Virginia Officials

WALOA Annual General Meeting

• Sunday, February 23, 2025, 9 am- 1 pm - Annandale High School

New Officials

• Please visit our New Member page

Returning Officials

As we prep for the 2025 season, the standard requirements will be in place.

• Complete Google Form (need this done to start assignments)

• USA Lacrosse Membership (make sure email is the same as Arbiter or it does not "see" it)

• Background Check Through USL (part of USL membership process)

• VHSL Registration ( https://whistleapp.vhsl.org/)

• VHSL Test

• 6 hours of Professional Development

For professional development, here are the options:

• Area 4 Google Meets/Zoom Calls (Sundays 8pm- 9pm)

  • TBA

• USA Lacrosse Annual Rules Exams and Professional Development Courses for Officials (required for ALL)

• NILOA Officials (NILOA Annual Meeting counts as 4 hours)

• Georgia Lacrosse Officials Website (https://galaxref.com/resources/presentations/)

• Past USA Lacrosse "You Make The Call" videos (https://www.youtube.com/c/USLacrosseOfficialsDevelopmentProgram/playlists)

• Gordon Corsetti "Failure" Presentation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e_2YbFj5Qs)

• GLOA YouTube Page (https://www.youtube.com/user/GLOAWebmaster)

• WALOA AGM

• VHSL Clinic (not sure if in-person or virtual or on-demand)