To All New Officials
If you have not yet been contacted to referee
any games, please contact the assignor
Brent Deptuck as soon as possible.
If you do not know the name of the assignor for your area, you can Email
the ALRA Webmaster directly by clicking here.
Minimum Age of Officials
If you are looking into becoming an ALRA official, the minimum age of referees is normally 13. If you are a bit younger, we will consider making exceptions for individuals who have been involved with the game of lacrosse for a number of years, or they have a sibling or parent refereeing the game which they can be paired with.
Rules
For new officials coming to the game of lacrosse, the following are
some of the rules you should get to know well in your first couple of
years of officiating:
| Abuse of Officials and Misconduct - Rule 28 | Interference - Rule 55 |
| Crease Play - Rule 39 | Slashing - Rule 64 |
| Face-Offs - Rule 43 | Ten Second Rule - Rule 66 |
| Free Hand - Rule 46 | Thirty Second Rule - Rule 68 |
| Incidents Requiring a Game Report - Rule 23, section (l) |
Rule
Questions
Are there any rules that you are still unsure about? Are there any situations
that have come up in your games that you were unsure about how to call?
Email us here with your questions,
or check out our Frequently-Asked Questions
page for answers to some questions that have popped up so far this season.
On-floor Positioning
Be sure to also read through the Referee
Positioning Floor Diagrams handout, available from the Canadian
Lacrosse Association Web site.
Uniform
For guidelines on what you should have in your referee bag for your
uniform, click here.
2006 Handbook
For those of you who have yet to receive your 2006 Referee Handbook,
you can download it here in Adobe
PDF (350k) format.
Paysheets
For anyone in need of replacement paysheets
for tracking your games, you can download it here in Microsoft
Excel (22k) or Adobe
PDF (9k) format.
Please Note:
1) Paysheets are to be submitted each month, and need to be submitted
in the first seven days of the next month. If paysheets for the previous
month are submitted after the 7th, referees will not be paid until the
month following.
2) Please make sure your name and address are filled out CLEARLY on
your paysheet. If your name and address cannot be read by your area's
Referee-in-Chief, you will not be paid for those games.
3)
For the 2006 season, please fill out your
major games on one paysheet, and your major games on another paysheet.
Exhibition Games
If you are working exhibition games, payment for these games will not
go through your Referee-in-Chief - this will be collected from the teams,
and not through one of your paysheets.