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[SCalScoreKeeper]

How are the officiating numbers where you are? Have any contests had to be rescheduled or postponed due to a lack of available officials? A showdown between our area's top two teams scheduled for Thursday was cancelled due to lack of officials and cannot be made up since the two teams do not share the same off days.

[Tony.oe4]

In IL, historically, HS volleyball was played on Tuesday or Thursday nights. For the past several years, matches have been played Monday through Friday. Although not the only reason, one reason is to have enough officials to work matches and all HS playing on only Tuesday and Thursday nights really stretched the officiating pool thin. The same problem is happening with football. HS football has always played on Friday nights. I hear that some games are being played on other weekday nights. I am sure it is because of the shortage of officials.

[chapmaja]

Struggling in many sports, volleyball included.

[Lcubed48]

Here in my corner of the Commonwealth, we do struggle on occasion. Our numbers are up this year due to some heavy recruiting by current members.

[SCalScoreKeeper]

How did you guys recruit Lcubed48?

[Lcubed48]

Originally Posted by SCalScoreKeeper

How did you guys recruit Lcubed48?

Most of our recruits come from other sports. A lot of our officials do multiple sports so we recruit from those ranks.

[timasdf]

Originally Posted by SCalScoreKeeper

A showdown between our area's top two teams scheduled for Thursday was cancelled due to lack of officials and cannot be made up since the two teams do not share the same off days.

I don't know about the circumstances of this cancellation, but unless this match was scheduled with limited advanced notice, I suggest that the assigner was trying to make a point in this situation.

No way does the match with the top two teams in the area get canceled for this reason. It's the match with non-varsity or low-level varsity teams that are at the bottom of the totem pole and don't get the refs.

[Insane Blue]

Originally Posted by SCalScoreKeeper

How are the officiating numbers where you are? Have any contests had to be rescheduled or postponed due to a lack of available officials? A showdown between our area's top two teams scheduled for Thursday was cancelled due to lack of officials and cannot be made up since the two teams do not share the same off days.

I just looked at the master schedule for Thursday games before the date you posted and found 1 match canceled that fits the criteria you mentioned (top teams) and it would not have been for shortage of Officials since 2 where scheduled for it. There was only 18 games that day and we have over 80 officials.