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May 17th, 2010 Our Last & Final Soccer Meeting It will be held at Mitchell Field C.C. 89 Church Ave @ 7:30pm.
April 10th, 2010 High School Games: West Toronto If you would like to referee high school games in Etobicoke please contact Pat Lennon. Make sure you ask about the rules of competition. April 8th, 2010 High School Games Petio was looking for refs to cover high school games in North York. Games are scheduled for the following dates: April 12, 14, 19, 21, 26, 28, 29, May 3, 5, 10, 12 with the finals on May 18. All games kick off at 3:30 and are 70 minutes long. [ed note: Petio has assigned all the games and thanks all who got in touch with him.] Soccer Referees Tournament After barely escaping relegation from the tournament for the past three years I'm demoting myself to equipment manager.
I'd demote myself further but I happen to have the equipment bag at home. This year North York will be lead in its quest for indoor soccer glory by
Pat Lennon. If you are interested in playing on
April 25th please get in touch with Pat becomes the more time I spend on the bench the better off the team is. 2010 Fitness Tests We will be hosting our local fitness test at Centennial Stadium on May 9th. Currently this is the only fitness test scheduled for both North York and Toronto so get in touch with Renato before space fills up. Hello World www.nysra.ca is back. We are looking to update the site ASAP. We've listed the rest of the education sessions for 10. March 14th, 2010 Down but not Out We've got a little bit of a problem with our domain name registry. It may take until April 2nd to sort out. In the meantime I'll try to keep it up to date. January 25th, 2010 2010: A New Decade, New Education Program Our education sessions resume on Thursday, January 28, 7:30pm at Edithvale Community Centre.
This year the Executive has made some changes in the hope that more interest is garnered by our members and as a result more benefits are achieved: 2010 Branch Executive For those who did not come to the AGM, the new Executive is: 2010 Referee Promotions Congratulations go to our members who were promoted to a higher level:
From Regional to Provincial: From District to Regional: Thank You! Vince Bonazza, our long standing President, did not seek re-election for personal and health reasons. We all at NYSRA thank Vince for the many years of hard work and dedication to the referee cause, and hope to see him back in the future. We also want to thank Zac Taylor for the great job he did as Secretary and webmaster. Zac moved to Georgetown and he felt he could not dedicate all he wanted to the NYSRA cause (or thought that the grass was greener there!).[ed: My backyard was a parking lot, so yes the grass is greener] October 14th, 2009 NYSRA 2009 AGM North York Soccer Referee's Association will be hosting its AGM on Monday October 26th, 2009. Registration will start at 7:00pm and the meeting will commence at 7:30pm in the Skater Lounge at the Herb Carnegie Centennial Arena. We will looking to elect individuals to the roles of President, Secretary and Treasurer for the period of two years. We also have alot of news to convey from the recent OSRA meetings. We also have a new registration form, one that you can enter all the information in the form before printing it out. Check out our registration page. OSRA 2009 AGM The OSRA is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. The AGM will be held at the Toronto Soccerplex (101 Railside Drive, North York) on Sunday, November 15. More information will be forth coming shortly. Futsal Courses NYSA will be hosting two courses on reffing futsal. One is an introductory course for those new to the 5 a side game. It will be held on November 8th at NYSA office. There will also be a refresher course for those who took the course in 2007. The application for these two courses can be found here.
May 11th, 2009 Preseason Orientation Meeting This Thursday NYSRA will be hosting its preseason orientation meeting. We will be covering the normal house keeping items like, league rules, fees and so on. This is your last chance to join the North York Branch before the leagues kick off so come on out. April 22nd, 2009 OSRA Council Meeting This Sunday April 26th the OSRA will have its 2nd council
meeting at 10:00am at the Armenian Youth Community Centre
(50 Hallcrown Place, Toronto). If you've had problems
registering or such you may find it useful to attend.
March 14th, 2009 Referee Registration News from the OSA: It is that time of year again to renew your referee registration. There have been some delays in launching this system, which involves the switch in registration database systems. At this point due to the delays the OSA at this point can only offer one way for referees to register. At this point in order to register the only option a referee has is to down load the 2009 referee registration form from the OSA website. Hopefully within the next couple of weeks the OSA will be offering the option for referees 18 and older to register on-line however at this point this option is not available. To down load a 2009 referee registration form please visit the OSA website at . Please note that due to changes in the registration form any registration form other then the 2009 registration form will not be accepted. New requirement to register Every referee starting in 2009 will be required to sign
an additional document when registering in 2009. If the
referee is 18 or older (date of registration) the referee
will be required to sign a referee
waiver form. Change in Referee Certification System As of January 1st 2009 there is a new Classification system in place in Ontario as required by the Canadian S.A. Every referee in the province will be affected by this change and will have a new classification. This is not an upgrade just a simple name change.
