Make Plans to Attend
The
2009 State Athletic Directors Conference
The Utah
Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association is excited to once again
bring the State Conference to the Holiday Inn and Convention Center in
Conference
Site -
The conference will be held in
Program
Highlights – The UIAAA and its Athletic
Directors Advisory Council are pleased to present an outstanding cast of
featured speakers this year, along with a wide variety of workshop topics. Dr. Charlie Brown, Director of FPS
Performance in
Golf
Tournament – The UIAAA will host a Golf
Tournament at 8:00 a. m., Friday, April 17, 2009. Josten’s is once again generously
sponsoring the tournament, which will be held at Sunbrook Golf Course in St.
George. See the registration form
for cost.
UIAAA
Functions – The CAA Examination will once
again be offered at the state conference,
2:00 p.
m. Friday April 17, 2009.
Information about the CAA examination, including the steps to qualify,
cost, and a study guide, can be obtained at the NIAAA website (niaaa.org). An administrator must have successfully
completed LTC 501, LTC 502 and LTC 504 as part of the requirement to qualify to
become a CAA. Athletic
Administrators are strongly encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity to
become a Certified Athletic Administrator while attending this year’s
conference.
Many Leadership Training
Courses will
be offered on Wednesday evening and Thursday morning before the official
beginning of the conference. Below
is a list of the courses offered this year.
LTC 502 Athletic Administration: Principles, Strategies and
Methods. This will be a separate leadership class
and is not part of the regular
conference. This
course takes a basic approach to the fundamentals and methods of athletic
administration and alerts and educates athletic administrators regarding
potential problems and possible solutions in areas such as budgets,
transportation, and scheduling and parent/student/coach conflicts. The course
also touches upon sample athletic/activity program philosophies, department
organizational charts, activity procedures/checklist, public relations, coaching
applications/assessments and emergency plans. Enrollees who will derive greatest
benefit: Inexperienced athletic administrators seeking to define and improve
their operational procedures. Required for: RAA, CAA and CMAA Certification.
LTC 506 Athletic Administration: Legal Issues II (Title IX, Sexual
Harassment). This will be a
separate leadership class and is not
part of the regular conference.
This course has in-depth coverage of compliance issues regarding Title IX
and gender equity in an interscholastic athletic program, including the
methodology for a school to perform a Title IX self-audit, and in-depth coverage
of the issues and strategies related to the development of an effective policy
for the prevention of sexual harassment in an interscholastic athletic
program. Enrollees who will derive
greatest benefit: Administrators seeking strategies for minimizing legal
challenges in each topic area.
Required for: CMAA Certification
LTC 508 -
Athletic Administration: Legal Issues
III – (Hazing,
LTC 714 Athletic Administration: Dealing With Challenging Personalities. This will be a separate leadership
class and is not part of the regular
conference. This course examines the causes of
challenging or difficult personalities in society, with specific reference to
interscholastic athletic programs. Basic management strategies include the use
of emotional intelligence and transactional analysis considerations and methods.
Specific protocols will be defined for dealing with individuals who “must be
right,” “must win,” “must be logical” and “must be accepted.” In addition,
techniques will be covered for preventing or responding to anger, sarcasm,
denigration, complainers and backbiters and rigid-obstinate personalities. A
model will also be discussed for creative interaction with parents who demand
involvement in athletic department decision-making or who seek to influence the
decisions of senior administrators.
Enrollees who will derive greatest benefit: Administrators seeking to
understand the role of human personality in defining a challenging personality
or behavior and seeking strategies for dealing with extremely aggressive, rigid,
sarcastic passive or condescending personalities.
Conference
Registration - Conference registration forms
can be found on the UIAAA website (uiaaa.org). Listening to the voice of our members,
the conference has expanded our workshops from 4 to 6 and offered the LTC
Wednesday night and Thursday morning, as well as more time for networking with
fellow athletic administrators between sessions. The conference registration fees will
not be raised. The fees will stay
at $180 prior to January 31, 2009.
From February 1 until March 15, 2009 the fee is $200, and after that date
and in person the fee will be $220.
The conference fee includes the following:
Registration
gift
Attendance at 6
workshops
Attendance at 2 general
sessions
Banquet
Ticket
Luncheon
Ticket
Vendor Trade
Show
Continental
Breakfast
$2500 term life
insurance
NIAAA Membership if
not previously paid
State Door Prize Drawing
Ticket
UIAAA Membership
$1,000,000
additional liability insurance while performing the duties of an athletic
administrator
(an additional $1,000,000 for those who have
taken LTC 501 and LTC 504)
Attendee’s name
badge
Vendor Drawing
Ticket
The IAA, a quarterly
professional journal written by and for athletic administrators
Voting privileges at the UIAAA
Annual Business Meeting
The NFHS News, a
monthly publication that includes the latest information on national
issues
affecting interscholastic athletics and activity
programs
Opportunities to
serve on national and state committees.
The
spouse registration fee includes spouse name badge, luncheon ticket, banquet
ticket, and the spouses breakfast ticket, (three meals
for the price of two.) The UIAAA Board of Directors and the Athletic Directors Advisory
Council thank you for your continued membership and support at our State
Conference. We look forward
to seeing you there.
Richard Barton, CMAA
President UIAAA