Worst part about club volleyball season, the refing and scoring clinic. My team was just told that we needed to get certified. One of my teammates actually wrote a blog post about this too! It takes a solid 4 hours to complete, and you already know how to do all of it! Or maybe you know none of it and it's just a lot of rules you don't understand. But push through it, you need to be certified to play club.
Fortunately, you can now do your clinics online, when I was younger, you used to have to actually show up at a lecture and listen to someone speak about refing and scoring. REALLY boring. But, you didn't have to take a test at the end. Now, after you've watched the lesson, you have to pass a quiz about it by at least 90%. Fortunately, you can take a pre-quiz and if you pass it, you get to skip the whole video. That saves a good 20 minutes! Unfortunately, the pre-quiz has like all these trick questions and its just terribly confusing. You probably end up having to listen to the whole video.
Thank goodness for me I passed 3 of the pre-quizzes and didn't waste and hour of my life!
They really should make the videos more interesting because it's very boring. The voices in the video are very monotone and slow and who wants to listen to that on a weekend when you have to listen to that all week at school? NO ONE!
Now that I've done all of my complaining, I do understand why we have to do it every year. It surprises me a lot how much I actually forget from one season to the next. It's a good refresher. Also, some people desperately need the help. I have had teams ref for me that have absolutely no clue what they are doing. What I'm wondering is how the heck did you pass the clinics! It also is really awesome when you are refing and you make this super weird call (like an illegal block, I had never seen one EVER until last year!) and your like , yeah I did know that! They should really make the parents take the clinics too so they wouldn't haggle the refs so often. Parents, settle down, you have no clue what's going on!
Yeah I know it's the most boring 4 hours of your life, but sit tight, it'll help you in the long run!
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