NY Metro ISOA News

Past President John Friedrichs to be Inducted in LIJSL Hall of Fame

John Friedrichs, past NY Metro ISOA president will be inducted into the Long Island Junior Soccer League Hall of Fame on March 5 at the Huntington Hilton in a ceremony taking place during the LIJSL Convention. The official press release from LIJSL follows. Read the rest of this article »

2009 Intercollegiate Ejections Summary

Dr. Brian Crossman, chairman of the NSCAA Ethics Committee prepared the following summary of intercollegiate soccer ejections during the 2009 season.

• 1425 ejection reports were processed in 2009. This is an increase of 14 percent from 2008.
• Male players received 74% of all red cards. Female players received 17% of all red cards. Male coaches received 9% of all red cards with female coaches receiving less than 1% of all red cards.
• Male players had a 8 percent increase in red cards reported from 200 to 2009 while female players had no change in the number of red cards during that same time period. Male coaches had a 36 percent increase in red cards reported from 200 to 2009 and female coaches increased 56 percent.
• The number of ejections for fighting decreased 26% from 2008 to 2009. There were 59 fighting ejections in 2009 compared to 80 in 2008. The previous two years were the highest number of fighting ejections recorded since the Ethics Committee began tracking this information.
• There was a 10 percent decrease for ejections related to foul or abusive language from 200 to 2009. Because of the increase in the total number of ejections, the percent of ejections related to foul or abusive language in relation to the total number of ejections was 15% in 2009 compared to 19% in 2008.

Of special note, 68 institutions received merit awards for sportsmanship and ethical conduct in 2009. The following criteria are used for the ethics awards:

• The gold award is given to a team which did not receive a single yellow card or red card during the season and post season.
• The silver award is given to a team which received 1-5 yellow cards and no red cards during the season and post season.
• The bronze award is given to a team which received 6-10 yellow cards and no red cards during the season and post season.

This was a three percent increase from 2008 and the third straight year of an increase in the number of teams receiving the award. Nine teams received the gold award, 44 received the silver award and 15 teams received the bronze award. 65 of the teams honored were female and three were male.

2010 Chapter Meeting Schedule

The 2010 NY Metro ISOA meeting schedule is now available. Get the dates, times and locations for the NISOA fitness test, the annual mandatory rules clinic, awards dinner and business meetings. Read the rest of this article »

2010 Chapter Awards Dinner

The 2010 chapter awards dinner will be held at The Sterling, 345 Hicksville Road, Bethpage, New York.

2010 NISOA Fitness Test

The chapter will administer the NISOA physical fitness test at New York Institute of Technology in Old Westbury, NY on President’s Stadium soccer field (FieldTurf). Get the test events (Adobe Acrobat Reader required) and scoring criteria.

Members may receive their test results directly via email. After the test results are recorded, members may go to our web site to request their results and score. Fitness test scores are not shared with assignors nor made publicly available.

2010 Mandatory Annual Rules Clinic

The meeting will start at 9:00 AM in the fieldhouse (campus map in pdf format) at New York Institute of Technology in Old Westbury, NY. The NISOA Fitness Test will not be held at this clinic.

As always, we welcome guests and other NISOA members to our annual meeting. Please sign up after June 1 so we can properly plan for the event.

The chapter is grateful to Clyde M. Doughty, Jr., Athletic Director at New York Tech for making their facilities available to us and supporting our chapter.