From: mprime@titanium.Berkeley.EDU (Mike Prime)
Subject: NCCA board meeting summary
Reply-To: mprime@titanium.Berkeley.EDU (Mike Prime)
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:23:37 GMT

This is a summary of the NCCA board meeting held January 1993 in Colorado
Springs, CO. These notes are somewhat in the order they were covered.


- USCF upgrades: In discussing USCF staff action it was noted that they
were writing new upgrade policy. It had been decided that collegiate races
could be used for experience upgrades. I moved that they should count for
any upgrade if the collegiate race satisfied all the requirements (i.e.
field size of riders of the necessary USCF category, distance, etc).
Hopefully this will make it to policy, but it remains to be seen.

- Membership: for 1992 there were 3636 riders and 220 clubs officially, a
34% increase in riders and an 18% increase in clubs.

- Upcoming nationals:
	93 road: MIT/ Breakaway Prod. preparation looks good. The crit will
	be in Harvard Square (same course as for the old Nabisco/Wheat
	Thins series). Wow! great location. The road course looks good if
	they can pull of getting the course (Arlington,Belmont,Lexington
	area).

	93 Track: not firm yet. Maybe Indiana. They will definitely happen
	though, there is a backup if all else falls through.

	94 roads: Still up for bid, with a couple of things in the works.
	One bid received has the promise of being the best organized
	collegiate road nationals ever, but I'm afraid I can't say where it
	is just yet.

- Track nationals format
	Collegiate nationals have traditionally followed the Olympic
	format. It looks as though the Olympic format will change
	drastically for track, so collegiate will change as well. It is
	hoped to make colegiate track nats a more exciting event.

	After much discussion of events, it was decided to remove
	individual pursuit from collegiate nats and add an Italian team
	pursuit. Individ pursuit was removed because it is time consuming
	(50 + riders) and "boring." Before they could pass this new format
	I objected because I never knew we were going to discuss it so
	I hadn't given it enough thought, so the format is not set but it
	will change. Other possible events include miss&out and madison.
	I am concerned that removing the individual pursuit will upset the
	balance between sprinters and roadies. Note that if ind. pursuit is
	removed, it would likely be run a day early and count as an indivdual
	championship event but would not count in the team or indivdual
	omniums.

- Conference boundaries: Some schools have complained about the conference
they are forced into. After much discussion, it has been decided that A
school may choose which conference it competes in (before a certain date
either before or early in the season). Schools can still do races wherever
they want but this will be the conference for nationals qualification. Note
that to qualify for nationals in a given conference you generally must do a
large number of races in that conference. We will see if this works or not.

- Mt bikes: Some conferences are already having mt bike races. It has been
decided to put a National Collegiate Mt Bike Championship in the fall.
Since Phillip Milburn, the NCCA pres, is also the NORBA pres, he will try
to get one going this fall. The first one will probably be an all-comers
type deal (no qualification) and will retain the men-women combined team
format.

- Academic all-americans: This has been removed due to it being a
administraive nightmare. The top 5 individual omnium placers (men and
women, road and track are still all-americans and get pictures in cycling
USA).

I think this is most of the interesting stuff that was covered. Please ask
for any clarifications or further info.

Mike


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