JUNE 2007

ABOA
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Alberta Basketball Officials Association

President’s Message
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
The winter ABOA member worked the participate in your asso-
season has NCAA Division II Womens ciation. The ABOA has
PRESIDENT’S 1 now ended Final. Clarke Stevens who made great strides to
MESSAGE with the pro- was at the Superweekend make Alberta officials be-
vincials at all in September, worked in ing noticed in national
SUPERWEEKEND 1
levels being the NCAA Division I tour- tournaments. We would
SUMMER OFFFI- 2 completed. I nament with his last as- like that to continue with
CIATINGOPPORT
UNITIES
would like to signment being a Na- more people showing sup-
congratulate all the officials, tional semi-final. Con- port by running for posi-
AGM MEETING 3 first for being able to partici- gratulations Karen and tions or coming to vote.
pate and secondly for doing Clarke. The Cabinet meeting that
PERRY STOTHA- 3
THART NEW VP a fine job. Hopefully you will was held before the AGM
The ABOA AGM was
take back to your associa- was also not well at-
ASAA AND FIBA 4 held in Calgary on April
tion all the constructive com- tended. Communication is
29. Elections were held
CABOA AGM IN 4 ments to make everyone a always better when it oc-
CALGARY for a new executive. We
better official. curs face to face.
thank Trevor Viney for his
There are many summer contributions to the ABOA FIBA rules are in place
tournaments that are avail- as he did not run again for all leagues for the
able to further your official for the VP position. Perry 2007/08 season. Please
development. Stothart was elected to make sure that you are
take his place. Unfortu- ready to commit to a
We had two members of
nately we had a low turn- weekend clinic in the fall
SPECIAL POINTS OF our officiating family do very
out at the meeting. We to learn these rules.
INTEREST: well in the USA this year.
strongly encourage the
Karen Lasiuk who is still an Have a good summer.
Check out page 2 for Summer
members of the ABOA to
Officiating Opportunities.

Super Weekend
Mark your calendars.
calendars Basketball Alberta and ABOA will once again present Super
Weekend, a clinic for coaches and officials on the weekend of September 21-23 in
Edmonton. The focus will be on FIBA rules and mechanics. More information will
be available on the ABOA website soon..
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Summer Officiating Opportunities

ABOA has several appointments this summer for officials to receive recognition for their work this season and to con-
tinue their development for the future.

A. Western Canada Summer Games will feature tournaments involving U15 (Midget) Girls & Boys provincial
teams from the 4 western provinces + the territories August 3 - 7 in Sherwood Park. Alberta receives 7 appointments
to this tournament with BC, SK and MB each sending one official. ABOA will provide 2 Assignor / Evaluators. FIBA
rules will be played so the officials will be expected to study them in advance. ABOA will conduct a pre-tournament
meeting and brief rules overview. As per Games policy no game fees are paid, instead the officials receive a gear pack-
age. All accommodations, meals as well as travel are paid for the out-of-towners. The ABOA Evaluation Committee will
select officials for this tournament

B. Great Canadian Shootout is a huge tournament in Edmonton involving over 100 teams in all age classifications and
goes June 29 - July 2. The Canada West Camp was run in conjunction with this event in past years but now is held at
SFU in Burnaby. The tournament features some high level and intense games and provides officials with the opportu-
nity to develop their skills at the next level. EBOA assigns most of the officials but needs your assistance. Any officials
wishing to come to Edmonton will receive lots of games as well as a travel & per diem allowance. Accommodations for
now are on their own, but efforts will be made to look after this. FIBA rules will be played. Interested officials should
contact me if they wish to receive a provincial evaluation in addition to working games and they will be assigned ac-
cordingly in higher level games. I would like to hear from them by June 10th at the latest. Details will then be provided.

C. Basketball Alberta's Tournament is tentatively scheduled for July 27 - 29 and will feature U15 & U17 provincial
teams training to get ready for their respective National Championships in August. The likely location is Calgary. ABOA
would like to identify several candidates from throughout the province to assist in their continued development. These
officials will either be selected to Summer National Appointments or be under consideration, as well as to further their
chances of moving up to ACAC ball. FIBA rules will be played. Interested officials contact me by June 10th, with details
to follow. Officials will receive game fees, expenses and a provincial evaluation.

