Becoming a Youth Official

3) Attend 8 hours of virtual classroom instruction

4) Complete all virtual instruction material and the USA lacrosse youth boys online exam (50 questions)

5) Attend an on-field training session

6) Pay the WILOA training/scheduling fees (yet to be determined, but no higher than $45) before May 1st

If you are interested in becoming an official for 2026, you must respond to me by February 20^th with the following information:

Your name, email (must be your unique email and not used by anyone else with a USA lacrosse membership), year in school, telephone number and USA lacrosse number. Returning officials need only send along their interest to officiate.

If you can’t make one of the training dates above, please contact Jeremy Sullivan (malabyloc@gmail.com) for possible alternative training dates/times offered by the Wisconsin Lacrosse Federation. 

3) Be at least a sophomore in high school

4) Be an active USA Lacrosse member

5) Pass the on-line USA Lacrosse official's certification exams

Returning Officials

Same as above, but only need to attend second online session (March 15th) and the on-field training evaluation.

As a US Lacrosse Youth Official, you are required to complete and pass the 2025 Youth Rules Test via the US Lacrosse site. A grade of 90% will be required to be eligible to officiate games under US Lacrosse.

Failure to meet any of the outlined requirements will result in the inability to officiate games during the 2025 season.

Please reach out to presidentbadgelandlax@gmail.com to be on official-training communication. Please reach out to Scott Saunders (saunders.lax@gmail.com) the Badgerland Girls Officials scheduling.