HS Tournament Officials

[johnSandlin]

In Michigan, officials are selected by a committee made up of conference supervisors, athletic directors, coaches, and retired officials.

Selections are made based on schedules, ratings, recommendations, and previous post season assignments given to each official.

The committee made up of different people for each sport. In every sport except baseball, all rounds of the playoffs are assigned. However, in baseball the Districts, Regionals, and Quarterfinals are assigned first. Then a group of people from the selection committee go out and watch umpires that were recommended for the finals in their early round playoff games, and then make their(selection committee) decision based what they saw the umpire do.

In short, they are using the NCAA process of assigning, which as officials we hope will used in all sports sometime in the future.