Tournament Sanctioning
Embrace the Competition. We’ve Got You Covered. Take your pickleball tournament to the next level by sanctioning with USA Pickleball! Sanctioning your tournament with USA Pickleball comes with numerous benefits for tournament directors and players, including exposure on the USA Pickleball event calendar, extensive insurance coverage for your players, staff, volunteers, and referees, access to…
Referee Training and Certification Q&A
Referee Certification Phase III Goes Live This month the USAPA Referee Certification program went live on June 8 with the addition of the Certification Application to the Rules & Referees section of usapickleball.org. In addition to numerous applications, we have received a number of questions about the prerequisites and process for application and evaluation. Following…
New Referee Training Tools
USAPA recently introduced the new Referee Training Tools page on usapickleball.org! The page is easy to remember and easy to tell others about: USAPA.org/referee. It is one stop for all your referee information! It includes important referee tools like: The Rulebook Referee Handbook Scoresheets Rules Tests Player Quiz Line Judge Guide Official Casebook Official Training…
USAPA Referee and Instructor Certification Meetings at Nationals VII
October 2015 Training Update By Linda & Lynn Laymon, USAPA Training Chairs Phase II Beta testing of the Referee Training/Certification program will soon be completed and we are currently analyzing the feedback and updating the training materials as needed. The finalized USAPA Referee Handbook and Referee Trainer Guide will be available to USAPA members by…
USAPA Training Update: September 2015
Since the last newsletter we have completed one project and have two other major undertakings in the works. This update was submitted by Lynn & Linda Laymon, USAPA Training Chairs New USAPA Official Scoresheet The updated USAPA Official Scoresheet is now available at usapickleball.org. It will primarily be used for tournaments that are run manually,…