ADULT OFFICIALS | INDOOR
Below you will find the links necessary to become a USAV Indoor Official in the Florida Region.
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CONTACTS Darin Clark, Official's Chair E-Mail: darinc@tifav.com Tel: (321) 698-9130 Sue Wainio, Official's Coordinator E-Mail: sue@FloridaVolleyball.org Tel: (941) 744-6747 NOTE: Please do NOT text Sue with region issues except "day of" emergencies. Use email. Vickie Hinkle, Scorer Representative E-Mail: Victoria@FloridaVolleyball.org Tel. (425) 772-0949 |
big south national qualifier - officials needed!
2021 Big South National Qualifier
Dear Fellow Officials,
The 2021 Big South National Qualifier will be held on April 2nd, 3rd, and 4th in the Georgia World Congress Center (GWCC). The GWCC is located in downtown Atlanta and is convenient to Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and the MARTA train lines.
We will be hosting teams from all over the country and will have competition in all girls divisions, including 14-18 Open and 12-18 Club. Ultimately, we will have approximately 1,600 teams playing on around 205 courts!!!
This year we will need about 300 referees with most referees getting around 20 matches over the three day event.
In addition to the above, referees who commit to working an entire day without any conflicts will receive a per diem of $25 per day. This per diem will be added to the official’s check at the conclusion of the event.
In order to work the event, you must have a completed background check through USA Volleyball, completed the online Safesport training, and be a member in good standing with your USAV region.
We will provide a shared hotel room for out-of-town officials who commit to working the entire event. If you have a roommate preference, please let me know when you submit your referee reservation form. I will try to accommodate as many requests as possible.
In trying to maintain safe social distancing as much as possible, there will NOT be a mandatory Officials’ meeting held on Thursday at the Congress Center. Instead, we will have a couple of zoom meetings the week of the event to share any tournament protocols or other related information. If you are interested in officiating at this great event, please go to the Sportwrench website at www.sportwrench.com and fill out the registration form.
When you sign up, you will be notified by e-mail of your acceptance within 72 hours of submitting your reservation. If you have already submitted your form, you should have already been notified of your acceptance. If not, please e-mail me ASAP.
This is always one of the best tournaments of the year and Atlanta is a great city to visit, so I invite you to come down for some sunshine and good old fashioned southern hospitality! If you have any questions or need any additional information, feel free to drop me a line. I hope to see you there!
Paul Albright , Chief Executive Official
Cell: (770) 367-7792
E-mail: albright09@comcast.net
Dear Fellow Officials,
The 2021 Big South National Qualifier will be held on April 2nd, 3rd, and 4th in the Georgia World Congress Center (GWCC). The GWCC is located in downtown Atlanta and is convenient to Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and the MARTA train lines.
We will be hosting teams from all over the country and will have competition in all girls divisions, including 14-18 Open and 12-18 Club. Ultimately, we will have approximately 1,600 teams playing on around 205 courts!!!
This year we will need about 300 referees with most referees getting around 20 matches over the three day event.
- National Referees will be paid $36 per match.
- Junior National Referees will be paid $34 per match.
- Regional Referees will be paid $32 per match.
- Provisional Referees will be paid $30 per match.
In addition to the above, referees who commit to working an entire day without any conflicts will receive a per diem of $25 per day. This per diem will be added to the official’s check at the conclusion of the event.
In order to work the event, you must have a completed background check through USA Volleyball, completed the online Safesport training, and be a member in good standing with your USAV region.
We will provide a shared hotel room for out-of-town officials who commit to working the entire event. If you have a roommate preference, please let me know when you submit your referee reservation form. I will try to accommodate as many requests as possible.
In trying to maintain safe social distancing as much as possible, there will NOT be a mandatory Officials’ meeting held on Thursday at the Congress Center. Instead, we will have a couple of zoom meetings the week of the event to share any tournament protocols or other related information. If you are interested in officiating at this great event, please go to the Sportwrench website at www.sportwrench.com and fill out the registration form.
When you sign up, you will be notified by e-mail of your acceptance within 72 hours of submitting your reservation. If you have already submitted your form, you should have already been notified of your acceptance. If not, please e-mail me ASAP.
This is always one of the best tournaments of the year and Atlanta is a great city to visit, so I invite you to come down for some sunshine and good old fashioned southern hospitality! If you have any questions or need any additional information, feel free to drop me a line. I hope to see you there!
