Noonan and Florez Recognized For High School Refeering

The Southwest Missouri Boys Soccer Official of the Year Voting produced a tie, so we will have Southwest Missouri Boys Soccer Co-Officials of the Year. Bob Florez and Tim Noonan will share the honor for the Fall 2010 Season. Congratulations to Bob and Tim. Thanks again for your participation and feel free to share this with any media outlets that you may have contact with.

Recap (As voted on by Boys Soccer Coaches and Soccer Officials in Southwest Missouri)

All-Southwest Missouri Boys Soccer Officiating Crew – Fall 2010

Tim Brown, Patrick Burns, Daniel England
Henry Enlow, Bob Florez, Jason Florez
Brad Hamman, Bruce Immekus, Mark Lassman-Eul
Chuck Lonardo, Jim McCarthy, Tim Noonan
Jan Stahle, Gary Strunk, Courtney Wendel

Finalists for Southwest Missouri Boys Soccer Official of the Year – Fall 2010

Patrick Burns, Daniel England, Bob Florez
Brad Hamman, Bruce Immekus, Tim Noonan

Southwest Missouri Boys Soccer Co-Officials of the Year – Fall 2010

Bob Florez, Tim Noonan

How Was Your Weekend?


I ask that question as a prelude to sharing Andy Wilkinson’s weekend with you from last week. As you can see in the photos, he covered a lot of bases. He started his road trip with a drive from Joplin up to Kansas City to enjoy the KC Wizards game against the LA Galaxy on Saturday. From there he headed to St Louis where he participated in the St Louis Athletica game against the FC Gold Pride. The Women’s Professional Soccer match was held at the A-B Soccer Complex, was broadcast live on Fox Soccer Channel and included Andy as AR2.

Congrats to one of our region’s up-and-coming referee’s, as Andy is actively pursuing his National license. Thanks for the photos Andy. Oh, and to address any questions… That’s Jack Jewsbury in the first, Beckham in the second, Andy’s on the far left in the third (not the little girl, the ref!) and that’s Hope Solo bending over in front of Andy as he check’s the nets prior to the start of the game. Apparently his buddies were a bit enamored of Hope and so most of his photos are of the US goalkeeper!

Springfield Represents At Region 2 – The Arbiter’s

Springfield Referees

Congratulations to the crew from Springfield who were chosen to represent and earned their way to Sioux Falls, SD this past week. This team was part of the the fun, and success, of playing and working at the highest levels.

Back Row – Patrick Burns and Ryan Cooksey
Front Row – Alysan Burgbacher, Mark Lassman-Eul, Andy Wilkinson and Jessica McCutcheon

Update – Patrick, Ryan, and Andy all worked semi finals on Tuesdays. Only one missouri referee got a final due to so many teams from missouri being in the finals.

It was the first trip to Regionals for Alysan, a high school senior-to-be at New Covenant where she will play on the boys team this season, along with Jessica, who will be a sophomore at Rogers State (OK). The group was also joined by Jeff Kohlmeyer and Kelly Ross who worked as an assigner and a mentor, respectively.