The bottom line is it takes time to move up in any organization, and patience eventually gets it's reward. I joined late in the game to just help in the SCWOA after my son had finished his wrestling career. It took me about 8 years of moving up the ladder before I did my first Mat Classic. All these things take time to get there so I can only assume that the gentleman talking about politics had some type of problem with the current advancement rules or just had a personal conflict with a board-member or two. That is not uncommon in any group that I have seen over the years.
I don't know who this poster is but if he would like to talk with me about it his concerns, he can email me his phone # at info@washingtonwrestlingreport.net and I would be happy to talk with him about it. We have some good young officials coming up but we just need a lot more. Every association is short of official's, including Bob Turner's PNW association. We had 4 or 5 of our officials at their Edmonds tournament because they could not fill all the slots. Even adding our group to the mix, we didn't have as many refs as we should have. We even had at least one Skagit ref.
I don't run into issues with "politics" because I just don't care about that, and therefore it doesn't affect me. I am only officiating for the benefit of the kids and if I don't get a certain assignment it is no big deal. I have no ego involved with this and just know that without officials, they can't have tournaments, and that would be a shame. Again, I encourage any former wrestlers or parents that want to help kids, and give back to wrestling, to seek out you local official's association, contact them and get trained. We welcome all that are willing and able to help and learn.
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