Paul Albright , Chief Executive Official
Cell: (770) 367-7792
E-mail: albright09@comcast.net
2020-2021 new season update
Monday Update - 11/30/2020
Here is information on the online training process for Adult Officials
Adult Referees
For those who are recertifying Provisional or Regional officials, click here for more instructions.
For those who are adult candidates to become an official click here for more instructions.
For Regional referees looking to upgrade to Jr National now or in the future we will have a new procedure that will be announced in mid-December.
Scoring Certification Training
Monday Update - 11/23/2020 - Check back here each week for updates on our new systems and processes for the coming season!
Hello All!
Most of the courses are now available in your Content Library. If you want to get started as a new referee candidate, you have what you need, so you can start working on your training. All the info you need is either listed below or on the links above.
If you were an official in the NOVA database last year, you should have received a Welcome email from ZebraWeb last week. If you didn´t see it, check your spam folder. 225 of you have not yet logged in to ZebraWeb! We need you to get this done ASAP. If you are not going to officiate this season, send an email to sue@floridavolleyball.org to be removed from the list.
Assignments are going out, make sure your availability is up to date. ZebraWeb's default is AVAILABLE. So if you don't want to work any given weekend, you need to go in BLOCK those dates.
Monday Update - 11/16/2020 - Check back here each week for updates on our new systems and processes for the coming season!
Hello All!
That email we've been waiting for from ZebraWeb is due out later today. This is the new assigning system that replaces NOVA. Follow the instructions in the email to get your account set up. If you are an existing ZEBRAWEB user, you will toggle between associations, but you will just have one account. Make sure all of your contact info is correct. Then add your availability. We will be setting up some online training for our new systems in late November.
The policies and procedures for ZebraWeb will be the same as they were when we used NOVA. You will enter your availability in ZebraWeb for the dates you want to work a Florida Region USAV sanctioned tournament. The main difference between the systems is that in NOVA you entered the days you WANTED to work, and in ZebraWeb you enter the days you DON'T WANT to work. This is commonly known as a BLOCK - you BLOCK the days you DO NOT WANT to be assigned. So, if you are AVAILABLE to work a given weekend, do nothing for those dates. If you are NOT AVAILABLE (a non-Florida Region sanctioned tournament or a personal commitment) then you BLOCK those dates.
Once your availability is entered in ZebraWeb, your name will be forwarded to the head referees for the dates you are available. Those head referees will choose the officials they want for their event and will notify me. I will then ASSIGN you in ZebraWeb. You must then accept the assignment within 48 hours, or turn it back. If you turnback the system will require a reason.
Because we are starting off with a new system, I realize some of you may have made verbal or email arrangements with a head referee for a Florida Region sanctioned event already. That is fine, just make sure you are available for those dates in ZebraWeb. The head referee will have to give me a list and of those who have agreed to work those dates and I'll assign accordingly. Remember that we use geography and history when we assign you to an event. If the assignment you receive isn't the tournament you expected, email me and we'll work that out.
You may or may not have already applied for a given event in SportWrench, or notified your head referee in some other fashion that you intend to work a certain event. Once you have been assigned in ZebraWeb then those other systems can/will be finalized. Remember that no one can work until they have registered with USAV, passed the background screen and are current for this season with SafeSport.
For those of you who are brand new (candidates) we are very close to the release of the new officials online training courses. You will see them appear within the next few days (may be there already) in your personal "Content Library." To access this, sign in to SportsEngine. From your home screen go to Household>Me>View Details>USAV Academy. Once there, look on the left navigation panel and click on Content Library. There you should be able to see the courses that are available. You want the FL21_201 Adult New Referee Training. Click on that to start the course!
If you are an existing Provisional or Regional referee you will be able to access your recertification training the same way and indicated above. Your courses will be either FL21_202 Adult Recertifying Provisional Referee or FL21_203 Adult Recertifying Regional Referee. Online training for recertification should be done as soon as possible, but no later than February 1, 2021.
Thank you all for your patience as we work through this unusual pandemic situation along with all the system changes!
Monday Update - 11/9/2020 - Check back here each week for updates on our new systems and processes for the coming season!
Hello All!
