MASSA News

MISSA MAILING LIST - ADD YOUR NEW PEOPLE
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COMMUNICATIONS
A few years ago, we shifted more of the responsibility for communication and scheduling to the League level. For those who don't know, MISSA is made of three leagues -West (MN/WI), Central (IL/IN) and East (MI/OH). Each League should have an active League Committee that coordinates scheduling and communication within that area. This has been working better in some areas than in other, and our goal for this year is to get a strong, active, and proactive League Committee in each area. 

At the same time, we intend to work to improve communications from the MISSA District Committee. Several areas of improvement (website, scheduling visibility, social media presence) have been pointed out over the summer and we are working to address those. Meanwhile, you can all expect weekly updates through this mailing list. Please stay tuned.

Regrettably, we ended up not having an annual district meeting last school year. Under our new structure, these should take place in the spring. This year we will hold district wide meetings in both the fall and the spring and allow attendance by zoom. The fall meeting will be the weekend of Great Lakes Championships. Look for an official announcement next month.

FALL SCHEDULE
The official MISSA schedule is on our website. We are still looking for a host for a second Open Great Lakes Qualifier the weekend of October 14-15. If you can host a Tier 2 that weekend, please step forward! Look for another email later this week with some additional important information about fall qualifiers and looking for hosts for some spring events.

We would really like to see more local regattas scheduled, so if you are thinking of hosting, please let us know. (Our unofficial draft planning schedule is always visible at tinyurl.com/MISSA-schedule, but until we get NORs from the hosts, it isn't official.)

TEAM REGISTRATION 
Team registration opened August 1, and many of our teams have registered, but if you haven't, please do so right away at registration.hssailing.org. If you are new to the process, start by looking at the MISSA Team Admin Manual. It gives step-by-step instructions for getting your team info updated on both the ISSA registration page and TechScore. 

DUES
MISSA Dues of $125 per team can be paid via the PayPal link on the registration site. The dues cover the entire school year, not just the fall season. We lowered dues to $125 (the lowest of any district in ISSA) in 2016 and have not raised them since.  Schools that have only one or two sailors and will not participate in any qualifiers may use the dropdown menu to select the reduced dues of $100 per MISSA Rules 2.3.  

NOTICES OF RACE
Regatta hosts, please submit draft NORs to your League Rep and me as soon as possible. We shoot to get NORs posted at least 30 days ahead of time, so we'd like to get these from hosts as soon as possible. 

Thanks for taking the time to read this. Please let me or your League Rep know if you have any questions.

Ted Anderson
MISSA District Director
708 420 5233
sailingmissa@gmail.com