The preference is now to register on-line for Grade 8 to Grade 5.
However, Grade 7, Grade 6 and Grade 5 referees must ensure they have met their requirements for maintenance. For Grade 7 this is completing the fitness and written tests and attending a 5 hour in-service clinic yearly. For Grades 6 and 5, in addition to the fitness and written tests and 5 hour in-service clinic yearly, an assessment as Center Official must also be done.
If Grades 7, 6, and 5 only register on-line without meeting their maintenance requirements, they will be registered as a Grade 8.
In the past, all the documentation has been submitted with the registration and sent to Dave Jones. This will now change with on-line registration. The following process is recommended for Grades 7, 6, and 5.
1. Attend a District wide in-service so that you can take your fitness and written tests, and complete the 5 hour in-service clinic. This can be done in other districts, but a copy of the Clinic certificate along with the fitness and written results should be sent to the District Referee Administrator (that would be me). I keep records of all fitness and written tests and clinic attendance, in District IV, and therefore can verify if this has been done when I have been asked by the SRA.
2. As referees upgrade and arrange for assessments and maintenance assessments, please advise your referees to copy me on their requests for assessments. Jack Montgomery will keep District Administrator advised as to the results of the assessments.
3. District Administrator will periodically send Dave Jones, updates on Grade 7, 6 and 5 referees as to their status on meeting their maintenance assessments. This will usually be done after clinics held in the district.
4. The last step is to register on line. For Grades 7, 6, and 5 referees, please send me your paper work and then wait a week or so before you register on line. Make sure you enclose a stamped envelope, with your address in the top left corner only. I will address it to the SRA.
USSF will be sending registration packets for 2007 and in that packet will be a blank registration form and a card with instructions on how to register on line. If for some reason the refereee can not register on line then the registration form is to be used.
It is important for everyone to know their 16 digit USSF Registration Identification Number.
Referees must have this in order to register on-line. A major credit card is also needed to pay for the registration.
For this year, we set a goal to have all of referees registered by January 2007.
Grade 9 Referees who miss one or two years of registration may be re-certified after fulfilling all re-certification requirements for that grade. A Grade 9 Referee who misses two years of registration can be eligible to take the Bridge Course (9- 8) after he or she has met the requirements to be re-certified as Grade 9.
US Soccer Federation Referee Instructors who wish to re-certify as a referee after a lapse in referee registration may be registered as a grade 8 referee upon meeting current re-certification requirements, no matter how long it has been since they last registered as a referee, if they are currently registered as a US Soccer instructor and have taught, at a minimum, one entry-level referee training course in the last two years.
