Interested in umpiring?
While umpiring is a great way to get more involved in the game and give back to the sport & club, it’s also a great side earner!
Umpiring juniors can great pocket money earner for school/uni students, while umpiring senior games can pay ~$50 per senior game (and even more for higher grades or umpire qualifications).
If either you or someone you know is interested please contact Hugo at umpiring.unswhockey@gmail.com with any queries including, but not limited to:
- Questions, concerns, or hesitations about umpiring
- Online registration and online self training
- Practical assessment (umpiring trial or comp game) - higher level means better grade games and higher pay!
Club Umpire Requirements
Juniors
We typically need to provide an umpire for each junior team from U11 to U17 on Friday nights and Saturday mornings.
Junior games are a great way to learn umpiring and get some on field experience, with umpires ranging from new, in-training junior umpires, to seniors players and keen parents. Players often umpire around their own games as a great way to get into umpiring and earn some pocket money.
There will be an umpire training session during the season to learn all you need to know, and the SEHA site has some great resources to get started with umpiring. https://www.seha.com.au/development/umpiring/
Women’s
You may or may not know, but each week we are required to supply 1 umpire for each women's game we field in the competition - so that's 11 umpires!
Due to a shortage of regular umpires in the club we engage a number of badged umpires from other clubs to fulfil many of the higher grade requirements.
For the lower grades we have a small pool of umpires within the club which we are trying to grow to have greater depth and also for cases where umpires may not wish to umpire every week.
SEHA (ED) games are generally at Daceyville, Cintra, Sutherland and Kyeemagh. MET games are typically at Olympic Park, and for Met 5/6 there may be games at Bankstown, Cintra, Daceyville, Olympic, Lidcombe.
Men’s
Sydney Hockey (Men's) also have a separate system (centrally allocated and paid for by the competition) of umpires should you wish to umpire mens games (mostly Saturday).
Any questions, please contact Hugo at umpiring.unswhockey@gmail.com
