If you are married, have children, and officiate, you know that in many instances your family makes sacrifices during the season.
How many nights were you away from home and not there to tuck in the kids?
Sometimes those sacrifices even extend into the off-season.
The president of my basketball association told me about a clinic he attends. This clinic is a weekend vacation in Wildwood, New Jersey (on The Jersey Shore), for the official and his family, with educational opportunities for the official. What a great combination!
I'm going to write about the clinic I went to in 2006. But John Koskinen's weekend getaway, known as the "Seashore Basketball Officials Clinic," is still going strong. Here's a link to the 2009 version.