Getting picked up very young

[Kansas Ref]

So, my question is, how do so many young officials get college assignments when they are younger than the players and (probably) don't even have much if any JV or varsity experience?

Hope that makes sense.

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*Contrary to popular opinion, the vocational progression towards becoming a higher level ref is no longer a linear pathway. One does not have to start off their reffing vocation by reffing 3rd grade girls, then 5th grade boys, then 8th grade girls, then frosh, jv, vars in order to move up the chain.
These days with officiating having become so, shall I say "standardized", one can really enter the voacation at any point in the pathway and get games by simply attending the appropriate camps and identifying the relevant assignors.
The days of "starting in the mail room" then becoming a "departemental manager" are long gone.