Umpires are ESSENTIAL for games to be played, and Byron Bay Netball Club is committed to ensuring that our umpires are supported and feel like the ROCK STARS that they are!Umpiring provides an outstanding and unique opportunity to experience leadership and responsibility.
Of course there is the necessity to develop an intimate understanding of the game's rules, but there are also invaluable LIFE SKILLS that are inherently required of an umpire:
- Accepting responsibility
- Using ones voice to be heard (by the players and the spectators)
- Making decisions that impact others
- Having confidence in one's decision making
- Direction of people to do what you instruct
- Compassion and a willingness to serve whilst observing the rules of the collective
- Being coachable
- Being humble (developing as an umpire is an ever evolving life long craft - there is ALWAYS the 'next thing')
- Using ones' manner as a tool for communication (hand signals, body language, tone of voice)