The 2007 Empire State Games Men’s Open and Scholastic soccer matches were played in Rye Brook, NY and featured several NY Metro ISOA referees. John Leavy, George Bakaroudis, Jim Memos and John Puglisi officiated preliminary round games. Jim Memos (standout former LIU goalkeeper) was selected to referee the Men’s Open Gold Medal game with assistant referees, John Leavy and John Puglisi.
NISOA National Referee, Whitney Stark did a superb job coordinating the officials for all the men’s games.
We received the following information from ECAC regarding their assignment fees for the 2007 season:
Officials are urged to confirm their assignments, asap. Assignment fees are due in the ECAC office by August 15, 2007. Checks received after the due date will be subject to a $15 late penalty. Please send your check or money order (made payable to the ECAC) to Karen Roberts, ECAC Soccer, PO Box # 3, Centerville, MA 02632 in accordance with categories below and the actual number of game assignments (on the ECAC web site and Alan Wharton’s AssignByWeb site) you have been given on the release date, Monday, July 23, 2007.
| Games Assigned |
Fee |
| 1-5 games |
$40 |
| 6-10 games |
$65 |
| 11-15 games |
$85 |
| 16-24 games |
$100 |
| 25 or more games |
$150 |
Our Region 2 representative, Neil Edkins, passed this information on to members who may be interested in the NISOA National Referee program.
NISOA’s National Referee Program is now open to accepting applications for entrance into its 2008 clinic program. Interested NISOA soccer officials should begin by downloading the appropriate documents, completing as directed, and forwarding them to their correct Regional Area Coordinator by March 1, 2008.
The NRP (its policies, NRP application and forms) has relocated to a new area in nisoa.com
Try this: click on STUDY RESOURCES FOR NISOA MEMBERS,
then click on INTERCOLLEGIATE INTERESTS,
then click on NATIONAL REFEREE PROGRAM.
This is the new location.
The Region 2 Area Coordinator is Mark Butler. Unfortunately, the NISOA web site is built in a manner which doesn’t allow direct access to subdirectories so we can’t link to this directly. You can read the NISOA policy for new national referee candidates here (pdf document).
The 2007 NISOA refresher test and answer sheet is available for download. Please complete the test, print the answer sheet, fill it out and mail it to Steve Lewin. You must submit an answer sheet by August 27, 2007 to remain a member in good standing. You may bring the answer sheet with you to the annual rules meeting.
We are not sure when the 2007 NCAA Soccer Rules Books will be mailed to you but in the meantime, you can view an electronic version of it on our web site. As always, the refresher test is ‘open book.’
The NY Metro ISOA chapter has administered our final scheduled NISOA fitness test for the 2007 season. NY Metro ISOA members who have not yet taken the NISOA fitness test will have to make arrangements with other chapters to take the fitness test and have the results reported directly to Joe Danbusky. The New Jersey chapter and several New England chapters will administer NISOA fitness tests later this summer.
UPDATE: Makeup NY Metro NISOA Fitness Test Scheduled
The Westchester/Rockland NISOA chapter will conduct their rules interpretation meeting on (see below for updates) Tuesday, August 28, 2007 at 7:00 PM. The meeting will be at Kennelly’s Grill House at 962 S Route 9W, Congers NY. Space available for guests is extremely limited and is on a first-come, first served basis. You must fill out this form to contact the Westchester/Rockland chapter.
NY Metro ISOA members who attend this (or any other non-NY Metro ISOA) rules interpretation meeting are required to attend three of the four scheduled business meetings to meet the NISOA requirement to attend 3 business meetings.
The latest information from ECAC indicates their assignments for the upcoming soccer season will be released on their web site no later than July 27, 2007.
The 2007 Empire State Games Men’s Open and Scholastic soccer matches were played in Rye Brook, NY and featured several NY Metro ISOA referees. John Leavy, George Bakaroudis, Jim Memos and John Puglisi officiated preliminary round games. Jim Memos (standout former LIU goalkeeper) was selected to referee the Men’s Open Gold Medal game with assistant referees, John Leavy and John Puglisi.
