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Hello HDSRA Referees
To start off, I would like to welcome Leah Furyk, of the
Thornton area, to our HDSRA membership. Leah is the first
District Youth referee to join our Association. The long
term viability of our group depends on younger referees
seeing the benefit in belonging to our Association. Well
done Leah!
The Season is about to start.
WEBSITE: Due to a technical "glitch" we are in the process
of reloading our web site. This is be being done by John
Wood as our Web Master. It is the same address www.hdsra.com
.
We are will have all the assignments for Huronia to go
through this site. It really means just using the Zonkers
site that John has used for the last year and getting into
the web site. Easy to say, may be harder to do. Be
patient.
MEMBERSHIP: Ken Van Dyk of Bradford has come on the
Executive as our VP. Good news from a low, two years ago, of
10 members, our membership is now up to 21 at the end of
January 2011. A very positive sign. Our volunteer
organization depends on members. Not just for membership
dues (break even for a balanced budget is 28 members) but
also for resources to provide to the clubs of Huronia for
training, education and mentoring of our local referees.
If you know of someone who might want to join or should join
... speak to them and get them to sign up. For those under
the age of 16 the membership fee is $0.00; 16-18, the fee is
$10.00 (less than half of a game fee for an Assistant
Referee) and for those over the age of 18, it is $35.00
(less than one game fee).
CONTEST: I challenge each of you to get at least one more
referee to join before the end of March. This is a contest
and the person who recruits the most will get a HDSRA/OSRA
golf shirt. (It will be a random draw if there are equal new
members recruited.) We will order one that fits your size so
it will take until the end of April to get the shirt. Just
make sure that the person signing up mentions your name as
their contact. Attached above is the 2011 HDSRA Registration
Form.
REFEREE-IN-CHIEF: The Executive of the HDSA has approved our
suggestion of John Wood as RIC for 2011. I think that we all
agree that John provides excellent service to all the
Referees of Huronia in ensuring the games are covered and
each of us has an equal opportunity to obtain game
assignments beyond the local Club level. This is not the
case in many other Districts of Ontario where assignments
are not always made fairly. We all need to thank John for
his work.
SPRING TRAINING SESSIONS: The DRC, Klaus Baumfeld, is going
to the Huronia Clubs to host Spring Education Sessions in
the various corners of our District. If you are a Club Head
Referee, make sure you take advantage of this valuable
resource. The referees will never get better on the field if
they do not constantly go back to learn The Laws and how to
apply them in a game situation. And we all benefit from
discussing the LAWS .... No cost to the clubs, it is paid
for by the District.
Right now, our members who have formal OSA or OSRA training
as an instructor are John McAlister, Wolter Wagter, John
Wood, Eric Frohmann and Chris Cottle. If you have had some
formal instructor training (not just for soccer) let us know
and you may be added to that list ... it pays well and your
mileage over 50 kms is covered.
MENTORING: Ken Van Dyk will be putting together an improved
HDSRA Mentoring Program. We can all learn the Laws but it is
a different thing to actually apply them on the field of
play. This program will be pro-active ... we are no longer
going to wait for a club to request our services (that is
not happening). This will require manpower ... each of us
has more experience than someone else who is just starting.
However, you will not be asked to do this service for free.
The HDSA has a referee budget to pay for mentoring including
travel. Obviously, there is a limit to every budget and the
DRC will be authorizing each mentor activity.
We have arranged a morning session of How to Mentor Referees
sometime for Saturday, 2 April at the Barrie Soccer Club
Development Centre. If you want to mentor you will have to
have completed the course. Stay tuned for more information
to follow.
EXECUTIVE MEETING: We had the first meeting of the season at
the end of January and the next one will be in late
March.
OSRA: The OSRA is putting together a business plan (prepared
by HDSRA's Chris Cottle) on how it is going to run the
Association. We will be adjusting our constitution once the
dust settles but it will pretty much be business as usual
for HDSRA as we were already doing these things .... we just
have to do them better. Our representatives to the OSRA
Board of Governors are John Wood and Chris Cottle. The next
meeting of the OSRA Board is at the end of February.
You are a member of the HDSRA and the HDSRA is a member of
the OSRA.
It is hoped that the OSRA will arrange a Provincial Spring
Education Session and have top level referees speak on
various aspects of the game. Time and place to be
announced.
Do not forget - our strength is in members ... recruit
someone to join the HDSRA.
Chris Cottle
Pres HDSRA
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