Referees

Please check the home page for the latest information about certification and upgrade clinics

Some of our referees:

New referee clinics are scheduled for Grand Junction in the spring and the fall.

• Grade 8 (17-hour Entry Level Clinic) This is the basic referee level. Depending upon your comfort level and age, a Grade 8 referee can work up to and including adult games. If you are under 18 years old, you generally need to be two or more years older than the age you are officiating, so you should be 12 years old by the time the season begins.
• Grade 9 (9-hour Recreational Referee) This clinic qualifies a candidate to officiate as a center or assistant referee for recreational games for youths up through the age of 14 years or as an assistant referee for advanced youth games up through the age of 14 years.

For more information on the clinics in Grand Junction, visit the Grand Mesa Youth Soccer website

Visit the Colorado referees' website to learn about clinics on other dates at other locations.

For information, please call Steve Carter at 625-1108 or send him email at steve@riflesoccer.org.

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The CSYSA referee pay schedule for Fall, 2006 and Spring, 2007, is:

Payment will be made by the Rifle Soccer Association for recreational games, and by WSSL if, and only if, you are USSF certified and e-file a game report within 48 hours after the match, at www.wsslsoccer.com.

New Referee Information

Please join us. Being a youth soccer referee is rewarding, great exercise, fun, and an extraordinary public service. You know that a good referee helps your children (or you!) play better; a bad one can spoil the game. We would like to invite you help us to boost the level of soccer in the valley by joining us as a certified soccer referee. We particularly want to encourage those who have taken the assistant referee clinic to upgrade, and high school students to referee the competitive teams.

The qualifications are simple. In order to become a USSF Level R-8 official, you need to complete a 17 hour course and take a test. Even if you think you know all there is to know about the game, you'll be surprised at what you can learn from the course. When you're done, you will have the qualifications to be a referee anywhere in the world. And if you want to work at the high school level, this is the place to start.

According to CSYSA, there are presently about 4500 licensed referees in Colorado. The number is growing, and the age is shrinking; in the Denver area, 60% of the new referees are under 19 years of age. The opposite is true out here. We need to attract high school referees. The youth in the U12 and U14 age brackets really appreciate having a referee who knows from personal experience how the game is played. It's also good for the high schoolers to be given positions of authority; it helps them figure out the vast mystery of how to deal effectively with other adults.