Monday Morning News
August 19 – First Week of Football Games
August 20 – Hardship Review
August 21 – New AD Meeting #2 (NMAA Office)
August 28 – Monthly Athletic Director Meeting (Zoom)
In the News:
ATHLETIC TRAINER ALL ACCESS PASS
All athletic trainers need an NMAA All Access pass to gain complimentary entrance into NMAA sanctioned events, including state championships. Please have your athletic trainer fill out the online application and submit it to the NMAA by August 23, 2024 in order to receive a pass for the year. The application form is available here.
Online Application:
http://nmact.powermediallc.org/athletic-directors/medical-personnel-pass-application/
NMAA/NMADA NEW ATHLETIC DIRECTOR WORKSHOP
The NMAA/NMADA will host the second New Athletic Director workshop Wednesday, August 21st. This meeting will be held at the NMAA Offices from 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 pm with lunch provided. Come and learn more about the NMAA Handbook, Eligibility and Petitions, the Max Preps data system, DragonFly and much more. New Athletic Directors who attended the first meeting on August 7th are welcome to attend the August 21st meeting as well. This meeting is open to everyone, so if you just need a refresher, please sign up in your Final Forms account. In the afternoon from 12:30-4:30, we will offer LTC 502 on August 21st. Special registration in Final Forms is required for the afternoon session. For more information about these events, please contact Zac Stevenson at 505.923.3277.
MEMBER SCHOOL’S “OFFICIAL VOTER” DESIGNATION
NMAA Bylaw 3.12.1 states “The administrative head of each member school, with local Board of Education approval, appoints the “Official Voter” for the school. The “Official Voter” is the school’s voting representative for all matters pertaining to the business of the NMAA when the referendum is required.” NMAA Bylaw 3.9.2 requires that the “Official Voter”, and other staff information, is posted on MaxPreps on or before September 15. If you have any questions, please contact Assistant Director, Tyler Dunkel at tyler@nmact.org.
Adding an Official Voter on MaxPreps:
https://youtu.be/1Sv-ZnvvQDk
MEMBERSHIP DUES, FEES AND CONTRACTS
Membership dues/fees and contracts have been mailed to all schools. Please be sure to submit these to the NMAA by Monday, September 16, 2024. If you have not received either of these, or have any questions regarding membership contracts, please contact Alissa Wesbrook at 505-923-3266 or alissa@nmact.org. For questions regarding membership dues and fees please contact Annette Castillo at 505-595-3402 or annette@nmact.org.
HUDL VIDEO UPLOAD
Athletic Directors, please remind your football coaches to have their games uploaded to Hudl following their contests. The deadline for games played on Thursday and Friday is 1 p.m. on Saturday. For games on Saturday, the deadline is 10 a.m. on Sunday morning.
MAXPREP SCORES
Reminder to input your final score into MaxPreps as soon as possible, following your contest. Having an accurate schedule on MaxPreps with the final score is vital to the seeding & selection process for State Championships.
MaxPreps Score Reporting:
www.nmact.org/file/MaxPreps_score_reporting.pdf
AUDITING SCHEDULES & DRAGONFLY REMINDERS
The start of the regular season is upon us! Just a reminder to please audit your schedules each week to ensure you have officials scheduled for all contests with accurate game dates and times!
The travel ring policy is now in effect. Remember that you no longer need to determine driver, rider and meal fees. Everyone on the crew receives a travel fee, calculated one-way from each official’s home address to your contest site. That means if the individual official lives 30 miles one-way from your site, they are paid the fee from the 26-50 mile tier ($30), not 60 miles for the round trip! DragonFly will auto-calculate the correct rate for each official for you by selecting the “NMAA Travel” rule on the “Manage Payments” tab after your event. See this video ‘how-to’ link: https://youtu.be/gB_a5KluqHA
Here is the officials fees and travel ring document for 2024-25: https://www.nmact.org/file/Officials_Fees.pdf
For those that are hosting tournaments, if you have not already entered your event in DragonFly, here is a video ‘how-to’ link for building tournaments (remember volleyball pool play matches must be entered as scrimmages to avoid populating in MaxPreps rankings): https://youtu.be/eQNrjlGadfU
