As an official you have three responsibilities: keep the game safe, keep the game fair, and to act in a professional manner. The difficult part comes when you make a necessary and appropriate safety or fairness call and one sideline rants and raves. Maintaining your cool when the crowd is booing, players are grumbling and Read More …
Without a doubt, the most confusing section of the lacrosse rule book is Rule 7-6: Simultaneous Fouls. Many veteran officials make these calls incorrectly without realizing it, because in few cases do the coaches—or anyone else watching the game—understand the correct enforcement. Of course, that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t be trying to make the Read More …
If you haven’t already check out the GLOA Forums. GLOA webmaster Stuart Smith built the new forums as a place where any official or lacrosse fan can view posts on rules questions and proper mechanics. These forums have proven to be a robust place for GLOA officials to toss around ideas and get questions answered Read More …