Throughout our officiating careers,

we encounter many fine adminis-

trators, schools, students, coaches,

and athletes. This fall a MCSOA

football crew encountered this

again and became a part of a

wonderful event in a local

community.

On Friday September 26th, Kiel

High School held a fundraiser for a

freshman student-athlete who

would be a member of the team,

until cancer reared its ugly head

earlier this spring.

Nick Schad was diagnosed with

T-Cell Lymphoma in May while in

8th grade at Kiel Middle School.

Throughout the summer, his fellow

students and the Kiel Area School

District have rallied around him

and his family. The students orga-

nized many different fundraisers

including wristband sales, brat

fries, bake sales, etc.

For the Kiel vs. Two Rivers foot-

ball game, the students organized

another Bake Sale to help provide

much need financial help for the

Schad family. Assigned to the

game was Steve Sanders football

crew, with Rick Roedell, Rick

Schwarz, Curt Vanderstelt, Mike

Cummings, and Dave Nickels.

In discussion with Pat Geigel, Kiel

athletic director, the crew discussed

how they would be able to help in

the event. The crew came together

and contributed a donation on

behalf of the officials for the game.

In presenting the donation to the

Kiel High students involved, Rick

Schwarz stated, “It was pretty

emotional. All the young lady

could say was ‘thank you’ because

it meant so much.”

As officials, we are always part of

the game, but in this case, the

officials became part of the event.

Great representation of the associa-

tion gentleman!!

Football Officials Give Back

Website Updates The website is being constructed as

of this newsletter. Pages are being

created, officials information is

being entered and updated, and

calendars are being created for all

of us to begin entering our dates

and times we are booked.

The calendar directions that were

previously sent out have been

CANCELLED!! Please do not

follow these.

We are currently working on creat-

ing a calendar that will be useful to

our membership. Once this is

finished and running, an email will

be sent out.

Please keep you eye out for these

changes!!

If you have any questions, contact

Steve Walsh or Mike Cummings!

Looking for a

Replacement?

• Check the web-

site…..you pay for it, so

why not use it??

• Are they certified for the

sport?

• Is the individual ready

for the specific level?

• Don’t always take the

first response you get!!

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M A N I T O W O C C O U N T Y S P O R T S O F F I C I A L S A S S O C I A T I O N

Volume 3, Issue 2

November 2014

Scholarship Brat Fry Follow Up

2

Same Schools, New Faces

2

Time to Give Back 2

NASO Membership 3

Association Outing 3

We Need Officials!! 3

Warm Up 4

Inside this issue:

Rick Schwarz presenting their donation to

the student representatives.

MCSOA crew with student representatives

before the NICK STRONG event at the Kiel

High School football game on September

26th.

assignments for our association.”

The game ended up lopsided, 80-24, but it

was a great experience for the crew and

they hope to have shown the great officials

and crews that come from our association.

Congratulations guys!!

receive this assignment.

In discussion with the crew, Steve Oswald

summed it up great. “Having the oppor-

tunity to officiate the jamboree game was a

highlight of the season. We all work hard

during the season to get to the 2nd season

and officiate. It was a great way to end the

season with our crew.”

Steve Walsh added, “We hope we repre-

sented the association well. This hopefully

will be the first of many more Jamboree

This season we continued with our

DONATION day of officiating for

the NEWGBL and NEWBBL league

games. By working 2 games, the

officials donated their game fee to

our Scholarship Fund.

This year we spaced it out over 2

dates, November 1st and Novem-

ber 15th. Throughout the two

dates, approximately 35 officials

volunteered their services to our

Association. Through this, we

were able to donate the needed

money to our scholarship fund for

the 2015 awards.

The Executive Committee would

like to thank Gary Heim for coor-

dinating this opportunity for our

Association.

Great Job Gary!!

Thank You Members!!!

2014/15 season and beyond. Officials need to

contact me for an updated 3-person contract at

the rate of $55 per official. Once a contract is

emailed through the rSchool system, the host

school will also be notified as well.”

Dennis Semph, EWC and CLC, follows with,

“This year the CLC and EWC will allow crews to

bring a third and split the fees if they desire. The

crew needs to advise the host AD one week in

advance if they intend to bring a third. Next year

(2015-2016) in the Big East Conference, two

This season is seeing an expansion of 3-person

basketball officiating. Many of the local confer-

ences have adopted a policy on how to handle

these games.

In the Olympian Conference, we know the games

have been assigned by Steve Matuszewski and

approved by Scoop Druschke.

