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Purpose
Review important VHSL policies and information
Explain this year’s rule changes
Answer any questions you might have
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Clinic Attendance
Each school must be represented by one girls soccer coach & one boys soccer coach
Officials must attend each year to be eligible for varsity and post-season consideration
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Penalties for Non-Attendance
Coach Letter to principal
$50 fine
Head coach must take NFHS soccer rules exam
Official 1 year – cannot work varsity soccer
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Clinic Make-up
Coaches or officials who are unable, due to extreme
or unusual circumstances, to attend one of the VHSL
Rules Clinics, MAY be given an opportunity to meet the
clinic requirement by viewing the PowerPoint
presentation online.
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Clinic Make-up Request Procedure
The request for an official must come from a VHSL Principal or his/her designee.
The request for a coach must come from his/her Principal/AD.
Requests must be in writing (email is OK).
Past clinic attendance and present circumstances along with any additional pertinent information will be considered in the decision to grant or deny the request.
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Rules Clinic Make-up Requirements
If the request is granted
The coach/official must pay a $25 administrative fee to VHSL in order to receive credit for attendance.
The requesting school/association must verify that the official/coach did in fact view the presentation.
The coach must take the online exam.
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On the Web 10-11 NFHS soccer rule changes &
interpretations AR/CR signal charts
Soccer rules comparison
Soccer field diagram
Soccer headgear and ASTM performance
Rule change proposal form
10-11 VHSL Rules Clinic PowerPoint
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Important Dates
First Practice Date
First Contest Date
District Deadline
Regional Deadline
State QF
Feb. 21*
Mar. 14*
May 28
June 4
June 7
* Local restrictions may apply
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VHSL ChampionshipsGroups A & AA
June 10-11, 2011 – VHSL Spring Jubilee
Hosted by Radford University
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VHSL ChampionshipsGroup AAA
June 10-11, 2011 – VHSL Spring Jubilee
Hosted by Westfield High School and the Northern
Region
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Contest Limitations
Regular season contests . . . . 16* No player may exceed 16
No team may exceed 16
*Local restrictions may apply
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Pre-Season Conditioning
Must be open to entire student body
May include weight training and/or running
Cannot be sport-specific – no soccer equip.
Cannot be required
There can be no instruction
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EXAM REQUIREMENT
All soccer officials must take and pass the exam to be eligible to work VHSL matches.
Minimum score of 70 for regular season eligibility
Minimum score of 80 for post season eligibility
Soccer coaches who miss the rules clinic must take the exam
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ONLINE EXAM
Exam will be taken online -- exams.nfhs.org VHSL will provide a link to the NFHS site from
the Soccer landing page of the VHSL web site.
NO PAPER COPIES OF THE EXAM WILL BE ISSUED.
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TESTING DATES Exam opens on Monday, Feb. 7, 2011
Exams completed by Mar. 6, 2011 – no fee
Officials have 4 weeks to complete the exam requirement
This provides our staff with time to process results from the NFHS and send information to commissioners in time to make any necessary adjustments to assignments
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LATE FEES March 7-13 … $50.00 fee will be applied to
exams taken during this time period. $50.00 check must be received by VHSL before credit will be given.
March 14-20 … $75.00 fee will be applied to exams taken during this time period. $75.00 check must be received by VHSL before credit will be given.
March 21-April 30 … $100.00 – Must be received before credit will be given.
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EXAM CLOSES
All exams will close on April 30, 2011
Officials may NOT be assigned to VHSL contests until they have completed the exam requirement.
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Testing Deadlines
Do not mistake “Days remaining” on the NFHS testing website with VHSL deadlines.
The number of “days remaining” refers only to how long the exam will remain available, and has NOTHING to do with VHSL testing deadlines.
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VHSL Testing Deadlines (Review)
Feb. 7 – Mar. 6 … No fee
Mar.7 – Mar. 13 … $50.00
Mar. 14 – Mar. 20 … $75.00
Mar. 21 – Apr. 30 … $100.00
YOU MAY NOT OFFICIATE UNTIL YOU HAVE COMPLETED THE EXAM REQUIREMENT
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ABOUT LATE FEES Prior to online testing, there was a SINGLE
test date
ALL officials had to go to a testing location at a specified time on that date.
Officials had 90 minutes to complete a closed-book exam.
With online testing, opportunities for completing the exam are significantly greater.
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ABOUT LATE FEES The exam is an annual requirement – officials know
this.
Officials have a responsibility to meet requirements within specified deadlines.
This is no different than paying your mortgage or any other bill on time – late payment results in penalties.
Every official who fails to complete the exam within the first 4 weeks creates additional work for commissioners and VHSL staff.
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VHSL ID REQUIRED Officials must have a VHSL ID to take the
exam
Officials should have only ONE VHSL ID, regardless of the number of sports you officiate.
If you do not have a VHSL ID, contact your association commissioner.
