Interested in becoming a referee?? Anyone who would like to become a referee for HYSA must be 12 years old or older. AFTER THE LAST SATURDAY IN JULY (no courses will be listed before this date!), please go to www.mississippisoccer.org and click on REFEREE COURSES. Register for and complete a class somewhere in the state. (Referee clinics will not begin until August after the Advanced Referee Clinic held at Belhaven College in late July). Once you have completed your referee clinic, please contact the HYSA Referee Assignor, Gates Weaver, at gatesw1@aol.com , to sign up to be a HYSA referee.
PBSOA Referees Honored
Gates Weaver, Grade 6 State Referee, and Christoph Schaefer, Grade 7 Referee, have been selected by Tim Clements, SRA, and the MSA Committee, to represent Mississippi as referees (along with 11 other referees from MS), 17 - 23 June in Baton Rouge. They will referee a number of games played by Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina and North Carolina. Gates will be returning to represent Mississippi as a referee after going to Dallas, Texas last year. Gates and Christoph will be the only two referees chosen from the Hattiesburg area.
Gates Weaver refereed in the opening day PDL - Pro game with MS Brilla vs. New Orleans on June 5th, and, was on the referee crew as AR1 Saturday evening June 5th with Miss Brilla vs. Nashville Metros at 7pm at Milsaps College.
