• WTSRA would like to congratulate Mark Herrington, Warrell Swan, and Doug Irby for being selected to referee the 6a boys final for MHSAA.
• WTSRA would like to congratulate John White for successfully attending the Regional Training Seminar in Orlando, FL
• WTSRA would like to congratulate Mark Herrington on being selected to work the NAIA National Finals in Decatur, AL.  Mark is one of 8 referees from around the country who was selected.

News Archive:

• 3/28/2009:  Referee Tax Information - Wondering what's taxable and not taxable? Deductable and not deductable?  Check out THE SOCCER REFEREE AND YOUR TAX RETURN.  Please note that this was published a few years ago and some of the amounts, for example the mileage rates, are not accurate.  The latest information can be found at www.irs.gov

• WTSRA would like to congratulate Brent Newton, Steve Cramer, Landon Pilant, and Paul Monti for being selected to work the 2008 AAA Girl's High School State Final.
• 6/28/2008:  WTSRA would like to congratulate Mark Herrington and Sims Meredith for recently attending the NISOA National Referee Camp at Emory University in Atlanta. Mark and Sims are hoping to become one of less than 200 NISOA National Referees in the country.
• 5/31/2008: WTSRA would like to say "Thank You" to Joe Zink who will be leaving our referee community. Joe and his recently retired wife will be moving to Hardy, Arkansas over the summer.
• 2/23/2008: Congratulations to Wes Caouette for being named the TNSOCCER 2007 Male Youth Referee of the Year. Wes will receive an invitation to referee at the 2008 Southern Regional Championships this summer in North Carolina. This award is given yearly to referees with great on and off the field qualities.
• 1/23/2008: Congratulations to Jeff Hink and Jeremy Knudsen for successfully passing all of the requirements to become a USSF National Referee. We are very lucky to have 2 National Referees from our area.
• 1/15/2008: Jeff Hink and Jeremy Knudsen will be attending the 2008 USSF National Referee Camp in Carson, California January 25-27. When you see these two members please wish them luck. 
• 12/15/2007: WTSRA Elections were held at the December meeting. After many years of great service to the organization Doug Irby is stepping down as the Vice President. Mike Mears was elected to the position of Vice President. With Mike Mears becoming the Vice President the office of Member at Large was left open and Eric Phillips was elected to this position.
• 1/22/2007: Jeff Hink has just come back from passing his requirements for becoming re-certified as a National Referee for the 2007 year. This will be his fourth year as a National Referee representing Tennessee. National Referees have to pass a special written exam that has fill-in the blank and M/C and T/F on the test. They also must pass a physical test each year. 
  Jeremy Knudsen has completed all the requirements to be a National Candidate for 2007. This is the first step in becoming a National Referee for 2008. He will be working this year on getting 5 assessments by a National assessor, Three as a referee and two as an AR. Two of the middles and one of the AR's must be done on a PDL level game or higher, also one of the middles must be completed by an assessor approved by US Soccer. We all need to wish Jeremy good luck and give him some encouragement every time you see him.
• 6/7/2006: John White and Jeremy Knudsen will be representing TNSOCCER at the Amateur Select Tournament June 10-12 in Frisco Texas.
• 6/6/2006: Congratulations to Dennis Kennetz, Mark Herrington, and Jim Emery for being chosen from Memphis to represent TNSOCCER at the 2006 Southern Regional Championships in Little Rock, Arkansas. Other Tennessee referees that were invited include Deshun Beard, Dennis Beard, James Sherer, Gina Foster, Roger Street, Paul Asper, Guy Leone, Susan Williamson, Paul Lane, Jacob Otto, Doug Sena, and Malcom Pearson
• 6/5/2006: Jeff Hink and Doug Damico have come back from the Region III USASA National Cup in Baton Rouge LA. (This is the adult equivalent to the youth regionals.) They both had a very successful trip. Jeff was assigned the AR1 position on the Men's Open Championship game. Doug was assigned the middle on both the Men's Amateur and women's open championship. Both Jeff and Doug have been invited to the USASA National Championships in Dallas, TX on August 4-6.
• 5/17/2006: We all need to send out a couple of CONGRATULATIONS to a couple of people this week. Dennis Beard from middle TN was assigned his first PDL game on May12. He was the fourth official on Nashville Metros vs Atlanta Silverbacks U-23. He worked with Matt Drew, Jeremy Knudsen and Mark Herrington
  We also need to send out a CONGRATULATION to Mark Herrington for receiving his first PDL middle assignment. He will be working the Nashville Metros vs Augusta Fireballs in Nashville on June 10th.
• 5/16/2006: Jeff Hink will be traveling to Atlanta on June 10th to be the referee for the Atlanta Silverbacks vs Seattle Sounders game in the USL's First Division. Next time you see him wish him the best.
• 4/15/2006: John White and Jeremy Knudsen have been chosen by TNSOCCER to represent Tennessee at the 2006 Amateur Select Tournament in Dallas, Texas over Memorial Day Weekend
• 3/29/2006: Jeff Hink has been assigned the middle of Mexico Women's National Team vs North Carolina Tarheels Women's team. Game is at Legion Field in Birmingham, AL on April 8th at 2pm. He has also been assigned a fourth official on April 9 at 2pm in Decatur, AL in Jack Allen Stadium of the Mexico WNT vs Duke Bluedevils Women's Team.
  Doug Damico was assigned the middle of Chicago Fire vs University of Alabama-Birimngham on March 22 in Jackson MS. He also was assigned an MLS preseason game as an AR for Chicago Fire vs Chivas USA on March 25 in Jackson MS.
• 3/16/2006: With the fall college soccer season approaching, NISOA has announced four candidates for membership. Mike Mears, Malik Warsame, Jack Winkleman and Steven Scott have been nominated. WTSRA wants to wish these four the best of luck on passing assessments, fitness tests, and written tests. We hope to see you four on the college pitch this fall!!! Best of luck guys!