Steve Cook – 2006 Inductee

Steve Cook was born in Portsmouth, United Kingdom and moved to Reading when he was three months old. He played for the Reading Boys as a senior in high school and was offered a minor league contract when he turned 18. The following year Reading were promoted out of the 3rd division and his contract was not renewed. He played in a Sunday combination league until his early 20′s, but was often more interested in the pub scene afterwards. He was a fullback or central defender.

Steve started officiating in 1975. As president of MSRA in 1988, he co-formed MISOA (with Todd Abraham) and one year later, with a lot of help from Jim Hirsch, MISOA was assigned the full non-conference schedule of the MIAC and one year later, both the conference and non-conference schedules. He was assigned to three NCAA Final 4′s from 1990 to 1993, and coordinated the first playoff series at St. Thomas in 1988 with one foot of snow on the field. The following year the St. John Johnnies hosted the regional final, the same year that Jacob Wetterling went missing.