Puget Sound Region 2015/2016 Team Officials Clinic For those who have previously done USAV Officiating

Clinic Agenda Welcome Reffing as competitive advantage review (5 min.) What a well played and well officiated match is (5 min.) 2015/2016 Rule and technique changes (15 min.) Lines person skills review (5 minutes) Scorer skills review (15 min.) –Recording sanctions Review R2 skills (15 min.) –Cover back row and helping R1 R1 skills (30 min.) dismiss

Reffing as competitive advantage Does being good at the rules and officiating give your team an advantage – why or why not? Knowing the rules of the game Being a good team when you officiate. This helps be a good team when you play. Having players work in reffing positions that help their game skills, i.e. Libero being linesperson.

What is a well played and well officiated match? There are 3 principles. In order of importance, what are they? Safe – physical and emotional Fair Play Moves Along

Examples of each attribute For each attribute, describe one way in which the officials can make that happen: Physical safety Don’t begin play, or if started, stop play, when a hazard comes onto the court Stop play when a player has stopped playing due to a potential injury. Emotional safety Sanction participants if they are disrespectful Verbally warn players to not talk under net to opponents Fair Consistently apply rules. Work to know and apply all the rules. Set and maintains the match tempo. 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.

Rule changes Contact with the net by a player between the antennae, during the action of playing the ball, is a fault. The action of playing the ball includes (among others) take-off, hit (or attempt) and landing. If the disagreement with the referees’ explanation involves the last point of the set/match, the official protest must be recorded within the first 60 seconds after the set/match. If an official, media equipment or personnel or spectator interferes with a player’s legal attempt to play the ball over the playing area, a playover shall be directed. The captain/coach no longer signs the score sheet after the match A Libero may be team captain, game captain or both. There is a new way of recording captain/alternate captain. “T” replaces hourglass for unused points.

Lines Person Exercise Stand up - When the clinician calls out a situation, give the correct hand signal(s) for each letter in SPLAT –Correctly –Quickly –Held briefly

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

Scorer challenge How is a 2 pm start time for a match recorded? Show actions to record a yellow card on player #7 of the Animals Show actions to record a verbal warning to Beasts coach Show actions needed when R1 holds yellow card against their wrist on Beasts side of the court At what sub total number do you notify the R2, so they can tell the coach? Show actions when Animals libero #3 replaces #4, and is named floor captain

R2 basic duties 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 Ask R1 for sanctions, if needed

R2 focus areas Overlap/out of rotation –BR setter in front too soon –BR setter overlap LB or RB, while in CB Back row/illegal attack –BR setter –Set to back row player, touches 3 meter line –Libero set in front of 3 meter line, or hit above net height while in back row Helping the R1 –Ball down –Lift, Two hits, Four hits –Touch

R2 review Show all actions when the ball hits the antenna on your side of the net Show all actions on how to manage a sub showing up on your left –Same for them coming at the same time on your right and left Show actions if team on your right is still in the huddle, after the whistle has blown to end a time out. –And then what? Show all actions needed when a player commits a net fault. Show all actions needed when a player commits a center line fault.

R2 exercise Demonstrate the right officiating action, for each of the pictures that follow

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

Communication Voice –Use to clarify situation, gather information and to complement whistle Whistle –Situational – Firm when needed to stop play, softer when play is obviously over Hand Signals –First line of communication on what was called Cards –When none of the above worked to keep things on track

Team work Know your team mates –Pre-match talk Call the offensive side of the court. –Serving side, attacking side Make the final call, WITH INPUT, from the rest of your team.

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

Seeing the game Warm up prior to the match –Take in the big picture as the ball moves toward a player –Narrow the focus and see only the ball contact –Expand the focus as the ball moves away –See the possibilities, see exactly what happened, repeat

Ball Handling Tight –Will call some legal plays as faults Loose –Will let play continue on some faults Toward loose is better

R1 Communication exercise Show the hand signal(s) for –Hitter on left makes third contact, hits ball into net, rebounds back into them –Ball touched by blocker on right, lands just inside endline –Back row player on right, inside 3 meter line, attacks ball toward other court, ball is above the net at contact –Player on left touches top of net tape –Team on right takes too long to get back on court after TO

Conclusion Any questions? Have you signed the roster??? Thank you!!!!