May 7: Wayne Hunter's father, J. W. Hunter, passed away this morning around 2:00
AM in Mulberry. The viewing for Mr. Hunter will be Thursday night 5/8/2008
from 6-8 PM. at Seigler's Funeral Home in Mulberry. The funeral will be on
Friday , 5/9, at 2:00 PM at the Central Baptist Church in Lithia Florida.
Dan Cannon, the father of basketball director, Daniel Cannon passed away on
Sunday, May 4, 2008. Dan was a retired officer with the Florida Highway Patrol
and was a former member of the Mid-Florida Officials Association.
The annual MFOA Installation and Awards Banquet will be held on Saturday, June
14, 2008. The event will begin at 6:30 PM and dinner will be served at 7:00 PM.
Terri Adams is the coordinator for this event this year. Terri needs you
to RSVP with her as soon as possible so that she will have an accurate count of
those attending. The banquet will be held at the Elks Lodge in Ocala and will be
limited to the Members and their spouse/guest.
Newly elected officers will be installed and awards will be presented in all
four sports. In addition, the Lee Scruggs Memorial Sportsmanship Award will be
presented to The Villages High School.
Please RSVP as soon as possible.
2008 Women's basketball officials camp
The FHSAA is now accepting registrations by mail for the University of Florida
women's basketball team and officials camp, which will be hosted June 27-29.
Camp cost is $100. Space is limited, so register early. For full camp details,
click on basketball in the Field Clinics menu on the right side of the FHSAA web
page. (4/22)
»
click here for the flyer | »
click here for the application
Officials Advisory Committee nominations open
The FHSAA is accepting nominations of candidates for the Officials Advisory
Committee for the 2008-09 election year. Officials from local associations that
are based in FHSAA Administrative Sections 1 and 3 are eligible for nomination.
Candidates must be officials in good standing, registered in the same sport as
the seat for which they are being nominated, and be nominated by their primary
local officials association. Each local officials association many nominate one
official for each sport in which they are sanctioned by the FHSAA.
Nominations will be accepted through August 1, 2008, in all sports. (4/22)
» click here to
nominate
April 16: The Annual Business Meeting has been called for May 3, see previous item below. Agenda Amendments
April 2: Joe Rigney is in the Hospital in Inverness, Room #304. He had an intestinal problem of some type and had to have surgery. Will probably be hospital until sometimes next week
April 2: The Sunshine Football Officials Association will be hosting an FHSAA
approved football field clinic in May. However, due to the fact that this
clinic will be hosted prior to the start of the 2008-09 school season, online
registration WILL NOT be available. Registration may be submitted via U.S.
Postal Service using the following application:
http://officials.fhsaa.org/fieldclinics/fb.htm
Clinic cost is $40 to pre-register, or $50 at the door. Pre-registrations must
be received in the FHSAA Office no later then 5:00 p.m. on May 2nd. Registration
fees are NON-REFUNDABLE. Please note that applications received after the
deadline will be returned to sender. Officials attending a field clinic in its
entirety will receive a $5 discount redeemable online for the next school year's
registration fee and 12 points toward the promotional scale. Field clinic
attendance is also a criteria for FHSAA playoff eligibility.
St. Petersburg
Sunshine Football Officials Association
Date: May 16-17, 2008
Site: Clearwater High School
When: Friday, 6-9:00 p.m., Saturday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.
Application Deadline: May 2, 2008
Contact Person: Gail Blanton, (727) 656-9954,
willisgblanton@aol.com
Clinicians: TBA
Special Highlights:
. Registrations must be submitted via U.S. Postal Service
March 26: A USA Football Officiating School is scheduled to
be held May 9-10, 2008 in Tampa. This officials training school has been
approved by the FHSAA to satisfy the field clinic requirement to become playoff
eligible. Please refer to the attached flyer for details. »
click here
for the application
The Association mourns the loss of first year official John Sise. We have also learned that long time football official Jim Glisson has passed away.
March 12: Annual Meeting.
March 9: Board meeting
March 1: The Board met on the 25th, here are the minutes. It will meet again on the 9th at 5, at the Ocala Star-Banner building.
February 25: Congratulations to Bob Leahy, Ted Bedford and Louis Sullivan for their assignment to the 5A Girls' semi-final between Winter Haven and Boca Ciega. We have the 1A Boys' championship assigned to Ron Siders, Eric Ascher, and Tim Wiggen, Friday at noon.
February 22: Should have posted this earlier:
The President has called a board meeting for Monday, February 25, 2008. The
meeting will be held at LaRocco's Restaurant in Silver Springs and will begin at
6:30 PM. LaRocco's Restaurant is located in downtown Silver Springs across the
street from Wild Waters.
January 28: The FHSAA Board of Directors: • Approved a Football Advisory
Committee recommendation to propose a rule change to the National Federation of
State High School Associations (NFHS) that would prohibit "horse collar"
tackles.
• Approved a Football Advisory Committee recommendation to propose a rule change
to the NFHS that would add an automatic first down to the existing 15-yard
penalty for a personal foul facemask violation.
• Approved a Football Advisory Committee recommendation to propose a rule change
to the NFHS that would make a muffed punt that rolls into the end zone a
touchback so that it is consistent with a muffed free kick (kickoff). I
guess I need to read the rulebook again. I thought all kicks into R's end
zone were touchbacks???? Enlighten us.
• Discussed possible modifications to NFHS football rules that would increase
the penalty for uncontested flips or "superman" dives into the end zone to
include an automatic ejection of the offending player. I wonder who
thought of this proposal.
January 17: The new mailing address for the MFOA is 4709 NE 21st Court, Ocala, 34479
January 12: Lake Weir's Football Play of the Year
December 18: Congratulations to Coach Tommy Keeler of Newberry for being named 2B Coach of the Year, Coach Joey Pearson of Lafayette shares 1A. North Marion's running back Albert Gary was named the 3A Play of the Year. All awards by the Florida Dairy Farmers.
December 15: Minutes of the Board meeting of December 9.
October 2: The much waited for Relative Rating.
September 26: Minutes of Board meeting, 9/24.
September 12: The traffic pattern has changed at Santa Fe. Drive to the next light, turn right then right again. This brings you onto campus from the opposite direction that you are used to. Where we have been parking near the gym is much more congested.
September 12: The St. Petersburg Times has published a very nice article about Dorothy Brunson. Thanks to Rob Tessmer and Dick Van Auker for bringing to to our attention.
August 11: Football Director Carl Dill has put together a PowerPoint presentation about the Arbiter web site. If you have PowerPoint, Corel Presentations or other compatible software you can view it. For those of you that don't, he has put together a .pdf which you can view in Acrobat Reader. Members in all sports will benefit by viewing this.
July 17: From the FHSAA: "The Simplified and
Illustrated book will no longer be distributed to every official. Only 2 copies
have been approved for each association due to the increase in cost."
J
May 15: Annual meeting minutes
