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Your career, whether Indoor or Beach, begins with a Level 1 Certification Clinic. Local Referee Clinics are officially divided into 5 sections and candidates must complete ALL sessions. The Ontario Volleyball Association (OVA) Local Referee Clinic is designed for students, teachers, players, coaches and parents interested in refereeing. Candidates will progress through an online theory course and exam, an in-person theory session and finally a practical session (tournament) where the candidates will referee matches as part of their final evaluations. The first level in the OVA Referees' development program, it is designed for any person aspiring to become a volleyball referee. The purpose is to enable the candidate to understand and apply basic rule interpretations. Local referees are allowed and expected to officiate as a first official at OVA 13U-16U youth competitions and elementary and high school leagues and tournaments; as well as work as lines people and score keep at College and University matches.

Indoor Volleyball KDVC typically holds one, single clinic each volleyball season near the end of September or beginning of October. However, if there is sufficient interest a second clinic may be added at the start of the girls season in November. More information about upcoming clinic dates and registration links can be found on our home page. Beach Volleyball Beach Volleyball events in our immediate area being almost non-existent, KDVC does not offer clinics for this discipline, as the opportunity is limited for officials to recover their expenses. Indoor & Beach Volleyball If you are willing to travel, additional clinics are held throughout Ontario and are listed on the OVA website: https://www.ontariovolleyball.org/referees-upcoming-clinics

OVA requires that candidates are 15 years of age or older. However, officiating requires a functioning level of maturity, responsibility, coping skills, and the ability to manage coaches and players. Therefore candidates must have the confidence and ability to communicate to the Head Clinician and OVA Staff directly, rather than having a parent or guardian do the communication on their behalf.

Registration in administered and managed by the Ontario Volleyball Association. Upcoming Clinics Prior to posting on the OVA website, KDVC first sends the registration link to our waiting list to ensure first priority registration. Registration is then made available to other waiting list candidates from Region 6 and then posted to the OVA website to fill any remaining slots. Make sure to check out our homepage and join our waiting list to get early registration access.

Typically, registration for a clinic will close once the maximum number of participants is reached OR 5 days before the In-Person Theory, whichever comes first. This is to ensure that both the Online Theory (4 Hrs) and Online Exam (1 Hr) pre-requisites are successfully completed and recorded.

The OVA Membership Registration System (MRS) is the primary source for OVA membership, tournament and event registration. The OVA provides a helpful list of How to Register in MRS guides to help with your registration. The MRS system uses a member’s email address as their user ID, so each member must have a unique email address to register. For example, trying to use a single, shared, family email for more than 1 registration will result in errors. Kingston and the surrounding are part of OVA’s Region 6 (R6 – East Ontario) Select/Add the Complementary role to avoid paying any referee membership fees at this time Existing members Players, coaches, club contacts, or other roles can update their current MRS profiles. New Members If you are not an existing member of the OVA you will first need to create your MRS account. For college and university students and military personnel moving into the area. You must use your local, Kingston-area address to register. This is the primary address OVA uses for assigning officials and is the location from which mileage is calculated for all events by both the OVA and KDVC.