Puget Sound Region 2013/2014 Team Officials Clinic For those new to USAV Officiating

Clinic Agenda Welcome (5 minutes) Reffing as competitive advantage ( 5 minutes) Definition of a well played and well officiated match (5 minutes) Lines person skills (5 minutes) Scorer skills (25 minutes) R2 skills (15 minutes) Sc, ASc and R2 team exercise (30 minutes) dismiss

Reffing as competitive advantage You and your team gain a competitive advantage by: 1.Knowing the rules of the game 2.Being a good team when you officiate. This helps be a good team when you play. 3.Having players work in reffing positions that help their game skills Libero being linesperson.

What is a well played and well officiated match? There are 3 principles, in order of importance, they are: Safe Fair Play Moves Along

Safe Physical safety is the state when the court is free of hazards at the start of, and during play Don’t begin play, or if started, stop play, when a hazard comes onto the court –person comes on court, the court gets wet, a ball on the court presents risk, etc Stop play when a player has stopped playing due to a potential injury. This allows aid to be given quickly if needed.

Safe Emotional safety is the state when all participants behave respectfully towards each other. –Use sound judgment in determining the difference between spontaneous human reactions and conscious acts of misconduct. –OK for participants and parents to respectfully disagree with a call. –OK for the captain/coach to respectfully question why something was or wasn’t called. –Not OK when the remarks are persistent, overly dramatic, insults a person’s ability/effort/attributes, etc When this line is crossed, apply sanctions.

Fair Rules are applied consistently. The officials strive to know and apply all the rules. The officiating crew sets and maintains the match tempo. When there is a question about the rules, use the rule book. If there is still doubt, bring in the Day Official.

Play Moves Along All TO’s and between set breaks are timed. –TO’s are 30 seconds –3 minutes between sets, whistle to get on the court at 2 minutes and 30 seconds Substitutions and line up checks are handled quickly. Questions by the captain, and when allowed by rule, the coach, are handled quickly. Other match interruptions, like ‘ball on court’, potentially injured player are handled quickly.

What are the three principles, in order of importance?

New rules and techniques Screening –The new rule changes the is that a screen is committed if the serving team prevents their opponents from seeing the server AND the flight of the ball. It used to be one or the other was all that was needed. Misconduct and its Sanctions –The referees may choose to give two separate verbal warnings to the same player for two separate incidences of minor misconduct. –A yellow card is now like in high school/college, a documented warning. It is given to an individual and counts as the only yellow for the team, FOR THE MATCH. A second act of similar conduct would cause a red card to be given to the team, not a person. –Verbal warnings are still a possibility, even after a Yellow Card, if the misconduct is very minor in nature.

New rules and techniques Team Composition (clarification only) –Allows specific competitions to determine if modifying the roster size limitation makes sense for the competition. An example would be for PVL competition where roster sizes might be limited to 15 players rather than 12. Assistant Coach (clarification only) –Allows both the Head Coach and ONE Assistant Coach to be standing at all times before and during the match. Illegal Player on Court (or out of position on court) –Requires determining when the team first played with an illegal player,or was first out of position, or had a wrong server and removes all their points back to that moment in the set. Centerline Penetration –Allows for complete penetration into the other side of the court with the foot or feet (or any other body part) provided that some part of the body remains either in contact with or directly above the center line, and there is no interference with opponents. The penetration must also not present a safety hazard to the opponents.

New rules and techniques The Libero –The coach (or game captain) can declare a Libero unable to play for any reason and at any time during the match. The team has the right to re- designate a new Libero to replace the Libero who has been declared unable to play. The replaced Libero may not play again in that match. –If a team starts with two, they must stay with the same two for the entire match. If a team starts with one, they may change from set to set, including not using a Libero for any set if they so desire. If no Libero is designated to start the match, the team may elect to change and use a maximum of one Libero per set for any subsequent sets. –If the officials catch an illegal replacement before the start of the next rally, the referees should whistle to prevent the next rally from starting, correct the illegal replacement, and issue the appropriate Delay Sanction (warning or penalty). –If the officials do not catch the illegal replacement before the next serve, this essentially means there is an illegal player on the court and the referees follow the procedure for correcting the illegal replacement exactly as they would an illegal substitution, losing all points while that Libero was on the court.

Position of Officials BENCH SCORER TABLE BENCH LP LP R1 R2 Sc, ASc, Flip

Lines person skills Key duties are SPLAT Service (solo) Pancake (shared) Lines (solo) Antenna (shared) Touch (shared)

Lines Person Exercise Stand up - When the clinician calls out a situation, give the correct hand signal(s) –Correctly –Quickly –Held until acknowledged by R1

Three principles review Which of the principles does the lines person affect? Give an example.

