Mendota Heights Athletic Association (MHAA) will hold its Annual General Meeting on Monday, February 13, @ 7:30pm, at the VFW in Mendota, 1323 Sibley Memorial Highway. 

All members* are welcome to attend. The MHAA Board will be seeking membership approval to amend the current MHAA bylaws. The proposed amendment includes but is not limited to, a change to the name from Mendota Heights Athletic Association (MHAA) to Two Rivers Athletic Association (TRAA).

*Members who are eligible to attend this meeting have registered a child to play a sport hosted by MHAA (t-ball, baseball, softball, lacrosse, soccer, basketball, volleyball, football) in the 2022 calendar year and have an email address on file with SportsEngine. 

Why Mendota Heights Athletics Association Needs to Change its Name:

In the past, there have been multiple community youth sports associations supporting families that reside within the boundaries of ISD 197.  Today, MHAA is the only option for most youth sports for families to choose and in turn, MHAA has grown.  MHAA is serving a much larger community than Mendota Heights and continues to grow in providing access to youth sports for all of our district area's families.

Our MHAA Board is seeking a name change because it solves several problems.  The biggest problems it solves are:

1. Families we serve do not know we serve a larger community.  Our community is Mendota Heights, West St. Paul, north Eagan, Sunfish Lake, Mendota, and Lilydale as drawn by our school district boundaries.  Our current name does not reflect this, leading to families who reside in the community not readily recognizing that we serve them.

2. Facility providers do not know we serve a larger community.  When we seek to rent facility time from ISD 197, West St. Paul, Mendota Heights, or Eagan; we have been seen as an external community looking to use their resources.  We are the community and support youth in these communities. Being branded as Mendota Heights does not reflect this.

3. Outside communities do not know we serve a larger community.  Recently created metro youth athletic associations have established a meaningful and recognizable standard.  Both East Ridge Athletic Association (serving Woodbury, Cottage Grove, Newport and St. Paul Park) and Eastview Athletic Association (serving Apple Valley, Lakeville and Eagan) chose to adopt the name after the high school for the area they serve.  We are adopting that same standard.

As time passes, sharing the same name as the high school for the district area we serve will provide more unity for our families who live within it.  

Like all other community based associations, we serve all families who live inside or attend a school within the district boundary map, no matter what school their children attend.  We provide no preference based on school attendance when conducting association operations and base preferences solely on the merits of a child's abilities.

The MHAA Board Meetings are held the second Monday of the month at 7:30 p.m.at Mendota Heights City Hall. If you would like to have an item discussed, please contact Shellie Larsen (ds.larsen@comcast.net) to be added to the agenda.

There is no meeting in the month of July.