NOTICE OF MOTION #1:
Specific Sports Rules and Regulations (Urban Soccer) – Item III, 11 – Championship Dates, page 48
Current:
Urban Soccer Provincial Championships will take place either the last weekend of May or first weekend
of June.
Proposed:
Urban Soccer be dropped as an official MHSAA Provincial Championship effective 2015-16.
Rationale:
- The urban high school soccer season runs at exactly the same time as WYSA leagues causing many
conflicts for players , coaches and referees.
- There is a shortage of qualified referees available to manpower games between 4-6 pm on weekdays.- The MSA has limited the Urban Soccer Zones to 2 referees per night/per zone – making it impossible to
run a true round robin league even when split into pools.
- Some zones are not abiding by the MSA’s limit of 2 referees per zone per night creating an even
greater stress on assigning referees.
- Field availability after 6:00 pm is not an option for High School teams due to City Of Winnipeg fields
being block booked by WYSA.
- The nature of the season (early Spring – end of May) and when the MHSAA Urban Soccer
Championships are (end of May) makes the timeframe for running a true soccer league very difficult and
limiting the number of referees available per night makes that impossible (even with good spring
weather).
- MSA is currently not supportive of zones creating their own referee pools to manpower their own
games primarily (unless these referees pay MSA fees to referee) which in turn, makes them the property
of the MSA referee assignor.
- Zones have already moved to single elimination tournaments to determine their zone champions – devaluing the time of coaches, players, athletic departments, etc.
*Note: Option would still be there for zones to independently run their own leagues, or tournaments
but Urban Soccer would move to the list of unofficial sports (like indoor soccer) and no official MHSAA
Provincial Championship would be run
Submitted by Zone 14
NOTICE OF MOTION #2
Whereas: a mandate of Manitoba High Schools Athletic Association is to have students participate in
high school championships,
And Whereas: the current calendar for MHSAA provincial championships has the Provincial A/AA
hockey and the Provincial A/AA JV basketball on the same weekend,
Whereas: there are often athletes that have qualified for both provincial hockey and provincial JV
basketball and they have to make a “choice” where they need to play,
Whereas: making a choice sometimes leaves one of the teams very short of players and impacts the
overall potential success of the team during provincial weekend,
Be it resolved that the JV basketball tournament for A/AA occur during the first weekend of March on
the Friday and Saturday, while the A/AA Hockey championships remain the second week of March.
To be implemented for the 2016-2017 school year.
Further Rationale – The above format will eliminate students having to make a choice which MHSAA
tournament they may play at.
Submitted by Zone 6
NOTICE OF MOTION #3:
Whereas: in the current format of A/AA JV Championships, there is a great deal of duplication, and
Whereas: there are also conflicts with other sports, and
Whereas: we are trying to control spending
Be It Resolved: that the A/ AA JV Championships be discontinued
To be effective the 2015-2016 school year.
Rationale: There are not enough schools competing in these categories and there is a great deal of
duplication. An open tournament can be held at season end for those schools that wish to enter.
Submitted by Zone 6
NEW BUSINESS
The following sport related motions refer to formats and thus will be discussed under New Business.
Discussion and a “Straw Vote” will take place and then the Board will review and consider futhre
Whereas a mandate of Manitoba High Schools Athletic Association is to have students participate in
high school championships,
Whereas the current calendar for MHSAA provincial championships has the Provincial A/AA hockey and
the Provincial A/AA JV basketball on the same weekend,
Whereas there are often athletes that have qualified for both provincial hockey and provincial JV
basketball and they have to make a “choice” where they need to play,
Whereas making a choice sometimes leaves one of the teams very short of players and impacts the
overall potential success of the team during provincial weekend,
Whereas the regional concept of varsity basketball has lowered the number of teams at the provincial
championship from ten to eight teams but yet a three day, 11 game tournament is still
scheduled/planned,
Motion A:
Be it resolved that the varsity basketball tournament for A and AA schools be moved to two days from
three.
Submitted by Zone 6
Motion B:
Be it resolved that the regional tournament for varsity basketball be on the Monday following the JV
basketball weekend.
Submitted by Zone 6
Motion C:
Be it resolved that the provincial varsity basketball tournament for A and AA schools be scheduled over
two days on the third weekend of March – Friday and Saturday.
Submitted by Zone 6
Rationale for motions A, B, and C – If we move the varsity basketball tournament to two days (Friday
and Saturday) instead of three (Thursday, Friday, and Saturday), we are making an effort to avoid
missing any “more” classes by having the regional tournament on the Monday after the JV weekend.
Two days of school would still be used to have the varsity tournament occur, just one of them would be
a regional date instead, occurring a few days earlier.
Further Rationale – The above format will eliminate students having to make a choice which MHSAA
tournament they may play at.