official's tower

Welcome to the Official's Tower! Thank you for your interest in helping out at tournaments! This is the place to go for information on getting rated as an official and for maintaining and upgrading your official’s ratings. It is also a place where officials can share helpful tools and tips. Please feel free to contact us with questions regarding obtaining, upgrading or reinstating an officials rating, or if you have any suggestions or comments (send to Deb Parsons ).

Words to Live By
Know the rules. Follow the rules. Be fair & impartial.
Give the benefit of the doubt to the skier.

Submit tournament results (lzh file) to Laura Johnson no later than two days following your tournament.

News - Fall 2008

WSTIMS Version 3.55 (August 2008) is the current version for the 2009 ski year. Also, Vista users, WSTIMS will now work with Vista if you have Vista SP1.

Tournament kits are available online at http://www.usawaterski.org/pages/TournKit/AWSA/tournkit.htm

Official's Resources

AWSA has an entire page of links for Officials Resources. Here you'll find the rule books, applications, policy manuals, etc. Check it out!

Judging | Scoring | Driving | Technical | Safety | Announcing

Click here to dig a little deeper into each aspect of officiating. We've compiled tips and techniques, trick calling videos, speed control information and much more. If you have ideas to share, send them to Laura Johnson.

Clinics

Upcoming Clinics - 2009 SACTO Clinic Flyer

Clinics are a great way to keep up with the latest rules in our sport. They're also a good way to meet with other officials and discuss thoughts and opinions. Clinics do not have to be classroom-style meetings either. An optional mentoring program is also available. Mentoring can take place on-site during a tournament and is usually one-on-one or small group format. Contact Deb Parsons for more details.

The Western Region will pay the $10 AWSA clinic fee for regular and senior officials, and assistants who plan on upgrading (including State/Regional/National Safety). Exactly how this happens depends on your area. Assistant judges do not need to attend a clinic to maintain their ratings, only to upgrade.

We added single event clinic instructors and testers (Senior judge in slalom only). Clinic instructors are not required to pay a clinic registration fee and receive full credit towards clinic maintenance requirements. A clinic may also count as one of the required tournament maintenance credits. If you are interested in becoming a clinic instructor or tester (or both), please contact Deb Parsons