Attending Camps Outside Of Your State

[Kelly Kinghorn]

My feeling about camps is---at first, go where you will get the best instruction. If that happens to be a camp in state, good for you, if not suck it up and go where it is. If you want to be the best, you have to learn from the best. Once you are ready to move up the officiating ladder, go to camps that will help you get to know the right people, and where they can see you work. That is going to be different in every state.

Too many people I know and that I have met, feel like "college camps" are better left until you are more advanced. I totally disagree. I stated going to college camps after my second year and wish I had gone before my first. The clinicians took me under their wings and really helped me to learn "good" habits instead of "bad" ones. My experience has only been positive at college camps.

I live in Utah and have been to camps in most of the western states. It costs money to go, but I have made it a practice to save my reffing money to pay for camps. I have never used any money that was not earned reffing to pay for these camps so it has nver felt like a pinch.

If you are wondering, I say go!