These are people who care

I'm sitting in a large cold room with a few hundred people who love this sport. They care about the athletes - from the basic skills to our Olympians. They care about our officials and our volunteers.  It's fun to be with a group with so much passion and compassion.

We had a moment of silence for Laura Maki and Ann Dougherty stood up and thanked everyone for their support for Laura in the last two years.

We had a standing ovation for our Olympian Mark Ladwig.

Nominating Committee: Kathleen Krieger was nominated for Upper Great Lakes representative and Kim Moore was nominated as the Southwest representative. Both were easily elected as no one else was nominated in their region.  We all get along so well!

And we finished up an hour early. Time to get lunch before our 1:30 start for the big meeting.

See ya!