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As parents we show up at the rink, soccer field, baseball diamond, court, pool or track and somehow everything magically unfolds. The coaches show up, vans pull in five minutes before game time and kids spill out ready to go; equipment shows up, lines are painted, and everyone’s energy is building to the start of a contest. Yet what would happen to that energy if there were no referee or officials present - all that positive energy would dissipate so fast it would make your head spin!

Often forgotten, and too often unheralded, in amateur sport is the incredible logistics, efforts, and dedication of the thousands of amateurs sports officials – without them, quite simply, amateur sports wouldn’t exist.

GOALLINE has worked diligently to help make the administrative and logistics burdens of officiating amateur sports easier, much easier, with its customized back-ends for officiating management websites. Steve Smith, Referee in Chief for Hocky Nova Scotia, comments: "Managing 400 different officials from over 32 different leagues has always been a major task. Goalline has made administrative life easy with its all-in-one officiating management software."

 Just some of the options that will make assigning, scheduling, paying, reporting, and tracking all the ins and outs of officials include:

• Claim assignments online

• Post individual availability

• Create incident reports

• Send evaluation reports

• Track payroll

• Upload documents and videos

• Post relevant articles

• Post sponsor ads

• Delegate website-administration duties

• Schedule volunteers

• Send broadcast e-mails and league-wide announcements

• Create e-mail accounts

• Design photo galleries

• Create a scrolling news ticker

 Check out GOALLINE’s officiating management options here.

 ~ Editor, GOALLINE Nation