Mentoring Program

[BryanV21]

Originally Posted by The_Rookie

Anyone part of an association that has a "FORMAL" Mentoring program?

Can you please share info...looking at creating one for young officals in my part of the world

We have one in the Central Ohio Basketball Officials Association (COBOA). Basically a varsity crew volunteers to be mentors, and they choose three JV officials to form a crew and work all the JV/Freshman games that happen before their varsity games.

The varsity crew will watch as the many of the JV/Freshman games as they can, and give their feedback on things. When I was in the program the crew chief for the varsity crew would have meetings at the end of the season, where we'd sit around and watch videos and such.

It was a great way to learn and get constant feedback. In fact, when one official from that varsity crew that mentored me retired, I was asked to take his place. I owe that mentoring crew so much.