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January 19th, 2010

Appointment of new National Provisional Assessors from STSR

Regarding the subject, effective January 15, 2010, Gibby Widner, Jeff Kattawar and Rudy Nino have been appointed as
National Provisional Assessors…each Assessor attended the “Winter Show Case” in Phoenix and reportedly from
Brian Hall, had a great camp…please join me in welcoming each one of these gentlemen, to the beginning of a long career
at the National Level, as an Assessor…

Best regards,
Randy Francis
SDA – South Texas

December 21st, 2009

A Referee doing his part in "Keeping Austin Weird" - Cold weather gear used at Recent Austin Soccer Tournament at Williamson County Park

Some Equipment Correction was Required

Picture furnished by Master Assignor - wait for it .... John Jones

The Referee shall remain anonymous ...

 

December 16th, 2009

Please welcome nine new ITIP Referee Instructors into our ranks.  The successful clinic was taught by George Drugovich,
Tim Sonnier and Sam Ghalayini.  As you can see from the photos, the students studied hard and were very pleased with their success at graduation.

Instructors: George Drugovich, Sam Ghalayini, Tim Sonnier
ITIP Students: Joel Bergh, Aabdelouahad Fliou, Jon Mohler, Jose Pasillas, Tom Pollard, Ed Ripley, Barry Rosenfeld, Stephen Ruggeri, John Smith

Students hard at work in the ITIP class, and can you find Waldo? (Hint the non-conforming SDI in their midst)

 

December 16th, 2009

Soccer Referee Association of El Paso Hands Out 2009 Referee Awards

EL PASO , TX . – Soccer Referee Association of El Paso had its annual Awards Ceremony last night at Burritos Tony.
Over 95 referees and their supporters attended the three hour event to celebrate a successful year on the pitch. Several
local league officials attended the yearly event. This year marks the 29 th year of the Soccer Referee Association of El Paso
with President - Sergio Vega at the helm, followed by Youth Vice President - Harry Stone, Adult Vice President - Bruce Spitz,
Secretary - Chris Lopez and Treasurer - Jair Marrufo. The following awards were given out last night:

Service Award – 5 Year Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .      Marco Vega
Service Award – 20 Year Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .        Mike Romero
Iron Man Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .      Eduardo Luna
Most Reliable Referee Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   Luis Garcia
Assistant Referee of the Year Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .          Oscar Vasquez
Rookie of the Year Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  .                    Jose Alfredo Hernandez
Ken May Youth Male Referee of the Year Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .      Marco Vega
Shiny Shoe Best Dressed Referee Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   Luis Garcia
Best Fitness Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Luis Garcia
Patrick Shields Most Improved Referee of the Year Award . . . . . . . . . .  . .         Ramon Espinoza
Antonio Marrufo Distinguished Service Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kathy Ryan
Come Back of the Year Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Raul Flores
Javier Matamoros Mentor Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Cruz Esparza
Anthony Hughes Referee of the Year Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . . Jair Marrufo

© 2009 Soccer Referee Association of El Paso

November 3rd, 2009

Semi-Annual State Referee Committee Meeting Held in San Antonio on October 17th, 2009

Meeting minutes can be found here.

October 27th, 2009

We mourn the loss of our friend and fellow official, Earl Pierce

We in the soccer officiating community have lost a great friend and fellow official. Earl Pierce from Houston passed away on Monday
morning October 26th, while getting ready for work. Earl was one of those people that "never met a stranger". He was a fellow referee,
assessor, instructor and assignor. Any time you would ever see Earl, he would always greet you as if you were a long lost friend. He was
always extremely kind and loved the sport of soccer. We will really miss him here in South Texas.

Earl and his wife Ruth(who passed away about 3 years ago) were very active with  First Baptist Church of Houston. One of the projects
with the church they worked on was traveling to Romania in the summer to help build homes for families (this was after the fall of the
Soviet Union and they pulled support for the country). It was much like what Habitat for Humanity does here in the states.They were both
very proud of this work and the fact they were helping people.

Some folks have been asking if there was any fund that Earl would have liked people to make a donation.
Here is the information on the work they did in Romania

Romanian Christian Enterprises
21058 Unison Road
Middleburg, VA 20017  

RCE is a non-profit organization. They also help abandoned children in Romania, trying to find families to adopt these children.

Anthony Amore

October 14th, 2009

A new South Texas Assignors and associated Soccer Associations directory has been added to help referees find games and assignors. The new directory
can be found by signing to your STSR account and clicking on "Assignor Directory" in the Member Services box at the top of your home page.
If you do not see your assignor or soccer association listed, contact your assignor or association and tell them to have their assignor(s)
add their associations to the directory.

 

2009 NEWS

2009 STSR News

 

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