My First Technical Call

[Archie Lib]

Originally Posted by Rich1

You said this was your 17th game this year and the fact tt you are doing some HS work tells me someone must see some level of skill and potential in you to be a good ref. So I am wondering why only 17 games this season. Are there a lot of refs in your area? Are you not available every night? Are there not a lot of achilles out there (my hunch since I grew up in NM not far from El Paso/Darkened)? Do you only work for one league/association?

Thanks Rich and I hope that's the case. Actually I came on board late in the season - my first games were in late January when they assigned me 3 bantam games to break in with our association assigner. These were the first three times I'd been on anything other than a rec court since high school. So I came in behind and have only been working regularly for about 3 1/2 weeks.

Right after bantam I had a week of MS games with vets. The next week they moved me up to Freshman and JV games as well to get me 3-man experience and let the vets evaluate me. I'm doing mostly MS games with 2 or 3 HS games each week. I get assigned around 8 games per week, so right now I've got all I want. By the end of the season I'll be around 30 games and ready for camp.

I work with the Las Cruces Basketball Officials' Association through NMAA. Yes we're shorthanded always, and have several very experienced vets that probably will be hanging it up in the next 2-3 years.