NY Metro ISOA News

Guest Attendance at the Annual Rules Clinic

Our chapter welcomes all NISOA members and other guests to our annual rules clinic. We would like to ask our guests and members of other chapters who want to attend our rules interpretation clinic to fill out this form. Your cooperation will help us properly plan for the event. Active members of the NY Metro ISOA chapter should not submit the guest form.

Membership Categories

During the off season, the Executive Board, led by Jerry Stoopack, has been reviewing our constitution, specifically the categories of membership. The existing categories in Article III-Membership of the chapter’s constitution do not correspond with the categories in NISOA policy.

The Board prepared a new membership article which will be presented at the annual rules interpretation meeting. According to our constitution, if this revision is accepted as proposed, a general vote will occur at the September 5 chapter business meeting. The new membership article is now available for review. A summary of the changes follows:

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2007 NCAA Rule Book

The 2007 NCAA Men’s and Women’s soccer rule book has been published is available for download (Adobe Acrobat Reader required).

Overall, the rule changes are minor. The most significant rule changes include:

• The restart for temporary suspensions of play such as an injury will be a drop ball. Indirect free kick restart for the team in clear possession has been eliminated.
• Administrative procedures allowing a formal protest have been included in the rule book.

Specific rule interpretations and points of emphasis will be presented at the mandatory rules clinic in August.

NISOA Fitness Test Medical Forms

As always, the Executive Board strongly recommends members get a complete physical evaluation from their medical professional before taking the fitness tests. Bring this form to your medical professional, ask them to fill it out and bring it with you to the fitness test.

If you choose not to get a physical evaluation, please complete this form and bring it with you to the fitness test. Members will not be permitted to take the fitness test until they submit one of these two forms to the Executive Board at or before the fitness test.

Meeting Schedules for Other Chapters

Several nearby NISOA chapters post their meeting schedules on their respective web sites. Lehigh Valley, New Jersey and New England have announced their testing and clinic schedules. If you have a schedule conflict and need to attend another fitness test or rules interpretation meeting, please go to our links page for a list of relatively local chapter web pages. Check with the chapter’s contact for specific details.

The Westchester/Rockland chapter will have their NISOA fitness test on June 6 which coincides with our fitness test. They have not announced a makeup date for the fitness test nor scheduled their annual rules interpretation meeting yet.

ECAC Availability Now Open

Please download the 2007 ECAC availability sheet (Adobe Acrobat Reader required) and return it to Alan Wharton via fax or US Mail as soon as possible. Cross off the dates you are not available and identify any special requirements you may have.

ECAC Assigning

ECAC is changing their web-based assigning software from AssignByWeb back to Lokitech. Lokitech provided ECAC with assigning software for a couple of years prior to 2006. The new ECAC assigning system is currently planned to go live on July 1. You can expect to receive an email from ECAC soon after July 1 with instructions on how to log in to the new system.