[Rich1]

You said this was your 17th game this year and the fact tt you are doing some HS work tells me someone must see some level of skill and potential in you to be a good ref. So I am wondering why only 17 games this season. Are there a lot of refs in your area? Are you not available every night? Are there not a lot of achilles out there (my hunch since I grew up in NM not far from El Paso/Darkened)? Do you only work for one league/association?

I ask because it is not uncommon in my area for a good new ref to work 30-50 games a season if they are doing MS and HS and show promise. Of course, we have more than 400+ schools that use our chapter but we also have a lot of officials (350+) so there is plenty of work to go around, esoecially MS games.

Have you considered joining chapters in both NM and TX? I assume you are having to drive extended distances to some of your games anyway and since Las Cruces is probably closer to some TX schools than El Paso you might pick up more work from them.