ISSAQUAH LITTLE LEAGUE UMPIRE PAGE

Welcome to the Issaquah Little League Baseball and Softball Umpire web page! Our umpire staff consists of adults and teenagers working baseball and softball games at the AAA, Coast, and Majors levels of play. On this page you'll find training and game scheduling information as well as information and links for umpires and anyone else interested in the rules of the game. If you have questions, please email the Umpire-in-Chief, Frank Fite, at FrankFite@gmail.com

2012 Junior Umpire Program - Registration opens 11/1!

Will you be a teenager (13-19) in the spring of 2012? Are you a former Little Leaguer, knowledgable about baseball and/or softball and looking to earn some cash? If so, then the Issaquah Little League Junior Umpire Program might be for you! We are looking for teens who know baseball/softball and who want to umpire games for 9-12 year olds on weeknights after school and on weekends during the day. We will train you and provide the equipment you need. We pay $20 to $30 a game, depending on level of play and what position you umpire. You need to commit to attend the training and have the time to work at least one game a week.

If you want to join the program, go to our home page and click on the registration link on 11/1 or later. Follow the instructions and register as an umpire. We'll get back in touch with you in early 2012 to tell you when the training is and how to get started.

2012 Adult Umpire Program

Issaquah Little League is always looking for adult volunteers who want to umpire. We provide the training and equipment; you prvide your time and enthusiasm. Umpiring is a great way to be involved with Little League and to watch games from the best seat in the house! Plus, you'll get to work with our great corps of teenage umps.

If you want to volunteer to be an adult umpire, go to our home page and click on the registration link on 11/1 or later. Follow the instructions and register as an umpire. We'll get back in touch with you in early 2012 to tell you when the training is and how to get started.

2012 Umpire Training

Unpire training will take place in late February or early March. Exact courses and times will be published in January.

Scheduling Games

Umpires in Issaquah Little League use the ArbiterSports system to self-assign games. All umpires, Junior and Adult, have a login on the system and can pick games from the posted schedules. For more information, contact the UIC.

Umpire Information and Discussion

Check out our Facebook Page!

Issaquah Umpires have a Facebook Fan page at http://www.facebook.com/IssaquahUmps where we discuss rules and post information about game availability and the like. You don't have to be a Facebook member to read the page! But, if you are a Facebook member, you can post items and join in on the discussion. Umpires, please use the Facebook page to post rules questions or just to let us all know about any interesting situations you encountered in your game.

You can also follow the Umpire-in-Chief on Twitter at IssyLLUmp. We'll be using Twitter to give real time updates on things like rainouts, which games need umpires, pointers to rules issues, and so on. Give it a try - Twitter works with your web browser, through email clients that use RSS (like Outlook), via applications on PCs and smartphones (try Tweetdeck), and/or with text messaging.

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