Here is a recent question I asked? And still not clear as to how this could be mandated if there have not been any clear and concise rules, regulations, bylaws DOCUMENTATED stating this point. USAWKS Rules do not have this listed anywhere, Hey I know that summer wrestling makes winter champions. We need to open this up and make it an all comers tourney.
NOT IN FAVOR OF A MANDATED CAMP
MANDATED CAMP
This is the first year for this concept.
So if this Executive Council wants me to wear a Pink shoe on the left foot and a Green shoe on the Right at Southern Plains I must abide by this even though there is nothing in the Bylaws am I getting it now.
It must be written down. You cannot just pull this out of the air.




Jerry:

This decision came from the executive board vote in the September meeting. It was discussed at the State Body meeting in November, and I said I would take it back to the executive board in January which I did. There was a lot of discussion on this topic.

Since in September the motion was made, seconded and passed, another motion would have to be made to rescind the orginial motion. That motion was made and seconded but failed. This left the requirement to make the camp mandatory.

The bylaws do not cover camps, clinics or competitions like Southern Plains. This is left up to th executive council and the representatives of each district. Bob Philips acts as the director of the camp and is in charge of the Southern Plains coaching staff. He is the one that wanted to make the camp mandatory. His reasoning was that Kansas needs to create a "TEAM" concept. In the past Kansas kids that did not come to camp but competed in the tournament thought the coaches should stay and coach them. The coaching staff had no idea who these kids were nor did they know how to coach them.

Most of the Free-Style directors agreed that this situation had to be corrected. By attending the camp the USAW-Kansas Kids coaching staff can get to know the kids and the kids can get to know the coaches. This will help make the "Team Kansas" a team like other states that compete in the Southern Plains. All the kids will wear the same uniforms and look like a team.

I would suggest that if you feel strongly about this decision that first to contact your district free-style director and discuss it with him, he then can contact Bob Gonzales who is the Free-Style Competition Director.

This is the first year for this concept. I would like for everyone to give it a try and see if it works. Like I said earlier the executive council looked at the pros and cons and thought that it was worth trying.

Jeff Sheets




Jeff

I see that the Executive Board of the USAWKS has voted to keep this camp requirement just to be able to wrestle at Southern Plains. I as you may or may not know am opposed to this requirement also have been looking through the USAWKS Bylaws and do not see this requirement within these any where could you please let myself and the rest of USAWKS know where to find this written down, also I do not see any where as to how a person or persons would get something overturned i.e. Do we need a petition, do we need to have a special meeting with a certain amount of signatures is there a due process to complete this task to change something that we know we could make better.
Please let me know

Thanks
Jerry L. Bauerly
USA