Pennsylvania's Largest Most Experienced Chapter
Reminder for virtual chapter meeting Sunday, September 26, 2021 at 7:15pm. Greg will be discussing multiple game situations and there will be a Q and A after. If you have any rules questions you would like answered, please attend. Milan will be email the link to attend.
Thank you
The following Executive Committee Offices are up for election:
Vice President – currently held by Dave Mrvos
Recording Secretary- currently held by Eric Ressler
Assigning Secretary – currently held by Matt Martin
At-Large Board Members – currently held by Louis Smolensk, Dan Wolfe
Anyone interested in running for one of the vacant positions should contact a member of the elections committee: Dave Mrvos or Milan Yekich
Reminder there will be a chapter meeting on Sunday, September 12, 2021 at Gateway High School in the LGI room located in the back of the school. Greg will be covering first contact and ball handling.
MISSION STATEMENT:
The Observation Program will observe and rate all Officials who are active in the Golden Triangle Chapter to improve their professional performance at matches assigned by the Chapter. This process shall aid the Chapter in producing and retaining the most competent volleyball officials in Pennsylvania.
Goals/Objectives:
The Observation Program goal is to objectively observe, critique and grade each observed Official using the GTCCVO Observation Form. That Form will record each officials’ performance under standard, objective criteria. The Form will be filled out by the Observer; discussed and shared with the Officials working the match, and sent to the Chapter Executive Committee to be used for future assignments. Consistency in the observation of EACH and EVERY official is our main goal.
All officials working City League games this fall are required to sign the Pittsburgh Public Schools / City League Covid-19 Waiver.
You may either Print and sign the Waiver form and take it with you to the match, or Sign the form at the match.
Here is a link to the form.
This email is mainly for our newer officials. Most schools pay via arbiter, so you will want to add your checking/savings bank account to your arbiter account under payments. It’s pretty easy to do, but if you have any questions, there is a 1-800 # for arbiter and one of their associates can answer any questions you may have.
For those of you who would like Arbiter Assignments and Chapter Meeting Dates automatically added to your personal calendar. I think that this might be what you are looking for. I have been doing this for the last few years. It automatically adds meeting dates AND my assignments to my personal calendar. It is done through Arbiter and you will obviously need to log-in to your account.Here is a link to the directions on Arbiter for different calendar platforms.
Just a reminder GTCCVO mandatory rules interpretation meeting/chapter meeting will be held this Sunday, August 15 at Our Lady of Sacred Heart, 1504 Woodcrest Ave, Coraopolis at 7:00 pm followed by a chapter meeting. This meeting is in person only. If you signed up for the online PIAA convention, you still have to attend a mandatory rules meeting. The online convention does NOT count towards the Mandatory rules meeting. If you would like to attend a virtual meeting, Beaver chapter is having a zoom meeting on August 16. Details for attending can be found on the PIAA website along with other meeting dates/places if you can not attend our meeting. You must attend a mandatory rules meeting + 4 chapter meetings to be in good standing with the PIAA.
2021 Fall Chapter Meetings
The Golden Triangle Volleyball Chapter Board met recently. We will be conducting our fall chapter meetings both in-person and thru Zoom this fall. Four of our chapter meetings will be in-person and three meetings will be on Zoom. In order to receive credit for an in-person meeting, all officials must attend the meeting in-person. The PIAA State Rules Meeting will be in-person at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart High School ( Gymnasium) on Sun. Aug. 15, 2021 at 7 p.m. followed by a chapter meeting afterwards. The PIAA State Rules Meeting is mandatory unless you attend another PIAA State Rules Meeting at another location or online. Please mark down these important dates in your calendar. Please note, that we have new locations for our in-person chapter meetings this fall. We will send out the Zoom link via email the week of the Zoom meetings.
Aug. 1, 2021 – 7:15 p.m. – Zoom Meeting
Aug. 15, 2021 – 7 p.m. – PIAA State Rules Meeting – In-Person – Location – Our Lady of the Sacred Heart High School – Gym
Aug. 15, 2021 – 8 p.m. – Chapter Meeting – In-Person – Location – O.L.S.H. – Gym
Aug. 29, 2021 – 7:15 p.m. – Zoom Meeting
Sept 12, 2021 – 7:15 p.m. – Chapter Meeting – In-Person – Location – Gateway High School – LGI Room
Sept. 26, 2021 – 7:15 p.m. – Zoom Meeting
Oct. 10, 2021 – 7:15 p.m. – Chapter Meeting – In-Person – Location – Central Catholic High School Gym
Oct. 24, 2021 – 7:15 p.m. – Chapter Meeting (Elections) – In-Person – Location – Baldwin High School – LGI Room
2021Summer Rating / Training Opportunities
The Golden Triangle Volleyball Evaluation & Training Committee will be conducting ratings, evaluations, and new official live-match training at Avonworth High School on July 13 and July 15. There will be 4 – Best-of-3 matches each night starting at 5 p.m. We encourage all officials looking for a more challenging schedule and 2021 playoff consideration ( if not receiving post-season assignments) to contact us to receive a rating / evaluation. All new and newer officials are welcome to attend to shadow officials, line judge, and learn the best methods of officiating from our training staff.. All interested officials need to contact us if interested so we can schedule you in the Arbiter to work these matches. There will not be any compensation for these opportunities, but participating in these matches may positively impact your fall scheduling. Please feel free to reach out to us if you have any questions. Thank you!.
City League Volleyball Assignments
Tom Bailey will begin assigning the City League this week. Please make sure you contact Tom if you are interested in working the City League. Most City League matches take place in the afternoon. Please block yourself in the afternoon if you are unavailable to work in the afternoon. We have too many officials declining afternoon matches because they do not block themselves. If you are unavailable to work afternoon, then please block yourself. Tom’s email address is (available in Arbiter)
WPIAL Volleyball Assignments
We will begin assigning WPIAL High School Volleyball matches on August. 1. Please block yourself if you are unavailable to work, especially in the afternoon. If you are working NCAA volleyball, please make sure you are “Sharing” your schedules in the Arbiter. In order to “Share” your schedule, go under “Profile” and share your NCAA schedule with our chapter so we can geographically place you in areas that will keep you close to where are are coming from. We will discuss all scheduling at our meeting on Aug. 1.
The PIAA championships will be held this Saturday, June 12 at Penn State University Rec Hall. I am pleased to announce that the Golden Triangle volleyball chapter will be represented by Bill Vanselow as the R1 and Matt Martin as the R2 on the AA final and line judges on the AAA final. Congratulations! If you are interested in going to the finals, tickets are available on-line only via the PIAA website.