Referees for Hire in Seaford, NY

One Small District, One Big County Park

Seaford is one of the smaller hamlets we cover by population, and unlike a split-district town, it isn't complicated to figure out which school system a Seaford address belongs to — Seaford Union Free School District runs the hamlet's four schools start to finish, kindergarten through twelfth grade, with no adjacent district carving off a corner. That part of booking here is simple.

What isn't simple is assuming every game with a Seaford address is a Seaford UFSD game. Cedar Creek Park, a 259-acre Nassau County park on Merrick Road at the hamlet's southern edge, has been part of the county park system since 1975 and includes three baseball-softball fields, two synthetic turf multipurpose fields for soccer, football, and lacrosse, one grass multipurpose field, three basketball courts, six tennis courts, and twelve handball and paddleball courts. Leagues and tournament organizers from outside Seaford — sometimes outside Nassau County entirely — pull a Leisure Pass permit and run games there. A booking that says "Cedar Creek Park" isn't automatically a request for the Seaford school roster; it could be a travel soccer showcase, a rec softball doubleheader, or a corporate flag football tournament with participants who've never set foot in the district.

Sports & Programs We Cover

Sport	Typical Season	Notes
Football	Fall	Seaford Vikings play Long Island Division IV; see our football referees guide
Basketball	Winter	School gyms and Town of Hempstead rec league play
Baseball / Softball	Spring & summer	School fields plus Cedar Creek Park's three diamonds
Soccer / Lacrosse / Flag Football	Fall & spring	Cedar Creek Park's two synthetic turf fields, permitted to outside leagues
Volleyball / Cross Country / Track	Fall & spring	School district competition

Why a Small District Doesn't Mean a Small Booking Job

It's tempting to assume a hamlet with roughly 15,000 residents needs less officiating infrastructure than Massapequa or Bellmore next door, and for pure school-district volume, that's true — Seaford UFSD's roughly 2,181 students across four schools is a smaller in-house pool of home games than a bigger neighboring district runs. But Cedar Creek Park changes the math. A single 259-acre facility with turf, grass, and dirt surfaces for soccer, football, lacrosse, and softball pulls tournament and permit traffic that has nothing to do with the size of the hamlet hosting it. We staff both sides of that gap: the steady, predictable rhythm of Seaford Vikings home games, and the lumpier, permit-driven schedule of weekend tournaments that show up on the county calendar with a few weeks' notice, sometimes less.

That combination is also why response time matters more here than the population number suggests. A rained-out Saturday tournament at Cedar Creek Park can mean six or eight games all trying to reschedule into the same open Sunday slot, competing with whatever the school district already has booked that weekend. We keep officials assigned to the South Shore corridor specifically so a Seaford request doesn't get stuck behind coverage committed somewhere else on the island.

Getting to Seaford

Seaford sits along the Babylon branch of the LIRR and just off the Wantagh State Parkway and Southern State Parkway, bordered by Massapequa to the east, Wantagh to the west, and Bellmore and North Bellmore to the north. Cedar Creek Park's entrance off Merrick Road, roughly half a mile east of the Wantagh Parkway's Exit 27 South off-ramp, is straightforward to reach from most of central and western Nassau, which is part of why it draws tournament traffic beyond the hamlet itself. We staff officials who already live in or work the South Shore corridor for Seaford requests rather than routing someone across the island against parkway traffic.

Certified Officials, Matched to the Level of Play

A school-district varsity football game, a Town of Hempstead rec basketball game, and a permitted travel soccer tournament at Cedar Creek Park all draw from different parts of our roster, even though all three might have a Seaford address. Every official carries the sport-specific certification for the level assigned — NFHS pathways and Section VIII registration for interscholastic games, USSF for soccer, IAABO for basketball — the same standard covered in our certification and background check guide. Tell us which type of game you're booking, along with the age group, so we don't send a scholastic-only official to a USSF-sanctioned tournament match or the reverse.

How to Book a Referee in Seaford

Nearby South Shore Coverage

Our Seaford roster also handles requests from the surrounding South Shore area:

How This Fits Into the Bigger Nassau Picture

Seaford is one piece of our full Nassau County referee coverage, which spans every town from Elmont to Oyster Bay. If your search brought you here because a Cedar Creek Park permit landed on your desk with a few weeks' notice, our guide on how far in advance to book a referee covers when tournament organizers should lock in officiating before a county permit slot fills up. And if the "referee" you're picturing is actually there to enforce basketball rules at a school gym, our basketball referee guide breaks down IAABO certification and crew sizing specific to that sport.

Frequently Asked Questions