This week's update is as follows: You may be receiving an email from ZEBRAWEB later this week. This is our new assigning system. Follow the instructions in the email to get your account set up. If you are an existing ZEBRAWEB user, you will toggle between associations, but you will just have one account. Make sure all of your contact info is correct. Then add your availability. We will be setting up some online training for our new systems in late November.
If you haven't done so already, please get registered for USAV. Most of us will need to take the SafeSport refresher course. All of us need a background screen. Info on memberhips and instructions are here:
https://www.floridavolleyball.org/usav-mms-coaches-chaperones-officials.html
As much as I'd love to be able to answer your questions, it is highly likely that I don't know any more than you do about the membership, SafeSport and background screen. I know that once I completed all of my requirements, my profile showed "eligible" and so I knew I was good to go for the season. If you don't have that green tag in your profile, check out the info on the web link above. If that doesn't help you can fill out a help ticket at https://help.usavolleyballacademy.org/ or call the region office.
No other changes to report at this time.
Monday Update - 11/2/2020 - Check back here each week for updates on our new systems and processes for the coming season!
Hello All!
This week's update is as follows:
Online recertification training for Provisional, Regional and Interim referees from the 2020 shortened season has been finalized and we believe it will be available by November 14. Stay tuned, and don't panic. You aren't late for anything. Remember that if you started the process to become certified last season (that ended suddenly in March 2020 due to the pandemic) you are eligible to do the recertification for Provisional referee training. You don't have to start over from scratch.
If you are a brand new person (including HS referee) who wants to become certified, the training for this will be coming online approximately November 14. Sorry for the delay, but it's 2020. You aren't late for anything. We will start the online training then. In December and January we will have the new ref orientation sessions which will most likely be virtual this year. In December and January we will also start on-court evaluations, providing we have tournaments that can accommodate the process. We need new people, so we will be doing our best to get folks trained and certified. For now, register for USAV, do your SafeSport training and get your background screen going. Check back here on Mondays for more info. Review the links above for more details. Be patient.
National and JN officials got a very informative email from Pati Rolf over the weekend. Review that info and save that email! If you didn't get it, send me an email and I will forward it to you. sue@floridavolleyball.org.
If you were a National candidate last year and you were accepted by USAV to be evaluated, (there are two of you) your "spot" still stands and you are scheduled to be evaluated this season. If you were a JN candidate last year and you were accepted by the Florida Region as one of our candidates, (there are five of you) your spot with us still stands, but USAV has not selected candidates and does not guarantee how many candidates each region will be allowed to send. There is a lot still up in the air. We will work with you to help you get "tuned up" and ready. We do not know how many candidates will be able to go, but the five of you from this past season will be on our list and we will share details as we get them.
If you are interested in becoming a JN candidate and you were not one of the 5 people selected this past season, your next chance to go for upgrade evaluation will be 2022. It is unfortunate that we all lost a year, but we must be grateful that we are even still here to wait! There will be a new application procedure that will be published later this year that will outline our program for helping you prepare and improve your skills to go through the upgrade process. We want to be able to send the folks who are ready and help those who are not quite ready to improve. Watch for more details.
If you were in the process of upgrading from Provisional to Regional, we will resume the evaluation and training process as soon as we can get back out on the courts at events that will allow us to do the ratings. Again, we will be publishing new procedures for those wishing to upgrade. Those who were in process this past season will be given priority consideration based on where you left off.
For all of the training and evaluations this year we are going to have to be mindful of our resources (Evaluators, tournaments, appropriate match levels, budgets, etc.) as we go through the season. We want to help everyone and do things as close to "normal" as possible, but we are not back to "normal" yet, so we must all be patient. We've never had college competition happening during club season before, so the availability of our evaluators may be a factor!
The new membership management system ,SportsEngine, is up and running now. Webpoint has been officially retired and we can no longer access that database. Before Webpoint went away we harvested certification information so that we have data on the levels for our officials. We will use this information as we set up our new assigning system.
We will be launching our new ZebraWeb assigning system soon. I don't have a firm date yet. I will be doing online training and we are going to have everyone attend. There will be multiple opportunities. Details are being finalized now...but I haven't even seen the system yet, so please be patient!
USA Volleyball Website: We want to inform you that effective November 15, VolleyballRefTraining.com will no longer be our website for officials. We are now integrated into the USOPC platform, and we have included the link here: https://www.teamusa.org/USA-Volleyball/Officials . Later this month we will receive more information regarding this change. USAV Officials Division is very excited about this, and the site will move completely to the USAV platform on January 1, 2021. This new site will be much more robust.
