2025 NYOA BOARD
2025 NYOA Board
Congratulations to all the newly elected volunteers:
President: Chuck Reed
VP Bikes: Brett Ward
VP Quads: Ray Chilson
Secretary: Valerie Sorensen
Treasurer: Billie Jo Carnes
Promoter reps:
Greg McMullen
Jerrod Hitt
Also, a special thank you, to Cindy Davis, Mark Potter and Greg Calkins who have faithfully served on the NYOA Board for many, many years.
nyoa - oFFICIAL aNNOUNCEMENT - alt bOARD aNNUAL MEETING
The Annual NYOA Associate Leadership Team meeting will be held on 11/10/24. This meeting is where your rider reps bring agenda items and/or recommendations to be discussed and if needed, voted on.
If you have anything you would like to have presented or discussed,
please reach out to your Rider Rep. their contact information is listed on our website site. In addition, you can email nyoaleadership@gmail.com with ideas or agenda items as well.
This meeting is also where the 2025 NYOA Board is elected. If you would like to run for one of the positions, you can email nyoaleadership@gmail.com. Please include your name, your best contact number and which position(s) you are running for. A brief bio would be helpful as well, however it isn't necessary as you will address the ALT prior to the vote on 11/10.
Positions voted on by the ALT at this meeting:
President
Vice President- Bikes
Vice President - Quads
Treasurer
Secretary
Series Referee
Back Up Series Referee
Promoter Reps (2 positions)
Interested candidates should follow the instructions noted above.
Rider Reps are elected by the rider base. That process will take place leading up to the Banquet.
The comments will be turned off on this post to avoid confusion and missed communication. Please reach out to a board member or Rider Rep with any questions. For additional helpful information please see "How NYOA works" linked on our website.
How NYOA Works
There have been a few questions as of late about NYOA.
In an effort to answer those questions and to have the information available for those who are new to the series, we have added a page to our website with information on the structure of NYOA. Also, we go into some of the "who" and "what" of NYOA.
Below is a link to the page on the website. Hopefully this helps answer some questions as well as helps to give insight to how NYOA operates.
Tomorrow I will post information on the two-day format questions. I will share the factors that were discussed and considered in the 2022 meetings that lead to the decision to stay a one-day format in 2023 and 2024.
Upcoming NYOA 2025
As we are now past the halfway point of our 2024 season, the 2025 season will be here before we know it. I wanted to make this post for information regarding the leadership transition, and I will also try to answer some recent questions.
As some of you know, I announced at last year's awards banquet that after 5 seasons as President, 2024 would be my last year as a part of NYOA leadership.
These 5 years have always been a team effort and the results of that teamwork has exceeded all of my goals set 5 years ago. Words cannot express how grateful I am for the men and women and their families that had a part in this journey.
I say all of this because there will be a need for new people to come alongside to support to be part of the NYOA team. The saying "it takes a village" has never been more accurately reflected in my life as it has been over the past five years. Whoever comes next needs a strong, positive and dedicated village beside them.
On race weekends these are the teams we have working to keep the events moving and consistent. Some of these are paid positions, some are volunteers.
Registration team
AMA signup person
Scoring setup and tear down team
Scoring team
NYOA Safety Sweepers
NYOA Track Inspectors
Public Address Team (announcing and podiums)
Podium Setup/Prep/Teardown
Sound Team
Outside of the actual races event teams we have:
NYOA Board
Competition committee
Banquet committee
Scholarship committee
Social Media Team
Trailer Towing
Committees are chaired by a current NYOA Board member.
If you have any interest in finding out more about any of these roles, feel free to contact me by email NYOApresident@gmail.com or come see me in person at any of our remaining events. While I will not be a decision maker for next season, I am happy to answer any questions I can about what these roles entail.
Chip Mann