Interesting seating

[Junker]

Last night I worked my first girl's tournament game, a district semi-final, class 1A. The gym had a stage that ran the full sideline of the court and before the game a bunch of students were sitting on the edge of the stage. I went to the AD and asked if they sit there thoughout the game. He told me that they did, it was a school tradition that he tried to get rid of when he took over but the community fought to keep them there. They stayed and we didn't have any problems. It was just kind of goofy though. On a related topic, this was my first 1A girls game of the season after working mostly 3A and 4A. Wow! It was hard work. I had no clue on what advantage/disadvantage was for those girls.