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The OIAAA Launches New Official App
COLUMBUS, Ohio –
The OIAAA is thrilled to announce the launch of our new official app. Developed in partnership with Snap! Mobile, the new OIAAA App, will enhance the Ohio AD experience by creating a one-stop shop for all things OIAAA.
ADs can download the app today at https://oiaaamobile.app.link/download It is also available by searching OIAAA in the Apple App Store and on Google Play. Ohio Athletic Directors who download the app this weekend and visit booth #28 will be eligible to win a $250 gift card or donation for their department, courtesy of Snap! Mobile.
The OIAAA App is packed with information about the conference, member resources, professional development content, and your place to sign up for events and register through AMP. We will also share important updates and push notifications through the app.
ADs are encouraged to download the app and select “OIAAA”, “Special Events”, and their District affiliation to start receiving targeted notifications that fit their preferences.
About Snap! Mobile, Inc.
Snap! Mobile is the essential technology platform for school athletics and activities. To date, Snap! Raise, our industry-leading fundraising solution, has raised more than $700 million dollars for over 100,000 groups and teams through over 12.5 million participants and donors. In addition to the Snap! Raise fundraising platform, Snap! Mobile further supports schools, groups, and teams with its other solutions: FanX (student, parent, and fan engagement app), Snap! Manage (integrated scheduling, communication, and registration platform), Snap! Spend (transparent money management solution), and Snap! Store (spirit wear).
2023 OIAAA State Conference Registration and Agenda
September 2023 OIAAA Newsletter
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2023-2024 OHSAA Regional Update Meetings
The Ohio High School Athletic Association will be hosting in-person Regional Update Meetings in August and September. The dates and sites for the six meetings within each OHSAA athletic district are listed below.
The OHSAA Regional Update Meetings are designed to help kick off the 2023-24 school year and provide member school administrators with updates on current topics and issues. Superintendents, high school and 7th-8th grade principals, high school and 7th-8th grade athletic administrators and city supervisors are highly encouraged to attend. There is no cost to attend the meetings, which will last approximately two hours and begin at 10:00 a.m. Executive Director Doug Ute and other OHSAA staff members will make presentations and are happy to stay afterwards to answer questions you may have.
We have asked all other school administrators to coordinate their registration efforts through you, the high school athletic administrator. The link to the registration form is as follows:
https://ohsaameetings.hometownticketing.com/embed/all?tile_item=7.
An email will be returned to you to indicate that your registration has been received.
If you register for the Regional Update Meetings and then need to make changes later on, please contact Molly Downard (mdownard@ohsaa.org or 614-267-2502, ext. 100).
Here are the sites and dates for the 2023 OHSAA Regional Update Meetings:
Cambridge Meeting
Thursday, August 24 – 10:00 a.m.
Pritchard Laughlin Civic Center
7033 Glenn Highway
Cambridge, OH 43725
Athens Meeting
Tuesday, August 29 – 10:00 a.m.
Ohio University Inn and Conference Center
331 Richland Ave.
Athens, OH 45701
Streetsboro Meeting
Wednesday, September 6 – 10:00 a.m.
Streetsboro High School Auditorium
8585 State Route 14
Streetsboro, OH 44241
Westerville Meeting
Monday, September 11 – 10:00 a.m.
Quest Conference Center
9200 Worthington Rd., Suite 400
Westerville, OH 43082
Findlay Meeting
Thursday, September 14 – 10:00 a.m.
Findlay High School Auditorium
1200 Broad Ave.
Findlay, OH 45840
Cincinnati Meeting
Tuesday, September 19 – 10:00 a.m.
Cincinnati Princeton High School Matthews Auditorium
150 Viking Way
Cincinnati, OH 45246
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OIAAA Cohort Available for Schools interested in pursuing the Bruce Brown Award of Excellence:
The OIAAA will be offering a 4 month cohort that will meet virtually once per month beginning June 14. The goal is to collaborate as a team to assist each participant in achieving the necessary requirements for the Bruce Brown Award of Excellence. Administrators that successfully complete all requirements by October 1st will be recognized at the OIAAA State Conference in November as well as the State Basketball Championships in March. To find out more about the Bruce Brown Award of Excellence go to https://www.ohioiaaa.org/news/2021/04/28/oiaaa-and-ohsaa-launch-award-of-excellence/
The cohort will be facilitated by Streetsboro Athletic Administrator, Randy Tevepaugh, CMAA, who is the state coordinator for the Bruce Brown Award of Excellence. If you are interested in participating, please contact Randy by June 1. rtevepaugh@scsrockets.org
Congratulations West Clemont and Dublin Jerome for earning “The Bruce Brown Award of Excellence”
In 2023 Ohio high school athletic departments were selected to receive the Annual Award of Excellence. The award, a collaboration between the Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) and the Ohio Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (OIAAA) recognizes schools that provide exemplary support and promotion of education-based athletic programming in their school and community.
These awards were presented at the boys state basketball tournament in Dayton this year. This was our former Executive Director Bruce Brown’s award that he created and with the help of the OHSAA. The award is named after Bruce Brown, in honor of the man who created it and to remember the first Executive Director of the OIAAA.
Recipients of this year’s award are West Clermont High School and Dublin Jerome High School.
The focus of the award is to recognize on-going and consistent efforts on the part of Ohio interscholastic athletic departments that demonstrate best practice in the endorsement and promotion of school-based athletic programming. Specifically, this award recognizes schools that demonstrate intentional efforts to exemplify the mission and culture of educational-based athletic programs as an on-going process.
Doug Ute, Executive Director and Glen Gillespie, Executive Director of the OIAAA issued the following joint statement on the presentation of the award: “Ohio Interscholastic athletic programs have always been considered some of the most exemplary programs in the country in reflecting the value our schools and communities place upon education-based sports. The recipients of the ‘Bruce Brown Award of Excellence‘ have demonstrated a consistent and well-developed plan to keep focus of their sport programs upon delivering life-long skills for all participants and mirroring the educational mission of their respective institutions.”
The OHSAA and the OIAAA believe there are several benchmarks which identify quality educational based athletic programs:
School athletic programs are inherently educational
School athletic programs compliment the educational experience
School athletic programs enhance the educational mission of the school
School athletic programs serve as an extension of the academic classroom
School athletic programs teach life lessons not regularly available in the academic classrooms
School athletic programs have courts, fields, tracks, pools and courses as teaching classrooms
For additional details on the “Award of Excellence” criteria, go to the OIAAA website https://www.ohioiaaa.org/news/2021/04/28/oiaaa-and-ohsaa-launch-award-of-excellence/