Players you have officiated.

[tomegun]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

I work in the hometown of Boo Williams so by default I've been able to officiate quite a few national level AAU games so I'm sure I've ref'd quite a few individuals who are now regularly on tv, but I couldn't name them. I ref'd at the Bob Gibbons when Greg Oden and Mike Conley were playing on the court next to mine.

Probably the highest profile players I've officiated are now college football players--Tyrod Taylor, freshman QB at Virginia Tech & Percy Harvin, UF Gator. Arkansas, Tennessee, and Virginia each have players who get plenty of floor time who I ref'd locally.

I've officiated Johnny Newman's son quite a few times and he still has one more year left.

I've ref'd NFL DB David Macklin in local rec league. Once had Sherman Douglas in a Pro-Am game up in the DC area a couple years ago.

Hampton HS girls, the team that got beat by Long Beach Poly on Versus channel, has at least 1 girl who will go on to stardom in the NCAA, but she still has 1 year left.

I wish I was still in DC to do that tournament. I don't even remember all the players I officiated at that camp. Vernon Macklin, John Lucas' son...can't remember.

[rainmaker]

Tarvers, all three, when they were in middle school.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by tomegun

I wish I was still in DC to do that tournament. I don't even remember all the players I officiated at that camp. Vernon Macklin, John Lucas' son...can't remember.

Oh yeah, I forgot about Vernon Macklin, plenty of AAU with him also...think I T'd him up for taunting after a dunk a few years ago.

[JRutledge]

I am watching the Illinois vs. Wisconsin game right now. And I forgot how many of these players I have officiated during the regular season.

Proviso East High School (Maywood)
Brian Carlwell—Illinois

Richwood High School (Peoria)
Bill Cole—Illinois
Jamar Smith—Illinois

St. Joseph High School (Westchester)
Demetri McCamey—Illinois
Tony Freeman—Iowa
Evan Turner—Ohio

I had Carlwell during summer games since he was a freshman in HS and then I finally officiated a real game with him when he was a junior.

Cole and Smith from Richwood came up to a suburban area and played. The funny thing about this game Cole was a rather skinny kid and got hurt every time he hit the floor. The head coach told me at one time, "You have to protect my two All-Americans." I tried everything I could not to laugh. He also claimed he was getting homered. Little did he know I was from a town about an hour out of Peoria. When I told him this fact, he stopped that claim really quick. At the time Richwood was ranked and they lost. Smith was in foul trouble early in the game and they never could overcome the home team. Interesting side note, the home coach had went up against Eddie Curry during his last game (few years before our game) in the State Championship Final and beat that team. I am not sure why the Bulls thought he was a good first round pick. Oh well.

The last three I had several times during their Junior and Senior years. The head coach is the same guy that coaches Isiah Thomas and was in the movie "Hoop Dreams" coaching one of the players to Marquette University. Freeman was a little cocky, but the other kids were for the most part very reserved and not very vocal. Funny thing there was a game I had with St. Josephs where they were lit up for about 36 by a player from Evanston that originally went to Boston College but transferred after being their for a year. I cannot think of his name to save my life. This kid beat a ranked St. Joseph team all by himself with multiple players either going D1 or about to go D1. This was Freeman's senior year and the others had a year or two left.

Peace

[NEohioref]

Ha, Ha , Ha...Wheres Diebler ?

[rsox34]

...that had:

Kara Lawson--former Tennessee starting pt guard/current Sacramento Monarch. Best player I ever saw as a twelve year old. Played on AAU team with 16 year olds. She was a really cute kid when whe was young. Made all her team-mates better.

Sue Bird--played for Liberty Belles out of NYC

Albert Gore III--Son of VP AL Gore. Played in CYO league. Was the best player on his teams. Interesting to ref in front of Secret Service.

one of the Grant kids--somebody mentioned him already. son of Harvey or Horace Grant.

[rsox34]

...current U of Maryland Guard Kristi Toliver playing and her father George (former NBA official and one of my mentors) coaching AAU.

[Texas Aggie]

I honestly have not paid that much attention to specific players I've worked and how their careers progressed. I do recall, however, working the games of Stevin Smith, who came out of Dallas Spruce High School to play at Arizona State. You might remember Smith as the individual who served time in prison for his involvement in a point shaving scandal at ASU. Quite an interesting character.