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WELCOME TO BOARD 95!
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IAABO Night at the Lowell Spinners
The Lowell Spinners, the Single A Affiliate of the Boston Red Sox, and primary sponsor of the IAABO 95 Holiday Basketball Tournament, will be hosting IAABO Night at LeLacheur Park in Lowell on Thursday - August 30th, 2012. The Spinners have reserved 800 seats for their final regular season game of the year against the Vermont Lake Monsters (7:05 start) for IAABO members as well as their families and friends. Tickets for this fan-friendly, family-fun atmosphere are only $6.00, with $1.50 from each tickets going to the IAABO 95 Holiday Tournament Scholarship Fund, and $1.50 from each ticket going to IAABOs Campaign Against Cancer as well. The night will also feature post-game fireworks, sponsored by Pepsi. For more information, or to purchase your tickets please contact John Rafferty from IAABO 95 at raff.powell@comcast.net or at 978-697-3239. Hope to see everyone on IAABO night in Lowell at LeLacheur Park on August 30th.
Womens Hoop Mountain Referee Camp
Womens Hoop Mountain Referee Camp is Mon. July 9th beginning at noon to Weds. July 11th at noon at Roger Williams University in Bristol Rhode Island. This is an Instructional camp for officials looking to learn or refine their knowledge of 3-person NCAA women college mechanics. The camp is limited to 36 people.
The Director of the camp is Barbara Jacobs the Asst. Commissioner of the Big East Conference and coordinator of Womens officiating... the Coordinator(s) of the camp are Joanne Aldrich (Board #95 official) and Kathy Lynch, who are both Div. I NCAA officials.
It is a boys high school camp. The camp blends classroom, with on-the-court training.
Please go to the camps website www.hoopmountain.com then scroll to bottom of page and click on Womens camps and website should appear. You can register online. Not mentioned in the website is the fact that there are 11 ($100.00) scholarships presented at the end of camp. Five of these scholarships come from the Northeast-10 Conference (Div. 2), of which Joanne Aldrich is the Coordinator of officials for, and five scholarships come from the America East Conference(Div.1). The remaining scholarship presented in honor of Jack Plunkett a former clinician and NCAA official who passed away 2 years ago.
Several officials from Board #95 have attended this camp in the past (Chris Bradley, Heather Marino, Paul Maiella to name a few), and a few of you have already signed up for this year.
Thank you,
Joanne Aldrich
IAABO Officials Schools
33rd Year of IAABO Officials Schools
1st IAABO Officials’ School to be held at the Rhode Island College. The fee for the school is $250.00 which includes lodging at the Hilton Gardens for two nights.
Rhode Island College
600 Mt. Pleasant Avenue
Providence, Rhode Island
June 1 – 3, 2012
Cost: $250.00
Scholarships are available from the IAABO Foundation to supplement the cost of the school. To register, please visit: http://www.iaabo.org/2012_Officials_Schools.html.
IAABO Schools are designed to provide officials who have a wide variety of ability and experience with the individual attention to meet her/his specific needs. The focal points of each school are the review of rules, mechanics, signals and professionalism. Each official can expect to receive quality instruction in the classroom and on the court. At IAABO Schools, officials receive instant feedback, including video, which can be incorporated into their officiating immediately.
Referee Camps
May 19 & 20 - “Order on the Court!” – Crew of Two
This camp is designed to benefit officials who have been working high school level games for 1–5 years. This is a ‘teaching and training’ camp.
Request information at OrderOnTheCourt.Camps@gmail.com
June 29 – July 1 -“Move to Improve” Officiating Camp
This camp is designed to offer high school and college officials the opportunity to learn from some of the best NCAA men’s basketball officials in the country.
Request information at referee23@cox.net
July 6, 7 & 8- “Hoop Mountain”
This camp is designed to benefit those officials who work 3-person assignments on high school, junior college and college levels.
Request information at http://www.hoopmountain.com/mens-referee/mens-referee-camps
July 6, 7 & 8 - “Order on the Court!” – Crew of Three
This camp is designed to benefit officials who have been working high school assignment and are ready to expand their skills using the crew of three (3-person) techniques. This is a ‘teaching and training’ camp.
Request information at OrderOnTheCourt.Camps@gmail.com
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