Officials Clinic 1-6-2024

Clinics and Introduction

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
• 3rd man is the field judge
• Sat Feb 17th multiple team scrimmage in apex look at the PDF from Bob
  • Required to be at 3 scrimmages

• Rick or Bruce in Charlotte assign officials for tournaments.
• USA Lacrosse gives you the insurance

New Officials Introduction - 1/6/2024

1 - 1/7/24 Admin, Rules Changes for 2024, Rule 6 – Technical Fouls

2 - 1/14/24 Advanced Positioning, Transition Tips, Restarts

3 - 1/21/24 Dead Ball Officiating, Faceoffs, Communication

4 - 1/28/24 Targeting, You Make The Call Rule 5 Personal and Ejection Fouls

5 - 2/3/24 On-Field Clinic 1-3 Pm At Cardinal Gibbons (Practice Field)

6 - 2/4/23 Game Management, The Ramp, Mental Agility

7 - 2/11/24 Rule 7 – Penalty Enforcement; Rule 7.6 – Simultaneous Fouls

To Do

• Register Dragonfly
• Register US Lacrosse
• Purchase Gear
• Create a pocketmod with rules, hand signals, penalty description
• Get an arbiter account and setup blocks for boys game schedules

New Officials Introduction - 1/6/2024

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
• Make sure you have a coin quarter or larger

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 Positioning

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 serve, 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 penalty 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 ambiguities, 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. Defenseless 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 defenseless 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 unnecessaries roughness penalty, there is no faceoff
  • Unsportsmanlike Conduct - No foul language, 1, 2, 3, min non-releasable.
    • 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
• Unsportsmanlike conduct on the coach its 1 min, 2 unsportsmanlike 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
• If there is a technical foul and score, the technical foul is waived off. If its a personal and a goal, then the penalty is served.

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 technical, 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

New Officials

Pre Game

• Check the nets, if there are holes get them fixed
• Once you get an assignment, referee should be sending a text to the crew on the location, what time, where they would meet, what we are going to wear for the day. Respond to that.
• Don't go to the field, wait and meet in the parking lot
• Talk in the pre-game, how do you want to make calls when its an area
• General rule, personal foul get them if you see them, if technical maybe pass on it
• Make sure you have separate people doing game and penalty time
• Players lineup with left shoulder on the goal they will defend, quick talk
• Default is the referee starts on the far side, the umpire is on the coaches side. They switch at half-time

Possession

• A person has possession if they can carry, cradle, pass, or shoot

Shot

• The trail guy watches the shooter and not the ball
• If the goalie has the ball and puts his stick in the goal its not a goal, if it bounces out and rolls in, then its a goal

Out of Bounds

• Know the line colors, tell the players the boundary colors
• Shot out of bounds, is awarded to the guy that is closest where the ball goes out
• The stick is not a factor on who is closet to the ball, its only the body
• If the player runs out of bounds before the ball, he is not in the field of play
• Doesn't matter if someone touches the ball before the ball goes out of bounds
• A shot is a shot if its taken above GLE

Advancing the Ball

• Trail does the 20 seconds to clear - add the timer, refs don't need to count with their arms
• Lead guy does the 10 seconds to get it in the box, the officials time by arm
  • Once there is possession on the offensive side then the 10 seconds start
  • The ball just has to touch in the box to satisfy the 10 seconds
• Failure to advance is the penalty
• Official puts his hand up and says he's in
• If there is a whistle, there is always a fresh 20 or 10 seconds

Timeouts

• Coaches with procession can call timeouts at any point in time on the field
• Deadball either coach can call the timeout

