So, You Want to Referee?

Becoming a referee can be a fairly simple process. Buy a uniform and a whistle, go to a rules review session and get your first assignment. But of course "Refereeing" is not that easy.

Refereeing can provide some great personal rewards, but as a referee you must make instantaneous decisions, resolve conflicts and deal with stress and pressure. You are in a position to be a positive role model around children and adults.

Referees must be able to bring control to chaos; understand fairness; promote safety and encourage good sportsmanship. A referee must have the positive characteristics of a police officer, lawyer, judge, accountant, reporter, athlete and diplomat.

A Referee is also someone who can be put in a position of authority and handle the responsibility without being overbearing. As a referee, you're in charge, but it's the players who the fans have come to watch, not you. (paraphrased from naso.com)

How Does SABO Help?

SABO provides clinics and rules meetings that give each particpant an understanding or the rules and a knowledge of how the rules should be applied.

SABO then has on-court sessions to help referees learn their floor positioning, mechanics, and signals in game like simulations.

But SABO goes one step further and provides referees with on-court experience through scrimmages with video and audio recorded feedback from experienced referees and evaluators.

For more information contact Phillip Sisk at (404) 457-3843 or email to info@saboref.com