VSA requires that the travel teams provide Grade 8 adult referees to help supplement our referee pool, allowing all home games for VSA to have quality referees, with all games being fully supported.
All teams must supply the first referee prior to their third season of play. The second referee must be certified prior to the fourth season of play. The referees sponsoring a team must be either (a) an adult or (b) a youth 16 years of age or older, and recommended by the referee assignors as being able to be counted as one of the adult referees. Only one 16 year old may be counted as an adult referee.
The obligation of those adults signing up to be a Grade 8 referee for a team is to help referee two travel games a season. Those two games will normally fall right before or after your child's home game. In addition, VSA requests that you do agree to do some recreational games on Saturdays in order to gain some experience prior to being placed on a travel game. The recreational referee assignor allows you to state how many you would like, and on what weekends you are available so that it is not too much of an inconvenience.
In order to be counted for a specific team, the teenage referee must either (a) play for that team, or (b) have a relative on the team. A team may also "sponsor" an adult referee that is willing to meet the teams' referee obligation.
All teams not in compliance with the referee obligation by Spring 2008 will be fined, with all revenue going to the Field Fund.
