On Sunday, the e-mail below was sent to coaches and team contacts:
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Coaches, Team Contacts, and SIDs:
As the second semester begins, here are a few reminders…
- Awards: It its time to begin thinking about nominating players/teams for the CSA’s awards.
- Scholar Athlete/Academic Recognition Nominations: Nominations and forms for Scholar Athlete/Academic Recognition must be submitted to the Executive Administrator by February 10th. Late submissions will not be accepted. Info about the award and the forms will be published on the website this week. If a school has a January term, do not wait for January grades prior to submitting the forms.
- MCSA Award Nominations: Nominations for the Skillman Award are due by February 1st, while nominations for the Barnaby and Sloane Awards are due by February 10th
- WCSA Award Nominations: Nominations for the Richey and Wetzel Awards are due by February 1st, while nominations for the Most Improved Team and Chaffee Award are due by February 10th
- Club Team Registration for National Championships: All club and emerging programs planning to compete in the 2014 CSA Team Championships must register by January 15th, 2014.
- Training Trips: If any teams have done (or are doing) training trips this season, the CSA would like to publish an article from your captains or players on the experience. Please submit articles to the Executive Administrator upon your return. These may be rough and we will clean the articles up.
- Match Results with “Not on Roster” players: As a reminder, make sure your results include all players who participated in the match. Like last season, we are prepared to remove teams from the rankings if “Not on Roster” players are not entered. Please contact Dent Wilkens (dent.wilkens@ussquash.com) if you need assistance fixing match results with “Not on Roster” players.
- WCSA teams that need to fix “Not on Roster” players ASAP or they will be removed from the rankings (first warning issued in December):
- NYU: Missing Players in match with Fordham
- WCSA First Warnings for the following teams:
- Conn College: Missing players in the match with Hamilton
- Middlebury: Missing players in matches with Hamilton, Bowdoin, Colby, and St. Lawrence
- WCSA teams that need to fix “Not on Roster” players ASAP or they will be removed from the rankings (first warning issued in December):
- Qualifications for Team Nationals:
- Varsity teams are required to play ten (10) matches against other CSA teams to enter team championships. At minimum, each team should have at least 6 different opponents. Varsity teams should play the majority of their matches against other varsity schools.
- Club teams are required to play eight (8) matches against other CSA teams to enter team championships in a 9 player division. In addition, club teams must play at least four (4) matches between January 1st and February 10th. At minimum, each team should have at least five (5) different opponents.
- Minimum # of Players: For a regular season match to officially count for ranking purposes, each team must have at least seven players. Except for Emerging Teams, matches with less than seven players per team will not count towards the required number of matches for entry into the National Team Championships.
- Instructions for US Squash Scoring System: Here are links to the instructions on how to add/remove players from your rosters and enter match results. If you need to be added as the contact in the US SquashScoring System, please contact Dent Wilkens (dent.wilkens@ussquash.com).
