Swimming New Brunswick Technical Committee Meeting (Information Session)

2018-04-28

MEETING MINUTES

ATTENDANCE : Diane Guignard (TC Core), Eric Kenny (LES), Mohamed Rachidi (TC Core), Wendy Sinclair (FAST), Caroline Mercier (FAST), Marcel MacLaughlin (TC Core), Alexandre Savoie (AQUA), Élise Haché (BLAST), Stephen Wyatt (SNB), EeVe Stever (SNB)

Meeting begins 2:08pm

Diane Guignard and Stephen Wyatt provide overview of the new Technical Committee structure.

Changes approved at Special Meeting on Feb 2nd, 2018.

Key change that was made in the constitution for SNB: boost from 5 to 6 total members — now is 5 coaches 1 officials. Mohamed Rachidi voted in as 5th coach member March 23rd, 2018.

Stephen Wyatt discusses changes and goals for future technical committee as well as other items related to the new technical committee structure.

Stephen Wyatt presents the 4 sub-committees and the reasoning for each with help from Diane. Diane then asked all coaches present to indicate which sub-committees they would like to participate in. Diane also included names of other coaches who had advised her of their interests. Each sub-committee is coordinated by one member of the Technical Committee (Brian, Marta, Marcel, Rachidi).

Meets, Calendar, Templates and Standards

  • Brian Woods TCC
  • Mohamed Rachidi TCC
  • Marcel MacLaughlin TCC
  • Eric Kenny LES
  • Alexandre Savoie AQUA
  • Caroline Mercier FAST
  • Andrew Clarke SWRD*
  • Tanya Irvine AQUA
  • Paulo Levesque NES – OFFICIAL*
  • Sue Schofield SNB – BOARD*

Athlete Development

  • Brian Woods TCC
  • Wendy Sinclair FAST
  • Eric Kenny LES
  • Élise Haché BLAST
  • Ilham Rachidi NES
  • Kozué Uchiyama MWC

Coaching Development

  • Caroline Mercier FAST
  • Marta Belsh TCC
  • Melanie Melanson CVAC
  • Diane Guignard TCC
  • Andrew Clarke SWRD*

Performance Program and Provincial Teams

  • Alexandre Savoie AQUA
  • Marta Belsh FAST
  • Marcel MacLaughlin TCC
  • Mohamed Rachidi TCC
  • Ryan Allen CNBO
  • Melanie Melanson CVAC
  • Dale Doucette BLAST

EeVe to find out if PD Points can be gained by attending TC meetings geared towards calendar, meets, templates, etc.

Doodle survey to be sent out by EeVe requesting to declare availability for in-person meeting between the 2nd week of May and the last week of June. EeVe to do up proposed budget for this meeting based on travel expenses for 1 vehicle from each team, as well as meals for all members.

Propose to Board to host a meeting with ALL members to have a meeting in the morning and the Calendar Meeting in the afternoon.

EeVe to send out list of names for sub-committees and request that if anyone would like to join to contact Diane Guignard- President of TC.

Meeting adjourned 3:04pm