My meetings are short too, to the point where I've memorized it and said it so often I get the "You should be a flight attendant" comment afterwards.

My speech usually is this:

"My name is Antonio and I'll be the R1 for your match, and *point to the 2nd referee, allowing them to introduce themselves*"

- Jewelry
- Pursuit
- Overhead hanging obstructions (only if any are present)
- Play until you hear our whistle

If there's one thing I'd encourage you to do BEFORE doing the toss, it's to ask your R2 this magic question: "Is there anything you'd like to add before we go?"

This gives them to discuss things relevant to the R2 responsibilities (subs, normally). Allow your partner to address things relevant to them.

Your experience is pretty much typical for your first JV/Varsity - nothing really prepares you at the younger levels for the ball handling criteria at JV, and as R2 for the varsity, you just need to remember when teams are subbing. By the second set, you should have a pretty good idea of that.

One NICE thing about working R2 for JV/Varsity, that 99.9% of the time, you won't have to worry about the scorekeepers. One of the biggest headaches at the middle school level matches, is that you are are more likely to have a neophyte scorekeeper - either a 12 year old kid, or volunteer adult. In a lot of the better programs, one of their JV players will hang around before/after practice, and score.

ASA/NYSSOBLUE-Yeah up to this point I have been working a lot of varsity singles as an R2 and line judging.That was the only JV/Var double I'll get to do.I'm working 3 jr high matches on my own over the next couple weeks (2 in a doubleheader format),twice as an R2 (1 for JV & 1 Varsity),and line judging 4 times.I go back to the same school I was at Tuesday for all my junior high matches-their stand gives me the spooks.My scorekeeper for the JV/Var doubleheader Tuesday was actually my scorekeeping counterpart in basketball & really good.She caught the libero serving in the wrong spot which I don't think I ever had happen in all my years of scorekeeping.Our last regular season matches here are Nov.6 and playoffs start on Nov 12.I'm a pretty good line judge and getting better as an R2 so we'll see how I get used in the playoffs.