[Doug]

Rut, you don't know a person until you walk a mile in their shoes. You have NO comcept what it is like to be a female official!! Julie and others have brought up very good points, which i as a collegiate female official agree with. I percieve some of your comments to be very narrowminded and derrogetory. Here is some advice my mentor once told me "seek first to understand, then to be understood." I think that is something that we all need to work on (myself included), listining to others points, understanding their point of view, and then giving them ours. With a enraged coach, don't you usually first ask a question to difuse the situation, "coach, why do you believe that was goaltending?" you are seeking first to understand them, then you can respond, and the situation is handled more efficiently. I hope you become a outstanding offical, but this board was designed as a place for officials striving to get better to converse, assist, and be assisted in reaching their goals, and I would love to see this board stay a postive place, so others can gain the same knowledge i have from it. Good luck, and everyone please understand, my intentions wern't to offend anyone