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Chapter Certification NYSCA of Minnesota Without Officials, Totals Monthly Sports Would Not continued from page 1 Certification Totals Exist Mounds View 25 1995 Goal 5,000! New Brighton.......................135 By Dr. Thomas Tutko 1992 1993 1994 New Hope ..............................15 No system can exist with- New London-Spicer.................5 January 286 154 273 out a set of rules and regula- New Ulm ................................23 February 59 126 52 tions. Regardless of how we North St. Paul......................140 March 87 96 99 Norwood Comm Ed...............68 may feel about them, believe NYSCA of MN..... .................7 April 296 242 546 in them or even think they are Oakdale..................................50 May 655 1364 919 fair and equitable, rules and Ortonville.................................0 June 945 537 839 regulations are critical. They Pipestone................................56 July 128 206 108 represent the foundation. All DI_.,..•.... ................................ .u�,�� ,Y 1� systems nave groups to enforce Redwood Falls (New)...............0 September 262 321 311 these regulations to make the Robbinsdale ...........................31 October 217 169 185 system work. Rochester...............................92 November 323 220 234 Roseville.................................78 "ne sports world is a Ruthton Comm Ed...................0 December 274 364 301 "I glaring example of this policy, Sauk Rapids...........................22 Total 3,606 3,874 4,024 and the group designed to St. Anthony............................15 enforce the rules is the offi- St. Charles ...............................3 St Cloud Comm Ed..............110 NYSCA Top Ten vials. Without officials, sports St. Louis Park......................129 would fail to exist. Officials St. Paul.................................442 Final Standings — represent the stability and St. Paul Park (New).................0 Overall 1994* maturity of the game. The Shoreview ..............................38 official's responsibility is to .........................South St. Paul 6 1. Georgia ............... 14,453 ensure that each individual and Urban Ventures Athletic Club.0 2. Texas .................. 10,818 team gets an opportunity to Willmar....................................5 3. New Jersey.......... 10,810 perform their best within the Winona...................................44 4. Florida 8,677 rules and regulations. 5. Virginia .................6,306 We have reached a strange ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 6. Ohio ...................... 5,846 crossroad in sports where 7. Oklahoma.............. 5,557 limits are tested in almost NYSCA of 8. North Carolina....... 5,204 every direction. Testing limits 9. South Carolina.......4,648 can be exciting when we are Minnesota thinking of performance Welcomes 10. Tennessee..............4,446 records, or interesting when we * Minnesota finished 12th are thinking about attendance Albert Lea—Chapter nationally. records, but when we get to Director Dawn Thompson testing rules and regulations as The national total member- enforced by officials, we have Clinician Dean Mulso ship for 1994 reached a record taken a step in a direction that breaking 137,326. sincerely needs to be ques- St. Paul Park—Chapter i i tioned. Director Rick Spreeman The national percentage of j increase for 1994 was an impressive 10.037%. Without Officials ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ continued on page 3 - 2 -