USTA Certification Requirements

The courses required for each Officiating Discipline are: 

Provisional Umpire/Sectional Umpire Introduction to Officiating Rules & Regulations 1-3 Roving Umpire 1	Level 1 Roving Umpire Introduction to Officiating Rules & Regulations 1-3 Roving Umpire 1 Referee 1	Level 1 Referee Introduction to Officiating Rules & Regulations 1-3 Roving Umpire 1 Referee 1
Chair Umpire Introduction to Officiating Rules & Regulations 1-3 Roving Umpire 1 Chair Umpire 1 (available in 2017)	Chief Umpire Introduction to Officiating Rules & Regulations 1-3 Roving Umpire 1 Referee 1	Line Umpire Introduction to Officiating Rules & Regulations 1-3 Line Umpire 1 (available in 2017)

Please note: If you have Line and/or Chair Umpire Learning Plans, those courses will stay at 83% completion for Chair Umpire and 80% completion for Line Umpire until next year when the Level 1 Line Umpire and Level 1 Chair Umpire course are released. If you seek a USTA Roving certification, you must complete both Level 1 Roving Umpire and Level 1 Referee courses.

There are work requirements that are not listed to achieve the various levels. To learn more go to the following link.

USTA Officiating Certification

Updates and Changes

Sorry for the long delay in updating the MTOA Blog. Since the divorce between USTA and ITA, I have attempted to provide access to the changes so far. You will find them in the links on the right hand side of your screen. New items include:

• New MTOA Official Training Information
• Link to the USTA Learning Center Login (works most of the time, keep trying until it does) Does not work well in Firefox
• Future plans are to change the Online code violation form to instructions on how to enter code violations through TDM
• ITA information
• ITA Rule Book
• Zebraweb

If there is anything you feel needs to be added, please let me know. Terry Gatzki tmgatzki@gmail.com

2016 ITA Certification Information

Final ITA Webinars for a 2016 ITA Certification

 
The ITA has received numerous requests from various officials who were unable to attend an ITA class in 2015.  Accordingly, the ITA will host two "last chance" live webinars for any individuals who failed to attend an ITA class in 2015.  To be clear, these webinars will ONLY BE AVAILABLE for tennis officials who hold a current 2016 USTA certification (i.e., attended a USTA class in 2015), but were unable to attend an ITA class in 2015.  These webinars will be offered on the following dates/times:

          Saturday, January 9, 2016 at 8:00 p.m. (EST)
          Monday, January 18, 2016 at 9:00 p.m. (EST)

If you need to attend one of these webinars, please contact Anthony Montero atanthonymontero@yahoo.com and indicate which webinar you would like to attend.  Anthony will confirm your 2016 USTA certification and then provide you with the log-in information for the ITA webinar.  After both webinars are completed, Anthony will forward a list of participants to the ITA and the we will then forward the Rulebook to these officials who will be newly certified.

THANK YOU for your quick help in sending this out...

Play on!,

Kevin Foster
254 709 3058