Do you remember the first game you officiated?

[JBleach85]

I started officating in a local rec league, for 3 and 4 graders when I was 14 years old. Don't exactly remember the first game, but knew I was really nervous for the fact that I was asked to step in because the one official didn't show up. Went off find, I did it a few more times that year and had fun doing it. You know you find something when your a senior in high school and your job consist of working rec games and have a boss that has confidence in you to allow you to do a league where you are officiating your own peers from high school and other high schools in a rec league. It was a fun time and I learned a lot, and it has lead me to actually running their summer league and being in charge of getting officials and handling situations that come up within the league.

[tomegun]

My partner was late for my very first game. Nothing like doing your first game without a partner! I called the guy who suggested I ref and he came to help me out. Fortunately, he lived close to where I was. Since I lived in Glendale AZ at the time I could have been so far away that I would have just had to suffer through it.