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Where did you begin your officiating career? (youth league, city league, college intramurals, etc.)
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I started by doing intramural softball games in college. I did that for a couple years, but didn't stay with it after graduation.
When I got into basketball a few years after college, I started with youth leagues (5-8 grades) and tried an adult league. The adult league experience was a disaster. So I stuck with the youth stuff for a year, then started with HS ball at the Frosh and JV level.
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Why did you start officiating? (money, get away from spouse/kids, health, love of the sport, etc.)
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I coached basketball for a year at a very small private school. I coached the Freshman team, but throughout the season, b/c of other coaches' illness or schedule, I actually ended up coaching my own Freshman team as well as both varsity teams and both JV teams at one point or other over the course of the season.
Anyway, following the season, my own schedule wouldn't allow me to attend practices on a regular basis and I had to give up the coaching job. In order to stay close to basketball, I took the officiating test. Money wasn't really ever the issue.
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Have there been situations that made you think about quitting?
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Nah. Frustration about not moving up, sure. But never to the point that I was going to quit.