Tuesday, October 27, 2009

It is with a heavy heart and great sadness that I share my recent knowledge of Earl Pierce's passing.

I have no details other than it was within the past 2-3 days, according to one of his Church Member's notification to another referee.

I will pass along more details as I have them come available.

Please keep his family in your thoughts and prayers. I know that everyone who knew him will feel the pain of his loss. His gentle ways and human compassion was profound. He helped trancend the Divine and the Human experience and personified the idea of "Let them know that we are Christians by your Love".

The referees of STX will miss him deeply!!!!!

Monday, June 22, 2009





Another great job so far at Regionals by STX referee delegation. Tonight was the awards dinner and it's too close to call.

The past few days have been great. Ryan and Terry Vaughn instructed the general meeting and Terry was gracious enough to address the STX delegation meeting on Friday night.


Top 20 official list and Nationals selections postponed until tomorrow.

That being said, these names were announced as tops:
Jennifer Miatech -AR
Kyle Couture - AR
Cameron Belstein - AR

Chris Gordon - Referee
Alex Cantu - Referee
Franciso Bermudez - Referee

Two more days to keep working hard on the Semis and Final on Wednesday.

Good Job Guys!!!!

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

STSR and it's 12 referees and 3 assessor are off to the Souther Rgional Finals in Frisco, TX. The week long tournamnet feature state and premier league champions from 13 state in Region III, from u13 - u19.

Congratulations:
Referees:
Brandon Ward
Shelly Landry
Ricky Hernandez
Jennifer Miatech
Kyle Couture
Alex Cantu
Chris Gordon
Chris Mercado
Helen Hays
Fransico Bermudez
Cameron Belstien
Hector Flores
Assessors:
Saki
Randy Francis
Jeff Kattawar

I will post while in Frisco as often as I can. Good look to STX teams and our referees.

Friday, May 08, 2009

STSR AND DYNAMO ANNOUNCE REFEREE Q&A SESSIONS:

The Houston Dynamo has put together a 5 game mini-ticket package for referees for upcoming games. After each game you are invited to attend the Question and Answer session with the referee crew for that game. At the Q&A you will be able to discuss the calls they made…or didn’t make, or any other questions about refereeing you may have with the crew. Q&A sessions will last about 30-40 minutes, and will start about 30 minutes after the end of the game.

As part of the package STSR has decided to use the Q&A sessions as hours for re-cert for 2010 registration.

• If you are a Grade 7, 8, 15 or 16 referee, and you attend all 5 Q&A sessions the hours will count for 2010 registration.

• Once all 5 Q&A sessions are attended, you just have to attend a re-cert clinic to cover the Law Changes and take the test (we will talk about this at the first Q&A and set up a date/location to do this).

• The $30 clinic fee is waived for this clinic, but the referee is still responsible for their USSF registration fee. (You pay the registration when you sign up for the clinic).

• Once you purchase your mini-ticket package you must sign up for the re-cert clinic on the STSR web site – www.stsr.org - . Clinic # 1C-04-0409-R78 is the clinic for this Q&A session.

• You MUST be registered for 2009 to use the hours for re-cert for 2010 registration. If you have let your registration lapse you must go thru the normal process for re-certification

If you already have season tickets, or single tickets for the given dates, you may also attend the Q&A sessions once you sign up for the clinic on the STSR web site.

State Referees are also invited to the Q&A session, but the State Referee Committee wants all state referees to attend the state re-cert clinic for their re-certification hours and 2010 registration.

See attached flyer on how to purchase tickets. Any questions about tickets must be called in to the Houston Dynamo ticket office.

Hope you take advantage of this re-cert clinic and get a jump on 2010 USSF registration.

Seats are limited…….sign up soon!

Regards,

Anthony Amore
South Texas Soccer Referees
Area Director of Instruction - Houston Central
e-mail: anthony.amore@comcast.net

Friday, May 01, 2009

Welcome to the new SYRA BLOG. This BLOG will be used to post announcements, dates and other pertinent STYSA - STSR Referee information.

Also, I will be offering information on Referee Development Initatives, programs and training information on a periodic basis.

Please check back often, post questions or just follow along.