Dear Parent,

As you are aware the Exeter Youth Lacrosse Association is a volunteer program and it takes many hands to make this a great experience for your players. We are always looking for head coaches, assistant coaches, timers, score keepers, field liners, and an assortment of other positions each season.

I would like to suggest yet another way for you to become involved in your players lacrosse experience. It is our plan this year to provide more games and scrimmages at all levels. Often, the key to being able to hold a game or scrimmage is the availability of certified lacrosse officials. Each year we train a number of youth officials, boys and girls 15 years of age or older, to officiate our games. Unfortunately, all of our youth officials are also players. Since they also have a practice and game schedule, along with a school work load, they are usually only available on Sundays. We would like to hold games on weeknights and Saturdays, as well as our Sunday League schedule. To accomplish this we would like to have a group of parents train as lacrosse officials. Training consists of classroom and on field training, see details at NHYLA.org. Officiating is not gender specific. Women officiate the men’s game and men can officiate the women’s game. It is your choice to choose one route or the other. Officiating can be a very rewarding experience and an opportunity to stay in shape. Officials also receive payment for their services.

Please go to NHYLA.org to review the requirements (scroll down To All Interested in Becoming a Youth Lacrosse Official) and call me with any questions. The first classroom training sessions will begin on February 2024 here in Exeter at the Seacoast School of Technology on 40 Linden Street.

Wayne

Wayne Demers

wdemers@comcast.net

603-778-8411