DEFEATED -- PASSED IN RESOLUTION FORM

R-6

Location: Page 25

102.12 OFFICIALS

Proposed by: Stan Benson, House of Delegates representative from Oregon Swimming

Purpose: To ensure that officials meet the minimum training standards established by the National Officials Committee.

102.12 OFFICIALS

.1 The National Official’s Committee shall adopt minimum official’s certification standards. The Committee shall review the certification standards of all LSCs to determine if they meet the minimum official’s certification standards adopted by the Committee.

  1. Officials assigned at any USA Swimming Championship or Trials meet shall be required to be certified by an LSC that has adopted certification standards that have been approved by the Officials Committee.

B. Officials certified by an LSC whose official’s certification standards are determined as not meeting the standards adopted by the Committee shall not be eligible for either National or National Championship certification.

C. Officials holding National or National Championship certifications on the effective date of this rule shall be eligible to renew their existing level of certificatiom but cannot advance to a higher level without conforming to the above requirements.

.2 The National Officials Chairman may grant waivers to 102.12.1 to accommodate situations where it is judged to be impractical to meet the standards.

(Renumber subsequent paragraphs in this section)