Scorer Review We will quickly review –Heading information –Recording lineups –Check mark at serve contact at the beginning of each new term of service What to do when a libero serves What to do when there is a wrong server –Running score and exit score –Subs –Time outs –Deciding set differences Double enter line-up for team starting on left, also double record subs, TO’s. –Closing information

Scorer Review We will not cover this season –Score at time of sub –Sanctions

Crimson Vs Gray Event is held at Seattle University on Court 3 It is scheduled for today at 2 pm It is a girls U14 match, match C The first referee (R1) is Al Right The second referee (R2) is Nevah Wrong You are the scorer and your team is helping.

Libero Tracking

Scorer duties and libero tracker duties Both record starting lineups, in service order. Both record libero numbers Both record substitutions If libero serves, both track which spot in the service order it occurs

Practice game Animals and Beasts, girls U13 teams, are playing at Seattle U. today at 2 pm. It’s match 4 on Court 2. The R1 is your coach, the R2 is your clinician. You are Scorer, your team is helping. The Animals win the coin toss, and elect to receive. The Beasts choose the left side of the court.

Set begins R1 beckons for serve, at 2:06 pm, to start the set, #12, of Beasts, on left, is serving Beasts #12 contacts ball for service Beasts (on left) win point. Beasts win another point. Animals (on right) win the next rally. R1 beckons #16, of Animals to serve She contacts the ball Beasts win the rally

Set continues-1 Beasts #8 subs out, #16 goes in R1 beckons, and Beasts #16 contacts ball for service Beasts win point. Beasts win another point. Animals (on right) call time out. After time out ends, Beasts win another point. Animals win the next rally. Animals Libero #3 replaces #1, and goes to service area R1 beckons #3, of Animals to serve, #3 contacts the ball. Beasts win the rally.

Set continues-2 Beasts #2 is in service spot, R1 beckons, and Beasts #2 contacts ball for service R1 beckons, and Animals #15 contacts ball for service. Animals win next point. Animals win another point. Beasts (on left) call time out. After time out ends, Beasts win the rally. Beasts sub #3 out, #9 in – Animals sub out #2, #10 in. R1 beckons #2, of Beasts, to serve #2 contacts the ball, and Beasts win the rally. #2 serves for 3 more points, and Animals call time out

Set continues-3 After the time out, #2 Beasts serves, Animals win the rally R1 beckons, and Animals #7 contacts ball for service Animals #7 serves for 2 more points. Beasts sub #9 out, #11 in Animals #7 serves for another point. Beasts win next rally. Beasts libero #19 replaces #11 R1 beckons #19, of Beasts, to serve. She contacts the ball Animals win the rally. R1 beckons, and Animals #4c contacts ball for service Beasts win the rally

Set continues-4 R1 beckons, and Beasts #7 contacts ball for service Animals win the rally. Beasts sub #11 out, #3 in – Animals sub out #10, #2 in. R1 beckons #2, of Animals, to serve, #2 contacts the ball Beasts win the rally. R1 beckons, and Beasts #12c contacts ball for service Beasts #12c serves 5 straight points Animals sub #7 out, #12 in. Beasts #12c serves the set out. Set finishes at 2:32 pm.

Deciding set actions What are the differences for a deciding set?

Three principles review Which of the principles does the score keeper affect? Give an example for each.

R2 duties The R2’s prime roles, supporting all three principles, are: Check lineups to start match –OK’s libero to enter Call faults –center line faults, net faults, ball touching antenna or touching anything off the court, including net outside antenna. Helps R1 with touches and ball hitting floor (pancakes) Manage the benches –Calls TO’s, manages substitutions, do line-up checks when asked

Center line exercise Take the right action, based on the pictures that follow

Time out management TO’s 30 seconds in length After checking with scorer, signal number of TO’s taken to R1 Check to see if teams are moving toward court –If not move toward them, blowing your whistle Practice

Time Out Practice Beasts coach calls time out Time out ends!! A few plays later Animals coach calls time out Time out ends!!

R2 substitution exercise Divide into groups of 6. Each R2 do at least two subs. Rotate though each role –Player coming in on left –Player leaving on left –Player coming in on right –Player leaving on right –R2 –Sc

Exercise Script Divide into groups of six The drill starts with the game 2 scoresheet from the scorer exercise. All players starting on the court are considered player #11, subbing player is #12. Player #12 subs in for #11 Libero replaces #12 Player #12 replaces the libero, player #11 subs back in for #12. Rotate roles and repeat script. Rotation is #11 rotates to #12, #12 to libero, libero to R2, R2 to Sc, Sc to ASc, ASc to #11 The object of the drill is to make accurate and quick actions, with good communication to all participants.

Three Principles Review Which of the principles does the R2 affect? Give an example for each.

R1 duties R1’s call the offensive side of the court. –Serving side, hitting side They make the final call, WITH INPUT, from the rest of their team. R1’s use all three principles to officiate the match

R1 Success communication + teamwork + tempo management = Safe, fair and moving along

Tempo Management Starts from coin toss –Conduct coin toss for next match THEN talk with your team if you just played Get lineups in before end of warm up Time TO’s and set intervals Set and maintain even rhythm between serves, after subs, etc

Conclusion Any questions? Reminder to take the Junior R2 quiz – open book, to complete your certification Thank you!!!!