[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Maybe one can start officiating at the college level with no scholastic experience ...

Originally Posted by JRutledge

There are officials that worked their first D1 game that never worked a high school varsity game.

Thanks for sharing JRutledge.

Reminds me of the first soccer coach at the middle school that I taught at. Back then, not too many of my generation played soccer in high school. He was a baseball guy. The first soccer game he ever coached was, at the same time, the first soccer game he ever watched. Went on to a very successful soccer (and softball) coaching career at the high school.

Similar to some local scholastic basketball officials who added scholastic volleyball officiating to their repertoire and rapidly went on to scholastic volleyball officiating success (state tournament) with never having played a scholastic volleyball game (outside of a high school physical education class), in many cases the first scholastic volleyball game they worked was the first scholastic volleyball game they watched.

When you've got it, you've got it, some are just born with it.