East Youth Competitions Committee

Minutes of the meeting held on April 27^th 2006.

Present: L.Bant Chair. F.Wheeler (Secretary and Competitions Secretary),

K.Boulter (Suffolk), J.Pagliaro (Beds). S.Tippen (Cambs), N.Unwin (Essex),

G.Welch (Herts B).

Apologies were received from: B.Barr (Lincs B ), A.Bloom (Norfolk), J.Wood (Herts G)and B.Pollard (Umpires Rep).

Joint Meeting.

1. Minutes: These were signed by the chair.

2. Matters arising: The East Constitution would be discussed later.

3. Correspondence: The Competitions secretary had had an apology form D.Rose about the absence of East Umpires for the U13 boys Festival.

4. East

a) Constitution. The Committee felt that as some counties still held their junior meetings separately it would not be advisable to limit the

representatives to just one person. A suggestion was made that the meetings might be held at Stansted. There was also a suggestion which was agreed that there should be only 4 meetings in the year with no meeting in January.

b) U21. Concern was expressed at the absence of the boys U21 and the U21 girls team that represented the East at the National U21 competition. It was felt that the Tournament that we had organised for selection purposes in December had been wasted. Should we be organising one this year?

England. A meeting of interested schools had been held at Felsted to discuss the England plan.

5. Medals

Some counties had asked for there to be medals for the second placed team in the county championships. It was agreed to do this and not to have any certificates.

6. The Draft programme.

Minis. On reflection it was felt that having the minis on April 22^nd would cause difficulties as many schools would only be returning on that day and would not have been able to have had any practices. The Umpires too expressed a wish that the U11 and U13 tournaments should be on different days so that the young umpire could do both. The dates of March 11^th was put forward for the U11s and March 18^th for the U13s.

Girls Representatives Meeting

1. A discussion was held on whether there should be a week-end tournament on March 10^th /11^th 2007. It was felt that this would not be possible as both players and coaches would be involved in League matches on the Saturday and some counties would not be able to field their best team.

2. A discussion was held on the possibility of extending the U13s League matches by 5 minutes each way. This would cost more as a different pitch for finals day would be needed at about £450. It was felt that this too could be discussed next year.

Reports were handed out by the Competitions secretary and the counties present.

Boys Representatives Meeting

The programme was discussed with several changes being made and the addition of the U11 and U12 festivals. Reports from the counties present were

handed out.

The meeting finished at 9.25pm

The next meeting is on Thursday, September 14th