"It's a Game, Let's Enjoy the Experience"

Welcome to the Niagara Frontier Lacrosse Officials Association web site. On our site you will find information and news regarding our organization.

Banquet and Awards 

On Sunday June 8, we had our banquet and golf outing. Three awards were given out. The first award given was the Matt Syzdlowski Outstanding Official Award. It was given to Ken Lindstrom (pictured on the far left) by board member Joe Jastrzemski. The Mike Perry Memorial Award was given to Jordan Thomas (right picture - Jordan is on the left). And the "Felix Unger Award was given o Ricky Albano (bottom picture - pictured on the far right). The "Felix Unger" award was given to Ricky for spraying his black shoe polish on Kelly Maccarone's white shorts.

2008 John “Wes” Patterson Sportsmanship Award

The Williamsville East Varsity Captains and Coach Ed Greenway accepting the 2008 John "Wes" Patterson Sportsmanship Award

It is the intention of the Niagara Frontier Lacrosse Officials Association to bring awareness to, and reward the sportsman-like behavior of players, coaches, and all those affiliated with each school participating at the Varsity, Junior Varsity and Modified Levels of lacrosse.

It is the responsibility of the coaches, players and supporters to recognize that it is a privilege to participate in the game of Lacrosse. This requires that the conduct of everyone involved to bring honor and pride to the game, the participating schools, and to the communities of all who participate in each contest. All of us should view competing teams as opponents, not enemies. This requires a demonstration of a friendly welcome, mutual respect, and a readiness for fair competition.

It is the responsibility of the coaches to teach the rules and to cultivate attitudes by players that demonstrate both knowledge of the rules and respect for the games officials and their duties.

This year’s winners of the John “Wes” Patterson Sportsmanship Award are for varsity – Williamsville East, junior varsity – West Seneca East and Modified – Niagara Wheatfield

Sutton works NCAA Semi's

Congratulations to Tom Sutton! He worked the NCAA Semi-finals on May 24. The game featured Duke and Johns Hopkins in which John Hopkins won by 10-9 margin at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts. This is Tom's second year of working the NCAA's. Great job Tom!

 Blind man and Cries Golf Tournament

     On Tuesday July 15, the NFLOA will once again be a part of the Bind man and Cries Golf Tournament. The tournament will be held at Holland Hills Country Club in Colden, NY. The tournament raises money for the WNY Lacrosse for Kids Foundation. Click on the following link in order to receive more information: Blind man and Criers Golf registration. See you there! 

The Web sites for Assignbyweb and The Arbiter

The following are the links for the web sites that the NFLOA will be using for the upcoming season. The Assignbyweb site can be found at  http://www.assignbyweb.com/nfloa and the Arbiter can be found at http://www.thearbiter.net/. If you have any further questions, please call Mike Roberts.

Contract Finalized with Section VI

     Section VI and the Officials negotiating group have finalized the contract for the next three years. Some of the highlights of the contract are as follows: Fee Schedules - $2 - $1 - $2 at all levels – each of three years; Increase the cross-border travel stipend from $15 to $20 for each of the 3 years; Add to the assigning of officials section: The assigning of Section Level officials is the responsibility of each Sport chair and his/her committee; Where necessary, revise the officials general assigning procedures (p. 12-13) and Place emphasis on the fact that no fee schedule exists for scrimmages. To see the whole contract, you may go to the Section VI Web site. A printable fee schedule is available by clicking the link.

2008 Remaining Schedule

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