Central
Oregon Soccer Officials Association
N E W S L E T T E R
October
29, 2005
U P C O M I N
G E V E N T S & D
A T E S
November 2, 2005 (Wednesday) --
OYSA Pre-Cup Meeting for Referees
interested in officiating in the 2005 State Cup games
6:30 p.m.
Mt. View Heating Bldg (110 SE 9th Street in BEND)
The Agenda
for the meeting includes:
-
Responsibilities of Officials
during State Cup games
-
Procedures for State Cup
games
-
60 minutes of relevant
instruction
November 30, 2005 (Wednesday)
-- COSOA End of the year Pizza Party
6:30 p.m. Location not yet
finalized ... but we should get together
one
last time to wrap up any remaining items of business and
thank all the folks
who helped throughout the season.
N
E W S & I
N F O R M A T I O N
Availability for High School Playoffs: If you haven't
done so already, please email Claudio (acmuggia@bendbroadband.com)
your availability for the High School Playoffs. Playoff games
are currently scheduled on Nov. 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 8th,
12th, 15th and the Finals are scheduled for Nov. 19th. I
would ask that you send Claudio an email detailing the days
that
you are
available to travel to games. These Playoff games are all
going to be outside of Central Oregon and will require several
hours of travel time. You can download or view the current
playoff brackets at www.osaa.org/soccer (click on 2005 Brackets).
High School Playoffs Assignments and
Points of Emphasis: If you are selected to participate in a Playoff game
by the
Commissioner there are several expectations
that our Association has of you:
-
Represent our Association in a professional
and ethical manner to the best of your abilities.
This includes proper uniform and warm-up attire.
-
Attempt to travel as a team to the playoff
game
that you have been assigned whenever possible.
-
Go to the OSAA website and review
the playoff procedures.
These can
be viewed
at www.osaa.org/soccer/soccerplan.asp , please also
review other
pertinent information
on this
OSAA website
such as
AD/Coach Information
and overtime
procedures.
- Arrive
at the
playoff game
that you
have been
assigned, at
least one
hour before
the scheduled
start time
to begin
the pre-game responsibilities.
- The
center for
the game
needs to
make contact
with the
Athletic Director
of the
host school
to arrange
for a meeting
spot or
room prior
to and
after the
game.
- Be
respectful of
the coaches
and players.
Review the
Officials Code
of Conduct
found
in
your Rules
Handbook.
Mileage for High School games: Now that the High
School season has ended, it is time for you to turn in the miles
that you traveled
to Claudio.
We will check your mileage against the game reports for games
worked to
verify your presence at each game. Please remember that unless you
fill out
a game report online ... you will not be getting paid. To claim
your traveled
mileage, we would like you to send an email to Claudio (acmuggia@bendbroadband.com)
with the following information or format before November 2nd, 2005:
- Date of game
- Where you drove from (Home city or Work city)
- School that
you drove to (If you car-pooled with somebody else,
do not claim
mileage for
the game)
Your
sheet
should
look
something
like
this:
9/15/05
From
Bend
to
Redmond
9/18/05
From
Bend
to
Mountain
View
9/23/05
From
Bend
to
Summit
9/30/05
From
Bend
to
Crook
County
And
so on
for the
rest of
the season.
Claudio already
has pre-set
mileage as
determined by
the Sports
Commissioners in
our area
and you
will be reimbursed
accordingly. If
you fail
to send
the accounting
for your
mileage to
Claudio before
November 2nd,
you will
likely not
be reimbursed
for mileage
traveled until
the last
paycheck of
the year,
which will
likely come around
the end of November.
Gregory Scott Rivers Sportsmanship Scholarship: This $500
Sportsmanship is awarded annually to a
senior High School soccer player who in the opinion of the
Central Oregon Soccer Officials Association has exemplified
sportsmanship and leadership throughout the course of the
High School soccer season. We did not have enough time at
our last meeting to discuss this annual scholarship and made
the decision to address the voting for this scholarship through
emails. I will be sending a separate Email that will immediately
follow this Newsletter with further information and instructions
for this Scholarship. For those who are new to our Association
... this award was created several years
ago to remember one of our past young Officials who tragically
passed away in a fire accident when going to school at the
University of Oregon. Greg Rivers was also the son of one
of past Commissioners.
