Women refs wanted

Hawks Coach · #1 (**permalink**) Mon Jan 01, 2001, 11:33am

The organizers of last weeks State Farm Holiday Classic (64 teams, 32 girls/32 boys) let it be known that they really want more women refs. I only saw one all week. 50 bucks a game, 2 per day, Bloomington-Normal Il. This years Classic featured a number of top ten teams from around the state in boys and girls, A and AA. The tournament regularly brings in some really talented players and teams. Boys had Eddie Curry, potential NBA prospect and number 1 boys prospect in some ratings. Girls had 3 of top 5 teams in AA ball with a number of great players.

Web site is:

http://www.theclassic.org/

rainmaker · #2 (**permalink**) Mon Jan 01, 2001, 03:31pm

Thanks for the heads-up.

I'll definitely send in my name, and maybe by next year, I'll be ready!

Doghead, want to come too? What a blast that would be!!!

doghead · #3 (**permalink**) Mon Jan 01, 2001, 04:05pm

Wow! What a challenge. I'm not sure I will yet be prepared for that level of play by next year. I'll keep it in mind. Thanks Hawks Coach for the info.
Happy New Year Julie and others!
Cheers!
-Becky

Hawks Coach · #4 (**permalink**) Mon Jan 01, 2001, 10:37pm

Happy New Year all of you.

If you want to know how you're doing, you can find out here because they hand pick the officials for the final day based on the week's performance (which leads me to believe there must be an evaluator at every game). Overall, I would say the officiating was quite good, but I did see a couple of games where management was not at its best. I thought that they did a good job of selecting the officials for the final BTW, one woman for girls championship.

JRutledge · #5 (**permalink**) Tue Jan 02, 2001, 01:28am

I was trying to find out some information on who hires the officials for a female official that I am a friend of and how do you get incontact with the person that does the hiring. The email address is not valid (it was sent back). So who is the contact person to for officals if they choose to attempt to do this tournament.

Quote:

Originally posted by Hawks Coach
The organizers of last weeks State Farm Holiday Classic (64 teams, 32 girls/32 boys) let it be known that they really want more women refs. I only saw one all week. 50 bucks a game, 2 per day, Bloomington-Normal Il. This years Classic featured a number of top ten teams from around the state in boys and girls, A and AA. The tournament regularly brings in some really talented players and teams. Boys had Eddie Curry, potential NBA prospect and number 1 boys prospect in some ratings. Girls had 3 of top 5 teams in AA ball with a number of great players.

Web site is:

http://www.theclassic.org/

mikesears · #6 (**permalink**) Tue Jan 02, 2001, 08:43am

Hawks Coach,
Did the tournament bring you to Bloomington or are you from the area? Your profile says Silver Springs, MD.

[Edited by mikesears on Jan 2nd, 2001 at 08:01 AM]

Hawks Coach · #7 (**permalink**) Tue Jan 02, 2001, 02:26pm

Born and raised in BN, U-High grad (they lost by 1 in the Class A final

), live in MD now. I go back to the in-laws every other Christmas, always catch as much of the Holiday Classic as my wife will allow. (I would go all day every day if I could get away with it!) It's a good learning experience for me (or that's what I tell the wife) and entertaining to boot.

Hawks Coach · #8 (**permalink**) Tue Jan 02, 2001, 02:28pm

Quote:

Originally posted by JRutledge
I was trying to find out some information on who hires the officials for a female official that I am a friend of and how do you get incontact with the person that does the hiring. The email address is not valid (it was sent back). So who is the contact person to for officals if they choose to attempt to do this tournament.

Trying to get contact info, will get back to you when I have it. Didn't know that the email was bad.

mikesears · #9 (**permalink**) Wed Jan 03, 2001, 07:44am

If you go to other basketball games around Bloomington-Normal you may see me on the court. I live in Stanford (home of Olympia HS) and I officiate all over the area. It's cool to know that someone on this board is originally from this area--even if you are a coach ;-)

Hawks Coach · #10 (**permalink**) Wed Jan 03, 2001, 10:00am

As a U-High grad, I have seen plenty of Olympia - you had a real nice pool (I was a swimmer!) compared to most places we went (including our home pool).

As for seeing you on the court, if you don't do the Classic, I probably won't see you. I only get back for the holidays, and coaching here keeps me pretty busy all the rest of the time. But I love IHSA bball and catch it when I can.

mikesears · #11 (**permalink**) Wed Jan 03, 2001, 10:31am

I hope to do the classic in the future. I'm only in my second year of licensed officiating so it may take some time to break in. I hope I have a slight edge in that I am a member of the Bloomington-Normal Officials Association and I believe many of the officials we have are quality officials however I don't know if the assignor has any say in who gets picked to do the games. I also work for the company that is the title sponsor for the Classic.

Anyway, good to know that there is someone who was from the area. Good luck to you the rest of the season and keep posting questions and comments. It's good for us officials to hear a coaches perspective once in a while.

Thanks!

mikesears · #12 (**permalink**) Thu Jan 04, 2001, 11:31am

I have a contact name for the classic but I want to get some additional information on what qualifications are needed before I give out his name. Just wanted to let you know that I am working on this and it hasn't been forgotten.