Saturday was "Officiate Minnesota" and I was asked to speak on the "Women in Officiating" panel. This was a huge honor as the other 3 women on the panel were huge ground breakers for women in officiating and at the administration level.
They asked us questions about how we got started, some challenges that we had to overcome among other things.
It was pretty cool to have some of the male hockey officials there to support me including Mach, Buzz, Shepherd and Uncle Tommy.
NCAA Basketball: Mary Struckhoff is the NCAA National Coordinator of Women’s Basketball Officiating
NCAA Volleyball: Joan Powell is a volleyball official, former collegiate coach and former player and some other things too, but that's all I could find on google she also has more one-liners than I do!
MN Official: Vicki Davis (1st of everything as a female in the sport) is one of the NCAA Regional Officiating Advisors
Moderator: Brenda Holmgren is a teacher at Elk River high school, officiates a ton of sports and is a ton of fun
Brian Mach, Steve Tatro, Greg Shepherd and CJ Bearline were also on a hockey specific panel during the day and did a great job representing us! Kronschnabel was the moderator.
Walt was on the steering committee and put a ton of work in.
Sunday was a leadership seminar from 1-4:30 and there were panels on recruitment and retention of officials, training and legal issues. Kronschnabel did a great job!
Sunday night began with some opening speakers and social time. This is when all the big names came in.
Monday was full of speakers and panels and a nice luncheon. The hockey specific panel included Terry Gregson, Matt Leaf, Dave LaBuda and Brad Watson. Steve Tatro was the moderator.
Tuesday we were there for most of the day, but Matt, Steve, Brad, Butch and I took a trip over to the Twinkie's stadium for private tour by Eric Curry and Dave St. Peter stopped by to say hello. Curry officiates DI college basketball. The night ended with the golden whistle banquet and award presentation.
1987 / 1991 World Series Championship Trophies and Mr. Matt at the field
