Take care of it.

What are your responsibilities as a Team Georgia official?

After 9/1/2011 get or renew your USA official license.
Go to themat.com Click on join or renew membership. Click on Add official if you have not been licensed, and renew official if you have been licensed before.
If you are 18 years of age or older, you will be asked to go through the background check. It costs $17.00, and takes from one hour, to one week. After your background check is complete, you can return to the site and complete the purchase of your license.

Read, and post comments on all of the Blogs assigned for training.

Purchase your uniform.

Team Georgia will be providing us with rule books.

Attend the Team Georgia Fall meeting. You only have to attend the morning session. You will receive your rule book, and a flip disc like the one in the picture above.

The Team Georgia Annual Fall Meeting is Sunday Sept 11th 11:00am - 3:30pm at Mountain View High School.

Mt. View High School
2351 Sunny Hill Road
Lawrenceville, Ga. 30043

This is an open meeting and everyone is encouraged to attend. The meeting will consist of a luncheon, workshop sessions and the business meeting. A detailed schedule can be found in the Team GA documents section of the Team Georgia website.

To get a head count for lunch, please send an RSVP to robsherryhorton@att.net with your name, club name and email address.

If you are a Folkstyle tournament host you are required to attend the Fall Meeting. Tournament sanctioning and club charters need to be submitted online before this meeting. Instructions for this are the same as last year and will be sent out shortly.

Clubs must be chartered before the fall meeting is called to order at 2pm to be able to vote during the meeting. Please arrive no later than 1:30pm on Sunday Sept 11th to pick up your club packets and paper work.

There are several proposals to be voted on. Proposals are posted on the Team Georgia Website in the forums. The sponsors of the proposals have been accepting input for several months and will present the final proposals on September 1st. Please review and provide feedback on the proposals to them before September 1st.

We will have a few small door prizes for those that RSVP and attend the meeting so, please RSVP ASAP.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,

Sherry Horton
Fall Business Meeting Coordinator
678-442-0270
robsherryhorton@att.net

We will have 4 opportunities for you to show your skills at preseason tournaments. You will work those events for free as part of your training. You will be required to work 2 of the 4 events.

The tournament directors will be contracted to pay you at every event.
For Middle School Duals, you will receive $50.00
Beginners tournaments will pay $1.00/match
Open tournaments will pay $2.00/match

Experienced officials will be assigned as Head officials and will be paid $150.00 for Middle School duals, and Beginners tournaments. They will work the matches, and work as trainers to the less experienced officials. They will settle disputes, and get everyone through the rough patches. They will be paid at the normal $2.00/match at open tournaments.


Do not forget to RSVP for the Fall meeting.