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One thing I did that helped a lot was to ask someone whose work I respected to come to a game and evaluate me. Specifically on those games where you feel you might be especially nervous. This helped me focus more on refereeing, and less on popular opinion.
Another thing you should do is attend several "big games" such as yours that are held between rival schools, and near the end of the season, when everything seems more important. Ask your assignor when there will be a varsity game of this type and then go watch. See how much these really competent, experienced refs get yelled at, and what subjects the yelling includes. Then when you have a game where there is a lot of yelling, you say to yourself, "Hey, if I get yelled at the same as Debbie and Trish both get yelled at, does that mean I'm doing a great job?" The answer, of course, is YES!!
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