Female Officials

[IREFU2]

Originally Posted by coach41

Hi all,

Out of Curiosity, at the various associations everyone works in, what are the numbers of female officials that are in the group?

If the numbers are like my high school group, then they are on the very low side.

I ask because we had a one day clinic today for new officials in a youth leauge that I work. The assignor noted that there were "19 male officials" and "0 female officials" in the group.

Any ideas why the gals don't ref games that much and how people would recruit girls to officiate more basketball?

I think we have a total of 5 out of about 100 Officials. Two of them are in college conferences.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by IREFU2

I think we have a total of 5 out of about 100 Officials. Two of them are in college conferences.

Actually Rob, we have 8 who attend our association meetings, 2 of whom are NCAA (D1) officials. One of those 2 no longer works HS, she is just there to support our association.

And I think our over-all total number of officials is closer to 120.

[IREFU2]

Thanks, I knew there were at least 5, I was trying to remember the one I may have missed. Seems like my girl and your girl are good friends now!

[Ref_ Fred]

Our numbers are 154 male to 5 female. We are trying very hard to recruit young ladies finishing High school. Some of the ladies I spoke with explained that the harsh comments they get on the court they don't deal with well. It's sad, I had my daughter officiate rec ball and the comments coming from the crowd totally turned her off. At times she felt as to just go in the stands and pop the fanboy in the head..They had no regards that she was a young official learning..

[tnzebra]

About 70 officials in our association and we have 4 women.

[bigdogrunnin]

We have 65 officials in our Chapter . . . 3 females, and only one that is competent to call Varsity Ballgames. We have recruited about 5-6 in the past 4 years, but none have stayed with us more than one year.