SCACA Auxiliary Representatives
March 13, 2025 - 10:00am
Cindy Jacobs - Clinic Speakers ... fill out online at sccoaches.org
SCACA Clinic - General Session for ALL to attend
Scott Earley
No constitution and bylaws changes as of now
2025 HoF - seven recipients
Auxiliary Announcements
Baseball, Art Boozer - 392 members
Basketball, John Combs - $2K Herlong scholarship for selling programs at state championships ($10 per program); survey sent to final four teams for their experience in Florence; N/S at B-C 3/29; Carolinas Classic (could be last year in Wilmington) unless moved to Myrtle Beach or such; Florence Center - not good for semifinals!
Cheer, Gwen Clark - Spring Luncheon at Brookland Baptist West Columbia; Giveaways from Rebel and Varsity; Debbie Rogers Cheer Classic 100 teams (had to cut from 115 due to space/time); 7 $1500 scholarships awarded to cheerleaders; $1000 to Herlong Scholarship; Lost Elaine Elliott this past year with intent to award a future scholarship in her memory
Football, Jimmy Noonan - Carolina Coaches Combine (NC & SC with inquiries from GA/TN); best golf tourney ever in June at the Woodlands - proceeds to N/S rings for coaching staffs and in the future for Shrine Bowl coaches and HoF inductees; POW acknowledgements of athletes/coaches; AFCA Power of Influence Award - Roosevelt Nelson (Crestwood); Did not have Week of Champions due to hurricane; Februray Clinic - more than 400 at the Crown Reef - best attendance ever despite SCFCA membership being down this year; JOIN THE AUXILIARY; Goal is 1500 membership for this year; Transfer Rule; Split Quarter Four (Thu/Fri = 4 qtrs); Realignment in late fall 2025; $5K for Herlong pledge
Golf, Roger Smith - New app SCGolf, very successful - uniformity & professionalism; Junior Golf Association is all electronic, HS still old school with scorecards; Promotes rankings, college coaches have access; 60% of states are using some form of a golf app; SCHSGA gets 20% of the app use; Money towards N/S, state championships & qualifiers, etc.; TL Hanna will host six events this year and use it for all six; Golf is growing; People are working from 'home' (golf course); Cost per golf course is going up; Poll sent out gauging golf course access; 5AD1 does not have a state championship site as of yet; Host school is responsible for all financial burdens, so it is a task; Lots of coaching turnover especially among women; Golf continues to grow, schools making cuts, etc.
Lacrosse, Mark Piepoli - 115 members, 98 total teams (boys/girls); trying to get more coaches to join; sanctioned sport in 2009; LAX coaches in the school building are far/few between; lots of transient coaches; had an online Winter meeting; lots to change/fix to make in-roads for their organization to move forward; 3rd N/S game moving to River Bluff HS May 17th one-day event; No D1 men's program in SC; Women have PC/Winthrop; Proposal to extend their season for one more week in the spring
Middle School - Sherry Smith - short report
Soccer, Kevin Heise -
S.C. HIGH SCHOOL SOCCER COACHES ASSOCIATION
The 2025 SCHSSCA Winter Clinic January 17th was a great success, and the event was enjoyed by all in attendance.
The event was held at the Wingate by Wyndham Columbia/Lexington. A meeting with the All-Star game coaches followed along with a SCHSSCA Round Table discussion. The SCHSL Rules Meeting featured soccer liaison Charlie Wentzky conducted this annual session and the SCHSSCA expresses its' sincere gratitude to him for making this available for our membership at the Winter Clinic. The Friday SCHSSCA Business Meeting was hosted by Kevin Heise, Associate State Chairman and Winter Clinic Director, and provided a wealth of information for new and veteran members. Our Coach’s Raffle was sponsored courtesy Lloyd's Soccer.
The Lloyd’s High School Senior Showcase was canceled for Saturday, January 18th due to the weather.
