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Southern California soccer refs to boycott high school season

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Local soccer officials have voted to boycott the 2023-24 high school soccer season, two weeks before CIF-Southern Section matches are scheduled to kick off.

The vote of Unit I of the Southern California Soccer Officials Association, which serves schools from Goleta to Calabasas, in Oxnard on Wednesday night was unanimous.

Officials have been vocal about their unhappiness with their pay since the CIF-SS approved a new fee structure in January 2022 and have threatened a work stoppage for more than a year.

“We’re simply following our plan we stated on Day 1,” said Michael Harrison, who serves as secretary of Unit I. “On November 8, 2022, we said we would pursue all options … until there were no other options. We believe we’ve reached that point.”



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