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LAHOA is happy to announce that registration for the 2023-24 season has begun! For those officials who registered for the 2022-23 season, your registration will expire November 30th.

This season, officials will complete the USA Hockey registration requirements. THEN they will head to LAHOA.com to make their dues payment and complete the registration form. There is no confirming registration this season. Once you have completed the USA Hockey requirements, you will them register with LAHOA which will include supplying proof of LAHOA dues payment and proof of completion of USA Hockey requirements.

Click here to go to the registration page

Dear LAHOA Members

This is the first request from the Election Committee for LAHOA Board of Director Nominations. This year there are four (4) board seats up for election.

Ballot Nominations
“Members in good standing” who desire to compete for one of the four board seats must “Self-Nominate”.  Members cannot nominate another member, in accordance with the LAHOA Bylaw change in 2018.

All nominations must be made by email to the election committee at: election@lahoa.com

Nominations must be received by the Election Committee, no later than 11:59 PM PDT, on June 27, 2023.

Voting Ballots
Once again, we will be utilizing the Election Runner voting system. This application has proven to provide the association members with a sound, secure and confidential method to cast your important and meaningful vote for the candidates that are seeking a board seat. Over 70% of our membership voted in last years 2022-23 Election, one of the highest percentages ever for LAHOA.  Our goal is to increase that percentage. We hope that all of you will be diligent and partake in this important member right.  It is your association, please be involved.

Election ballots will be sent out no later than July 2, 2023. During the voting period, please be sure to check your email regularly for updates and your voter ballot.

We will also post information and updates on the LAHOA Facebook page. Please check there from time to time during the voting period.

Bylaw Changes
Each year at the annual board meeting, the newly elected board will review all submitted Bylaw change requests.

Members can submit Bylaw change requests for the board’s review by submitting them to the election committee at election@lahoa.com

The link to the LAHOA By-Laws is: https://lahoa.com/bylaws/
Bylaw change requests must be received by the Election Committee, no later than 11:59 PM PDT, on June 27, 2023.

Annual Meeting
The meeting will be held at 12:00 PM on Sunday, July 23, 2023, at The Rinks in Lakewood in the upstairs community room between rink B and rink C.

REMEMBER: All board seat member Nominations and Bylaw Proposals must be submitted no later than 11:59 PM PDT, on June 27, 2023.

If you have any further questions or comments, please feel free to contact us at election@lahoa.com or at our personal phone/text numbers listed below.

Respectfully,
Ira Derdiger
LAHOA 2023 Election Secretary Co-Chair

Jason Sandford
LAHOA 2023 Election Secretary Co-Chair

Chuck Martin
Special Advisor to the Election Secretary Co-Chairs

Saves The Date:
August 2-4 in El Segundo, California @ Toyota Sports Performance Center. The school is open to officials age 16 to 31 years old who are great skaters with an experience level of AAA to professional. Additionally, this years school will be limited to 30 officials.

Classroom sessions will include video sessions, psychology of the game, teamwork & communication. All classes will be held at the Toyota Sports Performance Center.

On-ice instruction will include: positioning, signals, skating drills, conducting face-offs, game situation participation.

Off-ice instructions includes how to prepare and warm up for a game, nutrition, as well as exercises specific to officiating ice hockey.

All ice sessions are supervised by staff from the NHL, AHL, Junior level and local USA Hockey supervisors.

The Sonesta Hotel is the official host hotel of the California Referee School and is walking distance to the Performance Center. Special rate for CA Ref School.

Please visit carefschool.com for registration information.

Michel Voyer
School Director

The LAHOA Board of Directors would like to congratulate these newly certified officials! Make sure to give them a warm LAHOA welcome when you see them around the rink!

Nathan Kim, Gunnar Streeter, Jake Harvanchik, Gunnar Streeter, Tyler Brandt, Matthew Wholihan, Jacob Newport, Robert Haroutiounian, Masatane Shiina, Brendan Oda, Kent Nishi, Wyatt Earnhardt, Luke Chumo, Kent Nishi, Michael Nobili, Jeffrey Chin Wong, Wyatt Earnhardt, Jillian McLaughlin & Jonah Gilbet

Congratulations to our newly certified officials for the month of October! These officials have completed their USA Hockey certification and are already accepting games!

