The New Season Approaches

DCHUA has its committee meeting next Monday and we are getting ready for the 2007/8 season. The aim this forthcoming season is to concentrate on providing club umpires with mentoring support to improve their skills and hence provide higher standards of umpiring in Devon (and beyond).

To date DCHUA has identified 21 ‘Inactive’ umpires, with a further 65 level One Candidates undergoing training.

A deadline of 1st September 2007 was set some time ago (extended from 30th April 2007) for inactive umpires to get qualified. Several have used the summer leagues to do. Some candidate umpires have also used these leagues to get qualified.

However, on 1st September the number of inactive umpires is going to jump dramatically. In future years on 30th April all Level One Umpires who have failed to umpire the required number of games and record them with DCHUA, as required by England Hockey, will be automatically marked as INACTIVE.

It is the responsibility of the Level One Umpire to prove their activity and notify DCHUA and not the duty of DCHUA to chase umpires who have failed to maintain their active status.

I hope you all have a good season.



Paddy


Games Not Recorded = Inactive = Removal of Active Level One Status