The state assistant commissioner spoke to my officials association last night. Some fun facts about my state:

We have 7,000-8,000 total registered officials across 20 sports, 9 for each gender with unified track & field.

Basketball has the most registered officials with over 5,000.

Soccer officials total 950-ish.

384 officials are needed to officiate the first round of each state tournament. This year 524 applied for girls/boys basketball. Soccer reached a booming 428 applicants.

The average age of a track & field official is 72.5 years old.