Officials Clinic 1-6-2024

Casey Kelley is the teacher, goal is to get familiar enough to get out there.

• Lose the ego, talk with fellow official after the game, what did you see me do wrong?
• You are going to make mistakes, learn from them
• 2 man officiating - Referee is the head official, umpire is the secondary official

Uniform requirements

• 1 Inch stripes on the shirt
• Long and short sleave
• Black belt
• All black shorts and pants
• Black hat, with white piping
• Two flags
• Whistle or whistles, fox 40 whistle, finger whistle is best
• Carry two whistles
• Timer, 20 second timer or 100 seconds with a switch
• Tape Measure, if its on the belt it has to be all black, 6 feet is all you need, write on it so you don't have to remember the measurements
• Will need a scorecard, can use it for stick checks, carry another one, Carry a golf pencil, keep a rubber band and a clip if the tournament gives you paper. Can also use pen and paper, write down unsportsmanlike penalties, who got it, two unsportsmanlike you eject a kid
• Flag clips to keep the flag on the belt
• All black sneakers or cleats - 75% black is fine
• Undershirts and socks need to be all black, anything under the clothing needs to be all black
• Partners need to wear the same thing, so make sure you bring both shirts

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Terms

• Play-On - Only used on technical fouls that are lose ball
  • Hand in the air, and yell play-on, play-off when its over
• Flag Down
• Keep it In - last two minutes, team is up by 4 min or less, must keep in box, or can be called for stall warning

Official Positing

Lead and Trail

• Lead is always close to the goal, the trail is at the restraining line (aka box)
• Lead is on goal line extended

Face Off

• Trail is on the wing line - halfway between box and wing
• Lead is near the faceoff

On and Off

• The On is the official near the ball
• The off is further away
• The lead is responsible for a diagnol from box and back
• The trail is back to midline
• Lead - goal, endline
• Trail - Shooter (watches the shooter), far goal, over and back, trail shouldn't ball watch, watches the shooter or passer

After faceoff position

• Face off official, if the ball goes on his side, must get down to GLE
• Wing guy is the trail, and as top of the box
• Try to get out of the way
• Your left shoulder is the way you will be the lead official - "Lead Left"
• Take wide looping route, Faceoff official needs to book it down to GLE

If the faceoff goes to the other side of the faceoff official

• Lead is the wing guy
• Faceoff official is the trail

Out of bounds and settled restarts

• Deep restart - defense is clearing the ball, the new lead goes down inside the box line outside the wing
• Trail is at GLE
• If the ball is above GLE, the lead blows whistle, if behind the trail blows whistle
• The ready signal for the other official is you point the way the ball goes, hand up when not ready, or both hands up

Penalty relays

• Trail will report the penalty, report it to the bench
• C-Note = Color, Number, What foul (offense), Time the servce, Extended explanation.
• Talk to the table, figure out who is keeping penalty time, make eye contact with the person keeping time
• Tell the table that they give you a thumbs up when they are good to go on penality reporting
• Stop and make the signals big
• guys need to be in the box, except for the last 10 seconds
• Guys with penalty are back by the table area
• As the box side guy is relaying the penalty, the other guy sets up the field
• Talk to the goalie on defensive side, tell him where ball is and how long penalty is

Dead ball officiating

• Eyes on the players after the goal, official goes to goal and puts both hands up
• After the goal, is the time things can get out of control
• When the lead runs up the field, the trail should watch the players
• After a goal, keep track of the score and who scored, both officials keep score

Fouls

If Ejecting a Player

• Keep a record of who it was, and what the penalty, and what was the name
• If you get 5 min of personal fouls, you are disqualified from game. Technical fouls don't count
• If ejected, you have to report it, for high school games (send it to Rick). Send it to Rick first, don't write anything that is ambiquitous, short and to the point
• After emailing Rick, fill out the ejection form on dragonfly
• Give rick a heads up, as the coach will call rick
• Report an ejection calmly, don't yell right away that you are ejected

