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Originally Posted by johnny d
You will have worked 20 lower level games and you are going to drive 10 hours one way to go to a camp, is there really nothing closer, much closer that might work? Are you sure the camp you are going to drive 10 hours to is a teaching camp and not a tryout camp? If it is the latter, you are most likely wasting your time until you get some more experience.
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He lives in rural southeastern New Mexico. 10 hours might be one of the closer camps!
That said, your point is fair. Probably best to avoid a camp if it markets itself strictly as a "tryout camp." Short of that, it's probably ok. Even camps that market themselves as "teaching camps" have an element of tryout built in, whether it be the organizers who happen to be DIII or JUCO assignors, or the clinicians they bring in who happen to be on their staff and also assign high school conferences.
There are plenty of observers at teaching camps who are looking for young, new officials to coach and develop.