The past two weeks leading up to Governing Council have been a battle of emails and editorials regarding the election of the next U.S. Figure Skating president. And it's only going to get worse in the next two days. While I've been to this rodeo before, I can't help but feel bad for the new delegates. They might never attend another governing council.
And there isn't just one contested office. There's another board position, the Athlete Services Group Coordinator, that is being contested. We've had contested positions for president and vice president before, but a contested group coordinator position? This is a first.
There will be a "Meet the Candidates" session Friday afternoon and I will try to blog it live and perhaps video record the Q&A session. The voting will take place Saturday morning and we SHOULD know the results by noon. I say should because last time we had a contested position, we had to vote multiple times. I think we voted three, maybe four, times before we had results. Hopefully, it will be one vote and be done and we can focus on other discussions.
