It's about time

My first post talked about sending in my AYSO-USSF cross certification form... In January. I managed to get cross certified. I then went ahead and did nothing. Nada. Zilch. Zero. Ok, I stared at the nice card and badge that USSF sent me. Other than that, I spent the spring refereeing more AYSO games and attending my son's baseball games and pratices.

So I finally managed to get going (about a month ago) and put my name in with the local non-AYSO recreational league as a referee. I have plenty of referee friends that do both leagues, so it will be a good transition point. I even managed to get my first games of the season this last weekend at their pre-season tournament.

I also signed up for one of the local associations that covers another rec leage, as well as some clubs and an adult league. I have a "mentor" session tomorrow evening. What it really amounts to is am evaluation session for any new referees coming into their ranks. They want to be able to evaluate you so that the assignors know what level games to give you.

I'll try and keep this thing updated a bit more often.