tournament selection

[Rich]

Originally posted by rainmaker
I'll tell you my primary beef about how the officials are chosen for state in our association. All the officials are thrown into one pot, and voted on by everyone. This means that if a ref only does girls games, as all the women do in our association, only half the coaches see them, and they never get enough votes to make the top of the list. Also, since we put women together as much as possible to give the girls as many women refs as possible, not nearly as many men refs have seen the women refs as partners, so the ref part of the vote heavily favors the men also.

Why do you put women refs together for girls games? Why DON'T women refs work both sides so they can be seen by ALL the coaches?

There are only a few women refs in my neck of the woods, but the ones I know work varsity on BOTH sides.

What if the most qualified officials in the area are the ones working mostly boys games?

Just questions off the top of my head....off to work games 4 and 5 of the day.