XFL Female Referees 2023

XFL Monique Washington served as a line judge for the XFL 2023 season. Washington was also one of the crew rosters of Hula Bowl 2023.

She has marked her name as the first female referee for the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) alongside Henrietta Powell. While Washington looks after the sideline during the match, Powell is the head linesman.

Henrietta and Monique have not only achieved this feat together but they have appeared on the field together quite a few times.

They gave an interview at MEAC Digital Network in September 2021 and talked about their experiences while inspiring young girls to take this profession.

Washington is standing in this place because of her constant dedication, handwork, and never give up attitude. 

XFL referees female includes Catherine Conti. Catherine managed to pioneer as the female referee to supervise the Big 12 game and Big 12 Conference.

The umpire has an appealing resume because her experiences also include working different jobs like instructor and consultant.

Catherine, widely popular as Cat, used to be employed as a waitress before making it big into the world of football as a referee.

Her life is historical and epic so, she is often invited to share her experiences as a speaker and a trainer. Conti describes herself as a college football referee on her Instagram bio.

Furthermore, the talented woman has mentioned that she is a fan of the Spartan Race.

When the XFL referee is not doing her job of officiating, Cat can be found hitting the gym, traveling, and enjoying life by looking at her social media. On the 16th of August 2012, she shared a picture of herself sporting her umpire uniform.

The next month, Conti took to Instagram and uploaded a picture of her during the kickoff at the University of New Mexico. Needless to say, she was officiating the game.

XFL referee Krystle Apellaniz completed her training at the NFL’s Mackie Development Program (MDP).

Apellaniz is efficient in basketball besides football and has 10 years of experience in refereeing basketball. She is highly regarded as one of the all-female officiating crew of the 2023 Hula Bowl. 

MDP is an initiative where non-officials get the opportunity to experience the NFL level of mentoring. So, it is evident that Krystle has fully prepared herself.

She refereed the 2013 Division II Miles-Lane game as the back judge which was a huge success. One of her biggest goals in life is to be able to officiate an NFL match.

Apellaniz’s motto in life is ‘Play by play and then onto the next play’ which she has included on her social media bio.

In addition, she is extremely grateful for veterans and became a part of it during the Veterans Day held in November last year.

Her contribution to the Air Force Academy Game is incredible.

XFL Amanda Sauer is the first FBs female referee and performs as the center judge at XFL.

Sauer is widely recognized for being the first official to be publicly out amongst all of the football leagues. At the beginning of her career, she used to serve at the Alliance of American Football (AAF).

In a major pro football league, not many umpires have openly expressed their orientation as opposed to Amanda. That is one of the reasons Amanda has been loved by fans.

XFL refs Sauer is grateful to be trained as a referee because it helped her divert her mind and cope with the grief of losing her spouse a few years back.

On the personal front, she gave love another chance and tied the knot with Michelle in 2018.  Currently, they have separated ways according to MSN.

XFL female refs consist of Karina Tovar among the six female umpires. Karina is known to be one of the youngest XFL referees.

Since childhood, she was inclined toward all sorts of American sports. Tovar learned the basics of the games by watching them on television during the holidays.

As a young girl, she trained her mind to compare chess and football field because both games have many players who contribute equally to bring victory to their team.

In this way, she honed her skills in sports and developed a bankable future in the field of her choice. The non-native American is adroit in softball and basketball as well.

Karina stepped into the athletic world as a part-time basketball referee. She used to officiate games at Cal State Northridge, located in Northridge, California.

XFL woman referee LaShell Nelson was hired as a side judge during the 2023 season. LaShell is the first woman from the Black community to be in charge of Big Ten Conference matches.

She stumbled upon the officiating sector around the early 2000s. At that time, she used to take part in flag football leagues.

So, Nelson did not pursue it back then, but later in 2014, she was determined to know more about it and do something.

Being a former runner at college, she was influenced by an incident that she watched on TV where a woman substituted an NFL referee during a match.

After that, nobody could stop LaShell from making a career in football. She left her secured job in finance to follow her dream of becoming an umpire.

In 2023, it will be 3 years of her serving as the referee from XFL. She completed the NFL’s Officiating Development Program in 2019.

XFL referee salary has not been revealed per The Sports Grail. The average salary of NFL referees stands approximately at $205,000 annually.

XFL female officials payment has not been disclosed as of now.

Apart from that, the player’s base salary range up to $59,000 with $5000 as the per-game salary according to Pro Football Network.

If the players win a game, they will be given a bonus of $1000. Everything is quite new for the XFL because it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in April 2020.

There are only 8 teams including the Houston Roughnecks and the Orlando Guardians. In the recently completed XFL championship, The Arlington Renegades won against DC Defenders with a score of 35-26.