Rule Interpretation: The Role Of The Rules In Netball

The role of an umpire is to control and be fair throughout the game according to the rules. The umpire has to position themselves where they can see the players, the play and most important the ball. All professional games will have two umpires and the following diagram shows the main parts of the court they cover for umpiring with the umpire blowing the whistle for the centre pass if a goal was just scored in their section.
An umpire needs confidence controlling the game and have a powerful voice and a strong blow for the whistle. As an umpire, you need to know the rules and practising will help you. As an umpire, you need to allow the players on court play the game fairly so a lot of patience and a calm fair nature is very useful. If umpires
Now I do know the rules I am confident in umpiring. I wasn’t very confident before the carnival but now I feel very confident to umpire a game of netball.
Reflecting on the carnival I felt I did umpire really well, the children understood me as the game went along. I haven’t had that much experience with umpiring but now I am really confident. One of my strengths is that I have a loud voice and I can control the court with my voice. During the day after we played Lady of Hope primary school Harlan from St John the Apostle (the School I was helping to umpire) came up to me to and said that he thought the other umpire was hard to hear because he didn’t move and he said I was great because I moved around and I was loud enough for them to hear the calls.
1- I need to improve my fitness for umpiring because it does get tiring running up and down the court. The carnival games went for 10 minutes so I didn’t get that tired but obviously a full game is a lot longer. I need to improve by running more and eat