That's it for now, check back next Monday for another update.
Thank you
Sue
sue@floridavolleyball.org
Monday Update - 10/26/2020 - Check back here each week for updates on our new systems and processes for the coming season!
Greetings All!
It has been a while since we've seen each other and many of us have not officiated any volleyball in months. I hope you all are safe and well. I am sure we are anxious for a new season - I hope we can all get back to officiating soon. In order to get prepared for the new season we will need to take care of some business.
Some of you may know, some may not know, that between the Florida Region and USAV we are making changes to most all of the systems the officials use on a regular basis. It's 2020, what could go wrong? :)
Here is some information on what will be happening over then next few weeks.
Renew your USAV Membership.
The new Membership Management system is called SportsEngine. It will be replacing Webpoint any minute now! All new registrations and all renewals are done through SportsEngine. The process is different than what we are used to, and you may have questions. Start with this informative webpage and you should be able to get registered, get your background screen renewed and your SafeSport refresher done if you are due for that.
Here is the link https://www.floridavolleyball.org/membership.html
Complete your online recertification training.
There will also be a new USAV Academy (Learning Management System). You will be able to access this through SportsEngine after you sign up for the new season. The 2020-2021 clinic materials have not yet been released, so please be patient. You may get an email when they are released, but just in case it will be a good idea to check the Florida Region Officials web page for updated info. I recommend checking once a week over the next month or so, as there will be new information posted. I must honestly say that I am not sure how reliable our email system will be over the next few weeks as we transition, so I will post info on the website weekly starting Monday, October 26. If you don't get email updates, or if your friends are wondering about updates, refer to the info on this site https://www.floridavolleyball.org/adult-officials-indoor.html
In general, we have "frozen" everyone in time as of the abrupt end of our 2020 season in March. If you were in the process of getting certified or upgraded, we will work with you to help you pick up right where you left off. We will publish more specific information in the coming weeks. If you are interested in upgrading this season, we will have a new process published by the end of November. We need to do this to make sure we give everyone an opportunity to upgrade when they are ready, and to help them get ready if they are not there yet. We also need to be mindful of our training and evaluation resources, especially this year when we will have college and club volleyball happening at the same time. Stay tuned for details. In general, everyone who was certified, or nearly certified last year will be required to take the recertifiation clinics online for provisional or regional referees. National and Jr National referees will be sent information from the Natonal office on the required online training, annual clinic, national dues, etc. Also, the volleyballreftraining.com site is being transitioned over to the USA Volleyball site in the very near future, so stay tuned for more information on that. That site is no longer being updated.
Prepare to work with our new assigning system
The third system that is being replaced is our assigning system, NOVA. The system was retired by its developer. NOVA was designed to assign club volleyball tournaments and so worked really well for us. We are moving to a system that some of you may be familiar with, ZebraWeb. As with any new system it will take some getting used to, but we will have training available for everyone. ZebraWeb will replace NOVA in that it will be the first place that you go to when you want to enter your availabilty for Florida Region sanctioned tournaments. You will receive your assignments through ZebraWeb. This will tell you which tournament you will work on a given weekend. The individual tournaments may use other systems, such as AES or SportWrench to assign you to a court. Those systems are still in place and will be used in the same way they were in the past. The head referee for the individual events will communicate information on those systems. Again, we are planning a series of online webinar sessions to refresh everyone on the Florida Region best practices and to familiarize you with our new assigning system. Be on the look out for an introductory email from ZebraWeb in mid-November. You will want to make sure you register and update your contact information as soon as the system becomes available.
New Officials
For those wishing to get certified this year, we are referring everyone to the web page, and I will be publishing instructions there starting October 26. Feel free to pass the web link on to anyone who is interested in joining our team. https://www.floridavolleyball.org/adult-officials-indoor.html
There are still many questions that don't have answers, we need to be patient for a few more weeks while things get set up and sorted out. It appears that our first sanctioned tournaments will be the weekend of December 12-13. We are planning to get all the systems up and running so that we will be ready to go for that weekend. Again, check the Florida Region Officials website starting October 26 for weekly updates. Feel free to forward this email to any of your referee friends who may not be on this message list.
Thank you all for your patience!
