Bill Boevers began his soccer career with Union Soccer Club in the Tulsa metropolitan area in the 1970’s. During his nearly thirty years of volunteering at the club, Boevers held all the major club offices, coached, officiated, and maintained the club’s soccer complex. He loved coaching under-10 boys teams and continued doing so long after his own children grew older. So great was his influence on the club, that shortly after his death the soccer complex was named Bill Boevers Fields in his honor. In addition, a trophy bearing Boever’s name is presented each year to the champion under-10 boys’ team who wins the OSA state recreational championship.

Russell Staurovsky began his long commitment to soccer in Oklahoma when he first registered as a referee in 1974. Working with the East Tulsa Soccer Club in Tulsa, Russell advanced to a State Referee (the highest ranking referee grade a state can offer) and became a mainstay at numerous tournaments across the state. He was the first Oklahoma referee to officiate a United States Youth Soccer Association national championship match. He also helped organize the officials when the colleges and high schools began offering soccer as varsity programs in the early 1980’s. As an assessor he mentored many referees on how to improve their officiating. He had assessed referees at the OSA state finals just months before his death.

Sharon O’Connor began playing and coaching soccer while living in Hawaii and brought her love for the game to Oklahoma when she and her husband were transferred to Tinker AFB in the 1970’s. Coaching in the Del City area and playing on a men’s team because no women’s teams were available, Sharon dedicated herself to learning as much about the game as possible. Eventually she attained United States Soccer Federation’s highest coaching license, the “A” badge and become Oklahoma’s first Director of Coaching and Player Development, a job she held for ten years. During her tenure she created licensing programs and coaching courses that reached all areas of the state and began a coaching corps of higher level coaches within the state. Sharon also was instrumental in having USSF’s national coaching schools utilize the University of Oklahoma for their coaching schools for eight years. 

The inductees were honored with plaques bearing their photos and a short biographical sketch at the OSA Workshop in Oklahoma City on January 25, 2003. A large plaque was placed in the Tulsa OSA office and a smaller version of the plaque will be given to family members.