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CVOA members:
As you can tell, we have been working on updating the website. Carl Higbee is going to keep it updated for us and has created our new look. Thanks a bunch Carl!
We have been busy gearing up for the coming season. Marilyn has been beating the bushes to get all the necessary information for the clinics. The officials handbook is going to print soon and we are finalizing the changes and updates. Susie and I will help Monica get all packets ready to be mailed from CHSAA in mid June. If you have any changes, please let me know immediatly so that we can get your correct contact info into the handbook.
The annual business meeting/clinician training will be held on July 18th at the CHSAA office. The schedule of clinics is linked from this page, so please click on that to take a look. Remember that the only way you can be excused from attending a clinic is through the Executive Committee. If you know you are going to have a conflict or have an emergency come up, please call one of the officers.
I have had Carl create a link to a recruitment flyer. This has been successful with other sports throughout Colorado and I would like to ask any official who has the opportunity to please post these in Colleges and Universities. Don't be limited to these venues. Be creative! Please take the time to print a few from our link and start posting them.
I am excited about the upcoming year. I encourage you to communicate. Communicate with your fellow officials, potential officials, Area Directors and the Executive Commitee. I have heard a great deal of feedback from officials across the State. My goal is to promote CVOA as an organization that supports, educates and partners with officials throughout the state to create more consistant and stronger officials. We have been working hard to create a clinic that feeds the needs of every official on one level or another. Our struggle is that we can't create one format that works for every single official. I truly wish we could, because then every official would have to opportunity to show enormous growth each year. What we have to do, instead, is rely on the feedback from our membership to create an environment that offers each official a better opportunity to learn. This is a challenge because we have officials at many different levels. We are working on it and will continue to take your feedback to improve our training program. Don't hesitate to share your thoughts and ideas.
Look through your closets, dust off your shoes, press those pants and possibly replace your officiating shirt. Oh, clean those whistles. you never know what may have nested in them over the winter.
I am going to make it to most of the clinics in those areas I wasn't able to get to last year, so don't be shy. I want to hear from you!
Nici Bishop
Letter from The President
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