This document discusses the roles and responsibilities of various officials and bench personnel in women's lacrosse games. It describes the timekeeper as being responsible for accurately tracking time during periods, timeouts, and penalties. The penalty timekeeper's job is to time penalty periods and notify players and officials when penalties expire. The scorer keeps records of goals, assists, cards, timeouts, and notifies officials of issues like too many timeouts. In the Dutch league, teams provide one scorekeeper/penalty timekeeper and one timekeeper/penalty timekeeper to perform these table area duties.

1. On-Field Officials
Off-Field official
Bench Personnel
In this presentation:
• The timekeeper
• The penalty timekeeper
• The scorers
• Bench Personnel in the Dutch league
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2. On-Field Officials
Off-Field official
Bench Personnel
The timekeeper
• Is seated in the table area
• Must be equipped with a timepiece able to record the time in
seconds
• Shall keep an accurate record of the time played in each period
• Notifies the off-field official of the last 30 seconds of Q1, Q2 and
Q3, and the last 2 minutes of Q4
• Counts down the last 10 seconds of each period out loud
• Shall keep an accurate record of time of the intermissions
between periods, and notifies off-field official 1 minute before the
start of play
• Shall keep an accurate record of time during time outs and notifies
off-field official 30 seconds before the restart of play
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3. On-Field Officials
Off-Field official
Bench Personnel
The penalty timekeeper
• Is seated in the table area
• Must be equipped with a timepiece able to record the time in
seconds
• Shall time the period of any penalty imposed by the officials
• Count down the penalty time to the player serving the penalty
• 30, 15, 10, 9, 8 … 3, 2, 1, release
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4. On-Field Officials
Off-Field official
Bench Personnel
The scorer
• Is seated in the table area
• Keeps a record of the goals scored by each team
• Writes down player number
• Writes down player number of the assist, when applicable
• Writes down at what time the goal was scored
• Keeps a record of the number of time outs taken by each team
• Shall inform off-field official when a team exceeds the
number of time outs allowed
• Keeps a record of misconduct and warning cards
• Writes down player number
• Writes down foul type and color card (swiping/yellow)
• Shall inform off-field official when a player receives a second
yellow card (yellow/red)
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5. On-Field Officials
Off-Field official
Bench Personnel
Bench Officials in the Dutch league
• Teams provide one scorekeeper and one timekeeper
• Both persons also act as penalty timekeeper
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