I encourage all of us to pay close attention to these kinds of articles.  We need to educate ourselves better to enable us in monitoring situations that will happen if you are in this business long enough!

Concussions extra dangerous to teen brains

    

The NFHS baseball and softball rules clinics have been rescheduled for Thursday February 11 at AB Tech Simpson Administration Building; baseball at 6:30 PM and softball at 8:00 PM.

    

Tonight's scheduled rules clinics at AB Tech Simpson Administration Building have been postponed.  A makeup date will be determined and announced later this week.

    

The coming season training schedules are now available at wncoa.org/sports.


Just thought you might like to know!

    

WNCOA football official Chip Etier and a Connecticut official have started a new blog primarily for football officials.  Check it out at:

Zebratales

    

Go to WNCOA.org for more information.

    

There is a new section on our website with information pertaining to specific conference rules, especially middle school conferences.  We will continue to work at getting these rules and regulations published to assist us in consistently administering games properly.

Go to the "Conference Policies" section on the "About Us" page at wncoa.org.

Just thought you might like to know!

    

The football examination examination opened at 12:01 am Tuesday morning, and will close at Noon on Saturday.  You may log in and take the exam at any time during the week.  Remember, you are only allowed one (1) opportunity to take the exam, so once you begin, you must finish the exam at the same time.  There will be five (5) pauses allowed for breaks during the test, but the time of these breaks are limited, so use them wisely. 

The exam website is exams.nfhs.org.  Much more detailed instructions regarding setting up a profile, logging in, and taking the exam is listed on the testing page.  To get to these instructions, please click on the link that says:  Exam Site Instructions.  These are very detailed and will answer any question you might have about creating a profile or logging in to take the exam.  Be sure to use your NCHSAA user id (last name plus last four (4) digits of SSN unless you have changed it) when creating your profile when it asks for state id, this is vitally important to make sure you get credit for your exam score.  Failure to do so will result in your score not being recorded and loss of eligibility to officiate this year.  As a reminder, you must make a 65 or higher to remain eligible to officiate this year.

 

Make certain you have access to the test site.  This web site is not maintained by WNCOA or NCHSAA, so we cannot help you.  If you have problems you must contact the tech support email/telephone number listed on the site. 

Please make certain you have access.  For those persons who will take the test Friday night or Saturday morning, THERE WILL BE NO TECH SUPPORT DURING THAT TIME FROM THE NATIONAL OFFICE.

    

Football Officials:

The State Rules Clinic Attendance Cards will be completed by this afternoon.  When checking your profile, make sure we gave you proper credit.  If not, please call us now…if you wait until later in the season to contest this, we will not be able to check the Attendance Cards and validate this for you.

NEW TEACHING TOOL – On the www.nfhs.org web site, Football Officials Education program is complete.  Go to the web site, click on EDUCATION, and then click on OFFICIALS EDUCATION.  Football video clips are there for your review and interpretations.  Good stuff!

The interpretations from the NFHS that are on the Football area of the www.nfhs.org web site include one that came up in one of the recent State Rules Clinics.  It is as follows:

A1 is carrying the football when B1 grabs him by the inside back or side collar of the shoulder pads or jersey.  A1 then: (a) fumbles the football and is subsequently brought to the ground by B1.  RULING—The official must judge whether or not a personal foul has occurred, but if called, it cannot be a horse-collar tackle (judgment can always allow a personal foul penalty to be called).  COMMENT—B1’s contact on A1 meets part of the definitions of a horse-collar tackle in that he grabbed the inside back or side collar of the shoulder pads or jersey.  However, when the runner (A1) fumbled the football, he was no longer a runner (not in possession of a live ball) and thus does not meet the definition of a horse-collar foul.

This will be addressed in next year’s rules session and will in all likelihood be changed, but for now, this is the national interpretation we will go with.

I will be sending out testing instructions on Monday regarding the upcoming national exam August 25-29.  Thanks.

Mark

    

Soccer & Volleyball Officials,

Just a reminder that your annual rules test is scheduled to be completed online beginning 8 AM on Monday, August 17 and concluding 11:59 PM on Friday, August 21.

The site is exams.nfhs.org (remember, this is not the NCHSAA online registration site). Your password and login are what you created with that site. If you cannot remember this information, there is a tech support contact to the NFHS office…we cannot help you with this as it is not our web site domain.

Your State ID is last name + last 4 digits of SSN.

If you have not created your account on the exams.nfhs.org web site, I encourage you to do this in advance. Please make appropriate plans to take the exam. There is not an emergency exam, so this 5-day window is your only opportunity to complete this annual requirement.

Thanks.

Mark Dreibelbis
Supervisor of Officials