LPSRA  Los Padres Soccer Referee Association.

Serving San Luis Obispo and Northern Santa Barbara Counties
Affiliations: USSF CSA CYSA AYSO NISOA SCSOA

LPSRA History

The history of the LPSRA is cloudy.  Certain dates, certain people are key to our history.  Yet, like other things of the past there are various stories and differing opinions.  This makes retelling the history difficult at best and sometimes leads to errors in remembering the facts. 

It is the opinion of this author that the exact facts are not always necessary.  History is always biased and often retold through the eyes of people who where there and have stories to tell.  These stories actually give the flavor, the feeling, the emotion of the event, time and personalities involved.

If you have a story to share from the past that helps shape the history of our association please pass it on to the webmaster or LPSRA Board member for inclusion on this page.

1981 -  Although an organized group prior to this year the Association took on a formal name and function mid 1981.  The association primarily comprised a group of referees servicing the Santa Maria Men's League.  Often meeting every week to discuss and collect assignments one meeting  had the following attendees.

       Jerry Rawlins       Paul LeSage      Bill Bowman       Dick Kincaid
       Richard Wilson      Mike Stadnick    Mario

At the naming meeting Alberto Blanco and Bill Bowman primarily discussed and created the LPSRA name.

1982 -  The Association roster in March

Adair, JT           Barlow, Chuck         Marcelino, Baro       Blanco, Alberto     
Bowman, Bill        Boyd, Ken             Coppin, Terry         Fludgate, Brad         
Forman, Lisa        Gongora, Jaime        Hood, Myron           Jiminez, Guadelupe      
Kincaid, Dick       La Pointe, Mike       Lietz, Rudy           Menzes, Rick      
Nettle, Hans        Ramirez, Alfonzo      Ramsay, Don           Rawlins, Jerry
Stadnick, Mike      Wilson, Richard

 

1984  -  The NCCOA (North Channel Coast Officials Association) was then the Official officials organization for high school sports.  High school soccer started in 1980/81.  The 1984 season roster:

Adair, JT           Allen, Ed             Bowman, Bill         Cambell, Steven    
Debiase, Tom        Fergon, Rod           Flammand, Joe             Forman, Lisa
Fludgate, Brad      Hamsayeh, Rashid      Hesteande, Keith       Hood, Myron
Jensen, Torbin      Kincaid, Dick            Lesage, Paul               Lietz, Rudy
Muller, Danny       McCullouch, Stewart   Ramsay, Don                 Power, Will
Rawlins, Jerry         Sherwin, John               Steed, Joe                   Stevens, Terry
Strong, Fred             Wilson, Richard           Warde, Richard       Zemanovic, John    Zambrano, Armando