Umpiring Development
Officers’ Meeting – 12
September 2016
Umpiring Development
Officer
• Encouraging a positive attitude to
umpires/umpiring
• Encouraging club umpires
• Disseminating umpiring information – DD,
red cards, courses
• Developing the umpiring pathway
• Raising standards – dress code
• Club Umpiring Profile
• Registration of umpires with NDHUA
Level One Umpiring Award
• Introduced November 2013
• 55 trained tutors – on-going training
programme
• 3664 candidates (Jan 2014 to March 2016)
• 11% assessed
• Centrally organised
• £50 per candidate
• 6.5 hours (2.5 hours pitch work)
• On line rules test
• Focus on behaviours & attitudes
• Other sports
THE KEY POINTS
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Practical Work
Rules are a given
Consistency
Quality assurance
Review and revision
Engagement with HUAs
Value and importance
Training
Clubs
ASSESSMENT
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Course = Level One Umpire (unassessed number)
Impact on leagues
Identified assessors
Assessment criteria (revised Summer 2015)
Safety – yes/no *
Preparation & appearance – yes/no
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Decision making (20)
Communication (25)
Management & Control (15) *
Positioning & Movement (10)
Attitude (10)
Umpire Developer Course
• 3 hour course
• Central to umpire progression
• “club people who want to assist their club’s
umpires to develop”
• £10 per candidate
• Managed by the CHUA
• Certificate of attendance – Clubs First
The pathway
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Find a course – www.englandhockey.co.uk
Register for a course
Rules test
Attend a course
Receive a Level One number (U)
Practice – umpire developer
Assessment/ Feedback/ (A)
Practice – umpire developer
And onwards and upwards !
Introduction to Umpiring
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For “beginners” in umpiring
3 hour course
50% practical work
£25
Club-based
Not an umpiring qualification
Minimum age is 12 (L1 is 14)
RED CARDS
• EH disciplinary code
• It is possible……for a player to
receive two yellow cards. However,
when an offence for which a card has
already been awarded is repeated,
the same card must not be used
again and a more severe penalty
must be awarded.
RED CARDS
 EH Disciplinary Code – new
rule book January 2017
 Move towards one rule for all
hockey
 A player can receive two yellow
cards as above
 If the second MINOR offence is
the same as the first then a
red card must be issued
 A red card report form must be
completed and sent to the
appropriate person
 Option D – second yellow card
 No further suspension beyond
the game
 What to show ?
RED CARDS
• A red card offence is a red card
offence !
• Red card report – CDA – Options A, B
&C
• Speed of reporting is essential
• A card can only be issued between
the first whistle and the conclusion of
the game (including a penalty stroke
competition, half time and the
interval between 70 minutes and the