Women's Final Four Officials

[bballref3966]

Anyone know who they are?

Although, typically you can guess 4 or 5 of them and be right in any given year.

[Mr.C]

haven't seen it listed yet. This may be a silly question, but is there ever any "cross over" of officials that have been in both sets of ncaa finals in their careers?

[bucky]

Lisa Mattingly is working Wash/Syr game. Big surprise. Every women's game I see on TV either has Mattingly or Kantner. Brooks a lot too.

[reffish]

Kyle Bacon from PHX, working the Washington/Syracuse game. I believe the first for him. The last official I knew worked men's and women's tournament games was Bob Scofield. I don't know of any that worked finals.

[bballref3966]

UConn/Oregon State:

Brenda Pantoja
Felicia Grinter
Joe Vaszily


Washington/Syracuse:

Lisa Mattingly
Denise Brooks
Kyle Bacon


Almost surely means Dee Kantner will work the final, and I wouldn't be surprised if Tina Napier is, too.

[pizanno]

Great to see Kyle Bacon recognized. All-around good dude. How you like them apples, Mulkey?

[Welpe]

Wasn't Brenda Pantoja working the NBA? Is she still working games there?

[JetMetFan]

Originally Posted by Welpe

Wasn't Brenda Pantoja working the NBA? Is she still working games there?

She was. It doesn't appear as though she has worked any NBA games since the '13-14 season.

As to the championship, I'm thinking Bryan Burnette will be on the court. He was the ALT last year and on the women's side that tends to mean you get the Chip the next season.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by JetMetFan

She was. It doesn't appear as though she has worked any NBA games since the '13-14 season.

As to the championship, I'm thinking Bryan Burnette will be on the court. He was the ALT last year and on the women's side that tends to mean you get the Chip the next season.

Which two female officials will be with him?

[JetMetFan]

Originally Posted by Rich

Which two female officials will be with him?

It may/may not be that way but you'd never hear me complain about it, even if I was at that level. As one of my supervisors said a few seasons ago, "We're in their game."

Oddly enough, none of my NCAAW supervisors is female. If I get picked up by one or more of the conferences I'm going for this summer that will change but the only female supervisor I work for is in NYC GV. I worked about 40 3-person games NCAAW & HS combined this past season. I had a female partner in 13 of those games (two unlucky women worked with me twice ). I had only one game where I was partnered with two women.

[Multiple Sports]

Originally Posted by JetMetFan

It may/may not be that way but you'd never hear me complain about it, even if I was at that level. As one of my supervisors said a few seasons ago, "We're in their game."

Oddly enough, none of my NCAAW supervisors is female. If I get picked up by one or more of the conferences I'm going for this summer that will change but the only female supervisor I work for is in NYC GV. I worked about 40 3-person games NCAAW & HS combined this past season. I had a female partner in 13 of those games (two unlucky women worked with me twice ). I had only one game where I was partnered with two women.

Let me guess you are shooting for the Patriot / A- 10 Glad to see Levinson is treating you well.....

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Rich

Which two female officials will be with him?

Basically.

Peace

[Referee24.7]

Not to segway on this thread, but I'm sure this has been discussed here before, and I'm wondering why any of you think we will get over the "gender" card in the striped world and there will come a day when a woman will be able to work mens' ball on a regular basis and have an opportunity to maybe someday work the tournament, and maybe even a Final Four?

[Rich]

I have a lot of schools witn all Caucasian players and coaches. Based on what you're saying, I should stop sending African-American officials to those schools.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Rich

I have a lot of schools witn all Caucasian players and coaches. Based on what you're saying, I should stop sending African-American officials to those schools.

If you got that out of this discussion, then you were not really paying attention. If you were paying attention, I clearly said that if there are officials that always look different than the participants in almost every situation, there is something wrong with that picture.

At the State Finals I just worked, every single team out of the 8 had an African-American starter on their programs. To be specific, 2 of the schools in 4A had an entirely African-American team and coach. Two of the Catholic School in 3A had also almost entirely African-American players and if they had a kid that was not Black, it was like one player in total that even played regularly. Now I am not suggesting that out of the 12 officials assigned that all 12 should be African-American, but we seem to not have any issues if all 12 are Caucasian or even not from the area of the teams.

At least at the high school level this is an extension of classroom. One of the roles of an education is to have role-models or have our children have people that understand them. I do not think it is right to tell kids you can be everything in the game like a player or even a coach, but you cannot be the highest authority figure of the game which is an official. To me the situation that happen a view years ago in the 2A State Finals never happens when a racial slur is used and no one is ejected from the game, but they eject a kid for an initial reaction that happened to touch an official. Diversity on that crew might have curbed some of the extra-curricular crap going on that was clearly a difference in racial and cultural (on both sides) make-up.

I do not know what your situation is in Wisconsin or the teams that you assign, but I would assume that Milwaukee teams look a little different than teams from other parts. I am sure those assigning consider that when they have to assign those teams.

Peace