Category: OIAAA News

Due to the unique circumstances our country is facing, many state athletic administrator association conferences have been cancelled. In response, the NIAAA has decided to institute a series of afternoon webinars to provide courses to our members that may be affected by these cancellations. These webinar sessions will take place from 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. or 7 a.m. – 11 a.m. beginning March 25. Please note that the NIAAA reserves the right to cancel or delay these course offerings at any time in correspondence with the regulations surrounding COVID-19.

Each webinar will last four consecutive hours and participants must be present for the entirety of the session to receive credit. Refunds and/or credit will not be given to participants that miss more than fifteen minutes of the session.

The cost per webinar is $125 for NIAAA members and $210 for non-members. Please note that our office is closed and we are only able to accept payment via credit card.

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Course Times:
All courses begin at 1:00 p.m. EST unless otherwise noted

LTC 719 – March 25
LTC 630 – March 26
LTC 631 – March 27
LTC 633 – March 30
LTC 709 – March 31
LTC 715 – April 1
LTC 901 – April 2 (7 a.m. – 11 a.m.)
LTC 902 – April 3 (7 a.m. – 11 a.m.)
LTC 608 – April 6
LTC 726 – April 7
LTC 620 – April 8
LTC 510 – April 9
LTC 705 – April 10

Online registration is available until: 4/3/2020 go to https://members.niaaa.org/page/LeadershipTraining to register

We are pleased to announce our spring webinar dates for LTC 501, 502, 504, 506, 508, 625, 700, 701, 706 & 799! All webinars have two sessions that must be attended in order to receive credit.

All participants must sit the required time for both sessions of the class to receive credit. At least one session must be attended live. Refunds and/or credit will not be given to participants that miss both live presentations of the sessions. Click here to view all NIAAA webinar policies.

Each webinar is $125 for NIAAA members and $210 for non-members.

Course Times:

All courses begin at 7:30 PM EST

LTC 501 Wednesdays.    March 18 & 25

LTC 502 Tuesdays          March 31 & April 7

LTC 504 Thursdays        April 2 & 9

LTC 506 Mondays          March 16 & 23

LTC 508 Mondays          March 30 & April 6

LTC 625 Tuesdays          March 10 & 17

LTC 700 Wednesdays    April 1 & 8

LTC 701 Thursdays        April 2 & 9

LTC 706 Mondays          March 30 & April 6

LTC 799 Thursdays         March 19 & 26

Courses will be taught by trained and experienced faculty. Each class will be two-120 minute sessions, taught on two consecutive Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday evenings.

Equipment Needed:

All webinars are taught on the Zoom platform. Please use this link to create a free account if you do not already have one: https://zoom.us/signup

Students may take the course via a laptop, desktop or tablet. The course will be visual and audio based. A chat room is available for students to message questions to the instructor and other attendees. Please see the NIAAA Webinar Policies for further information.

Registration & Payment:

Each webinar course is $125 for NIAAA members and $210 for non-members. If you are unable to pay online, please contact ncrocker@niaaa.org.

Registration and payment deadline for all classes is due a minimum of 3 business days before the first session. All unpaid registrations will not be sent information on how to join the course. Course manual and login instructions will be sent to you through our system automatically after the payment payment is processed.

Certificates:

Students must participate in both sessions (according to the webinar policies) to receive credit. If you must miss one of the two sessions, you will be required to view the recording of the missed session. If you miss both sessions, the option for make-up will not be given. Upon completing both sessions, you will receive an email with a link to the course evaluation. An acknowledgment of course completion will be made available in the Professional Development section of the member portal once both sessions are complete.

Contact: Nellie Crocker (ncrooker@niaaa.org) 317-587-1450 x4

September 9, 2019

To: All Area Media

From: Ryan Virtue, Positive Coaching Alliance

Bruce Brown, OIAAA

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CLEVELAND – Positive Coaching Alliance-Cleveland and the Ohio Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (OIAAA) are pleased to announce a new partnership effective September 9.  This strategic partnership has been developed to provide additional support to OIAAA members specifically as it relates to enhancing culture development and elevating the social-emotional learning opportunities that co-curricular athletics presents. 

PCA-Cleveland is one of 18 chapters of the Positive Coaching Alliance, a national nonprofit organization that provides live in-person and online tools, resources and training for athletics leaders, coaches, parents and athletes that directly align with each individual schools’ mission.  As a leading professional development nonprofit association for high school administrators, the OIAAA is comprised primarily of athletic administrators of secondary schools in the state of Ohio. It was formed for the purpose of supporting and improving Interscholastic athletics and programs which enhance the development of young student-athletes, the professional inter-relationship between athletic administrators and other supervisory personnel.  The OIAAA also provides educational opportunities and channels of communication for its members.

