Date: 09-06-06
Location: OSAA Offices and Local
Locations
Projected Attendees:
Sax Stone (
Rather than listing old and new business
this meeting we have listed items that we need to bottom out on and come to
some type completion:
Line up Cards:
We need to bottom
out on the new line-up card as designed by Terry Fischer. I the OSAA going to
get them printed and sponsored? Is the OSAA going to distribute these cards to
all schools with a “must use” command? Are we going to demand that all umpires
in the State learn and require coaches to use the card correctly?
09.06.06
Fischer and Christensen are to develop and
post by 10/7/06 the new line-up card.
The card is to be a template so that schools can print their logo and
other information on to NCR multi-copy paper. For the card to be utilized this
spring it must be introduced to the coaches at their meeting on November 7,
2006.
Umpire Hall of Fame:
We handed out the
criteria and form of the UHoF.
Tim Christensen
distributed a process and criteria for the formulation of the Oregon Baseball
High School Umpire Hall of Fame. The
document was for members to review and comment.
Folliard intoned
that he thought that a strict criteria should be established so that only the
“cream” of umpires are selected for the “Hall.”
Sax Stone was
requested by the committee to continue on developing the concept of the “Hall”
using the “Christensen Document” as a starting point. Stone was also requested
to contact Mac Heitzhausen (
We need to bottom
out and decide if this
09.06.06
The Hall-of-Fame was tabled and it was noted
by the group that Mac Heitzhausen had declined the invitation to be curator of
the Hall.
Umpire Training Manual.
Working Draft can
be presented to the group. There is only
one copy as of this date and it is incomplete.
Tim Christensen
reported to the committee that the development of the manual was
continuing. Christensen brought to the
committee’s attention that certain things need to be established by the
committee rather than a single author.
Terry Fischer noted
and distributed to the committee the schedule and philosophy of training as
view by the Salem Baseball Umpires Association.
Where the Christensen manual is fine for the details of how we want
umpires to operate Fischer’s document showed how to break that information into
teaching session so that all umpires are covered during a selected period of
time.
Sax Stone was
directed to continue his project of developing an “area training program” with
regional trainers.
Christensen was
directed to get the manual as currently formulated to Jack Folliard so it can
be distributed to the members of the committee. Which was not done.
09.06.06
Christensen produced and passed to
ASEP Certification:
We need to bottom
out on a process that certifies local clinics and training programs in place of
formal ASEP certification. The Fischer
Camp was discussed in an informal manner and we voted that it was an
“acceptable alternate” but what does the OSAA need to accept that training. Our client needs to give us expectations so that
Portland, or Eugene or The Salem Clinic know exactly what is needed and how to
measure the outcome and document for each umpire the certification.
Does each camp need
to teach for the OAOA Baseball Umpire Training Manual?
09.06.06
Jack Folliard walked the group through the
processes that area happening statewide. The OAOA executive committee is
developing an alternative to the “Principles” portion of the OCEP/ASEP training
and testing. The program should be
available by spring.
The group then began initial discussions
concerning the combination of the Training Manual and state certification of
clinicians. It was noted by the group
that the first goal should be to train all high school umpires in the state in
a common system of two man mechanics.
The manual and trainers should satisfy this requirement.
All clinics will be titled: “An OAOA
certified clinic sponsored by (insert local group name).”
Folliard asked for three locations to host
this springs roll-out clinics. Central
Oregon,
The clinics that are an alternative to ASEP
are not local clinics they are state clinics.
State Training for umpires and selection of
state tournament officials:
Along with the
ASEP/Alternative Certification we need to come to an agreement on the next step
of requiring consistent training for all high school umpires in the state. We begin to see the training differences when
umpires show up for the State Championship Triple Header.
Terry Fischer
reported on the three umpire crews that worked during the day at the 2006 State
Championship Triple header. Fischer’s
comments were directed to\wards the need, as seen by the State Rules
Interpreter, that there needs to be added qualifications for umpires that are
selected for the final series of games.
Fischer referred to
past years when some umpires were over whelmed by the experience.
The committee
recognized that it is a great accomplishment for any umpire to be selected for
the championship series but that there needs to be a system involved that
qualifies the umpires for the selection.
The group felt that
by tying the selection to the new umpire training manual was a few years away
but that every association in the state needed to be consistent in training and
each selected umpire to be tied to that training.
09.06.06
With direction from the committee Todd
Wagner (
Wagner request that Christensen assist to
make sure the certified clinics are in line with the new State Umpire Training
Manual.
Wagner was tasked to have a process
documented and distributed by 09.27.06 for review by the State Umpire Committee
(SUC).
Respectfully
submitted 10.03.06.
Tim Christensen
Secretary
State Baseball
Umpire Committee
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