Players you have officiated.

[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 ?

[fullor30]

The Fanboy thread is now closed!

[zebraman]

John Brockman and Ryan Applebee at the University of Washington. Spencer Hawes of the Sacramento Kings. Rodney Stuckey of the Pistons. Brandon Roy when he was in high school at Garfield. Luke Ridnour of the Sonics when he was at Blaine HS.

About half the University of Washington women's team. Regina Rogers and Christina Nzekwe of UCLA. Kirsten Thompson at Arizona State. Angie Bjorklund at Tennessee.

Good times.

[Kelvin green]

Did a couple of scrimmages during NBA lockout...

was able to ref John Stockton, Karl Malone, Jeff Hornacek

Did another scrimmage during Rocky Mountain Review and had a rookie named Tim Duncan...

Our summer pro-am has had a ton of local D-1 players....

[ref2coach]

From the flip side. I was refereed by Ed Hightower when I played JUCO at Lincoln Trail Community College in the 77/78 and 78/79 seasons.

[John H]

Matt Carroll and Kobe Bryant back in HS.

Carroll was a good player then but Kobe was a man among boys!

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by ref2coach

From the flip side. I was refereed by Ed Hightower when I played JUCO at Lincoln Trail Community College in the 77/78 and 78/79 seasons.

I was officiated by the esteemed member of this forum, tomegun, playing military ball back in the late 90's.

Originally Posted by 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.

That was probably Harvey's kid. I've saw him at a camp in DC a few years ago.