| In-Person
Clinic
October 26, 2008
Pittsburgh, PA
An in-person clinic will be held at the
University of Pittsburgh , Sunday morning, October 26, 2008,
starting at approximately 9:30 am EDT. Details of the exact
campus location and time will be made available on our website,
future emails, and the NCAA and NWCA websites. The site
will change next year (2009), and be moved each subsequent
year to another region of the country, repeating every approximately
5 years. Bob Bubb and Pat McCormick will make the presentation
this year. The plan is that you will have to attend the
in-person clinic once every 5 years in the location that
is most convenient for each referee.
There have been strong feelings expressed from referees
and others that an in-person clinic is exceedingly effective
and important for the standardization of rules’ interpretation
on a national basis. Therefore, we have decided to conduct
these clinics in the method described above.
Pat McCormick has been in contact with the leadership of
the EWL, and they have agreed to conduct their annual business
meeting at the Pittsburgh venue before and/or after the
in-person clinic. This guarantees their membership of about
50 referees will be in attendance. Further, by holding the
clinic in Pittsburgh we felt it will be convenient for many
more referees to attend, especially parts of the Big 10
group, and independent referees in the tri-state area of
Pittsburgh , including Ohio , West Virginia , western New
York and eastern Indiana . Please pass this information
to others not on my email list. To those at large distances
from Pittsburgh , please suggest locations that will meet
the needs of referees in your region for future in-person
clinics. |