D. National Championship Summer Appointments - Alberta will receive three appointments this summer to the
Midget and Juvenile Championships to be held August 10 -14 and August 14 - 18. Subject to the input from the
Evaluation Committee and evaluations from Provincials, a short list will be drawn up early in June. While we will only be
able to select a fortunate few, those receiving consideration are in line for the tournaments above and opportunities in
the future. It's important that local boards give their deserving members the chance to be identified by ABOA. If you
have solid, developing officials with potential, please ensure we are made aware of them.

I would also encourage ABOA members to attend a camp this summer. There are many available by going to http://
www.stripezone.com and scrolling down to Officiating Camps. Two I will recommend are the Canada West Camp June
29 - July 2 in Burnaby, BC, contact billcrowley@stripezone.com ,and the Prairie Dog Camp in Saskatoon July 6 - 8, con-
tact basketballref@shaw.ca .

Enjoy the summer!

Jake Steinbrenner, ABOA Assignor / Evaluator

zebra1@ocii.com
780--478
780 478--6724
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Annual General Meeting

ABOA held its AGM in Calgary on April 29, 2007. A couple of the key points from the weekend were:
• Dues for Active officials will be $80 this year.
• The Bylaws were amended to allow those officials who do not achieve 80% and 86% for provincial and
national appointments respectively an opportunity to rewrite the exam once.
• Elections were held. There were no nominations for the position of President so Dick Vanderstam was
asked to continue in the position for one more year. Paul Rocca was re-elected as Treasurer for two
years and Perry Stothart was elected Vice President for the next two years.

Perry Stothart Elected ABOA Vice President

Perry Stothart is married
and the father of four boys.
Officiating obviously runs in
the family, Perry’s father
George started officiating 54
years ago. Perry started his
own officiating career 20
years ago at the age of 14
working Jr High games in
Devon. He has referred with
EBOA since 1990. He has 12
experience at the ACAC level
and 8 years of CIS whistling.
Perry picked up his FIBA card
in 2005.
He has lots of experience at
the national and international
level including Western Can-
ada Summer Games, Juvenile
Men’s Nationals, both
Women’s and Men’s CCAA
Nationals and the CIS
Women’s Championships last
year and the Canada Games
in 2001.
Perry’s international as-
signments include the Inter-
national Sports Invitational,
San Diego, California in June
2005, the Global Games,
Dallas, Texas June 2006,
and the upcoming FISU
Games (Universiade), Bang-
kok, Thailand in August
2007.
Perry brings a wealth of
Returning members of the
“Officiating obviously ABOA Executive are Presi-
runs in the family, my dent Dick Vanderstam,
Vanderstam
father George started Treasurer Paul Rocca,
Rocca In-
terpreter Morgan Munroe,
Munroe
officiating 54 years ago…
Evaluation Chair Jake
experience to the VP posi- Steinbrenner and Mem-
tion having served nine ber-at-large Wanda Van-
years on the EBOA executive dervelden.
dervelden Bill Carr is the
including the last four as Supervisor.
President.
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Have a safe and great summer

ASAA FIBA Modifications
• T-shirts of the same colour as the
During the ASAA annual
uniform may be worn under the
AGM, the following minor
uniform without a medical certifi-
modifications were made
cate.
to FIBA rules:
• No protests allowed at ASAA
• NCAA numbers also recognized as
championship.
legal.

• Halftime will be 10 minutes instead

of 15. At the current time there are no modi-
fications for ACAC and CIS games.

CABO Annual General Meeting

Executive will be in meetings ABOA member inter-

Friday evening and all day Sat- ested in joining us for
urday. The ABOA Executive golf should contact
will be holding its annual Plan- ABOA President Dick
ning Meeting at the same time Vanderstam ASAP.
ABOA will host the CABO AGM in
and place. There will be a golf
Calgary on September 14—
14—16 at the
tournament as well on Friday
Radisson Hotel. The provincial Su-
morning at Speargrass Golf
pervisors (Presidents) and Interpret-
Course near Carseland. Any
ers along with the National CABO

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