LEVEL 1 UMPIRE AWARD

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LEVEL 1 UMPIRE AWARD
PRESENTATION TO CANDIDATE UMPIRES
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OUR UMPIRING STRUCTURE

• LEVEL ONE club/county
• LEVEL TWO county/region
• LEVEL THREE national programme

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PRESENTATION

• LOOK LIKE AN UMPIRE
• Be smart
• Use whistle tone
• Make your signals clear
• Dont be officious
• Dont be scared to smile

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EQUIPMENT

• Umpires equipment
• Players equipment
• GKs equipment

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THE PITCH

• Dimensions
• Lines markings
• Shooting circles
• Goals and flags

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PREPARATION

• PRE-MATCH CHAT
• - establishing consistency
• - work as a team
• PITCH INSPECTION
• - goals, nets, lines
• WARM-UP

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AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

• Shooting circles, side lines
• Play approaching
• Eye contact
• When to blow the whistle

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POSITIONING MOBILITY

• MOVING WITH PLAY ( reading the play)
• - forwards, backwards, sideways
• SET-PIECE POSITIONING
• - penalty corners
• - corners
• - strokes

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THE GAME RULES

• TEAMS
• - substitutions
• - GK on the pitch
• CAPTAINS
• - responsibilities
• Duration of the Game

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STARTING RE-STARTING THE GAME

• Centre pass
• Ball over the side-line
• Ball over the back-line
• - by an attacker, by a defender
• - intentionally, unintentionally

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SIGNALS

• Clear and held for long enough
• Confident
• As per the bookdont make up your own!

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THE BULLY

• When / why do you award a bully?
• Where is it taken?
• What distance the other players?
• One touch only not three!

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SCORING A GOAL

• Off an attacking players stick in the shooting
  circle
• Completely over the goal-line
• Goal awarded in a penalty stroke situation

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ACCIDENTS INJURY

• When to stop / not stop time
• Assessing an injury
• Treatment on the pitch
• The bleeding player
• Re-starting the game
• The injured umpirewhat to do!

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CONDUCT OF PLAY

• PLAYERS SHALL NOT
• - use of stick and playing equipment
• - use of body, hands, feet
• - the raised ball (the good, the bad and the
  ugly dangerous!)

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OBSTRUCTION

• Onus is on the tackler
• Consider
• - position
• - intention
• - timing
• Shielding the ball with the stick

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PLAYERS MAY NOT

• MANUFACTURE AN OFFENCE
• - examples?
• TIME WASTE
• - examples?

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GOALKEEPERS MAY

• Inside the circle
• Outside the circle
• Lying on the ball - obstructing

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ADVANTAGE

• A penalty shall be awarded ONLY when
• a player or team has been clearly
  disadvantaged by an opponents offence
• Why signal it who are you signalling
• it for?

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FREE HIT

• Awarded for an offence by an attacker
• in the opponents 23
• Awarded following any offence by any player
  between the two 23s
• Awarded for an unintentional offence by the
  defence outside their circle and
• within their 23

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PENALTY CORNER

• Intentional offence by a defender outside the
  circle but within the 23 metres area they are
  defending
• An offence by a defender in the circle which
  doesnt prevent a probable goal
• Intentionally playing ball over own back-line
• Intentional offence in the circle by a defender
  against an opponent who does not have possession
  of the ball or an opportunity to play the ball
• When the ball becomes lodged in a players
  clothing or equipment while in the circle they
  are defending

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PENALTY CORNER cont

• Managing the Penalty Corner
• Where are the players positioned?
• Where are you?
• Where is your colleague?
• First hit shot height restriction
• Dangerwhat is it?
• Ball beyond 5 metres of shooting circle

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PENALTY STROKE

• Awarded for
• Offence by a defender in the circle that prevents
  the probable scoring of a goal.
• Intentional offence in circle by a defender
  against an opponent who has possession of the
  ball or an opportunity to play the ball.
• For defenders persistently crossing over the
  back-line before permitted before the taking of a
  PC.

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PENALTY STROKE cont

• TAKING a Penalty Stroke
• - time stopped
• - position of players GK
• - position of umpires
• - after the whistle

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PENALTY STROKE cont

• ENDING a Penalty Stroke
• - goal scored or awarded
• - ball caught by GK
• - ball lodged in GKs equipment
• - ball passes outside of circle
• - ball comes to rest in circle
• - taker breaches a Rule

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PENALTY STROKE cont

• RE-STARTING after the stroke
• - goal ? centre pass
• - no goal ? a push or hit to defence at
  top of circle, opposite centre of
  goal-line

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PERSONAL PENALTIES

• Players including substitutes may
• be cautioned, warned or suspended
• Intentional offences must be punished
• Verbal abuse deal with it promptly
• Upgrading a penalty and reversing
• a decision

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USE OF CARDS

• What does each card represent?
• The general principles to apply
• Same colourdifferent offences
• Duration of suspension for minor offence versus
  duration for more
• physical or serious offences

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DEVELOPING YOURSELF

• Practice, practice, practice
• Watch other umpires
• Get someone to video you
• Talk with players and coaches
• Always be prepared to listen

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AND FINALLY

• Help raise the standard of the game
• Ensure every game is played in the
• right spirit
• Make sure you are suitably insured
• Work at your fitness
• Enjoy your umpiring!