Personal Fouls

• Safety fouls, 1, 2 or 3 minutes - most are by judgement of the official
• If giving a 2 or 3 min penalty, officials should talk before calling it
  • Cross-Check - When you apply unequal force, or hands are far apart
  • Body Check - must be above the waist and below the neck. Defensless player is when head is down, if they don't have time to make a lacrosse move, its a defensive player.
    • If hits in the head, its an automatic 2 minute, if defensless and in head, could be a 3 min
  • Illegal Body Checks - below the neck, above the waist. If the player getting checked has more than feet on ground and gets checked its an illegal body check
  • Slash - must hit the stick or hands, if it hits anything else, its a slash
    • A slash can be a 2 min or 3 min penalty. Slash's to head start at 1 min
    • If they get close to the hand, talk to the guy to not do it, if he continues then throw the flag
    • Can give them one or two free whacks if they are close to the hands or stick
  • Trip - 1 min usually
  • Unnecessary Roughness - hit after the pass or shot, 1, 2 or 3 min
    • Deadball foul, if a goal then a uncessary roughness penalty, there is no faceoff
  • Unsportsmanlike Conduct - No foul language, 1, 2, 3, min nonreleasable.
    • If nobody else can hear the swear words don't throw it
  • Get the number and time of the player with the penalty
  • 2 unsportsmanlike and you are ejected
  • Unsportsmanlike on the coach its 1 min, 2 on a coach is an ejection

Coach foul

• A 30 second conduct foul if a coach is over complaining
• Unsportsman conduct on the coach its 1 min, 2 unsportsmanslike is ejection
• Coach must leave, then play can start

Slow Whistle

• Play continues until:
• Goodies
  • Goal
  • Out of bounds
  • Offense commits penalty
  • Defense gains possession
  • Injury in scrimmage area
  • End of Period/Game
  • Second Defensive foul (let it go if there is an immediate scoring penalty)

Fights

• If a fight breaks out, don't get in the middle of it
• If you start to see it brewing, get in the middle, if it starts back away and start taking down numbers
• The bench side official, tries to freeze the benches, anyone who leaves the bench its ejected
• If the coach leaves the bench to try and break it up, we are fine with that
• Once the players on the bench pass you, they are ejected no matter what

Near-Side Trail Relay

• Box side official reporting penalty come to the wing line dead center
• Trail will always report the penalty to the table, if trail is far side, come to the middle and report big and loud
• Lead is always getting the field ready to play
• If you get the wrong number of people on field, you count wrong, reset clock and penalty and start over
• Home color is white, guest is the other color

Technical Fouls

Always are going to be either change of possession or 30 second penalty.

• Conduct Foul - If the offense has the ball, and a penalty then its a 30 second man-down for defense
  • The team with the ball gets a penalty against them then its 30 seconds against the other team
• Crease Violation - turnover
  • If defense has the ball and offense goes into the crease, then its a rare 30 second
  • If defense has the ball and goes into the crease its a turnover
• Illegal Hold - around the neck, free hand on the back, impeding progress forward with your stick
• Illegal Offense Screen - moving pick or moving, stick must be in and feet no more than shoulder width apart, you have to be stationary, results in a turnover
• Illegal Procedure - the kitchen sink of calls, catch all for penalties.
• Interference - non ball team, impedes another player, let the player move, warn the defense
• Offside - the trail counts forward - if they have 7 forward then its offsides, try to count in pairs on offense and defense, as defense can't have 8+ forward
  • Good rule of thumb with subs, look to count 1 for 1, 1 guy runs off and 1 runs on
• Stall - must keep it in the box, 10 seconds to get in the box, and stays in, turnover
• Push - loose ball, its a turnover or keep possession. Push with possession is 30 second technical
  • Good rule of thumb, which way did the stumble
• Ward - offensive person uses their free hand to push the stick away
  • If offensive guy pushes off and hits, its a ward, if he uses helmet then its unnecessary roughness
• Withholding the ball from play - Stick check out of hands, and ball still in stick
• Delay of game - 5 yards off a restart, its a 30 second technical, the offending player serves the penalty

Play On Mechanics

• No flag and hand in the air, on loose ball technical fouls
• Quick advantage for the offended team, don't blow whistle
• Two play on loose ball technicals, result in a 30 second technical foul
• If the advantage player, gets the ball, and then gets checked, it can be signaled and drop the hand and call the technical foul, with a turnover

Reporting

• C-Note - Color, Number, Offense, Time, Explanation. Blue, number 20, Slashing, 1 min, optional explanation
• Play on - just say Offense and Whose ball "Push - White"

Stay outside the players

• Make sure you are outside the field of play and you can watch
• If your partner backs out you push in and vice versa