First HS Game Ever

[MCBear]

blueump, I did not take your response as a personal attack. I agree that the NFHS Rules Book requires the umpire to keep a line-up card, however out here on the left coast, most of the time we use the line-up card as a teaching tool for less-experienced officials. We encourage the umpire to learn to track the rotations on the court with whatever method they are comfortable using but eventually to learn to do it without relying on a line-up card.

As I said before, I do not use a line-up card except when I am working a match by myself and I do not have an umpire to assist me. Otherwise, when I am the umpire, I put the line-up sheets on the table behind me so that I can turn my head and see the rotations for each team quickly. And, if I am totally unsure of the rotation for the receiving team, I will ask my scorekeeper for the next three servers (that gives me my front row) and then I am back on-track.