After a long hard pre-season which started in January and a number of weeks of scratch matches the Senior Community Umpiring team officiated in their first round of fixtures last weekend. Both the WA Amateur Football League and WA Women’s Football League kicked off their season’s and these are the two main competitions that the Senior Community Umpires service.
Not only are there a number of umpires returning from the previous season but there has been an injection of new blood into the team. The Senior Community Umpiring team is the stepping stone into WAFL umpiring and 2012 saw 5 field umpires, 4 boundary umpires and 2 goal umpires take the next step by joining the WAFL Umpiring team after being nominated to trial with them during the 2012 pre-season.
With the restructure of the Talent Pathway for umpiring, it was recognized that our future WAFL and AFL umpires needed to have opportunities at a senior community level before progressing to the WAFL. This has led to the development of The Junior District Talent Squad program.
