Friday, November 19, 2010

WEATHER POLICY AND COMMUNICATION PLAN FOR CYO ATHLETICS

With the beginning of the regular season for basketball and the potential for inclement weather, I want to remind you of our weather policy as well as our means for communicating about gym closures and an inability to make it to games.

As always, CYO Athletics participants are asked to make prudent decisions in terms of safe travel in adverse weather conditions.

WEATHER POLICY – from the CYO Athletics Manual, p. 26


  • It is the policy that when weather creates a challenge to attend league or tournament games, the Director of CYO Athletics, in consultation with that sport’s commission members decide as early as possible on the cancellation of such events.
  • If athletic events are cancelled, the games will not be made up. If games are played during a cancelled day, they will not count in league standings.
  • Due to different weather conditions in various areas, CYO Athletics suggests all adults use common sense during difficult days of travel!
  • All cancellations will be posted on the CYO Athletics voicemail message at 206.654.4643 as quickly as they are determined. If your gym/field is not listed as closed, it should be open.
  • Please see the baseball section in regards to rainouts.

COMMUNICATION – FOR COACHES WHOSE TEAM CAN’T MAKE IT TO A GAME DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER

  1. If the gym you are scheduled to play at is not closed and it is determined that you cannot travel safely to your game, you are asked to call the opposing coach to notify them of your need for game cancellation. Coaches contact information will be sent out next week.
  2. We are asking that people call 2 hours before their game time so that people can plan accordingly. Please have team phone trees in place to enhance communication on both sides of this situation.
  3. Please communicate this to CYO Athletics by calling Tauno Latvala on his voicemail pager at 206.344.9119 so that officials are notified of the game cancellation.
  4. The 72-hour notification rule is still in effect for non-weather related cancellations. Please see the manual on p. 24 for more details.

COMMUNICATION – CYO ATHLETICS TO THE COMMUNITY

  1. In cases of severe weather, we will either cancel all games for a day, entire weekend or do it on a gym by gym basis.
  2. We will communicate cancellation of games or individual gym closures via the outgoing voicemail message at 206.654.4643.
  3. If power and access allows, we will also post closure updates to our blog.
  4. Please be aware that we will not respond to phone calls asking us if games are being played at a specific gym. All gyms are open unless communicated otherwise.

Parking Issues This Year in Basketball

Please see the attached document from Holy Rosary Seattle’s Athletic Director Chris Teppner. They have asked we circulate this to the community so everyone coming to Holy Rosary for basketball games park in the proper parking lot so as not to conflict with parishioners parking for mass.

Also, DO NOT PARK IN THE O’DEA PARKING LOT. Use of the O’Dea parking lot is reserved for St. James parishioners attending mass. Under no circumstances should anyone be parking in that lot for CYO basketball games. There will be monitors there on sight, and any one parking there, not for mass at St. James may have their car towed. Please remind your communities, as in the case with Holy Rosary’s parking, that the rules do apply to everyone. Please respect these communities rules, if for nothing else, because it is the right thing to do.

Finally, in general, please respect each other’s facilities. This includes throwing away garbage in the proper location when you leave, and monitoring younger children to make sure they are not in areas they should not be. These are great places to use, and we would like to keep using them, so please respect and take care of these gyms.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Basketball Schedules are Posted

The 2010-2011 CYO Basketball schedules have been posted. Please remember, if your team is in a playoff eligible division, and you play 8 games in your season, your first game does not count in the standings. We do this because some divisions have an odd number of teams, and in those divisions, there has to be a Bye team each week, leaving some teams with only 7 games. Therefore, only 7 games count towards playoffs for all playoff eligible teams, so that everyone has the same number of counting games.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Basketball Referee Training Thursday

This Thursday night, November 11th, CYO Athletics is putting on a basketball referee training at St. Francis of Assisi in Seahurst. The training is scheduled from 7:00-9:00pm and will be led by the Director of CYO Athletics, Tauno Latvala. Interested referees should bring court shoes and a whistle.