“The missions of the Positive Coaching Alliance and the OIAAA could not be in more alignment.” said Ryan Virtue, Partnership Manager for PCA Cleveland. “Through this partnership, we have a tremendous opportunity to increase dialogue and provide valuable tools to assist education-based administrators in proactively addressing some of the biggest challenges they face in their roles.  It’s important to address current challenges facing athletic administrators; however we also have the opportunity to work with them proactively to address many of those issues within the youth sports environment before athletes and families even reach high school.”

PCA-Cleveland Board Chair, Neil Weiss, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for the Cleveland Indians added “Culture is everything to any sports organization at any level of competition.  Whether you are working with youth, high school, collegiate or professional athletes there is a significant level of importance in establishing environments where leadership, reasoning and social-emotional learning are at the forefront of player development. This partnership with the OIAAA will allow significant expansion of that mindset throughout the state of Ohio.”

Bruce Brown, Executive Director of the OIAAA, stated, “The mission of our organization has been to deliver best practice resources to and promote the professional development of the school administrators who coordinate and oversee interscholastic athletics in Ohio schools.  The collaboration with PCA-Cleveland allows us to enhance those resources for our members while strengthening the support of the purpose and vision of what sports can provide for the overall development of children.”

With the launch of this partnership, throughout the month of September, PCA is offering current partner/renewal pricing for PCA live workshops to any OIAAA member schools.  Any interested parties should request more information at https://positivecoach.org/forms/request-more-information/.  As the partnership develops, OIAAA members will also have access to continuing educational opportunities during OIAAA state and regional conferences. Specific PCA tools and resources will also be made available through the OIAAA AD Toolbox.

About the OIAAA

The Ohio Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association was founded in 1956 to provide a professional organization in Ohio for interscholastic athletic administrators. From its beginning, the OIAAA was established to create an exchange forum of best practice for the oversight and enhancement of education-based athletic programs in Ohio schools. 

Services performed by the OIAAA include (but not limited to): 

• Certified professional development for athletic administrators
• Professional forums for current athletic issue solutions.
• Exchange of professional literature, ideas and training programs.
• Marketing of and public relations for the development of education-based athletic programs.
• Endorsement of ethical standards in interscholastic athletics.
• Support and development of sportsmanship in athletics. 

The OIAAA is dedicated to the advancement of interscholastic, education-based athletic programs in Ohio. They are a non-profit (501c3) organization.

For more information on the OIAAA, please contact Executive Director, Bruce Brown at oiaaa.brucebrown@gmail.com or 330-352-9848.

About PCA-Cleveland

Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) is a national non-profit organization with the mission of creating a positive, character-building youth sports environment that results in BETTER ATHLETES, BETTER PEOPLE.

Youth sports currently involves 40M children, which presents a tremendous platform on which to develop youth character and life skills. Research has shown that in order for youth to accrue these benefits from sports, sports needs to be done in a way that creates a positive youth development culture. PCA ensures sports are ‘done right’ with programming that is research-based and designed to have an impact at three levels in a youth sports organization or school:

• Youth experience improved life skills and character development.  They also perform better!
• Coaches become more positive and increase their focus on using sports to teach life lessons.
• Youth Sports Organizations & Schools see their cultures become more positive and everyone involved has more fun.

Since its founding in 1998, PCA has established 18 chapters nationwide, partnered with roughly 3,500 schools and youth sports organizations to deliver more than 20,000 live group workshops, reaching 19.2 million youth. PCA offers interactive online courses and has thousands of multimedia tips and tools for coaches, parents, athletes, and leaders available free of charge on PCADevZone.org. PCA also runs two annual awards programs: a scholarship program for high school student-athletes and a coach award program to recognize youth and high school coaches who strive to win and teach life lessons.

PCA gains support from a National Advisory Board of elite coaches, professional and Olympic athletes, organization leaders, and academics who share PCA’s mission including Dusty Baker, Carol Dweck, Herm Edwards, Julie Foudy, Phil Jackson, and Steve Kerr. PCA is proud to partner with more than 50 national governing bodies, youth serving organizations and professional leagues and teams including Boys & Girls Club of America, National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball, and US Lacrosse.

The Cleveland Chapter of the Positive Coaching Alliance was founded in 2011 by then General Manager of the Cleveland Indians and current President/General Manager of the Toronto Blue Jays, Mark Shapiro.

To learn more about Positive Coaching Alliance, or to become involved in the movement contact Ryan Virtue, PCA-Cleveland Partnership Manager at ryan_virtue@positivecoach.org or 440-465-6552.