Here is information on the online training process for Adult Officials
Adult Referees
- FL21_201 Adult New Referee Training
- FL21_202 Adult Recertifying Provisional Referee
- FL21_203 Adult Recertifying Regional Referee
For those who are recertifying Provisional or Regional officials, click here for more instructions.
For those who are adult candidates to become an official click here for more instructions.
For Regional referees looking to upgrade to Jr National now or in the future we will have a new procedure that will be announced in mid-December.
Scoring Certification Training
- FL21_401 Professional Scorer Training
- FL21_402 Professional Scorer Re-Certification Training
Monday Update - 11/23/2020 - Check back here each week for updates on our new systems and processes for the coming season!
Hello All!
Most of the courses are now available in your Content Library. If you want to get started as a new referee candidate, you have what you need, so you can start working on your training. All the info you need is either listed below or on the links above.
If you were an official in the NOVA database last year, you should have received a Welcome email from ZebraWeb last week. If you didn´t see it, check your spam folder. 225 of you have not yet logged in to ZebraWeb! We need you to get this done ASAP. If you are not going to officiate this season, send an email to sue@floridavolleyball.org to be removed from the list.
Assignments are going out, make sure your availability is up to date. ZebraWeb's default is AVAILABLE. So if you don't want to work any given weekend, you need to go in BLOCK those dates.
Monday Update - 11/16/2020 - Check back here each week for updates on our new systems and processes for the coming season!
Hello All!
That email we've been waiting for from ZebraWeb is due out later today. This is the new assigning system that replaces NOVA. Follow the instructions in the email to get your account set up. If you are an existing ZEBRAWEB user, you will toggle between associations, but you will just have one account. Make sure all of your contact info is correct. Then add your availability. We will be setting up some online training for our new systems in late November.
The policies and procedures for ZebraWeb will be the same as they were when we used NOVA. You will enter your availability in ZebraWeb for the dates you want to work a Florida Region USAV sanctioned tournament. The main difference between the systems is that in NOVA you entered the days you WANTED to work, and in ZebraWeb you enter the days you DON'T WANT to work. This is commonly known as a BLOCK - you BLOCK the days you DO NOT WANT to be assigned. So, if you are AVAILABLE to work a given weekend, do nothing for those dates. If you are NOT AVAILABLE (a non-Florida Region sanctioned tournament or a personal commitment) then you BLOCK those dates.
Once your availability is entered in ZebraWeb, your name will be forwarded to the head referees for the dates you are available. Those head referees will choose the officials they want for their event and will notify me. I will then ASSIGN you in ZebraWeb. You must then accept the assignment within 48 hours, or turn it back. If you turnback the system will require a reason.
Because we are starting off with a new system, I realize some of you may have made verbal or email arrangements with a head referee for a Florida Region sanctioned event already. That is fine, just make sure you are available for those dates in ZebraWeb. The head referee will have to give me a list and of those who have agreed to work those dates and I'll assign accordingly. Remember that we use geography and history when we assign you to an event. If the assignment you receive isn't the tournament you expected, email me and we'll work that out.
You may or may not have already applied for a given event in SportWrench, or notified your head referee in some other fashion that you intend to work a certain event. Once you have been assigned in ZebraWeb then those other systems can/will be finalized. Remember that no one can work until they have registered with USAV, passed the background screen and are current for this season with SafeSport.
For those of you who are brand new (candidates) we are very close to the release of the new officials online training courses. You will see them appear within the next few days (may be there already) in your personal "Content Library." To access this, sign in to SportsEngine. From your home screen go to Household>Me>View Details>USAV Academy. Once there, look on the left navigation panel and click on Content Library. There you should be able to see the courses that are available. You want the FL21_201 Adult New Referee Training. Click on that to start the course!
If you are an existing Provisional or Regional referee you will be able to access your recertification training the same way and indicated above. Your courses will be either FL21_202 Adult Recertifying Provisional Referee or FL21_203 Adult Recertifying Regional Referee. Online training for recertification should be done as soon as possible, but no later than February 1, 2021.
Thank you all for your patience as we work through this unusual pandemic situation along with all the system changes!
Monday Update - 11/9/2020 - Check back here each week for updates on our new systems and processes for the coming season!
Hello All!
