Issue 6, April 18, 2000
Welcome to the MACBOA E-mail Newsletter

The MACBOA E-mail Newsletter is a periodic (twice a month during October through March and monthly there after) publication of the Mid-Atlantic College Basketball Officials Association (MACBOA). The Mid-Atlantic College Basketball Officials Association provides basketball officiating services to several colleges and universities in the Maryland - Washington, DC area. The Association has a membership of approximately 150 men and women officials. Our membership consist of men and women who work Divisions I, II and III basketball. We pride our Association on providing quality and professional service. The Guiding Principles of MACBOA include taking pride in the quality of our work, teat people with respect, focus on customer needs and expectations, encourage improvement, embrace change, and act with integrity.

The MACBOA E-mail Newsletter is made possible by the kind support of our sponsors. I thank our sponsors for making the newsletter possible. Please visit our web site at http://www.macboa.org. As always, please visit our sponsors and thank them for keeping MACBOA operational.

Donnee L. Gray, Coordinator of Officials
Email: Donnee.Gray@macboa.org

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Congratulations to the following officials assigned to work MACBOA assigned post-season Men's and Women's Basketball tournaments. The officials in "bold" worked the Championship game.

2000 Region XX Men's Championships at Allegany College
Joe Palmer, Judge Jackson, Dan Breno
Charles Waugh, Van Debrick, Kenneth Pearson
Ed Shindledecker, Jim Schmitt, Doug Hoffman
Charles Waugh, Carl Bullard, George Detsis
Chris Coccagna, Ken Hartzler, Oliver Skinker
Ike Relacion, Alvin Cox, DeVon Mayes
Van Debrick, Jeff J. Janosik, Joe Palmer
Rodney Holland, Leon Haskins, Steve Kordak
Willie L.A.Jones, Loinel Bulter, Jeff Bjornstad
Jim Schmitt, Ron Turbosky, Van Debrick
Willie L.A.Jones, Ben Vasconcells, Wainwright Jackson

2000 Women's Region XX Championships at Garrett Community College
Alvin Cox, Patrica M. Maltagliati, Harry Turner III
Larry Levin, Alexis Bobo, Leonard McNair
Kenny Pearson, Devon Mays, Leonard McNair
Ike Relacion, Larry Levin, Alexis Bobo
Eric Brown, Dwayne Carnes, Jonathan Bishop
Diana DePaul, Athena Argyropoulas, Helena Smalls

2000 NJCAA Division III Women's Play-Off Game
Larry Levin, La Vora Chambers, Clayton Singleton

2000 National Women's JuCo Championships at Hagerstown Community College
Athena Argyropoulas, Ponce D. Gerald, Angeline Parker
Clayton L. Singleton, Eric Brown, Lavora Chambers
Larry Levin, Alvin Cox, Gene Esquire
Judge Jackson Jr., Gloria Moyher,.Siobhan Pietroszkiewi
Helena Small, Eric Brown, Patrica M. Maltagliati
Diana De Paul, Alvin Cox, Alan Austin
Judge Jackson Jr., Alexis Bobo, Helena Small
Larry Levin, Judge Jackson Jr., Patrica M. Maltagliati
Athena Argyropoulas, Diana De Paul, Helena Small

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From the Coordinator of Officials
Camp time is just around the corner. This is the ten (10) year anniversary of the Time Out Referee School. The Time Out Referee School will be held July 13-16, 2000 at The American University, Washington, DC. This year's school will include several Supervisors and Coordinators of Officials, noted clinicians, and exceptional staff who will share the intangibles that will help improve officiating skills and abilities. If you know anyone or would like to refer individuals interested in learning, training and assessment, and mechanics taught by respected and highly successful individuals in the field of officiating, please call Donnee Gray at (301) 283-6807 or e-mail: Donnee.Gray@macboa.org for more information and or to obtain camp brochures and information.

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The Block/Charge
The recent NCAA basketball tournament game between Iowa State and Michigan State featured a tough situation where the Center official called a blocking foul on an MSU player and Lead whistled a player control on an Iowa State player.

