Keith Russell, president of the PDCA, has formed a committee to gather some new ideas to help our Regional Training Center efforts. These ideas will be presented to the Board of Directors at the spring meeting on April 22nd. The goal of this committee will be to be to offer ideas to improve the Regional Training Center Concept (adopted USD Convention 1996). The committee will focus their efforts on the training centers to be opened in the future. The 2 current centers (Indianapolis and Oklahoma City) are great models for us to use to make the new ones even better.

The goal of the RTC project (1996) was to have at least five Regional sites and one national site. We have all learned a lot about training centers, and centralized training since they have become a reality. We as coaches have been discussing the merits of our collective efforts on the pool deck for the past 6 years. This project is a reality! It is time to get the ideas discussed on the pool deck into the appropriate committee meetings to be worked on so we all can share in its success and learn from our failures.

"As we move through this evolutionary period we all have the responsibility to continue offering input throughout the renaissance."

Please think outside of the box and don't be shy about sharing what may seem to be an off the wall idea. The committee will consider all ideas submitted to elitedive@aol.com by March 27th.