Umpires

Love them or hate them, Umpires are an important part of the game.

Slazengers has always strived to provide a high number of well trained umpires for match day, and holds regular umpire training courses each season.

If you are interested in undergoing the umpire training and assessment, have a word with your captain, or committee. Details of umpire training will be posted on the website.

Captains

If you are struggling to find an umpire for a coming game, Rob Whawell will be maintaining a list of active Slazenger umpires to officiate any games neccessary. The club requests that captains endevour to source umpires from the club where possible, and that this list should provide a good place to find them.
If captains are continually struggling to source umpires, please let the committee know.

Payment

We understand that players may be staying well after, or turning up way before their match to help umpire games. The club has therefore decided that the umpire can wave their match fee for the day if they choose as compensation for putting their time in. However, we hope players would rather volunteer their time, since the only club survives due to the many hours of work put in by members every week.

Resources

FIH Umpiring Page – The international resources for umpires, provided by the national governing body; FIH.

National Programme Umpires Association - The official site for the National Programme Umpires Association.

England Hockey Officiating Section - A useful collections of information about the structure and levels of umpiring in England

North Young Umpiring – A resource page for North Young Umpires