ATTENDEES: Chuck McCracken, Karl Owen, Dan Pickett, Wade Brence, Bill Shook, Marilyn Thompson, Kevin Wendelboe, Sharon Biggs, Fred Wendelboe

NON-ATTENDEES: Janet Perry, Amber Fulk, John Boger, Greg Adas, Cathy Edwards, Chris Lockwood, Susie Griffin, Mike Yoe, Dee Yoe, Ray Wiley

Guests: Charlie Yang, Pam Sumner

Proxies: Cathy Edwards to Charlie Yang; John Boger to Karl Owen

Meeting Start time: 1:05 pm

1. Purpose of Annual Meeting - Chuck described difficulties in recruiting new members to the Board. We need to assign someone to go out among membership and recruit people to run for Board.
2. Election of Directors - Chuck McCracken:
   Rules for voting were outlined. Chuck asked for nominations from the floor. Karl nominated Charlie Yang for Men's A Rep. Chuck indicated that it was his understanding of the Bylaws that if no one is elected to a position, then the position would be filled by the Commissioner (with ratification by the Board). There was a question on whether Amber Fulk planned on running for Women's Player Rep again. Karl called her during the meeting and left a message for her as to her intentions. It was decided to go ahead and vote for all positions except Women's Player Rep to give Amber time to call us back. The Women's Player Rep would be voted on later in the agenda. Nominations from the floor were closed.

   As all positions only had one nominee - Motion by Karl, second by Marilyn to elect all nominees to the following positions by acclamation:

   1. Treasurer - Dan Pickett
   2. Men's A Rep - Charlie Yang
   3. Men's BB Rep - Wade Brence
   4. Junior Boy's Rep - Bill Shook
   MSA

   The following positions were left vacant and will be appointed by Chuck - Secretary, Women's A Rep, Women's BB Rep.

3. Meritorious Service Awards:
   Chuck described the purposes of the Meritorious Service and asked if anyone knew of anyone in Region that would be deserving of special recognition by the Region. Nominations were submitted and the following individuals/groups were awarded 2000 Meritorious Service Awards [Note: the Commissioner chose to not recognize Kevin Wendelboe this season at Kevin's request so that all other nominations could be recognized this season.]:
   1. Presented to Deb Toney - Deb has been a dedicated Tournament Director and Junior Club Director in Rutherfordton for several years. Deb is always willing to host tournaments and without her support the Junior Division would not have been able to accommodate all the Junior play for the past few seasons.
   2. Presented to UNC Women's Volleyball Club - The UNC Women's Volleyball Club is always willing to reserve the UNC facilities for the Carolina Region each season so that the Adults can host their Regional Championships at a nice facility.
   3. Presented to UNC Men's Volleyball Club - The UNC Men's Volleyball Club hosts the first Adult tournaments in the Region each December at UNC. Finding willing tournament directors and facilities each season is getting more difficult, so the Region appreciates the UNC Men's and Women's Clubs stepping forward to provide volleyball opportunities at the flagship campus in the UNC system.
   4. Presented to Cathy Edwards - Cathy will be stepping down as Women's A Rep at the conclusion of this meeting, but she has served the Region very well in her two-year term. Cathy was the Tournament Director for the successful 2000 Adult Regional Championships, and she has done a great job of representing the teams in her division.
   5. Presented to Donna Rice - Donna is the Club Director for Biltmore Juniors Volleyball Club and is the Tournament Director for our biggest Junior inter-Regional event, the Junior Hi Neighbor. Donna has done a great job in helping to improve the Junior Hi Neighbor each season, and in leading one of our most successful junior clubs.

   The Carolina Region is proud of our 2000 Meritorious Service Award Winners and appreciates their service to volleyball in North Carolina!

4. State of the Region - Chuck McCracken:
   This year's membership is at 2702, a significant increase from last year. We've had a lot of changes this season with rules changes, scoring changes, and changes to the official's signal sequence. One thing that has caused confusion is that rally scoring was not implemented to make matches shorter, but to make match length more predicable. This needs to be communicated and if we want shorter matches, we need to adjust the number of points in a game. Next year's rule changes will offer the chance for tournaments to use the Libero. We will also have the option to allow a served ball to hit the net and have play continue. These are rule changes that are coming from FIVB.

   A main challenge for us as a Region is in identifying and recruiting people to be active at the Board level. People are not staying involved with the Region as long as they did in the past as evidenced by past winners of Meritorious Service Awards. Finding more courts/facilities/tournament directors for the Juniors will also be a challenge as they continue to grow. We've been fortunate to have tournament directors step forward with facilities to host tournaments. The day may be coming when we will not be able to have adults and juniors on separate weekends. It looks like Barber Park may be lost in Greensboro in the next few years as the city of Greensboro will be building a new facility for indoor tennis (without volleyball). We still need to identify more coaches and officials for the Junior program. There are many outstanding Junior officials who we need to recruit to stay involved when they go on to college.

   We need to continue to look at ways to encourage participation from people who may not have the resources available to participate - both ethnic groups and boys. We also need to work on increasing our adult population. Overall, Volleyball is fairly healthy in the Region but there is still a lot that we need to do.

5. Delayed vote for Women's Player's Rep:
   Since we did not hear from Amber, we only had one clear candidate running. Thus, we voted on that position with one candidate - Ingrid Wicker. Chuck will offer Amber the chance to be appointed to either Secretary or Women's A Rep. Motion by Karl, second by Dan:
   To elect Ingrid Wicker to Women's Player Rep by acclamation. MSA 7-2

6. Old Business - none
7. New Business - none
8. Meeting adjourned - Motion by Karl, second by Dan to adjourn Annual Meeting. MSA 1:50 pm.

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