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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My high schooler, who is an avid soccer player,  is interested in learning how to referee youth games.  Has anybody had a child do this?  Would appreciate recommendations for training courses as well as thoughts on whether this is possible to do as a high schooler - he'd be fine refereeing rec games.  Thanks![/quote]

Our DS did it throughout high school as well.  He started doing u-littles rec for Loudoun.  It was a great starting point, only ref, pop up goals, 5~6 year old running around, you're basically a babysitter that keeps the ball in play.  He did 1 full year of only rec games.  In year two he started doing AR for older age group and higher level games.  In year 3 he was predominately an AR for DA, ECNL and GA level matches at the U-13/14 level. He did do a couple U16 games but only as an AR.  He was fine doing the head ref position but often didn't want to deal w/the parents or coaches so he'd stick to AR.

He absolutely loved it, he earned some good money for the time invested and it was really easy to get his cert.  When he did it, he did some online courses and then had to day a 1, 2 or 3 day in person classroom and field course for his level.  He got his basic cert for year 1 and then went up a level in year two if i'm remembering correctly.

Once you get your certs, you'll need to reach out and find the referee assignors for your area.  They're typically associated w/a club but they do all the games in a geographical area.  if you go to their website you can find the referee assigners for the various clubs/leagues.  5~8 years ago there were only a handful that did the entire area.[/quote]

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