December 2025 Newsletter Merry Christmas – Happy Hannukah – Happy Kwanzaa … The Best of the Yuletide Season! CARFU Referee Society Offseason 2025-26 The elves have been busy at work adding events to the CARFU RS Google Calendar. These are some dates you don’t want to miss! Use the link to view and copy events to your personal […]
September 2025 Newsletter Back Live on Facebook & Insta! Yes, Chicago Area Rugby Football Union Referee Society is back up and active on Facebook. It’s simple to get to: https://www.facebook.com/carfu.rs. Drop in to see what your colleagues are up to – all 19 followers! Be sure to like us to get that number up!! Instagram: […]
July 25, 2025 Fall Season Is Coming Soon! Table of Contents SOCIETY MEETING SUNDAY, AUGUST 24th There will be a meeting for ALL members to attend on Sunday, August 24th. (There will not be a virtual option.) This fall will provide more opportunities for you to challenge yourself with higher level matches, and we will need more […]
At this point, we have closed out the Spring 15s season and are into 7s! I wanted to take a moment to report back on the spring development initiatives, outline where we saw successes, open up to feedback, and start to think about the fall. I would first like to preface that the spring season […]
Recap from Tim Last Tuesday we held our society meeting at the home of the Chicago Riot. Thank you to Dan Matuz for securing us meeting space inside, and then providing his players for some hands on interaction out on the field after. We discussed several topics: We then moved out to the pitch and worked with […]
You heard right!! Spring season is around the corner. That means if you want games, you have to enter your availability. As a reminder, we’ve switched over to Arbiter as our assignments platform. Below is a quick refresher on how to update your schedule. *There are a couple of early matches already in the queue, […]
You may not have felt the brunt of it (because our Assignments officer was making a heroic effort) but WhosTheRef actually wasn’t that easy to use! CARFU Referee Society will be transitioning this Fall to a new assignments platform, Arbiter. This software will enable referees, team managers, and ref assignment officers to engage in a […]
When: Thursday, February 8, 2018, 7pm – 8:30pm Location: ARC – Athletic Recreation Center, 8201 S Janes Avenue, Woodridge, IL 60517 Agenda: 7:00pm – Introductions 7:10pm – Player Welfare Conversation (Head Injury Protocols), John L. Honcharuk, Athletico Physical Therapy 7:30pm- Officer Reports: Treasurer, RDO, REO, RRO, Assigner, Vice President, President 7:50pm – CARFU Elections* – President (2 year […]
Our next CARFU Referee Society meeting will be held Monday, February 13 starting at 7pm. We secured Players Indoors in Naperville for the meeting, as we were given a room, plus access to the field turf for an additional hour. We’ll have Officer elections, so if anyone is interested in a position, please email Shawn directly. Due for election […]
Referee invoices for Fall 2016 matches have been sent to all clubs and payment is due by December 17, 2016. If a club submits payment after December 17, a late fee will be imposed. NOTE: it is a club’s responsibility to notify CARFU-RS if their billing information has changed to ensure the club receives their […]