Youngest Official You Have Worked With or Seen

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally Posted by Multiple Sports

I know of someone who accomplished this this year....... For all you young ones out there go the women's route. This would be impossible on the men's side......

Read Post #5 of this thread: Youngest D-1 Officials.

This official also officiated six play-off games that year.

MTD, Sr.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

Read Post #5 of this thread: Youngest D-1 Officials.

This official also officiated six play-off games that year.

MTD, Sr.

In that thread tomegun confirms the SoCal career path:

Originally Posted by tomegun

Concerning this discussion, here is the biggest travesty: there are many officials out there who would do a great job, are built like tanks and can run like a deer. But, they will either never get their shot on big TV games or will have filled out by the time they do. The crazy thing about it is I think there is more basketball on the east coast, but younger officials get a better chance on the west coast. Talk about going from 0-100mph, one of my friends went from doing Juco to the Pac-10 because that is how it is. He worked to the point where he got some conference games and had to resign; he is currently in Korea officiating their pro league. I regularly saw those opportunities on the east coast, but it often came down to politics.