BASED ON THE NEW SYSTEM YOU ARE NOW A : District Referee 2009 Referee Registration Fees
All referee fees
will be based on date of registration not as of April
1st
Due to the delay in launching the 2009 register process
the OSA has been extended the registration deadline.
Be sure to get yourself registered before May 1st to avoid
paying the $15.00 late fee. From The OSA Referee Development Department Regards, Scarborough Soccer Tournament North York is once again putting together a team for the April 19th tournament. If you are interested come to our branch meetings. Toronto Branch update their website It's a pretty blue. www.osratoronto.com January 12th, 2009 Regional Referee Upgrading and New Assessor Training News from the OSA: Information and the application for the 2009 Regional
Referee Upgrading Program has now gone online at the following
site. If you have referees interested in upgrading from
District to Regional, please direct them to this site.
As well, I have recently been receiving a number of "C2
Upgrading Applications" and "C4 Applications", which obviously
don't exist anymore. These forms are no longer available
on the OSA website however they obviously remain on certain
websites. If your district posts these forms directly
on your websites, please quickly scan your site to make
sure you have the 2009 forms posted. Fees have changed,
and in the case of the C4 course, the entire program has
changed so it is important that the referees and clubs
have the updated information. If you could also forward
this on to your Club Head Referees to ensure the clubs
don't have obsolete forms on their sites, it would be
appreciated. Please be aware that the application for new assessors
is now available online. The deadline for applicants to
submit is February 1st, so please send this out to your
contacts and those you feel may be interested in becoming
an assessor as soon as possible. Thanks very much. See
you all on the 7th. January 7th, 2009 2009 Winter Sessions Kick Off on the 15! We've got the first few months of the winter education sessions up online. We kick things off on January 15th with Basil Gill bringing us a discussion on Advantage. This presentation will be part of the OSRA's Education program as is Joe Licandro's visit on February 26th. We've got some more details on the upcoming OSRA SGM on February which is of vital importance so please make every effort to attend these early winter sessions. December 8th, 2008 New Registration Requirements For 2009 This is an open letter from the OSA, the contents of which can be found on their website. In 2006 the OSA launched a new requirement for the registration process for all registrants, this including players, coaches and referees. The requirement was that each participant would have to sign (or parent sign) a waiver or participants agreement pending the age of the participant. After many complaints and resistance from the referees this requirement was dropped and not implemented with a promise to our legal council and insurance company that this would be implemented with education to the referees in 2007. This did not happen and in both 2007 and 2008 this requirement never came into effect. With pressure from all parties, this requirement will be mandatory in 2009 for referees, like it has been for players and coaches since 2006. All referees registering, either through a course (mini or entry level) or those who are re-registering as a referee will be required to sign a waiver (if 18 or older date of registration) or a referee participants agreement (if under 18 date of registration). The purpose of these forms is to have the referee acknowledge that there are some basic risks that the referee should assume when referees and that the referee cannot sue the OSA if they are injured under these basic risks. For example a referee will waive that they cannot sue the OSA is they break their ankle while refereeing because they caught their foot in a pot hole, as this is an assumed risk. Secondly and as a side note it is also the referee's responsibility to check the field anyway and should be aware of such risk anyway. TO be very clear, this only covers basic risks of participating as a referee in soccer. This does not cover things like referee assault for example. More importantly, this does not waive the referees coverage if the referee happens to get sued as a referee. That coverage is still in place and not effected by these documents. An important note to factor in about these waivers, the players have been signing these forms for 3 years and part of those forms is to protect players from suing referees for these same types of incidents. This was a hot topic of discussion in 2006 and the main reason was because referees were afraid of their protection against being sued. Again this is not the case and this message needs to be made loud and clear. There is no question about it, this will be mandatory in 2009 and a referee will not registered with the OSA in 2009 without signing the appropriate form (and parent signing the form is under 18). As the leaders in refereeing in your district please relay this message to your referees now so there are no questions or surprises when it comes time to register in the new year. Our lawyer has taken the time to prepare an information piece about these documents and this document is posted on the OSA website (link below). Please take some time to read this document very clearly and if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me. Again please forward this message to the referees in your district as well as the link and encourage the referees to read and understand the document. Thank you Andrew Backer, Manager - Referee Development November 23th, 2008 Update on Upgrading and Instructor Programs! The OSA has updated their website with all sorts of information about upgrading and Instructor courses. For more information on any of these programs please click
the links above which will take you to the OSA website. All links
are also available on the OSA Referees' home page.
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