Registration fees must be paid prior to receiving a VHSL ID.
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EXAM WEBSITE
If you took ANY NFHS/VHSL exam online last year, you already have an exam website username and password.
Bring up exams.nfhs.org and sign in.
Soccer landing page on VHSL website will have a link to the exam site.
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NEW USERS
If you have never taken an NFHS/VHSL exam online, you will need to create a username and password.
There is an online PowerPoint presentation that describes how to do this.
PowerPoints and other similar information are listed as “Resources” in the lower right-hand part of each web page.
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EXAM INSTRUCTIONS
If you need help with the mechanics of registration or taking the exam, view the power point presentation “Instructions for Taking Online Exams” in the resource section on the soccer landing page of the VHSL website.
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EXAM LAYOUT
100 True/False questions
Order of the questions is random
NO TWO TESTS ARE ALIKE!!!
If you need to re-take the exam (because you failed on your first attempt), the questions will appear in a different order.
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RE-TESTING
Officials who score less than 80 may take the exam a second time
No additional attempts will be permitted
Do NOT attempt the exam until you are prepared to take it.
Officials who score 80 or higher on their first attempt are not permitted a second try.
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VHSL PROGRAMS ARE
EDUCATION-BASED
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SPORTSMANSHIP IS
THE #1 PRIORITY
OF EDUCATION-BASED
ATHLETICS
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Sportsmanship
The sole purpose of VHSL and other “education-based” athletics and activities programs is to provide students with opportunities to learn skills through sport that will make them better people.
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Sportsmanship More and more VHSL schools are realizing that
sportsmanship is an issue that needs to be addressed
VHSL has established sportsmanship guidelines for championship events, and has encouraged schools to adopt the same or similar guidelines for regular season play.
VHSL Handbook 27-13-1 thru 27-13-14
We are about “Building better citizens!”
Good sportsmanship is simply having RESPECT for oneself, for others, and for the sport.
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Player Ejections
Total – 447
(363 last yr.)
185 Boys players
(increase of 34)
26 girls players
(decrease of 1)
All Player Ejections - 2009-10
3
26
10
100
185
43
3
1 29 114
32
B. Basketball
G. Basketball
Baseball
Softball
B. Soccer
G. Soccer
B. Lax
G. Lax
Football
F. Hockey
Wrestling
Track
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Causes for Ejections
Fighting Foul language directed at official
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Causes for Ejections
Intent to Injure Taunting
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Causes for Ejections
Penalties for fighting, foul/abusive language directed toward officials, intent to injure and taunting are cause for ejections in ALL sports. These are not unique to soccer.
140 of the 211 ejections in soccer (66%) were for one of those reasons.
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Causes for Ejections
Those 140 ejections represent 31% of all players ejected across sports.
PLAYER BEHAVIOR MUST CHANGE!
Assistance from coaches is needed.
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Kids want to play. If coaches were to bench a player who exhibited inappropriate behavior, most inappropriate behavior would end.
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Soccer Player Ejections
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Coach Ejections
Total # of coaches
ejected = 61
(38 last yr)
10 Boys Coaches ejected
(increase of 5)
5 girls coaches ejected
(increase of 4)
All 2009-10 Coach Ejections
11
3
4
19
10
125
1B. Basketball
G. Basketball
Baseball
Softball
B. Soccer
G. Soccer
Football
Volleyball
B. Lacrosse
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Our Goal Our goal is ZERO
We MUST do better
There is NEVER a good reason for a player or coach to be ejected
Excessive celebration is not “enthusiasm”
Coaches who “support their athletes” by being unsportsmanlike and/or ejected have done just the opposite
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Coaches are Teachers
Coaches, if you are more concerned with
wins and losses than with teaching your
athlete skills that will make him/her a better
person – GET OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL
COACHING! NOW!
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Behavior of Officials
Officials – you are the “protectors of the sport.”
NEVER engage a spectator – not before, not during, not after a meet
NEVER “bait” a coach or participant
ALWAYS behave in a professional manner
You are always an official, whether you are in the grocery store or a spectator at your child’s wrestling meet – behave like one.
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Behavior of Officials
ALWAYS show respect for players, coaches and administrators.
If you have “an attitude” about a coach or team, don’t do their matches.
If a question is asked in a respectful manner, it deserves an answer.
What you permit, you promote.
The match is about the student athletes, not you.
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Questions about Sportsmanship
All questions regarding VHSL regulations should be directed to VHSL office – not to contest officials
Soccer officials do not determine the number of matches a player or coach will miss if he/she is ejected.
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Reporting Sportsmanship Problems
ALL ejections must be reported to VHSL office
Sportsmanship “incidents” (things that happen external to the game itself) must be reported to the VHSL office
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It’s All About RESPECT
Good sportsmanship is nothing more than having and showing respect for competitors, coaches, officials, each other, and the sport itself!
Play with honor!
Player behavior mirrors that of his/her coach.