Meet Referee Certification
Note: PVS Referees with Meet Referee experience prior to 2017
will be grandfathered into the Meet Referee certification.
Certification Requirements
updated 08/2018
- Be a certified PVS Deck Referee.
- Be a certified PVS Administrative Official.
- Serve on-deck as a Deck Referee at a minimum of ten sessions.
The ten sessions must be at a minimum of four PVS Sanctioned Meets*.
- Serve as an Apprentice Meet Referee at a minimum of one PVS Sanctioned
Meet* (of at least three sessions). Apprenticeship must include pre-meet
planning and post meet responsibilities.
- Be recommended to the PVS Officials Chair by the Mentoring Meet Referee using the
PVS Meet Referee Apprentice Report.
- Certification remains effective as long as PVS Deck Referee certification is maintained.
Recertication Requirements
- Maintain your PVS Deck Referee certification.
* Excludes observed and approved meets, such as high school, college, and masters
competitions