In the FRCC and Bay Conferences, Commission-

er Garry Sievert has the following directive, “The

FRCC and Bay Conferences are accepting 3-

person crews for all conference games in the

officials have been hired through January 26th,

2016. After that date, three official crews will be

used for all games. Any crew that wishes to use

three person prior to January 26th may do so

with proper notification of the host Athletic Di-

rector and split the fees. Two person fees will be

$70 each, while three person fees will be $55

each.”

In the end, communication is the key. Make sure

you have it approved by the athletic directors and

the conference commissioners.

8-Man Football Jamboree

Scholarship Fundraiser

3-Person Basketball Officiating

This year the MCSOA had the great fortune

of having a crew selected to work the 8-

Man Football Jamboree.

The crew of Art Neilitz, Steve Oswald, Ted

Melanson, Ed Wallander, and Steve Walsh

worked on November 1st at Schofield DC

Everest.

The crew was assigned the 4pm game pit-

ting the #2 seeds, Elkhart Lake vs. Luck.

The crew was energized and excited to

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a social outlet to relax in.

More information will come in

the future, but if this is some-

thing you would like to partici-

pate in planning, contact Steve

Walsh for more details.

920-242-9122 or

swalsh@kiel.k12.wi.us

This item was pushed back….please be

aware of this!!! Thank You!!

Our association is one of many throughout

the state and the nation that has a value of

officiating different levels of athletics.

There are many ways these associations can

work, but most are there to educate and

distribute games to officials. Ours is no

different.

One way to receive education is through

your own personal educational advances

through camps, meetings, seminars, etc.,

but also through the National Association of

Sports Officials or NASO. This is a great

organization to belong to. You receive

many advantages of being a member.

Our association is looking into joining NA-

SO on the association level to gain more

opportunities for educational materials to

provide during our meetings.

There are benefits to joining for both the

association and all of our members ad indi-

viduals. First, we need to know how many

members are currently a member of NASO

or how many members are thinking about

joining NASO.

Please keep an eye out for an email survey

regarding this. This survey will be coming

to your email in mid-November.

Please respond by December 1st.

Thanks for your help in this matter. We are

looking to make this a better association

with more opportunities!!!

you knew the whole basketball rule book,

but really didn’t so you wanted to get out of

working basketball, so you switched to

softball.

We all do sports for different reasons, but it

probably comes back to being involved for

the kids and working with these athletes.

Currently, we are in NEED of more officials

What was the reason you started officiat-

ing? Love of sports, added income,

flexible scheduling? Which do you think?

For most officials it is all of the above, but

the #1 reason would be for love of the

game. We started working the sports we

enjoy the most. You may have started

umpiring baseball, but soon realized that

football could be fun too! Or, you thought

for a number of sports. Football and

volleyball are very low. Baseball and

softball are there as well. Track...now that

is one that is almost non-existent!!!

Look at yourself and if you are a one sport

official, could you begin working another

sport? Contact crews and go along to see

what it is like.

There is a need, you could help.

Remember it’s for the kids.

Association Outing

WE NEED OFFICIALS!!!!!

In years past we have discussed

how to get members more en-

gaged along with having more

social opportunities. Our Execu-

tive Committee is looking at dif-

ferent possibilities to have a fun

day/night with members of our

association so we can get to

know each other better and have

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National Association of Sports Officials (NASO)—Updated

Manitowoc County Sports Officials Association

One of the things listed is a 30 Day

Squat Challenge. A challenge like this

is great for the umpires, but also helps

build up muscle strength and endur-

ance for basketball officials to keep

“fresh legs” especially at the end of

game. Starts off pretty easy, but by

the end of the 30 days, you are re-

quired to do 250 squats!!! The legs

will burn!!!

Take the time to check it out! Great

site, great information!

Staying physically fit is something that

will not only keep us working games,

but also keeping up to play during the

games. Workouts can be easy or

moderate, to even hard depending on

your fitness level and how much you

are willing to challenge yourself. You

can find great information in many

places, but a great one is Officially Fit.

They are located online at

http://www.officiallyfit.net/

This is a paid site ($9.99/year) but

there is a lot of great information on

the EDUCATION tab.

If you are on Facebook, they are also

located on there, just search Officially

Fit to like their page.

Physical Fitness Tip

C/O Keith Bonde

1320 S. 10th Street

Manitowoc, WI 54220

President—Steve Walsh

1st Vice President—Dave Nickels

2nd Vice President—Eric VantHul

Secretary/Treasurer—Keith Bonde

Past President—Steve Sanders

Games Coordinator—Tom Frieder

We are on the web!!

Visit us at

www.manitowoccountysportsofficials.com