Faceoff

• Place the ball on the midfield line, say "down, set" "Whistle"
• When we say "down" they both have to go down together, if one waits, its an illegal procedure
• Can't go down on a knee until the whistle blows
• Can't have a motorcycle grip, must do a standing neutral grip
• Stick must be lined up in the neutral zone, top of head must be at the ball stop
• Top and bottom hands have to be in the ground
• All tops of the body must be out of the neutral zone (where the heads are)
• Can't be touching the plastic of the stick
• Vary your cadence, have the whistle in your mouth so they can't time you
• Must play the ball, once they have a clamp they have one move to get it out immediately
• If the ball is in the back of the head, they have one chance to get the ball out, they can't bang it on the ground or use their other hand, one try one natural popup
• When they are in the scrum they can't be checked
• If you stick check fogo's, get both fogos
• Colors on the shaft, head and gloves can be the same color, the shaft must be different, think about an oreo cookie
• Fogo's can have as many illegal procedures as they want, college has penalties
• Once one of the 6 midfielders on the faceoff get the ball, call Possession and wind your arm up and down, partner should echo the possession.
• Trail official is always the faceoff official

Dead Ball Officiating

• Be aware of the field at all times
• far side official maintains wide view of the entire field
• closest official "shows stripes" with position near the midline, make sure players passing eachother, get in between them
• After the goal keep your eyes on the players, one team is happy one team is not
• Scorecard can always wait, hustle to where you need to go and then write it down

Watching the wings

• In a two man game - you have to decide which wing to watch
• watch the one where guys are stacked close together

When speaking with coaches

• Face the field and keep your eyes on the players
• Answer their questions in reason, but keep eyes on the field
• Tell the coach, I'll get back to you on that
• If coach questions a call, tell them let me find out and I'll get back to you
• Coaches will have comments, questions, and criticism. Ignore the comments, answer the questions, penalize the criticism.

Official Field Positions

• Officials stand at GLE, Restraining line, Midfield, Restraining Line, GLE
• Officials will move to each position going outside of the wing, depending on the speed of the game
• Trail guy follows the path of the ball, and stops at midline to account for offsides

3 Man positioning

• 3 man takes more discipline
• Single side, Lead and trail
• Single side goes all the way down the field and can go GLE to GLE in positions
• the faceoff man has a helper official, and then a far side wing guy
• if your the helper just be quiet, let the faceoff guy do it
• the lead guy takes the ball out of goal, sends it to the face off guy, and the box side wing guy does the 20 second time when the face off guy has his hand up with the ball
• You are saying you aren't ready with your hand up, point in the direction you are running when you are ready
• Lead always goes to the faceoff, rotate the other guys

Stick Checks

• Typically first time out and end of the quarters
• Coach can ask for one stick check once, if they get it right they can get another, if they get it wrong no harm
• A coach can ask again if they were wrong, they might get a delay of game penalty.
• Illegal sticks are 2 min locked penalty
• If they pull the string, its unsportsmanlike for 1 min and you can still check the stick
• If the get both 1 min and 2 min, they would have 3 min of penalty and the non-releasable goes first
• If the second stick check, they lose a timeout first if its legal, then delay of game

Clinic 1/7

Questions

• Does it matter what shirt types you order. https://zebrawear.com/mens-apparel/ has 1 inch shirts called the scooter, the dichiaro, the boonie, the harris etc
• How do we register for the clinics, or do we just show up?
• Do we take the test on US lacrosse or dragonfly? - Dragonfly you don't need US lacrosse
• US Lacrosse has an extra apprentice and advanced module do we need these, or are we learning these from the clinic? - No we don't need this
• Do we do the background check on dragonfly or us lacrosse or both? Do background check on dragonfly

General Information

• Get in front of the mirror and practice signals
• The referee makes contact with his crew
  • 1 inch stripes, weather looks bad, might wear this, etc
  • The referee makes contact with the person on abitutor. Will ask if there is anything special going on at the game?

