High School games in your State.

[Tim Roden]

I've worked Texas and Colorado. As mentioned before, I have worked small(class A) varsity games in Texas with first year officials.

When I began in Colorado, I never saw a first year official call a varsity game. I saw several second year officials calling varsity. There it is totally up to the assignors and assignments are made before the rookie test. You have to make an 86 on the test before you can become elgible to call varsity. So the only way you can even get a varsity contest as a rookie is if someone backs out of a game. Then the assignor can put a rookie in to cover the game. He rarely does in the larger cities on the Front Range. I don't know about the assignors in the mountains, Western Slope or high plains.