Who?  Training is mandatory for all new umpires and all umpires below league age 16. (No exceptions)

What?  Minimum of 5-6 hours of training for new umpires.

Where?  Canterbury Woods ES

Spring 2012 - email: umpire@ansll.org

	Dates	Times
Mandatory for New Umpires and those with 1 year of exp	Attend one of these: February 25 OR February 28 February 29 March 1	11:30-5pm   6:45 - 9:00 pm
Mandatory for umpires with 2 or more yrs experience and 15 or younger	March 6 (at Doug Neville's home)	6:45 - 9:00 pm
Mandatory for umpires 16 and older who want to work 90' games	March 8  (at Doug's house)	7:00 - 9:00 pm

The Chief Umpire, Annandale-North Springfield Little League, is responsible for insuring that Juveniles and Adults that umpire on a regular basis are fully trained and knowledgeable in the rules and mechanics of umpiring Little League Baseball.  Formal training will be facilitated by ANSLL's Chief Umpire. New umpires, or umpires 15 years of age or less MUST attend training. 

Adults are encouraged to attend any or all training classes.  The purpose of that training is to review new rules and to discuss advanced umpiring techniques.

Training will consist of various training sessions. For new umpires (including adults) or umpires with 1 year of experienc there will be EITHER two 2-hr rules classes along with a 2hr mechanics session (must attend all 3) OR one 5 hour training all in one day.  The training covers:. 

A - Ball/Strike, Fail/foul, Catch/No-catch, check swings
B - Calling the bases, leaving before pitch
C - Plate and Base Mechanics

Juvenile Umpires (under league age 16) with 2 or more years of experience must attend one 2-hour (Majors-level) training.  All experienced umpires who wish to work 90-foot games must attend one 2-hr Junior-level training. 

Trained Juvenile
Individuals, 11 - 17 years of age, who have been fully trained in the rules and mechanics of umpiring Little League Baseball. All juvenile umpires are compensated based on their experience and abilities.

Trained Adult Volunteers
Unpaid adults (18 or older) who have been fully trained in the rules and mechanics of umpiring Little League Baseball. Trained Adult Umpire Volunteers do not get compensated for umpiring little league games.
Note: Full-time college students may be compensated.

Untrained Adult Volunteers
Adults (18 or older) who have received minimal or no umpire training. Untrained Adult Volunteers are not compensated for umpiring Little League games. Moreover, Untrained Adult Volunteers will be assigned as field umpires only, and will only be requested to umpire games when no Trained Juvenile Umpires or Trained Adult Umpire Volunteers are available.

Regular Season & Playoffs (Player pitch divisions)
Umpired by a combination of Trained Juvenile Umpires, and Trained Adult Umpire Volunteers.

Majors
Trained Juvenile Umpires, or Trained Adult Volunteers.  No game is to proceed without at least 2 umpires.  If only one umpire is available, an additional umpire will be requested from a AAA game if possible and as long as the AAA game has at least 1 trained umpire remaining.  The AAA game, in turn, will ensure at least 2 umpires by obtaining an Untrained Adult Volunteer from one or both AAA teams.  An Untrained Adult Volunteer will NOT umpire a Majors-level game unless no trained umpires are available.

AAA & AA Divisions
Trained Juvenile Umpires or Trained Adult Volunteers whenever possible.  No game is to proceed without at least 2 umpires.  If only one umpire is available, additional umpire(s) will be Untrained Adult Volunteer(s) provided by either one or both teams who higher level games.

A - Machine Pitch
Trained umpires will not be scheduled for these games unless a specific request is made by both managers at least 48 hours in advance.

Link to Umpire Game Assignment schedules