Getting Assignments
Generally speaking, the best way for an official to fill his/her schedule
is to:
- Register in each sport officiated with the Michigan High School
Athletic Association.
- Actively take part in an officials association, including scrimmages
and in-season mechanics sessions. This allows the official to stay
current on rules and mechanics, discuss play situations and learn how to
handle situations with coaches and athletes.
- Communicate your desire to officiate a particular sport with the
assignors who distribute these games/matches, or in some cases, the area
athletic directors of individual schools.
There are several conferences within driving distance of our members.
Some of them have independent assignors who assign all levels, from middle
school through varsity. Others use one or more assignors for the varsity
level, with the schools assigning the sub-varsity levels themselves.
Below is a list of area conferences, and how they currently assign their
officials:
- Lakeland Athletic Conference -- Athletic Assignors assign games for
middle school through varsity.
- Red Arrow Conference -- Athletic Assignors assign games for middle
school through varsity.
- Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference.
- Varsity football and
basketball assigned by Jim Corstange.
- Varsity baseball assigned by Duane Luedecking and Dan Eversole.
- Sub-varsity assignments made by the schools themselves.
- Southwestern Athletic Conference (SAC).
- Varsity football assigned by Bryan Wild.
- Varsity basketball assigned by Chris Miller.
- Sub-varsity basketball assigned by
Chuck Rawsthorne.
- Varsity baseball and softball, sub -varsity baseball assigned by
Dennis Myers.
- Other sub-varsity assignments made by the schools themselves.
** This information is subject to change, and is provided only as a
resource for our members.
The Athletic Assignors group is made up of individuals who are members of
the Fruitbelt Officials Association, The Southwest Michigan Officials
Association or both. Although the FOA has opted to serve as an educational
organization rather than one involved in assigning, our site does have a
separate page devoted to information on the
ArbiterSports system used by the Athletic Assignors. This is provided as a
service to our members, since this group assigns games for so many of the
schools in our area. You can find information on who assigns for each sport
within this system, as well as how to create a log-in, fill out your
availability calendar, work with assignments, etc.
Click here to go to that page now.