Welcome to the Chesapeake Region Scorekeeping Family.  Check the list in the Digs or on the Officials Webpage (http://www.vball-life.org/officials/index.cfm) to see if your name is there.  If you think you should be and you are not, notify me as soon as possible at scorekeeper.chair@chrva.org.  If your name has a 2004 beside it, look for information in September 2004 on how to maintain your certification.  It is much easier to maintain than to redo.  If you are not a currently certified scorekeeper, and you keep score at a sanctioned tournament, you run the risk of you and your team being penalized.

     In addition to the full certification clinics held in the fall, there were eight “Junior” certification clinics held during December and January.  After processing 1200 folks last year, I thought I was prepared.  Never fear, there continues to be growth, and this year we had a little over 1300 attendees.  The new process of junior certification requires the clinic attendees to get their blue evaluation forms signed by a provisional or above scorekeeper or provisional or above referee.  After they have received evaluations of their scoresheets on two different matches and sent the blue form to me, I will verify and mail a card to the Junior scorekeeper.  This will certify the Junior scorekeeper is qualified to keep score at junior only tournaments.  If you were certified from last year, your name is on the list posted on the website (www.chrvajuniors.com).  You must obtain a blue evaluation form from me and get two scoresheet evaluations to stay current.

     The list in this Digs DOES NOT include “Junior Only Certifications.”

THANKS!  THANKS!  THANKS!

     It would not be possible to do my job without a lot of help.  Special thank you to Jan Bowser and Amy Ritter for being the Scorekeeping Recert Assistants.  Thanks to Arlene Geppi for securing all the sites for the Junior Scorekeeper Clinics.  Thanks to Kelli Auletta and Julie Briggs for making the Fellowship and Rating tournaments happen.  Thanks to my clinicians for the junior scorekeeping clinics:  Phyllis Coleman, Debbie Reed, Tom Sullivan, and Diana Zabetakis.  When you are ready to join this fantastic crew of people, call me, email me, write me, or corner me when you see me, and I will be glad to utilize your services as soon as I can.

THE REGIONALS ARE COMING!  THE REGIONALS ARE COMING!

     Are you ready to volunteer and show off your scorekeeping expertise?  If you are, I am interested in hearing from you.  I would love to have scorekeeper volunteers keeping score at a Regional Championship that they are not playing in.  This is your opportunity to show how interested you might be in moving to the next level, or how much you just enjoy scorekeeping.  It might also give you a chance to see a level of play different from the level you currently play.  I highly recommend it.  Contact me at dixie.collins@chrva.org for further information.

REMINDERS ABOUT THE SCORESHEET

     The scoresheets are being reviewed, and these are a few things that have come to my attention:

• Circle the final score of both teams in the service round box section.  Circles in the running score section mean there has been a penalty point earned.  This rarely happens, especially on the final point.

• If the 25^th point is earned on a side out, record point 25 in the next server’s service round box without the little check mark on the teeny number.

• Hourglasses are made in pen.  Each column with unused points gets its own hourglass.

• Start and end times are in pen.  Make sure to record.

• When recording the score at the time of substitution, record multiple substitutions down the column first, and then use the second column when you get to the 5^th sub in a position.

• At the end of the match, pay attention to detail, check, check, and re-check, to make sure you haven’t forgotten anything especially the winning and losing teams scores.

     All tournament hosts should have acquired a current set of scoresheets, lineup sheets, and libero tracking sheets from the CHRVA website forms archive http://www.chrva.org/Forms/forms_archive.html.  I am still seeing some really old sheets come through.  Please do your part to update the materials.  Thanks.