Ten Ohio interscholastic athletic administrators recently passed the national exam for the Certified Athletic Administrator (CAA) designation from the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (NIAAA).  The exam was taken as part of the recently completed Ohio Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (OIAAA) Annual Summer Institute, held in Columbus from June 11-13, 2019.

The CAA designation recognizes and incorporates the professional development opportunities provided through the NIAAA’s Leadership Training Institute.  Courses within the Leadership Training Institute have been reviewed and certified by AdvancED, which oversees such accreditation organizations as North Central Accreditation and similar education certification providers.  AdvancEd has validated that the NIAAA courses and certification process demonstrates the ability to meet and exceed national and international standards of excellence. Accreditation is an affirmation of and gives credibility to all programs administered by the association. 

Jon Payne (Reading HS), the OIAAA’s state Certification Chair, commented, “The completion of the CAA process by these athletic directors is a reflection of each recipient’s high professional standards and their commitment to the profession.  Ultimately, it is a strong indicator of the type of dedication each recipient has to assure their respective school district and students that education-based athletics is the focus of their efforts.”

OIAAA Executive Director, Bruce Brown added, “There has been a significant increase in the number of Ohio athletic administrators who have sought this advanced designation over the past four years.  As such, we continue to seek opportunities to support this professional development by offering more course training sessions and outreach sites to our membership. We are excited about this current generation of Ohio athletic directors who are certainly some of the best and brightest in the country.”

The ten Ohio athletic administrators who recently passed their CAA exam were:

Kyle Baughn Galion High School

Brian Conatser Loveland High School

Margarita Covin Nordonia Middle School

Eric Fry Loveland High School

John Justice Brunswick High School

Justine Kozlevcar Catholic Diocese of Cleveland

Andy Oudomlith Painesville Harvey High School

Don Shimek Norton High School

Eric Sholtis Sarahsville Shenandoah High School

Chad Spradlin Circleville High School

This recent group of CAA recipients increases the list of Ohio CAA designees to nearly 300.  For a complete list of Ohio CAA designees, go to http://www.oiaaa.org/ohio-cmaas-and-caas/#caa

On Thursday, July 11, 2019, the Northeast Ohio Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (NEOIAAA) will sponsor a workshop for new Athletic Directors in the Northeast District. Information is as follows:

New Athletic Directors Workshop
Thursday, July 11, 2019
9:00-12:00 – lunch provided
@ Beachwood High School
25100 Fairmount Blvd. Beachwood, Ohio 44122

If you will have a new athletic director, assistant athletic director, or middle school athletic director, please encourage him/her to join us for this workshop. There is no cost for the workshop. To register please respond to Barb Salata, Athletic Administrator, Walsh Jesuit HS, at salatab@walshjesuit.org; or call 330-929-4205 x 118.

The OIAAA is saddened to announce that Ralph T. Young, the longtime Treasurer of both the OIAAA and OHSAA Central District Board, has passed away. Ralph (along with his wife, Nancy) have lived in Delaware in recent years.

Ralph served on the OIAAA Board of Directors beginning in 1985 and became the OIAAA Treasurer in 1989, a position he held until his retirement from that post in 2012. In addition to his duties with the OIAAA, he served the OHSAA Central District Board of Directors in numerous positions before he became their Treasurer.

The Ohio Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (OIAAA) has approved the nominations of three new positions to their Board of Directors.  The newly created Board positions include Female Representative to the Board, Ethnic-Minority Representative to the Board and Middle School Representative to the Board.

The new Board positions were approved by a unanimous vote of the OIAAA general membership in November, 2018 at the annual OIAAA state conference for interscholastic athletic administrators.  The nominees were approved by the OIAAA Board of Directors at their recent (March 10, 2019) Board meeting.

Nominees approved by the Board include:

• Female Representative:  Heather Beck, athletic administrator at Elyria City Schools.
• Ethnic-Minority Representative:  Jason Goings, athletic administrator at Ashland City Schools
• Middle School Representative:  Heath O’Neal, athletic coordinator, Dublin Karrer Middle School

Each of these new positions will be voting members of the OIAAA Board of Directors and will assume their two-year appointment beginning July 1, 2019 with the start of the 2019-2020 school year.

OIAAA President, Bo Hanson of Pickerington Central High School stated, “We appreciate our general membership’s approval of these new Board positions. By adding these positions to our Board of Directors, we will better serve our ever-expanding membership needs.  As we have grown into the nation’s largest state interscholastic athletic directors’ association, we need to insure that all elements of our education-based athletic administration are being heard and assisted. These newest members will add great vision for our association.”