Women’ College Commissioners Report

                                                                    May 2008

                                                                  John Fanning

I have been in this position for three seasons and I believe that we are growing leaps and bounds with the completion of the year. The season was very successful from my point of view and I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of those involved in making it such a success. The following is a status report on how we are progressing with the women’s AUS since last fall:

·        AUS  Women’s and Men’s Board under evaluation for 2008/09 season.

·        September 2007 AUS Women exhibition and regular games assigned until Christmas ( done jointly with Men’s Commissioner) final assignments made as well.

·        AUS Women’s Championships Assigned by assigner. NS had three participants,  Wendell Skeir, Dave McGratten and Sandra Wood. We also had three female officials at this event and I was the assigner/evaluator. 

·        CIS Women’s Championships were assigned and NS was represented by Dave McGratten. Congratulations to Dave.

·        AUS Women’s assignment quota for female assignments at 30% was met to the best of my ability.

I hope that we will have a very exciting and successful season next year.  I am looking forward to seeing all of our board members in action .  I am applying to be the commissioner for another three years.  We have an excellent board of officials and it is my goals as well as the goal of the NSBO to develop young and up coming officials and use the knowledge and experience of our senior officials. We are looking at some serious discussions in the future about three person officiating that I hope will be resolved fairly and properly in the next few months as we go forward with our discussions nationally and with the AUS.

We are looking at various ways of developing our young officials and our female members as well. If any members have ideas on how we can better approach these goals please do not hesitate in contacting me. Have a great summer and I look forward to next year.