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Originally Posted by BlitzkriegBob
By the way, I follow on the NFHS board also, and I've kinda gotten the impression that USAV uses only one official. Am I wrong in my assumption? Is that good experience?
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Well, it's not really like that, it just seems that way.
Most of the time, you have a team that supplies the work crew, which includes a 2nd referee, line judges, scorekeeper, scoreboard operator, and libero tracker. More often than not, your 2nd ref is asleep at the wheel, and it feels like you're working by yourself. They will almost never catch illegal alignments, so you'll have to get used to catching those by recognizing them, not from using your wheel, which is NOT allowed in USAV.
Of course, sometimes you'll have a player who will surprise you. I had a player from Team Z 16-2 who caught an illegal libero replacement as the 2nd referee! She was incredible. But that's the exception.
The nice thing is, you can work about 3-5x as many club matches as you do high school matches, if not more. I will probably work about 80 HS matches, 30 college matches, and 300 club matches this year. Great for seeing ball handling, learning alignments, etc.