(Transfers from other USAV Region please, contact Earl Capps)
All officials that want to work in the Arizona Region must be a have a current membership before they will be assigned to work. To purchase your membership, go to the Join the Region page - under About Us to access the Membership Quizzard.
Season pre-registration opens in early August each year but the membership is not effective until Sept 1st. This is the official start of the new season.
Official's Division Coord (exp 2024)
Phone: 602.705.2238
To be an official in the Arizona Region an official must:
These 2 documents are required annually. These forms can also be accessed through the Handbook.
Each official is assigned a Team Leader. The official is assigned to a Team Leader by where they live - in the Phoenix metro area it is by zip code. Once registered contact your assigned Team Leader.
The Arizona Region has 3 incentive offers to encourage the Arizona officials to work our Region tournaments. Below is the description of each of those offers. All officials' bonus pay will be paid with the last payroll of the girls' tournament season in May/June.
The Officials' Division has two (2) policies designed to assist an official in handling misconduct on and off the court. Sanctions in the rule book (DCR) remain the same for on-court teams and club personnel, but the Spectator/Parent Code of Conduct policy applies to aggravated misconduct in the stands or off-court in which violators can be ejected from the playing facility before, during and after the match.
The Region Purple Card Sanction Policy was also created to handle misconduct by parents, spectators and club personnel before, during and after a match. Violators affiliated with a club team can be sanctioned with possible escalation up to ejection from the facility. Read the entire policy here.
Substandard Scoring Teams
Any team that an official finds is deficient in properly scoring a match will be written up on the Officials Tournament Report Form and Pay Sheet detailing specific team name and head head coach. The report goes to the Officials' Division Coordinator who notifies the Club Director of the team deficiency. The club is then responsible to re-train the team members either by contracting another Scorer trainer to hold a clinic and paying the standard clinician fees OR reviewing the USAV Academy training modules. Either way, if they are deficient in their next tournament scoring assignment, they will be penalized eight (8) points on their next scheduled match to play. If the team scores deficiently a third time, they will be penalized one (1) set on their next match.
Mileage Policy Update
There has been some accounting discrepancies discovered by the Region Office as to recording mileage on the Officials Tournament Report Form and Pay Sheet. Here are the following clarifications:
Officials Not Available for Tournament Assignment:
Officials will need to make themselves available for at least one tournament wave assignment before February 15th or they will be removed from Arbiter and placed on the "Not to be Assigned" list for three (3) consecutive tournaments. Reinstatement requires contacting the Competition Assignor or the Officials' Division Coordinator. This policy will be an extension to the current tournament requirement necessary to retain your rating certification, as outlined in our OD Handbook.
USA Volleyball has replaced the VolleyballRefTraining.com website with the Officials' Resources page on their website - https://usavolleyball.org/resources-for-officials/
Payroll is paid bi-weekly from Dec through May. For the months of Sept, Oct & Nov the officials pay is monthly instead of bi-weekly. This is due to the limited number of events in those months.
The payroll for officials is transferred to the official's account in ArbiterPay.com. It is up to the official to put pay instructions in their ArbiterPay account - example - to send any money in their account to a designated bank account, to hold the money in the account until it is manually moved to a designated bank account, to load an ArbiterPay debit card for use by the official or to cut a check and mail to the official (this will cost the official $5 per check cut).
ArbiterPay holds our money for 5 work days before it is available to be transferred and available to the official.
All Hard Worker Bonuses, Region Championship Bonuses and Referral Bonuses will be paid in the last payroll of the girls' tournament season in May.
New lateral-entry officials from other USAV regions may start on Probation if their Regional or National certification is lapsed. The length of probation depends on reviews of proficiency and adaptability. Advancements from probationary must be approved by the OD Steering Committee.
Lateral-entry officials (transfers) with current certifications and in good standing in their previous region will retain the same rating in the Officials Division (OD).
PROBATIONARY OFFICIAL
Probationary officials are defined as officials that are new to USA Volleyball with no, little or minimal experience in USAV mechanics, signals, match protocols and related processes and procedures. This would include officials from other venues or organizations such as high school or college.
EXPECTATIONS OF PROBATIONARY OFFICIALS:
ATTAIN PROVISIONAL OFFICIAL RATING:
RETAIN PROVISIONAL OFFICIAL RATING:
CONSEQUENCE FOR NOT MAINTAINING YOUR RATING: