If you have a chance to visit the National Soccer Hall of Fame in Oneonta, New York, make sure to see the memorial on the exterior of the building. Many important members of the New York metro area soccer community, like our own George Snizek are recognized and remembered in the ‘bricks.’
The Hall of Fame in Oneonta is the only facility of its kind in the world that formally recognizes soccer referees amongst the players and builders of the game. NISOA referees and administrators who achieve Hall of Fame status are recognized in a section of the Hall dedicated to college soccer officiating.
NY Metro ISOA Member, Arnold Klein was named the 2007 NISOA Region 2 Referee of the Year. He received the prestigious award on August 3, 2007 at the National Soccer Hall of Fame in Oneonta, New York. Shown here with Bob Fischer (NY Metro ISOA past president), Whitney Stark (NISOA National Referee and Rockland/Westchester ISOA president), and John Puglisi (NY Metro ISOA president), Arnold’s superior dedication, professionalism and achievement in college soccer were recognized at the NISOA National Convention.
NY Metro ISOA members, Mike Catalano, Phil Catalano, Klaus Mueller, Pat Pinzon and Lou Minutoli officiated the women’s open and scholastic Empire State soccer games played at Manhattanville College. Mike Catalano and Klaus Mueller officiated the gold medal games.
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.’
If you have a chance to visit the National Soccer Hall of Fame in Oneonta, New York, make sure to see the memorial on the exterior of the building. Many important members of the New York metro area soccer community, like our own George Snizek are recognized and remembered in the ‘bricks.’
