You're a men's official, huh???

[RushmoreRef]

Originally Posted by zebraman

It certainly hasn't hurt me at the HS level. In fact, I feel that working both boys and girls games (and having to make the adjustment) has made me a better official. Don't "boys only" refs have to adjust between different skill levels and varying athletic abilities too? That seems like a silly argument to me.

When I first started officiating a long time ago, I worked a couple seasons of girls ball only (the guy that dragged me into officiating was a grizzled veteran and he had moved to girls only games as his footspeed had dwindled). The first year that I worked boys games as well, I encountered a little of that "girls only" perception but I got past that real quick.

I'm going to try to switch from doing women's JC to men's JC this summer so I'll see if it is an issue at the JC college level soon.

Good points......just to add I feel that the girls games are the more difficult games to officiate since they don't create that "separation" and space that boys tend to.....Of all the games I've worked the really hard ones have always been on the girls side....that can't do any harm to you and your learning to become a better official.