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

    

The NFHS recently approved a rule change to move the Softball pitching distance to 43 feet.  This is mandatory for the 2010-11 season and optional for 2009-10 by State Association adoption.  North Carolina has approved this change for all schools for the 2009-10 year.

    

WNCOA 2009-2010 registration for all sports is now open.  Go to www.wncoa.org and click on the "WNCOA Registration" link.

Just thought you might like to know!

    

The following crew will represent our association in the high school state championships this Saturday on the campus of North Carolina State University in Raleigh.

Congratulations to:

Hank Komodowski
Bijan Azamghavami
Chuck Schilling



                             

    

    

Go to wncoa.org and click on NFHS Exams.  This is a new testing website, so you will need to create an account on this website if you did not take a test for another sport on the site this year.  It says pretty explicitly on the page CREATE ACCOUNT, so go there and fill out the necessary information. 

Your state license/ID number is your last name + last four digits of their SSN (allen1234).  If you have further problems logging in after these steps, go to the "forgot password" link under the log in entry space.  Enter your email, and the NFHS will send your username and password.

If all else fails, go to the CONTACT NFHS link on the bottom of the page; you can send an email with further questions. Since NCHSAA or WNCOA did not create this site, we do not have the ability to change passwords, usernames, etc., only the NFHS has the ability to do these changes.

Do not contact the NCHSAA or me about taking a paper exam; they are not given anymore.  You must find a computer with internet access to take the exam.  If you do not take the exam, or make under a 65, you are ineligible to officiate public high school games for the remainder of this year.

    

We will discuss this more at Monday night's meeting, but following are the details for this year's exams:

The NFHS/NCHSAA test begins on Monday, March 23rd at 8am and ends on Friday, March 27th at 11:59pm.  The exam site for this year has changed from where you took the exam last year.  The exam site this year is exams.nfhs.org.  Make sure you DO NOT put www in front of the link or it will not work.  Once you get onto this site, you will need to register for a new profile to take the exam as this site is different from last year.  The more specific instructions are listed below.

The examination will be similar in content to previous exams in the past, with true/false format, and a two (2) hour time limit.  There will be 100 questions in which to answer.  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.  

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.  If you make under a 65, you are INELIGIBLE to officiate high school ball this year.

    

Most of the middle schools we work have a two hour time limit, but not all do.  Officials, be sure to check this out during the pregame conference (or before).  If you work a middle school game that has no time limit, you will be paid a JV game fee.

For all school personnel:  there is a link to a printable copy of the games fee structure on the "About Us" page of the WNCOA website.