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Originally Posted by MD Longhorn
My son started at 15... and the hardest thing was getting him to stop being afraid to put some air into the whistle.
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I've talked to him about this and he acts like he gets it, but we'll see that first time he's actually on the floor
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Originally Posted by SE Minnestoa Re
My son started at 14. For the first couple of years, I worked with him at youth tournaments on Saturday mornings. I usually had worked the night before but really wanted to be out there with him.
He had a couple of advantages--first he was a big kid and coaches likely thought he was older than he actually was. Second, he had me watching his back. Even the youth coaches figure out really quick when a varsity level official is working their games and I think they behaved better than typical.
I always stressed he had to know the rules and had to work on proper mechanics.
Now that he is grown up, lives two hours away, is a lawyer, and married with a small child, I will always cherish the days we reffed together.
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My son also has that advantage, he's tall for his age. I used to be so annoyed when my dad would call me to work the 8th grade championship game at st. so and so, but now I get it. He loves every chance he gets to work with me and he's very proud (if you asked him about me, you'd probably come away thinking I worked a final four
). So no matter how this turns out, the time we spend together on this will be invaluable to me.