POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE MINNESOTA presents
So You Want to Be a Referee?
SPORTS OFFICIATING PANEL DISCUSSION
An open forum on attracting and retaining youth officials as
well as other officiating topics. Bring your questions!
PANEL PARTICIPANTS:
August 2, 2016
Woodbury High School Auditorium
2665 Woodlane Dr
Woodbury MN 55125
7:00pm – 8:30pm
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This event is free to the public
Contact Deborah Edwards at [email protected] or Tim Rolfing at [email protected] for questions
Eric Curry
ERIC CURRY – Division 1 college basketball official in 7 conferences with 850 games
BRAD SCIBAK — International, collegiate and high school lacrosse official for 40 years
MATT TIANO – Division 1 college soccer official, state referee assessor and instructor
ED ZEPEDA – Former professional and college hockey official and current supervisor of college hockey officials
Brad Scibak
Matt Tiano
Ed Zepeda
Positive Coaching Alliance is a national, non‐profit organization, developing “Better
Athletes, Better People” by working to provide youth and high school athletes a positive, character‐building youth sports experience. POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE MINNESOTA presents
So You Want to Be a Referee?
Eric Curry (Basketball)
Eric Curry has recently completed his 17th season officiating basketball at the Division I level. After beginning his college career in the Big Sky Conference in 1999, Curry currently officiates games in the Big Ten, Mountain West, Missouri Valley, PAC‐12, WAC and West Coast Conferences. Over his career, he has officiated over 850 Division I games, including 12 selections to the NCAA tournaments, over 60 conference tournament games in six conferences, and 15 conference championship games.
Professionally, he is the Executive Vice President of Sun Country Airlines, and holds the responsibility for all of the airlines’ sales and customer experience areas. He is a member of the board of directors of The Positive Coaching Alliance and Make A Wish Minnesota. He and his wife Kelly Roysland (Macalester College Women’s Basketball Coach) live in Minneapolis.
Brad Scibak (Lacrosse)
Brad Scibak recently completed his 40th season officiating lacrosse. He began his career as a box (indoor) official in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada and started field (outdoor) lacrosse officiating two years later. On the field, Brad has officiated over 35 Canadian National Junior and Senior Championships, the 1998 Men’s Lacrosse Championships, the 2002 Men’s World Championships, the gold Medal Game in the 2002 and 2006 World Games and the US field Championships 5 times. In Minnesota, he officiates all levels from youth to Post Collegiate. Brad has been an organizational leader and evaluator on several Canadian lacrosse organizations since 1981. He is a member of the Board of Directors for the Canadian Summer Games and 1999 Pan AM games. He has served as President of the Minnesota Chapter of Field Lacrosse Officials and a member of the Board of Directors for the Minnesota Lacrosse Association. He has been the current District Assigning Authority for US Lacrosse since 2003.
In addition to lacrosse officiating, Brad has officiated basketball at all levels for 18 years and high school and college football for 5 years. He is an instructing nurse and has also served as an athletic therapist for the Canadian Olympic team and a Medical Director for the Manitoba Marathon. Brad lives in the Twin Cities and is the father of 4 daughters with his wife Kimberly.
Positive Coaching Alliance is a national, non‐profit organization, developing “Better
Athletes, Better People” by working to provide youth and high school athletes a positive, character‐building youth sports experience. POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE MINNESOTA presents
So You Want to Be a Referee?
Matt Tiano (Soccer)
Matt Tiano began refereeing soccer at the age of 12 in Northfield, Minnesota with the main goal to make some spending money during the summers. While he played the game through high school, he really found his passion refereeing the game and began to network and work more challenging assignments over time. That included traveling across the country refereeing various events, and working high‐level amateur, some professional, and Division I, II and III collegiate matches. He also began to assign youth soccer matches several years ago, and have grown a business scheduling over 5,000 soccer matches annually in Minnesota, larger than any other soccer assigning entity in the state. Also as part of that process, he serves as a State Referee Assessor & Instructor. In addition to youth soccer, as of two years ago, he also was appointed Supervisor of Soccer Officials for the Iowa Conference, a member of NCAA Division III. Ed Zepeda (Hockey)
Ed Zepeda has been involved with the sport of hockey for most of his life. As a player, he started at the age of five (5) and ended his career at the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point. After his playing days were over, Ed embarked on long and successful 18 year career as an on‐ice official providing services for the Minnesota State High School League, NCAA (Dl and Dlll), United States Hockey League and worked three seasons in the Western Professional Hockey League/Central Hockey League. For the past 10 years, Ed has been the Supervisor of Officials for the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference/Northern Collegiate Hockey Association. In this role, Ed manages a staff of more than 125 officials, including the recruitment of new officials, staff training, scheduling and evaluations of on‐ice performance. Ed has also coached at the youth level for over 15 years at multiple age levels and with several organizations and is a current member of the NHL staff of off‐ice officials who provide services for the Minnesota Wild home games. Positive Coaching Alliance is a national, non‐profit organization, developing “Better
Athletes, Better People” by working to provide youth and high school athletes a positive, character‐building youth sports experience.