All Auckland Umpires Association members have the ability to receive mentoring/feedback to assist their umpiring and personal development. Umpires keen to be involved will be assigned a Key Mentor who will be their main point of contact and will work directly with the umpire when possible throughout the season. The list of Key mentors can be seen below.

Each individual umpires Development Pathway is unique and there is no roadmap to success. Everyone progresses at their own pace, and will start and peak at different points.

However there are some common Pathways  that umpires progress through in their umpiring career which can be seen in the map below:

The Junior Umpire Pathway is slightly more linear, but also sees umpires progresses at their own pace. There is no right or wrong way to begin the umpiring journey but the common steps taken are mapped out below:

The Hockey NZ Umpires and Officials advisory group provides a national framework and pathway to allow umpires and officials to achieve gradings.  For umpires, a combination of theory and practical assessments are required at various stages to progress through the assessment system. For officials theory and relevant experience are required to progress through the levels.

The assessment pathway allows for five separate gradings: Junior, Community Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3.