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Originally posted by ref18
First of all, Happy Birthday, now the way I understood it, you have to be at least 18 in your area to officiate basketball, or was it purely coincedental???
I know my board says you've gotta be at least 16 (I started at 15 ), does anyone else's association have age restrictions?
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Either the state or my local chapter (not sure who's rule it is, probably TASO's) requires you to be 18 to become a member. However, I joined our local chapter 2 months before my BD. They said that since by birthday was the week the season started it didn't really matter. I think that it was just the way the schedule worked out that I had my first game on my birthday.
Thanks for all the helpful comments. I have another double header Monday. This time it will be 8th grade boys and 8th grade girls. My partner will be another first year official. We were told this would not happen but we are about 80 officials short (I assume that's the reason).
[Edited by gostars on Nov 26th, 2004 at 03:00 PM]