WCOA Basketball Committees

 

Evaluations/Training:
Charter : is responsible for setting up the process and selecting those individuals who shall assist with the evaluation of member officials within the association It shall be the goal of this committee to ensure that each official with two (2) or more years of experience is evaluated, at least, once during the season and that each first and second year official is evaluated periodically during the season so that good officiating skills are developed and reinforced. First year officials will be evaluated periodically during the season, with mini-camps being offered if necessary to re-enforce good officiating skills. This committee shall be responsible for the coordination of all training exercises for beginning and new officials.

Chair - Tim Curtis

Members:

Peter Allotta
James Orr
Jerome Smith
Omar Mercado
Tim Curtis

Board representative - Jack Brown

 

Assignments:
Charter : Is responsible for reviewing the contest assignment procedure within the WCOA, ensuring compliance with requirements on officiating crew composition, reviewing the game assignments, and making the Basketball Bookings commissioners aware of any corrections that need to be made. This includes ensuring compliance with requirements on the composition of officiating crews, reviewing and approving each member official's schedule of assigned contests, and making Jon Decker/Matt Geer aware of any corrections to be made before the assignment schedule is submitted to the membership. It is not implied that the Assignment Committee is to make assignments.

Chair - Mike Hagerty

Members:

Carlos Woosley
Mike Hegarty

Board representative - Chuck Kindred

 

Recommendations:
Charter : Is responsible for reviewing the regular season evaluations of the officials and preparing a list of officials recommended for State Series assignment to the FHSAA office. Officials on this list must have been approved by majority vote of the members present and voting, must be in good standing both with the FHSAA and WCOA, and must meet all applicable FHSAA qualifying criteria.

Chair - Bobby Payton

Members:

Clyde Trathowen
Bobby Payton
Ron Sobtoker
Ted Glezen
Eric Hunter

Board representative - Jim Eckler

 

Grievance:
Charter : Is responsible for setting up the process and hearing complaints and appeals from association members. Member officials who have grievances because of penalties may appeal under the provisions of the WCOA By-laws. The committee shall review each case and make a recommendation to the Basketball Board, which will approve it or if rejected, will be in a the form of a written notification signed by the vice president of basketball. All requests for a meeting with the grievance committee will be initiated through the online form on the web site or in writing to the Chairman of the committee. All grievance hearings will be conducted prior to a scheduled basketball membership meeting and MUST be scheduled in advance. No individual committee member will entertain grievances from members unless made formally through the request process.   

Chair - Quasar Givens

Members:

Quasar Givens
Ed Ortiz
Hank Weil
Denise Didley
 

Board representative - Leo Sykes

 

Elections:
Charter : Is responsible for conducting all WCOA basketball elections in an open format, ensuring that all candidates are represented, that all election processes adhere to WCOA guidelines, that the ballots are counted in a timely manner with candidates  present for the tallying of ballots if desired. This committee will collect and tabulate all absentee ballots by the deadlines established prior to the election and will report all results at the next available membership meeting.

Chair - Ron Balseiro

Members: TBA  

 

Events:
Charter : Is responsible for planning all WCOA activities such as banquets, golf tournaments, award presentation to the entire WCOA, or any other event so deemed by the basketball and football boards. All activities will be reviewed by the Executive Committee for funding and approval.

Chair - Russ Elefterion

Members:

Russ Elefterion
Jerry Graeber
Sherri Kaminski
Doug Fiedler
Anthony Gagliotti

Board representative - Leo Sykes