Officials Clinic 1-6-2024
From Lacrosse Plan Drills
Casey 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
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
Online stores are Zebra wear, honights, umptire, gearrep.com
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)