Category Archives: All Tiers

2026 Training Schedule Published

The Training Schedule for the 2026 season has been published in grid form under the Members Only section and on the calendar. Classes held online and in classroom settings will be recorded and links to those recordings will be published on the grid schedule along with any hand outs. Scrimmage assignments will be last minute and may be canceled last minute for a multitude of reasons so stay alert. Any questions please contact Brian Sweet your friendly training director.

RTO returns for 2025

RTO returns

NBUA

Every year at about this time, I am directed by your Board of Directors, to reintroduce the RTO Program driven by the Washington Officials Association (WOA). I’m asking the following of every NBUA member, regardless of tier. All tiers are asked to participate in RTO.

The RTO Program

The RTO Program is a collaborative effort of the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association and the Washington Officials Association to improve the level of officiating for WIAA contests. RTO stands for Retention, Training and Observation. There is one other component of this program not listed in the RTO acronym. That component is standards. Before you can hold someone accountable you must clearly state what they are being held accountable for. To that end, the WOA is developing standards of conduct and performance for our members in each sport covered by the WOA. These standards are the yardstick by which every official will be measured. Reminder that WOA Postseason games are for A & TT umpires.

  • Go into the Central Hub 
  • Click on the Eligibility Center
  • Click on 24-25 Postseason Baseball
  • Complete the 2 clinics listed
  • I did this. It took about 7 minutes.
  • Pretty simple…
  • Every tier is asked to get this done by your BOD
  • B, A and TT umpires are required by the WOA to become RTO qualified, in order to become eligible to be assigned:
    • Post Season District contests
    • Regionals
    • State Finals
    • District contests begin in early May
  • Rookie & Transfer Members, please contact your Mentors for additional assistance. Your Mentors have all done this before.
  • Please have your RTO requirements completed by May 1.
  • As your Assignor, I can track this ongoing.

Mark Clough
NBUA Assignor
206.265.1896

2025 Tournaments

This is the current list of tournaments that we know of so far this year. These are particularly busy times for our organization and we generally need more umpires to do more games during these periods than any other times so please plan to be available these dates if at all possible. There will certainly be games at other times but, not as many.

Art Wright Memorial Day Tournament

May 22-26

Cardinal Classic

May 28-June 1
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Cam Christian Memorial

June 5-8

Father’s Day Classic

June 12-15

Battle of the Bats

June 19-22

State Championships

June 26-29

Firecracker

July 3-6

College Showcase

July 8-13
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Carson Styron Memorial

July 10-13

R. Widman – “Strike out the Stigma”

July 17-20

Season Finale

July 24-27

2025 NIKE RBI Tournament

July 25-27
Auburn HS
Auburn Mt. View HS
Hogan Park
Kent Meridian HS
Thomas Jefferson HS

Please Fill Out Your MSA Today!

Your assignor, Mark Clough, really needs all current members to fill out the Member Services Agreement as soon as possible. You can find it at this link or under Member/MSA. You will need to use the members password to open up the MSA document, read it, and then click on the link at the bottom which will take you to the actual signature form. You fill out your name and e-mail, submit and that’s it. EZ PZ

You cannot be assigned games until this is done. You also need to go into Arbiter and mark yourself as “Ready to Assign” so that Mark can see you as available. Make sure that you have any blocks in place at that time. The High School Test will come out next week and we will have meetings to tell everyone more about that.