Firelands Soccer Referee Association

Congratulations to the following officials who have attained recognition from OHSAA for being selected to the respective Tournament Pools. Being selected for the respective pools does not guarantee being selected to officiate at that level.

BRYAN ASP - DUANE BEACH - TIM CHURCH - BRAD DOLAN - GARY GALAUNER - RON GALAUNER - TONY GURA - PATRICIA KING - ROBIN SABBARESE - MOXIE SUMISLAWSKI - GEORGE WERLING - STEVE ZEISE

The FSRA golf outing was held on July 12th. Only the weather dampened the enthusiasm of the participants. The Low net was won by the team of Tom Zeise, Greg Zeise, Dwight Burgett and Jeremy
Dahl with a six under par, Fred Kelly's team finished second with a five under par. Closet to the pin winners were Moxie Sumislawski, Mike Dean, Brian Dietz and Brian Zeise. Congratulations to the winners and all who attended.

OHSAA has now sent the official packets to the referee's who have renewed their licenses. Please do not throw away your packets. The mailing address inside the packet is YOUR attendance card for the State Rules meeting. Please bring it to the State Rules meeting that you attend to receive credit

New Referee classes are set for persons who wish to become High School Soccer Referees. These classes are scheduled to begin on Saturday July 19th, 2008 at LCCC in room CC228, starting at 9:00am. No prior experience is needed and current USSF referees are welcome. Please click on the link in the right hand column marked "HIGH SCHOOL REFEREES NEEDED" for further information.

THE TOURNAMENT OFFICIALS AVAILABILITY FORMS FOR SECTIONAL-DISTRICT, 2008, ARE NOW POSTED .

Please follow the N.E District Athletic Board tab to the left of this article.

You will need to click on both the Girls and Boys Tournament choices and fill out the accompanying form for NE DAB and then using the submit button on the bottom of the form to send them to Mike Kovach.

As you know, USSF has recently adopted a newly designed shirt with broader stripes.

I spoke today with OHSAA Assistant Commissioner, Henry Zaborniak, who is Supervisor of Officials.

1.) The gold shirt is still the primary shirt, with the red and black shirts as the ONLY approved alternate shirts. There is no order of preference for red or black if an alternate shirt must be worn due to color conflict with either or both teams.

2.) Officials need NOT buy the blue or the green shirts. They are NOT recognized by OHSAA as approved alternate shirts.

3.) Because the primary shirt supplier, Official Sports International, no longer makes the pinstriped shirt, only the new, more broadly striped shirt will be available for purchase.

4.) Officials who wear either the old, pinstriped shirt or the new, broadly striped shirt, will be considered in proper uniform. There is no need for officials to purchase the new, broadly striped shirts, UNLESS THEY CHOOSE TO DO SO. Bottom line, buy the new, broadly striped shirts if you wish, but you are not required to do so.

5.) Officiating crews consisting of a mixture of pinstripes and broad stripes will be considered properly uniformed. CREWS' SHIRTS NEED NOT BE ALL PINSTRIPES OR ALL BROAD STRIPES.

We sincerely hope that this resolves any ambiguity occasioned by USSF's recent adoption of the broadly-striped shirt and the green alternate shirt.

2008 HIGH SCHOOL UPDATE