SCHSSCA NOTES
• 363 members for 2024-2025. Previous years: (372 - 2024; 331 - 2023; 338 - 2022; 311 - 2021; 325 - 2020)
• In addition to our
www.scsoccer.com website, we utilize several other mediums for communication with our membership including: SportsYou (code AJYAEPQJ), SCSoccer.com Forums Message Board via UBB Threads, MaxPreps (all scores should be entered), Twitter (@schssca), and Facebook – “South Carolina High School Soccer Coaches” and “SC High School Soccer Scoreboard”
• We have partnered with SCORBORD for the second consecutive year to conduct our weekly SCHSSCA Rankings. All teams must enter schedules/scores in SCORBORD to be ranked in our polls. The first regular season rankings will be released this Monday, March 17th.
• Nominations for the two summer all-star games that we sponsor are due on April 11th. The selection meetings will be held at Gray Collegiate Academy on April 13th.
• Nominations for All-State will be due on May 2nd. The selection meetings will be held at Gray Collegiate Academy on May 4th.
• The SCHSSCA will staff the concession stands at Memorial Stadium for the state championships May 22-24. All proceeds go to funding the summer all-star games.
Strength, Chad Cooksey & Garrett Knight - Strength Meets; 5th annual female meet w/ JV division this year; Had state champions for first time; Female from Spartanburg 500lb squatter; Boys Strength Meet 3/22 - 62 teams qualified a year ago; organization is growing; lots of sports participating; 2 HoF inductions; 22 scholarships to coaches - 10 to National/ 6 to NACE / 6 to ?; Williams Strength & Sorinex; Business Meeting on April 23 ($10); $3K pledge to Herlong
Swim, Cynthia Vanbuskirk - 8 state meets; Hurricane Helene was devastating to swim this year; 75% of schools use outdoor pools; some schools did not swim for 13 days; 3 girls / 6 boys state records this year; Olympic year boosts participation; 732 girls 703 boys; 210 teams participated in swim; 12 HoF; state rankings; 98 members in aux this year
Tennis, Jeri Himmelsbach - HS tennis more participation than ever before; ADs could help with spring hires and join auxiliary; USTA scoring; Biggest event is State Singles; N/S girls/boys tennis; lifetime sport
Track & Cross Country, Matt Oberly - Coaches Classic (SVHS) 97 schools; Qualifier next weekend; Fort Jackson was a great location for XC; Shrine Bowl run 12/21 at Spartanburg; Target group for membership 1A/2A members; 500 members right now; no organized officials, trying to work that out now
Wrestling, Tommy Bell - 19/20 years presenting at this event (missed for going to wrong hotel one year
... State Meets at Florence Center = huge hit (had outgrown Anderson); wanted to cut a week to avoid basketball conflicts and get a larger venue; $20 for a state championship program for revenue
Tommy Bell - SCHSL THOUGHTS
This year the scare was more organized. Look at NC ... NC took over the state legislature, dissolve the HSL. Immediately hire back the HSL that will then have a Board above them made up of politicians. Opens the door for 'others' to get involved. Could open the door to a 'crazy' person getting involved. The NC Executive Board has delegated power to these designees which could be anybody -- angry moms/dads. We have to shut up our younger social media savvy coaches that perpetuate these problems. Twitter - "DOBETTERSCHSL" ... The SCHSL tries to be a neutral party to 200+ special interest groups (schools). We as leadership of our sports groups have to be more cognizant about how we allow our.
NOTES
Reminder of COY for Spring Sports ASAP
Financial REports are due 12/31
Hyatt Greenville is host hotel
Auxiliary chairs are responsible for projectors for your sessions
April 1 is deadline for SCACA Herlong Scholarship
1. AAAA Lower
2. AAA Upper
3. AA Lower
4. A Upper
SCOTT EARLEY
Y'all do a great job with the all-star games. As good as any in the country!
"File 13 stuff" ... social media has given folks a voice.
Need a copy of your by-laws for each auxiliary organization.
SportsYou is the greatest communication tool ever!
Board Meeting will discuss the pending legislation with the SCHSL
Number of legislators on that bill that will be taken off -- did not know the total information
Proviso - for JV games - if you don't field a JV team, would you get a $1000 fine?
Contact your legislators
No chance to pass