Paychecks: A couple of weeks ago, paychecks
were mailed for High School games worked
through the middle of October. If you have
not
received two paycheck thus far, please
contact Dick Robertson (dickr@bendcable.com).
If you have not received a check yet, it
is probably because Dick either needs your
address or social security number. We hope
to collect the mileage reimbursements by
November 2nd and pay for games worked through
the
end of the season by November 9th. We will
send out another check at the end of November,
when all the Playoff games are concluded
to account for playoff expenses and any other
loose ends throughout the season.
Attendance at our Wednesday night
Meetings:
I want to thank everybody for improving the
overall attendance at our meetings this past
year. In particular, I would like to thank
Ric Secor and John Aubry for the training
videos which they put together in October.
If you
emailed Claudio or myself before the meetings
with a legitimate reason for missing a meeting
in October, then everything is good & cool;
but otherwise, expect to see a $5 deduction
from your final paycheck for any unexcused
missed meetings in October. The fine for
missed meetings only applies to High School
Officials and does not apply to our Youth
Officials.
Our Website: If you haven't
done so in a while ... please take a minute
to log onto our "old website" (www.cosoa.org).
It's not looking so old anymore!!! I want
to thank John Aubry for working so hard this
past season to renovate and get it up and
running pretty again. There is a copy of
our current Newsletter on this website, along
with a bunch of other relevant information.
It is a good site to refer your friends who
might have an interest in becoming referees.
If you have items or material that you feel
would benefit or improve our website, please
either
contact me or John Aubry (johnaubry @ yahoo.com)
.
Reporting of Games: We
have said this a million times, but remember
that if you do not fill out a game report
online ... there is
no record of you having worked that game
... thus you will not be getting paid. In
order to be paid, you must fill out a game
report online.
Available Games: Be sure
to update your availability online at OregonSoccerCentral.com.
You should also send an email to
the various Assignors in our Association
indicating your desire to work more (or fewer)
games. The Assignors which you should contact
are:
1) Claudio Muggia (acmuggia@bendbroadband.com)
for High School games;
2) Pat Evoy (coassign@oregontrail.net)
for OYSA and sanctioned youth games;
3) Kevin Collier (kevin@bendparksandrec.org)
for Bend Metro Parks &
Recreational games.
T R A I N I N G
I don't have a lot to add to
the things that we have covered so far this season. The only
thing that comes to mind that I would like to remind all
of our Officials throughout the remainder of the Playoffs
and
for the future is to remember that our primary obligation
to the game is to ensure the safety of the players. We ensure
player safety through a list of factors:
-
Dealing
with persistent infringement in an appropriate manner as
we learned at our
last meeting;
- Keeping up with play and
working hard, in order to make sure we are close to the action
and in the right position to see potential offenses;
-
Managing
the players and coaches in a respectful and professional
manner ... the more
respect we have for the players and coaches, the more
respect they will have for the Officials.
- Attending to
injuries as soon as we recognize them;
- Preventing as many
injuries as possible by being close enough to the action
to talk or calm players down on potentially dangerous situations
(this includes the Assistant Referees calming potentially
dangerous
plays down near their side of the field);
- Acknowledging
the comments from players and coaches in a respectful
and proper way, so that they aren't feeling as if we have
turned
our backs on them. This usually encourages them to
take matters into their own hands and creates further aggressiveness & violence
in the match;
- Proper checking of the
equipment before the match to ensure that the players and
field are safe for the match.
C
O S O A C O N T A C T N
U M B E R S
Mehdi Salari, COSOA President
salari@oregontrail.net
385-9621 (do not call after 9:00 p.m.)
Claudio Muggia, High School Assignor & Commissioner
acmuggia@bendbroadband.com
385-7107
Pat Evoy, OYSA and Youth Assignor
coassign@oregontrail.net
389-5314
Dick Robertson, COSOA Treasurer
dickr@bendcable.com
548-1961
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