National Officials Certification Program

 

Badminton Alberta offers a comprehensive program for certification of officials at regional and provincial levels with training towards national level assessments. Any person wishing to become involved in the sport as a lines person, service judge, umpire or tournament referee may register for a Badminton Alberta certification course provided they are current individual members of the association.

It is now a requirement for Badminton Alberta sanction of any tournament that a certified official be appointed as tournament referee. Responsibilities of the tournament referee include ensuring that seeding, draws and match schedules are in accordance with international and national standards; and that the rules of badminton are upheld at all times. The tournament referee is the final authority on all such matters at any sanctioned event and must be prepared to act as the arbitrator in any dispute between competitors and tournament organizers.

Certification begins with attending an officiating course; consisting of 3 hours of classroom theory and 4 hours of on-court situational analysis. 

 

Listed below are active Alberta officials with national, provincial and regional level qualifications:

• National Referee – Jeff Bell, Milaine Cloutier, Dale Jenkins
• National Umpire – Jeff Bell, Lydia Cheng, Milaine Cloutier, Carol Fu, Atul Hooda, Dale Jenkins, Wooju Kim, Vishal Santhanam, Ashley Sceviour, Rajan Thiyagarajan, Sunvy Tong, Darren Yee, Juliana Yee
• Provincial Umpire – Marti Chen,Lucy Chen, Nicole Tarry, Stephen Yee
• Regional Umpire – Aila Chorney, Jothymius Kung, Erica Swan, Harper Swan, Nithin Sylesh, Bo Rui Zhang, Thomas Zhang, Quichen Zhao

(I) denotes inactive official.

Former Officials:

National Umpires: Hilton Barnes, Mike Bilida, Lydia Cheng, Eileen Harle, Bruce Hossack, Vive Kumar, Paul Marner, Paula Sceviour, Don Torstensen, Elvi Torstensen, Jane West, Benny Xu.

Provincial Umpires: Diane Bolton, Herbie Kot, Peter Ing, James Lin, Bruce LaRocque, JR McDonald, Neil Prather, Rita Rusich, Nazir Walji.

Regional Umpires: Bruce Chivers, Doug Guild, David Howatt, Helen Lee, Cody LaRocque, Kathleen Malo, Bill Saunders, Kin Wong, Kumud Achaya (I), Rocky Chan, Jimmy Chung, Paul Kam, Bryce Kopec, Miriam Li, Hoon Lim, Jeff Wang, Danny Long, Dan O'Reilly, Jesse Chen

The Officials Committee has decided that in order to promote official development and proficiency, the following guidelines have been agreed upon. In order to be considered as an active official, and hence eligible to officiate at out of province and national tournaments, Regional and Provincial officials must umpire at least 10 matches per year and National level officials must umpire at least 20 matches per year. Completed score sheets should be forwarded to the Executive Director of Badminton Alberta on an annual basis. Officials not umpiring the required number of matches will be considered inactive.

 

If you are interested in becoming an umpire, please contact the Badminton Alberta office at 403 297 2722 or email coach@badmintonalberta.ca