FIE referee Hisham Abdelaziz will run a referee clinic at the club on January 17-18. The Friday session is from 5-9 pm (please arrive 15 minutes early to get settled and take care of housekeeping items) and consists of lecture and discussion. This session is also available online. The 9 am-12 pm Saturday session will be observation for those who want to try to earn a rating. Those who aren’t interested in earning a rating are still welcome to attend and/or fence so that we have folks to referee!

More information is available on askFred.net: https://www.askfred.net/clinics/22fe0c4d-0966-4bee-8b8e-b0ea1f93df17

We strongly recommend looking at USA Fencing’s resources and information on becoming a referee: https://www.usafencing.org/become-a-referee

If you’re interested in taking the written exam (passing it is required in order to earn a rating), you have a 48-hour window to take it as many times as you want, so we recommend taking it once shortly before the Friday evening seminar, ask questions about concepts you didn’t understand during the seminar, and then you’ll have another shot at it afterwards.