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Welcome to the Maine Association of Volleyball Officials

Everything you need to know and do to become a certified high school volleyball official in Maine can be found on this website.

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◈ NEW! MAVO'S CLOSET ◈

Looking for a good deal on some slightly used equipment or uniform items? Check out MAVO's CLOSET. Members can buy or sell items.

   If you have something related to volleyball officiating to sell, send us an email and we'll help you list your item(s). You deal directly with the buyer. Set your own terms.  

MAVO'S CLOSET

STEP BY STEP: WHAT YOU NEED TO DO TO BECOME CERTIFIED.

There's no doubt about it, it can be a daunting task trying to navigate through the steps required to become a certified volleyball official, and member of the Maine Association of Volleyball Officials. 


Here it is: Every step along the way. 


Follow these steps and you'll become a certified high school volleyball official by September!

STEP BY STEP

NEW FOR 2025!

Find the information you'll need to officiate this season with all the new rules added to this year's official NFHS rule book. Also, you'll find any new information for high school, college, and club volleyball officials on this page.

NEW FOR 2025

2025 TRAINING SCHEDULE

Don't miss out on the many opportunities to find training clinics, classes, and practical experience offered by MAVO. There is no excuse for not being the best official you possibly can be this year. MAVO offers the best training of any sports officials association in Maine, and our new officials are prepared to work varsity matches in their very first assignment(s).

2025 MAVO TRAINING

REGISTRATION and DUES

Get ready early and give yourself the opportunity to be prepared to work this coming high school girls season in Maine. It all starts with registering and paying your association dues. Our MAVO dues remain at $60 per year. REGISTRATION is now open, and you can pay your dues online with your credit/debit card.

PAY YOUR MAVO DUES NOW

RANDOM STUFF

There are hundreds, if not thousands of little things that go into making a great volleyball official, and the sad part is, until something happens during a match, usually at the worst possible time, you can't be prepared because you just haven't been told. Until now! 

   Here is our short list of over 75 different things everybody needs to know but nobody ever tells you . . . until NOW!

STUFF YOU NEED TO KNOW but nobody ever told you

HOW DID YOU DO? A post-match self assessment

As sports officials, we can often be our own worst critic--especially when critiquing our own performance when we're first starting out.

   Here is a self-assessment form to go through that can help new officials understand their role better, and give them a list of things to work on and improve upon. Go through this list after your first several matches and see if this helps you remember everything you're responsible for.

post-match self-evaluation form

Maine Principals Association 2025 Girls High School Volleyball Calendar

◉  June 30, 2025 – Schedules Due to Assignor 

◉  August 4-August 17, 2025 – “Hands-off” Period (Sport Season Policy) 

◉  August 18, 2025 – First Practice 

◉  August 21, 2025 – Mandatory Rules Clinic - Online 

◉  August 22, 2025 – First Exhibition Date 

◉  August 28, 2025 – Rules Clinic Make-up 

◉  August 30, 2025 – Schedules Due on MPA Website 

◉  September 4, 2025 – First Countable Match (After 3:00 p.m.) 

◉  October 17, 2025 – Officials’ No Votes Due 

◉  October 20-24, 2025 – Online Voting for Sportsmanship Banner (One week to vote) 

◉  October 20, 2025 – Last Countable Match (No make-up date) 

◉  October 21, 2025 – Finalize Heal Points 

◉  October 23, 2025 – State Prelims at Higher Seed 

◉  October 25, 2025 – State Quarterfinals at Higher Seed 

◉  October 29, 2025 – State Divisional Championship (State Semifinals) at Higher Seed 

◉  November 1, 2025 – Class C State Championship – Brewer High School 1:00 p.m. 

◉  November 1, 2025 – Class B State Championship – TBA 4:00 

◉  November 1, 2025 – Class A State Championship – TBA 7:00


(Posted March 19, 2025)

2025 Maine principals association volleyball bulletin

NEW! PowerPoint presentation of High School gyms

MAVO/Maine Principals Association Liaison Mike Roux, has created an informative Power Point Presentation for all of the potential obstacles found in gyms where high school volleyball is being played in Maine.


The obstacle paragraph will inform you how to handle each school's obstacles so we should NOT have different interpretations of how to handle them. The second paragraph is labeled 'Comments' and states: Review Obstacles At The Prematch Meeting. What you should do is review with your officiating team (before prematch if possible) and then review with the participants in the prematch meeting.


(Posted July 30, 2024)

review gyms

IMPORTANT LINKS

Quick access to stuff you're going to need.
MAINE PRINCIPALS ASSOCIATION VOLLEYBALL BULLETIN (2025)nfhs VOLLEYBALL TRAININGPAVO (Professional association of volleyball offiicials)Dragonfly athletics (NFHS Registration/exam)ARBITER SPORTS (scheduling)Maine high school gyms2024/2025 MAVO NFHS Rules clinicNFHS officials code of ethics

tutorials for scorers, libero trackers, timers

SCOREKEEPERS

You've been tasked with being your school's official volleyball scorekeeper. Now what?

LEARN HOW

MAVO SCORE KEEPING TUTORIAL

MAVO has created a slide show that can be a big help to schools trying to train new scorekeepers

LEARN HOW

ASSISTANT SCOREKEEPERS (LIBERO TRACKERS)

Here's how to become an integral part of the officiating team as an assistant scorekeeper.

LEARN HOW

LINE JUDGES

So you want to be a high school volleyball line judge? Are you ready?

   Check out this instructional video from our friends at the Nebraska School Activities Association (disregard the uniform information at the beginning of this video).

LEARN HOW

SCOREBOARD OPERATORS/TIMERS

The "how to" be a volleyball scoreboard operator/timer

LEARN HOW

essential video training for MAVO officials

HIGH SCHOOL REFEREE TRAINING

A collection of over 50 high school referee training videos for R1 and R2 covering a variety of common situations.

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SHOWING PLAYER NUMBERS

An excellent video showing how to properly display player uniform numbers following a fault or sanction card. We ALL need to be doing it the same way.

Watch video

OVERLAPPING AND ALIGNMENT

A detailed explanation of what officials look for in overlapping and out-of-alignment situations

watch video

MORE OVERLAPPING AND ALIGNMENT

Here is another perspective on how to best recognize overlapping and out-of-alignment situations

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CONDUCTING A GOOD PRE-MATCH COACHES AND CAPTAINS MEETINGS

We should all be conducting our pre-match coaches and captains meetings the exact same way, including all the same details and information. This is an excellent video showing how a proper pre-match meeting is conducted.

watch video

LINE JUDGE VIDEO

Extremely well-produced and detailed video for line judges. The information in this video will be valuable to all high school volleyball officials who must train non-certified officials on the job of line judge.

watch video

IDENTIFYING BACK ROW ATTACKS

Here is a good video with detailed descriptions and examples of legal and illegal contacts by a back row player.

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resources and tools

BLANK SCORE SHEETS (NFHS)

Print off a couple copies to use for practice, or have a link to share with a scorekeeper who is in need of a score sheet.

Printable score sheet

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PAVO REGISTRATION

MAVO OFFICIALS desiring to work NCAA-sanctioned matches as R1, R2, LJ, or SK MUST register through the PAVO website. Your MAVO dues will be collected with your PAVO dues for one payment.

PAVO Registration