Officials of the Week

The primary focus of the SIOC is to encourage Intramural officials to better themselves during the course of a season. As a result, it is important to recognize those individuals who have dedicated themselves to become the best officials they could be. During every season, officials are observed by Intramural staff. Each official that officiates in a particular sport is automatically nominated for the award for that sport.

During the month of March, officials and Intramural staff complete nomination ballots and turn them in. The total of the officials vote counts for 25% of the voting. The officials coordinator and evaluators votes count for 50% and the Assistant Director's vote counts for 25% of the total vote count.

During the awards banquet in April, officials are rewarded with 14 individual awards and their names are put on a plaque in the SRC Alumni Lounge. More specifically the following awards are awarded annually.

Major Awards:

Official of the Year: Plaque and $250.00
Rookie of the Year: Plaque and special award
Basketball Official of the Year: Plaque
Flag Football Official of the Year: Plaque
Softball Official of the Year: Plaque
Volleyball Official of the Year: Plaque

Minor Awards:

Most Improved Official: Certificate
Scorekeeper of the Year: Certificate
Underwater Hockey Official of the Year: Certificate
Indoor Soccer Official of the Year: Certificate
Outdoor Soccer Official of the Year: Certificate
Floor Hockey Official of the Year: Certificate
Head Official of the Year: Certificate
Matt Erickson Intramural Sports service award: Certificate

Officials of the Week:

Officials of the Week are named at the end of every week, starting with Flag Football in the Fall and Basketball in the Spring. Officials are nominated by Head Officials and IM Staff. Some of the qualities that the staff looks for when nominating officials are:

Professional Appearance
Positive Attitude
Demonstrated ability to apply the rules
Displayed good communication with players, officials, and staff
Displayed good game control

The same criteria is used for Officials of the Week, Officials of the Year, and Head Official of the Year.

 

Spring Semester 2008: Week 1: Clay Starkey-Basketball Week 2: Travis Schaber- Basketball Week 3: Mike Lennie-Basketball Week 4: Matt Woynerowski-Basketball Week 5: Lincoln Hill-Basketball Week 6: Matt Woynerowski-Basketball Week 7: Kali Hofer-Volleyball Week 8: Vijay Sood- Softball Week 9: Adam Bishop: Softball Week 10: Robert Kolodenko-Volleyball Fall Semester 2007: Week 1:   Devan Fox-Flag Football Week 2:   Adam Bishop-Flag Football Week 3:   Brandon Hall-Volleyball Week 4:   Mike Kane-Flag Football Week 5:   Kali Hofer-Volleyball Week 6:   Kyle LeDuc-Flag Football Week 7:   Mike Lennie- Flag Football Week 8:   Justin Henry- Basketball Week 9:   Mike Lennie-Flag Football/Basketball Week 10: Mike Kane-Basketball Week 11: Chad Stroup- Basketball Fall Semester 2006 Week 1: Flag Football- Christopher Ahl Week 2: Flag Football- Matt Fleissig Week 3: Flag Football- Christopher Ahl Week 4: Volleyball- Katie Green Week 5: Basketball- Deveon Stiff Week 6: Basketball- Matt Erickson Week 7: Indoor Soccer- Matt Fleissig Week 8: Basketball- Aaron Murphy Spring Semester 2007 Week 1: Matt Woynerowski-Basketball Week 2: Chris Ahl-Basketball Week 3: Mike Lennie-Basketball Week 4: Matt Fleissig-Indoor Soccer Week 5: Deveon Stiff-Basketball Week 6: Mike Lennie-Basketball Week 7: Chris Ahl-Softball Week 8: Vijay Sood-Softball Week 9: Reed Welch-Softball Week 10: Katie Green-Volleyball   Congratulations to all the officials of the week. Congratulations to Mike Lennie, for being named an All Tournament Official for the State of Illinois Flag Football Championships. Mike will officiate in the NIRSA National Flag Football Championships, January 2-5th, 2008 in Dallas, Texas. Congratualtions to Deveon Stiff for being named "top official in the state of Illinois" for the fourth consecutive year. Deveon also has received two bids to the two National Intramural Basketball Tournaments hosted by NIRSA and ACIS. Congratulations again to Deveon Stiff for being named an ALL AMERICAN OFFICIAL at the ACIS National Basketball Championships at Chapel Hill, North Carolina.