Just informed something new about sanctioning (I heard something about this before but didn't know it was passed)

All sanctions will run August 1st thru July 31st.  Now that makes sense to me as a year round bowler.

Here's my problem:  We had about 60 brand new sanctioned bowlers that made their inaugural donation to USBC (none of which have received a sanction card yet) join a summer league in our center (starting in mid May).  So they all paid their sanction of $18 for what we thought was Summer, Fall, Summer like it has been for years and years. 

Now if these bowlers are going to bowl again this fall (which I think 90% of them will)  they will have to pay the full sanction fee again.


*Discuss*

If you sanctioned for the 2012-13 season, that should have covered league sanctioning in Summer 2013. The change is that all memberships now expire on 7/31 regardless of purchase date, so those who had to sanction this past summer will have to resanction to bowl in the 2013-14 season, but sanctioning in the fall will cover the upcoming summer's sanctioning

If you sanctioned for the 2012-13 season, that should have covered league sanctioning in Summer 2013. The change is that all memberships now expire on 7/31 regardless of purchase date, so those who had to sanction this past summer will have to resanction to bowl in the 2013-14 season, but sanctioning in the fall will cover the upcoming summer's sanctioning

I always thought it was this way.  At least that's how I have always understood it. Maybe our local has always done it this way....not sure.  Nothing new for me here.