Pacific Coast Caucus

This morning Charlie Cyr lead a rousing discussion of the proposals and how they may affect the Pacific coast section.

During the award portion of the meeting three clubs were honored for their 75 year history. Our club was one of those recognized. Two of our outstanding members: Howard Taylor and Marilyn Whelan were honored for their 50 years of service judging.

Ron Hershberger (outgoing President of USFS) and David Raith (Executive Director of USFS) gave us their vision on future television coverage as well as internet distribution rights for the ISU grand prix and junior grand prix competitions.

Discussions were held on a few motions:

1. Allowing vocals with lyrics in all test programs (for all levels) & short programs and freeskate programs for up to the Intermediate level.

2. Redefining what a collegiate member of a synchro team means based on part or full time status.

3. Adding a new level of judging for Novice and up national competitors called Non-qualifying competition judge. Those judges could judge all levels at a non qual competition without having to spend years trialing tests.

Our section also voted to elect Laurie Johnson (Salt Lake City SC) to the nominating committee.

If any readers have comments on these motions please feel free to reply or comment on this blog. We are checking through out the meetings.

Thanks for reading.