[Raymond]

Originally Posted by Ptflea2

This might not be the biggest issue an official might face, but I was wondering if any other officials here have an issue of excessive sweating? I've always been a "sweater" even when I played, but no one will look at you sideways if you've sweat through your jersey as a player, but as an official, I'm afraid it might look like I'm out of shape, or even worse, unprofessional.

During AAU or rec ball I'll wear the zebra stripes which usually holds up pretty well, but during the high school season our association wears the gray jersey's and it is easily noticeable that I've sweat right through that in the first half.

My palms also get very wet and a few times I've seen a player at the free throw line look at me with frustration as I've handed him the ball with my sweat on it. I sometimes bring a small towel to the scores table before games and dry my hands off during time outs. No one has said anything to me about it, but does that look bad during dead balls?

Man, I sure don't want to be known as the "sweaty ref" around these parts

My JuCo conference utilizes Grey shirts. Our supervisor has made it very clear that if we sweat through our shirt in the 1st half we are expected to change shirts at halftime.