By: Mario Donnangelo: NISOA Associate Director; NISOA National Clinician; former Chair, NFHS Soccer Rules Committee Every Interscholastic Soccer Referee wants to be successful. Not all achieve the level of success at refereeing that they seek. Some get to be very good at it. Some get to be excellent at it. Others are never really able […]
by: Lloyd Hisaka, Director, Intramural-Recreational Services, University of Hawaii @ Manoa; Thirty-year High School Football and Basketball Official. One key concept in successful high school soccer refereeing is that success relies to a great extent on your ability to manage the behavior of the game participants. That means players, coaches, and at times other […]
By Abbot Leonard, Past NISOA Director of Instruction and National Clinician This article presents a series of suggestions on how you, as an Interscholastic Soccer Referee, can attain and maintain control of a high school soccer game. While a number of suggestions are presented, these are many more techniques and approaches available to the experienced […]
By: Jenni Malsam, Iowa HS Athletic Assn. and Iowa Girls HS Athletic Union (30 yrs); Former HS Soccer-Basketball-Volleyball Official. There are many kinds of knowledge, skills and attitudes that a certified NFHS Soccer Referee must master to help assure personal excellence in his or her chosen avocation of high school soccer refereeing. When we think […]
by: Bob Sumpter, former: NISOA Director of Training, NISOA Director – National Referee Program, NISOA National Rules Interpreter. TAUNTING is serious misconduct. It adversely affects player conduct on both teams. It needs to be recognized and dealt with quickly. The experience and feedback in the high school soccer game is that incidents are occurring all […]
By: Bob White, Northern Maine Board of Approved Soccer Officials (43 yrs), Maine HSA Soccer Rules Interpreter (28 yrs), and NISOA (29 yrs), NISOA HS Referee of Year 2002. This article reviews the two major types of communications that the Interscholastic Soccer Referee has to be concerned about: VERBAL and VISUAL. Each type has four […]
By: Mike Burton, BA and MA, Lutheran Pacific University; HS Speech and Debate Team Coach and Official (39 yrs.), Washington State Teacher of the Year, WIAA Hall of Fame-Speech and Debate Official, author of numerous articles on officiating and education. This presentation discusses a number of suggested actions that will help you meet your seasonal […]
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