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A message from Pam Bryant

The Club needs more Umpire’s and more urgently Coaches!

This is the “how too” to becoming an Umpire! Please consider! (Pamela, Sandbelt Umpires Panel.)
Explanation of Process for Applications

1. Application Process and Problems – BV require each bowler who wishes to become an official or to be re-accredited as an official to submit an application to them. The application forms are available on the BV and Sandbelt websites.
Once the application is received by BV, it is noted and, if required, an Officiating Manual is forwarded to the applicant’s home address. The Chairperson BV Umpires committee records the application and then sends them onto the Regional DUC’s.
NOTE: 1. Each candidate must have an Officiating Manual for use at either accreditation or re-accreditation.
2. I request Club CCO’s to send me a copy of the front page of any application so that I am aware of application sent from Clubs and I can follow up if applications go missing.
Once I receive an application I enter it onto my Applications database. It is generally at the beginning or end of the Season that the Panel arranges the dates for courses for the Markers, Measurers and Umpire components for new accreditations. When I have sufficient number of re-accreditation applications I will arrange a date for assessment.
When a date is set for courses or assessments the applicants on my database are informed by email or phone of the dates and are asked to confirm their attendance. A reminder is then usually sent to those who have not responded in a week, asking whether they wish to attend or not. Pre-reading and exercises are then sent to the applicants in the week before the dates set.
NOTE: There are a number of applicants who do not respond at all to these emails or phone calls, but we assume that the dates do not suit, and the names are left on the database and are then informed when the next series of courses / assessments are being conducted.
The courses are then conducted by the Presenters using a competency based, ongoing, assessment during the course and at the end of the course (usually 4-5 hours length) the Assessor determines whether the candidate is competent, and their assessment is forwarded to BV. If a candidate is determined as being not competent in some areas then they will be given a further opportunity to show that they are competent.
The assessment for re-accreditation is also competency based and requires the candidate to show they are competent by exercises and questioning on their role as an Official.
Once a candidate has completed the course / assessment, their paperwork is forwarded to BV for processing. Depending on the availability of the Chairperson, BV forwards the assessment to BA at the end of each month. BA then forward the candidates card within 2-3 weeks of obtaining the assessment.
NOTE: There are occasions where the assessment “goes astray”, so if a candidate has not received their card after a period they should contact BV in the first instance who follow up on their behalf.
My last task is to include successful candidates on the Sandbelt Umpires database and to include them on my email mailing list. From time to time I send out updates on procedures / decisions or any changes to Rules. I also use this mailing list to request assistance from our Officials for events at Regional or State level.
I apologise for being long winded in this explanation of the processes that are involved in the accreditation and re-accreditation of our Officials but I hope that it gives an idea of what the Panel does apart from our duties as Umpires at Club, Regional, State and National level.

3. Assessment Assistance – from time to time when we are conducting assessment of candidates the Panel calls on Officials to assist our Panel, if any other Officials would like to help in these matters please contact me (nsbowls@hotmail.com) as I would appreciate a larger list upon which to call.

4. New Rule Books – there has been a revision of Crystal Mark 3 with a few changes, so there is a new version (Crystal Mark 3.1) available from BA and BV. I would hope that Clubs would supply copies to their Officials. There have been changes to Crystal Mark 3.1, just cosmetic, and I will send out adjustments of the Lawbook when informed by BV.
Neil Smillie – Chairperson, Sandbelt Umpires Panel