This week's update is as follows: You may be receiving an email from ZEBRAWEB later this week. This is our new assigning system. Follow the instructions in the email to get your account set up. If you are an existing ZEBRAWEB user, you will toggle between associations, but you will just have one account. Make sure all of your contact info is correct. Then add your availability. We will be setting up some online training for our new systems in late November.
If you haven't done so already, please get registered for USAV. Most of us will need to take the SafeSport refresher course. All of us need a background screen. Info on memberhips and instructions are here:
https://www.floridavolleyball.org/usav-mms-coaches-chaperones-officials.html
As much as I'd love to be able to answer your questions, it is highly likely that I don't know any more than you do about the membership, SafeSport and background screen. I know that once I completed all of my requirements, my profile showed "eligible" and so I knew I was good to go for the season. If you don't have that green tag in your profile, check out the info on the web link above. If that doesn't help you can fill out a help ticket at https://help.usavolleyballacademy.org/ or call the region office.
No other changes to report at this time.
Monday Update - 11/2/2020 - Check back here each week for updates on our new systems and processes for the coming season!
Hello All!
This week's update is as follows:
Online recertification training for Provisional, Regional and Interim referees from the 2020 shortened season has been finalized and we believe it will be available by November 14. Stay tuned, and don't panic. You aren't late for anything. Remember that if you started the process to become certified last season (that ended suddenly in March 2020 due to the pandemic) you are eligible to do the recertification for Provisional referee training. You don't have to start over from scratch.
If you are a brand new person (including HS referee) who wants to become certified, the training for this will be coming online approximately November 14. Sorry for the delay, but it's 2020. You aren't late for anything. We will start the online training then. In December and January we will have the new ref orientation sessions which will most likely be virtual this year. In December and January we will also start on-court evaluations, providing we have tournaments that can accommodate the process. We need new people, so we will be doing our best to get folks trained and certified. For now, register for USAV, do your SafeSport training and get your background screen going. Check back here on Mondays for more info. Review the links above for more details. Be patient.
National and JN officials got a very informative email from Pati Rolf over the weekend. Review that info and save that email! If you didn't get it, send me an email and I will forward it to you. sue@floridavolleyball.org.
If you were a National candidate last year and you were accepted by USAV to be evaluated, (there are two of you) your "spot" still stands and you are scheduled to be evaluated this season. If you were a JN candidate last year and you were accepted by the Florida Region as one of our candidates, (there are five of you) your spot with us still stands, but USAV has not selected candidates and does not guarantee how many candidates each region will be allowed to send. There is a lot still up in the air. We will work with you to help you get "tuned up" and ready. We do not know how many candidates will be able to go, but the five of you from this past season will be on our list and we will share details as we get them.
If you are interested in becoming a JN candidate and you were not one of the 5 people selected this past season, your next chance to go for upgrade evaluation will be 2022. It is unfortunate that we all lost a year, but we must be grateful that we are even still here to wait! There will be a new application procedure that will be published later this year that will outline our program for helping you prepare and improve your skills to go through the upgrade process. We want to be able to send the folks who are ready and help those who are not quite ready to improve. Watch for more details.
If you were in the process of upgrading from Provisional to Regional, we will resume the evaluation and training process as soon as we can get back out on the courts at events that will allow us to do the ratings. Again, we will be publishing new procedures for those wishing to upgrade. Those who were in process this past season will be given priority consideration based on where you left off.
For all of the training and evaluations this year we are going to have to be mindful of our resources (Evaluators, tournaments, appropriate match levels, budgets, etc.) as we go through the season. We want to help everyone and do things as close to "normal" as possible, but we are not back to "normal" yet, so we must all be patient. We've never had college competition happening during club season before, so the availability of our evaluators may be a factor!
The new membership management system ,SportsEngine, is up and running now. Webpoint has been officially retired and we can no longer access that database. Before Webpoint went away we harvested certification information so that we have data on the levels for our officials. We will use this information as we set up our new assigning system.
We will be launching our new ZebraWeb assigning system soon. I don't have a firm date yet. I will be doing online training and we are going to have everyone attend. There will be multiple opportunities. Details are being finalized now...but I haven't even seen the system yet, so please be patient!
USA Volleyball Website: We want to inform you that effective November 15, VolleyballRefTraining.com will no longer be our website for officials. We are now integrated into the USOPC platform, and we have included the link here: https://www.teamusa.org/USA-Volleyball/Officials . Later this month we will receive more information regarding this change. USAV Officials Division is very excited about this, and the site will move completely to the USAV platform on January 1, 2021. This new site will be much more robust.
