Advice for New Referees

How does a new referee get game assignments?

• Initial assignments will likely come from a youth league assignor and will be in the lower-level games.
• Make sure you received the name of your local assignor during the entry-level course. If you didn’t, contact your instructor for the course and ask how you find out who the assignor is in your area.
  

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• Sign in to your Arbiter Sports account (https://www1.arbitersports.com/arbiterone/official/dashboard)
  • Sign up for a new account if you do not already have one
• Go to the “My Assignors” section in the personal info section
• Click the (show) link for “Join New Group” and input the information here
  •  Tennessee Valley USSF Soccer Assigning TVUSA (113665) 
    • if you have issues, send a text to:
      • Bill Mize: wmize@aol.com || 865-607-1202
      • Jason O’Dell: jodell32@hotmail.com ||  423-620-9298
• (There is a place to note your assignor’s contact information at the end of this document.)
• Contact Susan Williamson for assignments for Knoxville Metro Soccer League (KMSL) or if High School certified
  

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• When accepting more than one assignment in a day, make sure you allow enough time to travel to the next game.
• Make sure you let your assignor know what your game schedule looks like if you are playing and if you have any conflicts of interest with other teams, such as family members playing on or coaching teams in the same league.
• If you are interested in working as a referee at tournaments in your state, watch for a listing on your state association website, or the referee committee website. The referee assignors for tournaments are usually listed, as well as a way to get in touch with them.
• Game fees: The game fees paid to referees vary from state to state, and sometimes even from league to league. You will be able to find out what the game fees are and how you get paid from your assignor and/or your area (district) referee administrator.

How to Send a Text Message (SMS) Via Email

To send a text message via email, you must use a SMS to email gateway. Just substitute a 10-digit cell number for ‘number’ for each carrier below:

• AT&T: number@txt.att.net
• T-Mobile: number@tmomail.net)
• Verizon: number@vtext.com (text-only), number@vzwpix (text + photo)
• Sprint: number@messaging.sprintpcs.com or number@pm.sprint.com
• Virgin Mobile: number@vmobl.com
• Tracfone: number@mmst5.tracfone.com
• Metro PCS: number@mymetropcs.com
• Boost Mobile: number@myboostmobile.com
• Cricket: number@mms.cricketwireless.net
• Ptel: number@ptel.com
• Republic Wireless: number@text.republicwireless.com
• Google Fi (Project Fi): number@msg.fi.google.com
• Suncom: number@tms.suncom.com
• Ting: number@message.ting.com
• U.S. Cellular: number@email.uscc.net
• Consumer Cellular: number@cingularme.com
• C-Spire: number@cspire1.com
• Page Plus: number@vtext.com

Sending text messages to email is actually a much easier task.

Making the Most of Texting from Email:

To take this to the next level from a productivity standpoint, I’d recommend creating ‘contacts’ within your email account so that you aren’t constantly looking up all of those cell numbers that you don’t have memorized each time you send an email.

How to Add Cell Numbers for Text Messaging in Gmail Contacts:

In the following example, I’m going to add my mother’s cell to my Gmail contacts. Let’s say that her phone provider is Verizon and her number is (555)123-4567. You should be able to set up contacts through most email programs (if you can’t, switch to Gmail).

1. Click on ‘contacts’:

2. Now, add a new contact (in the lower right corner):

3. Put in ‘name’ and the word ‘cell’ to clarify between email and cell contacts in both the Name and Nickname fields:

4. When composing a new text message, simply type in your contact’s name: