GTOA Awards & Hall of Fame

Larry Caroon Award The Larry Caroon Award is the most distinguished award presented by the GTOA. Larry made a tremendous impact on the GTOA as a football official for twelve years. He passed away in 1990 at the age of 46. The GTOA proudly honors his memory every year by presenting this prestigious award.			Football Newcomer Award This award is presented to an official within the first three (3) years of their football officiating career with the GTOA. The development crew monitors all of the rookie officials' progress throughout these first years and determines who among them shows outstanding effort and ability.
PAST RECIPIENTS:			PAST RECIPIENTS:
Year	Recipient		Year	Recipient
1990	Hal Dietz		1991	Joey Newsom
1991	Kemp Fox		1992	Brent McKee
1991	Johnnie Cherlanc		1993	Steve Williams
1992	Don Hammock		1994	Rodney Meyer
1993	Art Kerr		1995	Steve Ford
1994	Miles Key		1996	Chuck Hinton
1995	John Reynolds		1997	Kenneth Stabler
1996			1998	Chris Raleigh
1997			1999	Scott Johnson
1998	Don Thomas		2000	Todd Smith
1999	Steve DeVivo		2001	Barry Crow
2000	Bill Shepherd		2002	Mark Haggard
2001	Erik Herring		2003	David Semkoff
2002	Randy Jeffers		2004	Merl Applegate
2003	Charlie Payne		2005	Todd Ragsdale
2004	Steve Emmons		2006	Barry Stearns
2005	Carroll Brooks		2007	Clay Martin
2006	Dave Thomas		2008	Eddie Puckett
2007	Harold Alspaugh
2008	David Webbert

After a long and distinguished career, many of our officials have been inducted into the Hall of Fame. It not only takes having the skills to be an official to get here, but it requires, effort, faith, heart, determination, ability and contribution. Many of the officials listed below have touched our officiating lives at some point and have provided positive direction and support in an effort to make us all better officials.

If you would like to nominate an official for the Hall of Fame, there are are two applications. The OSSAA State Hall of Fame application provides for a nomination to only the State Hall of Fame and the GTOA Hall of Fame application provides for a nomination to just the GTOA Hall of Fame. Please be aware that these two nominations are separate, one does not nominate an official for the other. If you would like to nominate an official for both Hall of Fame awards, you must complete both forms, or you may complete the form for respective Hall of Fame nomination that you prefer.