Risk Management Administration

The Washington State Referee Committee (WASRC) and the US Soccer Federation (USSF) require background checks for all WASRC members (administrators, assignors, assessors, instructors and referees). This includes all who are age 18 or older at the time they certify or recertify for the current USSF defined badge year. This process is implemented through registration on the www.WAReferees.org website. There is no action taken by the member to initiate the checks other than clicking on a mandatory (to proceed) box at login. Should there be any members who opt out of the checks, they will not be registered.

The current cost to the member is $3.70 per check (2025). We recognize many members may have already paid for and passed the Washington Youth Soccer (WYS) RMA process. However there in no way to carry that information over to the www.WAReferees.org system. The result of this is that the WASRC will be re-running some of the same background checks (via BackgroundChecks.com) as WYS.  However, if the member has a current check with USSF, that will be recognized by our system.

What this means is ALL members shown as registered on the www.WAReferees.org system PLUS those exported to RidgeStar and Arbiter subject to background checks will have passed the WASRC checks. As assignors, you can be certain all such members have had / passed WASRC background checks and are both currently certified by US Soccer and a WASRC member in good standing.