[NCNCA] Mentored novice fields

[Ron Castia]

Since as a district our needs our different, I say we adopt a program for Cat 5 Women.

We seem to modify the rules at our discretion for other things, why be discriminatory? 

So what if we are the only district that has Cat 5 women. It's only for so many races anyway.

Just do it!

Ron

----- Original Message ----
From: Dan Connelly <djconnel at yahoo.com>
To: Casey Kerrigan <casey at caseykerrigan.com>
Cc: "Raphael, Jess" <jraphael at co.napa.ca.us>; ncnca at ncnca.org
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 2:23:59 PM
Subject: Re: [NCNCA] Mentored novice fields


Casey 
Kerrigan 
wrote:
> 
In 
order 
to 
have 
a 
Cat 
5 
for 
women 
we 
would 
need 
USCF 
to 
change 
the  
> 
rules 
to 
establish 
a 
Cat 
5 
for 
women. 
It 
has 
been 
brought 
up 
to 
the  
> 
USCF 
Board 
of 
Trustees 
in 
the 
past 
two 
years 
and 
the 
proposal 
has 
gone  
> 
down 
in 
flames 
due 
to 
lack 
of 
support 
from 
the 
vast 
majority 
of 
USCF  
> 
Trustees, 
AS 
was 
pointed 
out 
in 
another 
post 
we 
are 
in 
a 
different  
> 
world 
in 
terms 
of 
field 
sizes. 
Most 
of 
the 
rest 
of 
the 
country 
doesn't  
> 
have 
nearly 
enough 
women 
to 
really 
justify 
1/2/3 
and 
4 
races 
much 
less  
> 
a 
Cat 
5 
race.


Right.  
This 
is 
a 
big 
issue.  
My 
proposal, 
as 
a 
first 
step, 
was 
strictly 
for 
cat 
5's, 
which 
are 
only 
men.  
As 
has 
been 
pointed 
out, 
there's 
plenty 
of 
career 
W4 
racers.  
They 
don't 
necessarily 
want 
mentoring.  
Maybe 
some 
5's 
don't 
want 
it, 
either.  
Too 
bad: 
as 
J-A 
says, 
"upgrade".

The 
irony 
is 
that 
a 
woman 
could 
enter 
a 
"men's" 
cat 
4 
race 
as 
her 
first 
race, 
while 
a 
man 
could 
not.

Dan
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