I'm moving:(

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Originally Posted by rainmaker

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But no matter how much experience you have, you won't get any varsity your first year. It just doesn't happen.

Originally Posted by tomegun

So if someone moved to Portland after doing playoffs and/or state finals in another state they wouldn't have a full varsity schedule?

Is there a transfers scrimmage or anything like that? That is pretty rough.

What Juulie siad is simply not true. In fact, I'm working a 6A Boys Varsity game this Friday with an official that moved to Portland this last summer.

What is true is that you can't have any Varsty games the first few weeks of the first season....mostly due to our consitutional membership criteria.

Here's our process:

1. All transfers will participate in a transfer scrimmage and assigned to a transfer training class.
2. The first few weeks of games will be JV or lower (depending on the scrimmage evaluation). A qualified transfer will likely be working mostly 5A/6A JV boys.
3. To work Varsity games, you have to be a "regular" member.
4. To become a regular member, they have to get 5 peer evaluations at any Freshman or higher game.
5. They then apply to the board for regular membership....which is mostly a formality and I know of no rejections for experienced transfers.

For a qualified transfer, they're almost always a regular member within 2-4 weeks of the start of the season. In fact, the commish usually schedules them for Varsity games in January anticipating they'll complete their "bookkeeping" requirements.