MEMORANDUM
TO: All Collegiate Baseball Umpires
FROM: All conferences
DATE: November 10, 2003
SUBJECT: College Baseball Umpires Super Clinic meeting
Congratulations on being invited to the 2004 College Baseball Umpire Super Clinic. Enclosed please find an agenda for the Training Clinic and Meetings to be held Friday-Sunday, January 16-18, 2004, in Atlanta, Georgia.
Each umpire is to make his own room reservation and travel arrangements for the clinic. Information on room rates is listed below. A block of rooms will be held until December 20, 2003. Room availability or rate cannot be guaranteed after December 20.
Renaissance Concourse Hotel
(Hartsfield International Airport)
One Hartsfield Centre Parkway
Atlanta, GA 30354
404-209-9999
Contact: James Parker
Room Rate: $85.00 + 14% tax
(Self Parking: $6.00 per day / Valet Parking: $9.00 per day)
Holiday Inn Atlanta Airport North
(Less than 1 mile from the Renaissance Hotel)
1380 Virginia Avenue
Atlanta, GA 30344
404-762-8411
Ask for the super series rate
Room Rate: $65.00 + 13% tax
(Free Parking & airport shuttle)
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The format for this year’s clinic will follow the same successful format as 2003. At last year clinic we had 600 umpires from various states. We encourage attendance by all conference and non-conference umpires. The NCAA and all geographical conferences are committed to the overall umpire improvement program and the development of a consistent training program for all collegiate umpires. The inclusion of umpires from regional assigning agencies who will be working non-conference games is an important step in this development program and we encourage their attendance for all days of the clinic.
If you are an assignor for a local or regional collegiate umpiring association, please forward this information to the umpires in your group. Any conference umpire who receives this memo may forward it to any umpire who works NCAA Division II or III, NAIA or NJCAA games. The clinic will be an excellent educational program for all umpires and will help to identify and train umpires for future work at the Division I level.
Prior to the clinic all umpires must register in the lobby. A clinic agenda and a listing of the meeting topics and schedule are attached on the following pages. If you or your assignor for non-conference or any collegiate games has any questions, please contact Coordinator of Baseball Umpires, Tony Thompson by E-mail at, scollump@aol.com.
Best wishes for a happy and healthy Thanksgiving and a peaceful and fulfilling holiday season. Have a safe New Year and we’ll see you in Atlanta on the 16th.
2004 Atlanta Umpires Super Clinic and NCAA umpires meeting
(All meetings at the Renaissance Concourse Hotel – check hotel for meeting rooms)
FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 2004
3:45 PM – 4:45 PM NCAA Clinic Registration / Super Clinic Registration
5:00 PM – 5:30 PM Opening (Dave Yeast)
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM CCA Mechanics (Adonis Hill)
6:30 PM – 6:45 PM Break
6:45 PM – 8:30 PM NCAA Rule Changes Video (Ty Halpin)
8:30 PM – 8:45 PM Break
8:45 PM –9:45 PM NCAA Points of Emphasis (Tony Thompson)
9:45 –10:15 PM Umpire Improvement Program (Dave Yeast)
10:45 PM –12:00 AM Association of ACC/SEC umpires meeting (site TBA) (John Magnusson)
SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 2004
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM Conference USA (C-USA) Meeting
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Meeting
10:00 AM - 10:35 AM Room 1 (Line drives & trap catches in the infield) (Scott Graham / Frank Sylvester)
10:45 AM - 11:20 AM Room 1 (Pre game, post game and between innings) (Dennis McComb / Randy Harvey)
11:30 AM - 12:05 PM Room 1 (Positioning for plays at the plate) (Tony Maners / Dave Yeast)
12:05 PM - 12:55 PM Lunch on your own
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM Room 1 (Severe weather seminar)
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM Room 1 (Travel safety and crime prevention seminar)
3:00 PM – 4:45 PM Joint Conference Meetings
(Non-Conference assignors only & Conference Umpires for the conference below)
Atlantic Sun, Atlantic Coast, Big South, Ohio Valley, Southeastern,
Southern, Sun Belt, Peach Belt & Trans South Conferences
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Southern Collegiate Umpires Association (SCUA) meeting
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Palmetto Collegiate Umpires Association Meeting
7:30 PM (in Renaissance lobby) Morton's of Chicago Dinner (Optional)
Limit 40 Persons - $80.00 each
Contact Steve Manders no later than January 12, 2004 to reserve a spot
Home-770-954-1907 / Office 404-656-2022 (Steve.Manders@mail.oci.state.ga.us)
SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 2004
8:30 AM - 9:15 AM Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) Meeting
Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Meeting
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM South Atlantic Conference (SAC-8) Meeting
Mid-South Collegiate Umpires Meeting
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM Rooms 1,2,3
11:30 PM - 12:15 PM Rooms 1,2,3
12:30 PM – 1:15 PM Rooms 1,2,3
Sunday Sessions: Room 1 – (Troublesome rules and handling situations) (Dave Yeast / A.J. Lostaglio) Room 2 – (Designated Hitter rule) (Tony Walsh / Mark Chapman)
Room 3 - (Obstruction) (Paul Guillie / John Magnusson)
1:30-2:00 PM Final Review / Adjournment / * NCAA clinic registration cards collected*
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