Officiate - Jacksonville Roller Derby

Become a Ref or Non-Skating Official

Are you interested in joining the team but don’t want to be in the game? Be where the action is! Be a referee!! No experience needed! We will train you and teach you all the rules. Learn how to be a head referee, outside pack ref, inside pack ref, jam ref, and many other referee positions!

E-mail us at jrdbod@gmail.com for more information!

Learn to be:

HEAD REFEREE assigns positions and duties to the other referees and non-skating officials
JAMMER REFEREES responsible for observing Jammers, one per team
PACK REFEREES observes the pack and calls penalties

Don’t want to be a skater but still want to help? We’re always looking for volunteers and Officials – on and off skates. No experience or equipment needed – we will train you! Just e-mail us at jrdbod@gmail.com for more information!

Some of the NSO (non-skating official) positions:

SCOREKEEPERS record the points reported by the Jammer Referees and keep the official score.
PENALTY TRACKERS record the penalties reported by referees and keeps track of the official penalty tally.
SCOREBOARD OPERATOR posts the score from the scorekeeper and the penalties from the penalty tracker.
PENALTY TIMING OFFICIALS oversee the penalty box, time penalties and assist referees in ensuring a team skates short when they ought
JAM TIMER responsible for starting jams and for timing thirty seconds between jams. The jam timer is also responsible for ending jams that run the full 2 minutes.