Minutes of the Allegheny College

Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC)

 

November 16, 2004

Allegheny College                                                                                        

Meadville, PA

 

Participants:

 

Sarah Kuhn, Women's Swimming

Matt Wilson, Men's Swimming

Eileen Gallagher, Women's Tennis

Seth Wilmore, Men's Tennis

Bryan Lyssy, Men's Tennis

Caitlin Murtagh, Women's Basketball

Courtney Steding, Women's Basketball

Ben Rathfon, Men's Golf

Erika Almquist, Women's Track/Cross Country

Alexis Mioducki, Women's Track/Cross Country

Liz Straus, Women's Track/Cross Country

Katie Pankowski, Women's Track/Cross Country

Laura Schuh, Women's Track/Cross Country

Stacy Miller, Women's Soccer

Mackenzie Moser, Women's Soccer

Ashlea Vilello, Women's Soccer

Josh Johnson, Men's Soccer

Jimmy Savage, Football

Josh Baker, Football

Dan Ayer, Baseball

Evan Von Leer, Baseball

Michelle Dudevoir, Lacrosse

Lindsay Vance, Lacrosse

Megan Finch, Volleyball

Suzy Young, Softball

Chrissy Harvey, Softball

Sarah Guidi, Cheerleading?

Melanie Wilson, Cheerleading

Coach Raymond, Tennis

Coach Reimer, Women's Basketball

Larry Lee, Director of Athletics

Janine Sickafuse, FAR

Jochen Richter, FAR

 

 

Meeting Minutes

*Reviewed minutes from prior meeting (10/29)*

 

I.  Introductions

            A. Professors Sickafuse and Richter Intros and Presentations

                        -defined roles as FAR’s

                        -Larry Lee added input re: faculty roles

                        -SAAC reps. @ faculty rep. meetings

 

II. Housecleaning Items

            A. Coach Raymond and Emerging Leader Program (Freshmen)

                        -next semester activities

            B.  Seth Wilmore and Michelle Dudevoir selected to Regional Leadership Conference

            C.  Men's Soccer (Sweet 16) and Women's Cross Country congratulations

                        -Kevin Pool to Nationals and Women's XC to Nationals

 

III.  SAAC Athletes of the Month (October)

            Voters: any athlete out of season or does not have a nominee for athlete of the month

 

                        John Brady-Football                         Scarlett Graham-XC

                        Josh Johnson-Soccer                         Rhiannon Mauk-Volleyball

                        Kevin Pool-XC                                  Ashley Rogerson-Soccer

 

IV.  New Legislation: Automatic Qualifier

             Only affects golf and tennis teams

 

            A. Institute automatic qualification for these sports

            B. In team sports- if you win your conference you get an automatic bid

                        -this is not the case for golf and tennis

            C. Arguments for:

                        -promotes equal access to the championship

            D. Arguments against:

-Ben: he is against this legislation because our conference includes 3 of the top 10             teams.  Including more teams would make the tournament virtually

impossible-too many teams on the same course or day

 

-Seth: many of the conferences are unequal, so some teams (ie: Grove City) would qualify and be beaten immediately

 

E.  SAAC unanimously opposed to changing to an automatic qualifier