Monday Morning News
September 15-18 – NFHS Section VI Meeting
September 15 – Membership Contract Dues
September 23 – NMAA Board of Directors Meeting
September 30 – Monthly ADs Zoom Meeting
In the News:
STUDENT LEADERSHIP ADVISORY COUNCIL REGIONAL MEETINGS
The NMAA will hold a Student Leadership Advisory Council Regional meeting in your area. We are asking our Athletic Directors to send two representatives from your school to one of these meetings. The google doc link below will allow you to provide information on two attendees from your school to attend. Please contact Gary Allison at gary@nmact.org with any questions.
https://forms.gle/UPEZE4fBwpPsbCHT7
Below are the dates and locations of the meetings.
• Thursday, September 24th. Farmington: 3401 E. 30th St. Suite A Farmington
• Wednesday, September 30th. Las Cruces : Arrowhead Park Early College High School: 3600 Arrowhead Dr.
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
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 15, 2026. 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.
NMAA HALL OF FAME NOMINATIONS BEING ACCEPTED
Nominations for the NMAA Hall of Fame are now being accepted. Click the link below for the form and criteria requirements. Nominations are due by December 1st.
NMSBA Regional Meetings
NMAA Executive Director Dusty Young, Deputy Director Scott Owen, Associate Director Gary Allison and NMAA Sports Information Director J.P. Murrieta will attend the Fall Regional Meetings around the state in conjunction with NM School Board Association. The NMAA will present a report on the NMAA to Superintendents and School Board Members.
Meetings are scheduled as follows:
Region II – Monday, September 14, 2026 – Los Alamos
Region V – Tuesday, September 15, 2026 – Portales
Region VI – Monday September 21, 2026 – Eunice
Region VIII – Tuesday, September 22, 2026 – Silver
Region I – Monday, September 28, 2026 – Dulce
Region IV – Tuesday, September 29, 2026 – Socorro
Region III – Monday, October 5, 2026 – Las Vegas City
Region VII – Tuesday, October 6, 2026 – Alamogordo
NMAA Foundation School Grant/Support Applications
The NMAA Foundation School Grant/Support Program is back for another year! In addition to providing scholarships, part of the Foundation’s mission is to assist schools through the NMAA Foundation School Grant/Support Program. The program has been established to help schools in starting a new sport or activity, purchasing essential equipment for an existing program, and helping schools address an emergency.
There are three categories for which a school can apply for funding: Program Start-Up, General Operating Support, and Emergency Use.
There are two grant cycles, each with an application deadline, during the school year for Program Start-Up and General Operating Support funding requests. The deadline for the first grant cycle is scheduled for September 30, 2026, and the deadline for the second grant cycle is January 10, 2027.
Applications are reviewed after each deadline by the NMAA Foundation Board of Directors and awards are announced shortly thereafter.
Those interested in being considered for grant funding/support must:
• Complete a NMAA Foundation School Grant/Support Application by one of the two grant cycle deadlines (September 30, 2026, and January 10, 2026).
• Email application to julie@nmact.org.
Note: Schools applying for emergency-use funding can submit applications at any time.
The NMAA Foundation has allocated $23,000 for this program for the 2026-2027 school year, and awards typically range from $250-$1,500.
NMAA LIGHTNING/THREATENING WEATHER POLICY AND GUIDELINES
As the Fall Sports season rolls along, we wanted to remind everyone of the NMAA LIGHTNING/THREATENING WEATHER POLICY AND GUIDELINES. Administrators, Officials, Athletic Trainers and Head Coaches should work together when making any determinations to suspend play. HAVE A GAME PLAN.
Should weather become an issue, please note that once the contest begins the assigned contest officials are responsible for making decisions to stop play due to unsafe weather conditions. While the final burden lies with contest officials, it is highly recommended that host site administration and contest officials work together when making any determinations to interrupt play and use any and all available information in doing so. If available, on-site medical professionals/athletic trainers should also be consulted and included in the decision-making process. When in doubt, err on the side of safety.
If contests are interrupted due to weather, the administration from each school must work together to determine how long the teams will wait to attempt to complete the contest. This decision should not be made based on the current score, but instead on a variety of factors including but not limited to distance traveled by the visiting school, time of day, remaining time left, projected weather conditions, ability to reschedule/resume the contest, field conditions, etc.
The NMAA should be contacted if questions arise from the officials or administrators when discussing these issues on site.
As a reminder and per Bylaw 7.10.2, suspended contests that cannot be resumed the same day should be handled as follows:
In the event that a game must be interrupted because of conditions which make it impossible to continue play (i.e. lightning, darkness, power outage, etc.) the head official/referee shall declare it an official game if one complete half or more of the game has been played; based upon the NFHS definition of a regulation game. If less than one-half of the game has been played, and it is a district game/post-season game, the game must be rescheduled from the point of interruption/suspension of play. If less than one-half of the game has been played, and it is a non-district game, the participating schools must mutually agree to reschedule the game from the point of interruption/suspension of play or the game will be considered a non-game.
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. New this year is a LATE FILM PENALTY. Please visit the NMAA Football Bylaws for more details.
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.
