removed from the premises.
Topics discussed by the Board included information on membership participation numbers the past 25 years, awareness of two potential membership-initiated amendments to the Constitution, updates on the conference realignment task force process and game disqualification penalties in hockey, as well as a review of the fall tournaments.
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