Chloe Chu, Trevor Goins, Daniel Greenbaum, Jason Sokol, Sage Sarno, Grant Kennis, Crystal Kelton, Jonathan Ferguson, Nicholas Haroutiounian, Chris Carlaccini, Lev Tumaykin, Ayden Gomez, Vincent Rizzo

Time to welcome the these new officials to the ranks! These officials completed their USA Hockey registration in September and are newly certified officials working games. Congrats to the following:

Braxton Borgford, Chace Borgford, Orrin Havens, Jonathan Yan, Phoenix Phillips, Andrew Regan, Matthew Garza, Logan Dulac, Nicolas Gallegos, Justin Paiyarat, Parker Slate, Yaroslav Dykyi, Scott Beaver, Joshua Newton, Marcos Ramos Aldana, Bryan Albert, Zachary Freedman, Carter Qsar, Asher Ianiero, Ethan Dang & Thomas Barbor

Another list of NEW officials are in the books! These officials completed their USA Hockey registration and are newly certified officials working games. Congrats to the following:

Jacob Jamani, Peter Endrigian, Kyle Barnes, Roy Cervantes, Calvin Vician, Emmie Lembcke, Oscar Sackaroff, Benjamin Keith, Brett Shrader, Jackson Greenspan, Josh Feng, Tara Regalado, Nicholas Sauritch, Koen McCarthy, Easton Lee, Orrin Havens, Thomas Shults, Zachary Sada, Samantha Sada, Andrew Iannone, Benjamin Nyssen, Zachary Nyssen, Ryan Ostrem, Daniel Bray, Samuel Fleishman & Andrew Mosley

As LAHOA looks to add officials for the ever increasing demand, we would like to recognize the NEW officials that completed their USA Hockey registration and have already started officiating! Here are the newly certified officials from the month of July!

Douglas Clark, Daniel Bray, Matthew Gould, Ryan Teeto, Timothy Bockman, Nathaniel Fogg-Martinez, Patrick Fuesterer, Julian Paul, Mark Hampton Jr, Brad Estrada, William Brenn, Michael Fogg-Martinez, Jacob Ribeiro, Ava Priebe, Anthony Skinner, Max Kronenberg, Ko Pope, Kyle Bennett, Maddox Hood, Joseph Rosenberg, Joshua Roman, Jason Shohdy, Manan Mendiratta, Brandon Katzke, Sean Nichols, Dylan Hazuka, Noah Rockstraw, Wes Bernardini, Bryan Goodwyn, Kyle Miller, Paul Franklin, Ryan Parcher, Boston Parcher, Kasey Morris & Joseph Nelson

The Los Angeles Hockey Officials Association Board of Directors concluded its annual meeting which begins the 31st season! The Board of Directors would like to thank Michel Voyer for his service on the board for the past 30 years. Michel won’t hold a seat anymore but he will still be leading the charge in developing our officials for the junior and pro ranks. 

In with the new! Congratulations to Jordan Watt who ran in this years election and won a board seat. He along with Brett Martin and Scott Workman will occupy board seats for the next three years. 

71% of the LAHOA members voted in this years election. Thanks in part to Ira Derdiger and Chuck Martin for making this possible! While 71% is a great number, Ira and Chuck look to build on. Be on the lookout for our ramped up election next year

Beginning this season, Executive board member positions are two year terms. The Board would like to thank Sara Parras for handling the duties of treasurer for the past two seasons. At this time The Board would like to introduce Matt Zucker as the new treasurer for the 22-23 & 23-24 seasons. The rest of the executive board remained the same. Their terms expire in 2024. 

During the annual meeting, President Louis Magnifico appointed Todd Siegal the Director or Development for LAHOA. Arthur Kitano also announced that Todd will be the Referee in Chief for the ADHSHL. Art will assume the role of ADHSHL Director of Officials. LAHOA would like to congratulate Todd on his new roles this season!

The Jamie Huntley-Park Pacific District Women’s Officiating Camp was held in Portland, Oregon from September 23rd-26th. LAHOA officials Nichole Godwin, Rebecca McFarland, and Sara Parras were in attendance along with nine other women from Oregon, Washington, Colorado, and Montana. Named for previous camp director Jamie Huntley-Park, a renowned figure in the hockey community who was tragically killed in a car accident on June 4th, the camp aims to train, promote, and empower women in officiating throughout the district and beyond. 

Traditionally four days of classroom, off-ice testing and workouts, on-ice testing and training, game simulations, and team building activities, this year’s gathering included a new and powerful addition: 2021 Camp Directors Kendall Hanley, Jackie Spresser, and Alisha Hanrahan shared personal stories about working with and knowing Huntley-Park. “It’s important to us that you know who she was so you can uphold her values and continue her legacy both on and off the ice,” said Spresser.  NHL referee Ian Walsh made a classroom appearance to share video clips and joined the participants on the ice for an afternoon of power skating. The attendees received on-ice shadowing, video feedback on in-game timing and positioning, and scores for IIHF skating and off-ice testing.

Congratulations to all the participants on a successful camp!