Additional Technical Committee Reports following May UANA Executive Committe

A quick note to share with each of you the remaining UANA Technical Committee Reports.

UANA Secretary Fernando Canales has submitted his draft of the minutes from the May 12th UANA Executive Committee meeting.  Please allow the focus of this document to be on the UANA Technical Committees.  

 

Later in June the Minutes of the May 12th meeting and the 6 technical committee reports will be distributed to the UANA Family.

Please remember to submit the names (and their email contact information) of Athlete Members nominated for each of the respective UANA Technical Committees.  Please send this information to UANA Secretary Fernando Canales:  [email protected]

 

UANA TECHNICAL COMMITTEE REPORTS  --  Last week the UANA Masters and Technical Swimming Committee Reports were distributed.  They have already been posted to the UANA website.  The four additional reports are presented for your review:

 

UANA TECHNICAL SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING COMMITTEE  --  First I welcome back to Ana Maria Lobo on behalf of the whole committee. She is replacing the appointee from Bolivia who resigned.  We are looking forward to working together for the 4 years ahead of all of us.

 

Puerto Rico presented their bid for the 2013 UANA Championships.  TSSC Members all will be receiving a copy of our bidding process as we wait for confirmation from the Executive so we can start planning with enough time.

 

The Executive approved Athletes Representative for all the Committees; they put a clause, the representatives have to be from the same country as the Chair of each committee.  Not an easy job for the chairs.

 

The Executive were as worried as we are not having any response from the 2012 Cali Organizing Committee.  Fernando Canales will be in communication with them by telephone and mail giving them until May 22 to answer and sending the summons for the competition (2012 UANA Pan Am Synchronized Swimming Championships).

 

A new template will be done for bidding process and also for the contracts.

 

The new web page is already available.  Chairs had to name a person from their committee to be the liaison with the web master - I have named Heather Archer as our liaison.  Any content from our
committee for posting is to go through Heather.

 

At a meeting with Canada and the USA we discussed presenting UANA proposals to the FINA rules.  The deadline for proposals is Nov. 26th but we should have any proposals ready by September to present as the UANA family.  As I am very busy with meets in El Salvador, Aruba and then Masters in Riccione I have designated Heather (as our secretary) to be in charge on this task with Barbara's assistance.  Synchro Canada has offered access to their teleconference conference line.   Bryan will be helping us as our liaison a great deal. We must keep him in the loop for all our correspondence.

 

We have to check the swimming schedules to avoid conflict between meets.

 

The proposal  for the Coaches school was very well accepted by the Executive.  Brian will be the person to give follow up with the executive. 

 

UANA Executive Meeting Report from Rose Cody, Chairperson, UANA TSSC, ( [email protected] )

  

UANA TECHNICAL DIVING COMMITTEE REPORT  --  Five Federations have been contacted as priority for Coaches Development programs:  Chile ,Ecuador, Columbia, Costa Rica and Puerto Rico. Columbia is the only Federation to date that has not confirmed an interest in a Coaches Development clinic. Ten high performance coach instructors have been identified and will be contacted for teaching this program

 

    A four year competition schedule will be developed for the UANA website

 

    Judges in UANA to have the opportunity to attend FINA Certification Courses. In 2012 Mexico and USA have hosted a course. It is anticipated that CAN will host a course in 2013 at Canada Cup. USA to host at the 2012 Junior Pan Am Event. PUR to host a course in 2014 at their Grand Prix event.

 

    The Pan American Games Qualification criteria will be reviewed. All judges from the Americas will be FINA certified. Two judges will be FINA neutral judges. One FINA TDC member will be invited in the capacity as the neutral observer/evaluator.

 

    An athlete representative will be identified from CAN to join the technical diving committee.

 

    A Senior Pan American event has been identified as a new initiative and the Swimming Federation of CHI has shown interest in hosting this event in 2014.

 

    The next Junior Pan American event will be held in USA September of 2013, city to be confirmed. The first formal meeting of the TDC will be held. Group D rules for this competition need to be clarified prior to this event.

 

    The TDC will meet informally at the occasion of the XXX Olympiad Games London 2012. Only two members will not be in attendance.

 

Submitted by:
Steve McFarland    Executive Liaison        Kathy Seaman        Chairman TDC

 

UANA TECHNICAL WATER POLO COMMITTEE REPORT  --   

 

The TWPC Chairman, Executive Liaisons and Members are encouraged to review the current FINA technical rules and regulations in order to recommend changes in water polo rules.

 

Any Federation wanting to submit a proposed Water Polo Rules  rule change to FINA,  should send the proposal to UANA Secretary Treasurer, Fernando Canales by September 30th.  The proposed rule change will then be submitted to FINA prior to the deadline in late November.  The reason for this procedures is, instead one federation submitting a rule change, this change will come from a unified by UANA form, representing 40 Federations from the Americas. This would not deny the right of the individual countries to submit proposals individually.

 

The Dr. Margo Mountjoy reinforced the idea during a meeting they have many opportunities for the UANA Technical Committee to show leadership beyond the Americas.

 

It was also decided in the meeting that the TWPC Chairman would choose an athlete from his country to form a UANA committee of athletes.

 

I suggested in the meeting that in the minor competitions like Pan American Juniors and World Qualify, the TWPC could indicate a member to work alongside with the Organizing Committee in the duty to cooperate in the events.

 

 

Respectfully Submitted by Roberto Cabral, TWPC Chair ( [email protected])