To avoid this situation from occurring officials must consistently practice the fundamentals of calling a foul. That is, when observing a foul the official must signal it with a fist in the air and momentarily delay prior to giving the preliminary signal. Once the official notices that he/she has the only whistle on the play, he/she should proceed with the appropriate mechanics.

When there are multiple whistles on a play situation, the officials must look at each other before signaling. In the game discussed above, the play occurred near the baseline and in the middle of the paint; hence, the Lead official has priority in making and reporting the call. If the play begins on Center's side, the Center is primarily responsible for making the call and the Lead has secondary coverage. It is important to discuss this during your pre-game.

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Members News:
Congratulations to Donnee Gray. Donnee worked the 2000 NCAA Men's Final Four assignment (UNC-Chapel Hill at Florida).

Congratulations to Angie Lewis. Angie was part of the 2000 NCAA Women's Championship crew (Tennessee at Connecticut) as the Alternate.

MACBOA wishes to congratulate the MACBOA members that worked the 2000 NCAA/NIT post-season D-I/II/III Tournament.

Welcome back Ronnie Bagley. Ronnie returns from a 2.5 month military assignment in the Far East.

Belated birthday wishes to Helena Small and George Toliver.

*Please send other newsworthy events or personal items of note to macboa1@aol.com. Contributions should be sent via email with the subject heading: ‘MACBOA ITEM'; attachments to will not be accepted.

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Never Forget the Importance of Family
What`s most important to you? Your career? Your health? Your officiating? Your bank book? I suspect most of us would answer family, though you wouldn`t know it by the national divorce rate and the decreasing amount of time and energy we actually spend on those we love. But it also happens to be the right answer.

Divorce rates are up. The number of intact nuclear families is headed down. In the officiating environment, too many people have gotten caught up in getting more games, better games, higher level games, higher paying games, that they end up getting in trouble at home and or on the job. Officiating is very time consuming…. time away from your job and time away from your family.

Not only do both spouses leave for work and assign the kids to day care, it`s not all that unusual for mom and dad to be working different shifts, with the family getting together only on the very busy weekends.

As for brothers and sisters and even moms and dads, we see them on Thanksgiving and Christmas. On birthdays, maybe we fax them a card or leave a voicemail. It`s all so wrong-headed.

Your family isn`t only the most important thing in your life, it`s probably also the greatest single contributor to your economic success and emotional well-being. Every study I`ve read shows that people with strong, stable family connections earn more money, and lead happier, healthier lives than people without that structure to support them.

When you`re in the hospital, sick as a dog, they slap a sign on the door to your room. It doesn`t say, "co-workers only" or "social workers only." It says, "family only." We know instinctively that when we`re in some kind of trouble, our most valuable source of strength and support is our own family. And it doesn`t have to be a traditional, nuclear family either. Now you have choices: single-parent, multi-parent, extended - it`s all family.

We put career, money, pleasure, all ahead of family. The irony is, if we put family first, the rest will tend to follow a lot more readily.

The comforting thing about a family is it will accept you as you are, not as you are needed. True, families don`t step down from Norman Rockwell canvases to carve the turkey and pat you on the head. There are always a few funny uncles, unemployed brothers-in-law and shady ladies. There is the too-ready tendency to tell it to you like it is, not the way you would like to hear it. It can be painful, but that`s because family members don`t have to lie to you to advance their own interests.

Staying close to family does more for you - and says more about you - than almost anything else. No one on his deathbed has ever said, "I wish I had spent more time at the office."

Call for Contributors: We would be pleased and honored to include contributions from our readers who would like to share tips, techniques, resources or opinions on appropriate topics which focus not just on officiating, but on balancing life and work issues. If you or someone you know would like to contribute, please email macboa1@aol.com.

Neither MACBOA nor its guest contributors shall be liable or responsible to any person or entity for any loss or damage caused, or alleged to be have been caused, directly or indirectly by the information, opinion or ideas contained, suggested, or referenced in this newsletter.

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