Originally Posted by Lcubed48

Are you attending? If you do attend, would you mind giving me an "how it went" at the camp's end? It was on my screen to attend this year, but a family function came up. I have heard good reports about it, and I know some of the evalulators/clinicians. :)

Originally Posted by IREFU2

The camp was wonderful. The clinicians were very nice and gave great feedback. I would suggest going next year and I will be back next year.

Originally Posted by Mark Dexter

Are you from that area of Virginia? I'm considering going next year.

Originally Posted by IREFU2

Yes, I live in Chesapeake, so the drive was only a hour and 15 minutes. The camp is well worth the money.

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

Attended this camp a few years ago. Definitely not one of my favorites. It was very pricey ($450) for the accomodations and level of basketball. Run by the supervisors for 2 different D3 conferences, yet the first words out of their mouths was "this is not a try-out camp, it's a learning camp." But during the camp it seemed the only ones getting any attention were the ref's that were being considered for contracts. The rest of us were just there to fill out the games. I received very little formal and informal feedback. Had one clinician who spent an entire game talking to a buddy of his who walked in and then he tried to rationalize to us why he didn't have anything to interject about our officiating. Clinicians were very scarce the last day of camp. Left me with a very bad taste in my mouth.

If you are just looking for instruction, you get a lot better with Referee's Choice run by Roger Ayers & Mike Eades out in the western portion of Virginia. Looking to get picked up, I've attended two camps, CVAC (D2) and CAC (D3), that were a better deal monetarily.

However, I do know a few officials who have been picked up through the Super DIII camp, so it's not a total bust. I just wasn't fond of how the camp is run.

It's quite possible some things have changed since I attended.