That's it for now, check back next Monday for another update.
Thank you
Sue
sue@floridavolleyball.org
Monday Update - 10/26/2020 - Check back here each week for updates on our new systems and processes for the coming season!
Greetings All!
It has been a while since we've seen each other and many of us have not officiated any volleyball in months. I hope you all are safe and well. I am sure we are anxious for a new season - I hope we can all get back to officiating soon. In order to get prepared for the new season we will need to take care of some business.
Some of you may know, some may not know, that between the Florida Region and USAV we are making changes to most all of the systems the officials use on a regular basis. It's 2020, what could go wrong? :)
Here is some information on what will be happening over then next few weeks.
Renew your USAV Membership.
The new Membership Management system is called SportsEngine. It will be replacing Webpoint any minute now! All new registrations and all renewals are done through SportsEngine. The process is different than what we are used to, and you may have questions. Start with this informative webpage and you should be able to get registered, get your background screen renewed and your SafeSport refresher done if you are due for that.
Here is the link https://www.floridavolleyball.org/membership.html
Complete your online recertification training.
There will also be a new USAV Academy (Learning Management System). You will be able to access this through SportsEngine after you sign up for the new season. The 2020-2021 clinic materials have not yet been released, so please be patient. You may get an email when they are released, but just in case it will be a good idea to check the Florida Region Officials web page for updated info. I recommend checking once a week over the next month or so, as there will be new information posted. I must honestly say that I am not sure how reliable our email system will be over the next few weeks as we transition, so I will post info on the website weekly starting Monday, October 26. If you don't get email updates, or if your friends are wondering about updates, refer to the info on this site https://www.floridavolleyball.org/adult-officials-indoor.html
In general, we have "frozen" everyone in time as of the abrupt end of our 2020 season in March. If you were in the process of getting certified or upgraded, we will work with you to help you pick up right where you left off. We will publish more specific information in the coming weeks. If you are interested in upgrading this season, we will have a new process published by the end of November. We need to do this to make sure we give everyone an opportunity to upgrade when they are ready, and to help them get ready if they are not there yet. We also need to be mindful of our training and evaluation resources, especially this year when we will have college and club volleyball happening at the same time. Stay tuned for details. In general, everyone who was certified, or nearly certified last year will be required to take the recertifiation clinics online for provisional or regional referees. National and Jr National referees will be sent information from the Natonal office on the required online training, annual clinic, national dues, etc. Also, the volleyballreftraining.com site is being transitioned over to the USA Volleyball site in the very near future, so stay tuned for more information on that. That site is no longer being updated.
Prepare to work with our new assigning system
The third system that is being replaced is our assigning system, NOVA. The system was retired by its developer. NOVA was designed to assign club volleyball tournaments and so worked really well for us. We are moving to a system that some of you may be familiar with, ZebraWeb. As with any new system it will take some getting used to, but we will have training available for everyone. ZebraWeb will replace NOVA in that it will be the first place that you go to when you want to enter your availabilty for Florida Region sanctioned tournaments. You will receive your assignments through ZebraWeb. This will tell you which tournament you will work on a given weekend. The individual tournaments may use other systems, such as AES or SportWrench to assign you to a court. Those systems are still in place and will be used in the same way they were in the past. The head referee for the individual events will communicate information on those systems. Again, we are planning a series of online webinar sessions to refresh everyone on the Florida Region best practices and to familiarize you with our new assigning system. Be on the look out for an introductory email from ZebraWeb in mid-November. You will want to make sure you register and update your contact information as soon as the system becomes available.
New Officials
For those wishing to get certified this year, we are referring everyone to the web page, and I will be publishing instructions there starting October 26. Feel free to pass the web link on to anyone who is interested in joining our team. https://www.floridavolleyball.org/adult-officials-indoor.html
There are still many questions that don't have answers, we need to be patient for a few more weeks while things get set up and sorted out. It appears that our first sanctioned tournaments will be the weekend of December 12-13. We are planning to get all the systems up and running so that we will be ready to go for that weekend. Again, check the Florida Region Officials website starting October 26 for weekly updates. Feel free to forward this email to any of your referee friends who may not be on this message list.
Thank you all for your patience!
