Robert Abney

One of the most effective ways to improve your officiating skills and advance your career is by attending an officiating camp or referee training camp. These camps provide hands-on experience, feedback from experienced clinicians, and opportunities to refine mechanics, rules knowledge, and communication skills. In this post, we’ll give you some tips about camp: what to look for, what to expect, and how to maximize your development.

A checklist is used to ensure that steps in a process are completed accurately, consistently, and in the correct sequence. We use them all the time in our daily life, whether we’re completing tasks at work, fixing something at home, or compiling information for a report. It makes sense, then, that we would use checklists regularly as part of officiating, both on and off the field.

Whether you’ve been familiar with us for a while, or you’ve only recently heard about us, we want to take a moment to tell you about how we got here, what you’ll see in this space, and what we hope this blog will do for you and the world of sports officiating.