UMPIRING
The sport of netball is set apart by its unique and distinctive rules, which define the skills of the game and the limits within which they must be performed. The Rules of Netball are interdependent and of equal importance. As a whole, they direct its fundamental spirit and conduct, and ensure safety and fairness for all competitors.
Umpiring is an integral component of netball and isessential to the progress and success of the sport. Asindependent arbiters, umpires are ideally positioned toapply the rules to the best of their ability without fear orfavour, and to make decisions in the interests of the gameand its tenets of equal opportunity and sporting conduct.Skilled umpiring enhances the standard of the game bycomplementing and encouraging skilled play, for theenjoyment of participants and spectators alike.
Netball Australia has developed and implemented this comprehensive National Umpire Development Framework to attract, develop and retain quality umpires at all levels of the sport both nationally and internationally.
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The National Umpire Development Framework is complimented by the Netball Australia High Performance Umpire Pathway, which is aligned to the national athlete pathway.