Officials Registration Information

Registration opens June 3, 2024 and closes on:

• October 28, 2024 – Football
• March 10, 2025 – Competitive Cheer, Gymnastics and Ice Hockey
• May 19, 2025 – All other sports
• All fall registration applications (football and volleyball) received after August 19, 2024 will incur a $30 late fee.
• All winter sport registration applications (basketball, competitive cheer, gymnastics, ice hockey, swimming & diving, & wrestling) received after November 18, 2024 will incur a $30 late fee.
• All spring sport registration applications (baseball, lacrosse, softball, soccer, track/xc) received after March 24, 2025 will incur a $30 late fee.
• If you need help with your registration, or if you need a paper mail-in registration form, please email here.
• Registration is for the current school year only and runs from June 3, 2024 to May 20, 2025.

Applications for registration may also be submitted online with the fees being paid by credit card or debit card. All registration fees are non-refundable and non-transferable so make certain you are applying for registration in the correct year.

• Standard registration: $70 registration includes two sports and $16 per any additional sport.
• Student Legacy registration: $38 registration includes two sports and $16 per any additional sport.

Officials registration renewals must be applied for annually.

• Registration application submitted by the official and accepted by the MHSAA; and
• At least 18 years of age, graduated from high school or no longer attending a high school (see Student Legacy Program Requirements for an exception); and
•  Submit to criminal history check; and
• Completion of the Principles of Officiating online course and quiz, achieving a minimum score of 70% in three (3) opportunities (for new registrants only); and
• Completion of the Officials Guidebook test with a minimum score of 70% (for new registrants only); and, if applicable,
• Basketball and Football Only – Completion of the mechanics exam with a minimum score of 70% (for first-time registrants or for those not registered in the sport during the previous season)
• Mechanics manuals (where applicable) can be found on the sport’s corresponding tab of the MHSAA’s Officials page.

Unless the preliminary requirements, including any mandatory exams, have been completed, officials will not be eligible to officiate in any sport. Emblems, rule books and case books will not be sent to officials until registration has been completed. Officials shall not officiate any contest(s) involving an MHSAA member school (grades 7-12) until all requirements of the registration have been completed, and no official may officiate a sport for which registration has not been approved. An official determined to have worked unregistered or in sports which registration has not been approved may be subject to denial/withdrawal of registration status in all sports, probation and/or financial penalties.