Most Popular Fouls

Technical

Advantage or disadvantage

• Push - Will call every game, multiple times a game, with a push with posession "play on" but then don't let it go long. Look where the guy falls, if its right on his face its from behind
• Hold -
• Offsides - Happens almost every game. Count the offense first, then the defense. Sometimes you can count pairs, and then if there is a random guy, you know its offsides. Count twice, rather be late than wrong. Once a guy is offsides, they should continue to play, not a second flag. Good practice to communicate, that "I have 17 offsides"
• Illegal Procedure - Catch all. There are alot of things and new rules that go into the illegal procedure of the rules. If there is no line at the midfield, its an illegal procedure before the game, and the home team loses the faceoff. Most of the time you see it on the faceoffs.

Personal

Keeping kids safe. Level up and down based on the nature of the play. Stick to terms in the rule book, "in my judgement it was excessive and an avoidable circumstance"

• Slash - Any contact to the body that is violent or reckless or in the spirit of the game
• Crosscheck - Are you using the violent or is there a thrust
• Illegal Body Check - anything in violent in nature
• Unnecessary Roughness - anything that is violent in nature. Unnecessary roughness is always locked penalty.

Penalty Times

• 1 Min - Regular Garden Variety
• 2 Min - Excessive or intentional
• 3 Min - Excessive and intentional (possible ejection)

Other

• Head/Neck - Section 4 Rule 5 - player shall not hit in the head, or follow through head or neck. 1 Min penalty
• Crease Violation - If a defenseman pushes him into the crease without ball its interference.
• Defenseless Player - Big point of emphasis this year, can't get themselves ready for the hit

Game Management & Control

• Soft Skills, managing to coaches
• Risk Mitigation
• 98% of the game is game management and administration
• Statements do not require answers. "Coach do you have a question? I can respond to questions"
• Act professional in the parking lot, be careful with language
• Don't threaten the coaches
• "What did he call?" "I'm not sure, and I'll find out for you" - make sure you follow through with it.
• Biggest complaint from coaches is they don't work with coaches or address questions
• Use professional language, use language and terms that are in the rulebook
• Create Allies - "guys you know who the hot heads are on the team, work with me, handle them". "Keep the assistant coaches under control"
• You aren't friends with the coaches when the stripes are on. If you know the coach, call him "Coach"
• If you have addressed the coaches question, "Coach you asked I answered, we're moving on"

Mistakes

• Own the mistake, look in the rulebook to own the mistakes, it gives us tools. Inadvertent whistle
• I blew the call, we can talk about it more, or we do a quick restart
• If we have an inadvertent flag, look in the rule book as to what to do
• PACE - Performance After Critical Error - let it go and move on, talk about it after the game. Otherwise you will continue to make mistakes.
• Acknowledge the error, discuss with the crew, Explain to the coaches, 20 seconds to sub, restart

Seven C's

• Confident not Cocky, lose the ego
• Communication - Keep talking let's players and coaches know whats going on, as well as your partners
• Compassion - Absolutely coach, we'll be watching for late hits
• Consistency - call it the same both ways, set the tone with the first flag
• Conviction - I'm 100% certain, talk with confidence
• Courage - stay focused call what you need to call. Sell your calls

Software Tools and Scheduling

• Call a clinic leader to be walked through the websites
• You need to be there 30 min before game time
• Rick sets a standard 35 miles
• Most public schools pay on dragonfly, private goes to arbiter

Arbitersports.com

• This is the assigning platform
• Create an account and signup for Triangle Men's Lacrosse
• Blocks is where you put your availability. Add when you are not available.
  • Block means you are not available
• You only set blocks on arbiter - Rick copies to games to dragonfly
• Download the arbiter sports app for mobile
• Put a professional picture up there
• You accept or deny actions, you have 3 days to accept after that you are removed from the game
• If your not blocked, accept the assignment
• Goto self assign to get scrimmages

• To signup for scrummages, click the schedule

Dragonflymax.com

• register for the state, paid from, rules exam is on dragonfly
• Grade is automatically sent to Chapel Hill
• You have to take a concussion course every 2 years
• You want to see status 100% Green
• My Money - is where you get paid

Mentoring

• You will be paired up with veteran officials
• Clinic officials