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The Boys Metro Varsity Fall League, to be held Saturday mornings at the Iowa West Fieldhouse, will tip off on Saturday, September 15, and run five straight weekends. Games will be played at 9 and 10 am on all eight courts. If you are interested in working these games, please text 402-618-2859.

The dates for the league will be September 15, September 22, September 29, October 6 and October 13. You can give availability for one weekend or all weekends. Current Nebraska Basketball Officials varsity officials are encouraged to try to work one of the weekends.

If you would like more information, please text Brent Robinson at 402-618-2859.

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Boys and Girls Varsity Leagues begin Monday night, June 4, at the Iowa West Fieldhouse and Papillion LaVista High School. Schedules for the two leagues are included in this post. Please text your confirmations to 402-618-2859.

Please arrive 15 minutes prior to your scheduled game time. Give yourself time to familiarize yourself with the league rules. They are different for both leagues.

I will be assigning different people each week. Everyone turned in different availability. I will try to assign games accordingly.

The entire month of June will feature Varsity Basketball Leagues for Boys and Girls in the Metro on Monday nights. Varsity Boys League will be played at the Iowa West Fieldhouse as games will be played at 6 and 7 pm on all courts. Varsity Girls League will be played at Papillion-LaVista High School. Game times will be 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 with two games played in the North gym and one game played in the Auxiliary gym.

Game dates will be June 4, June 11, June 18 and June 25. Please text your availability for these dates to 402-618-2859. Please be specific with your requests. I will schedule you according to your requests, but there may be times I have to move people from one venue to the other in order to fill games.

All of the games are running clock games. Some special rules are used, including shooting one free throw for two points, in order to get more actual playing time for everyone.

While these are primarily Varsity Leagues, these games provide excellent opportunities for Lower Level officials. If you are a JV or Lower Level official, get me your availability and if I can work you in, I will. We use 2-person crews for these games, but you might want to work two games and volunteer and run 3-persons in another game. Or, if you’d like to let me know and volunteer to work a 3-person game at the Fieldhouse, that can be arranged, as well.

Thank you.

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Nebraska Basketball Officials, the organization which assigns lower level and varsity officials for the Metro Conference, will have its organizational and sign up meeting for the 2018-19 season, tonight, May 9, at 7 pm in the Cafeteria at Omaha Burke High School. NBO Assignor Al Monaco will go over the group’s two-year contract extension and some structure changes for the upcoming season. This will be the only meeting before assigning begins this summer, so officials are encouraged to attend and pay dues so they are ready to be entered into Arbiter for assignments.

Annual dues remain unchanged and will be $50 and includes being registered with Arbiter, NBO’s online scheduling software.

Officials working varsity contests in the Metro will need to be registered with the Nebraska School Activities Association ($45 fee) and NBO ($50 dues). No additional fees will be charged by NBO. Officials do NOT need to pay additional fees or be registered with the Nebraska High School Officials Association (NHSOA) to work varsity or lower level Metro contests.

The meeting will last approximately one hour and will include varsity and lower level assigning discussion.

NBO is once again assigning the Omaha Bryan Varsity Summer Tournament, Saturday and Sunday, June 2 and 3. NBO will be conducting a 3-person clinic on Saturday, June 2. Limited spaces are available for the clinic, which is intended to help officials gain experience in 3-person mechanics. Monaco will conduct the clinic. Officials can register for the clinic at the May 9 meeting. Veteran officials will also be used to work the tournament. NBO is also assigning the Metro Varsity Boys League on Monday nights at the Iowa West Fieldhouse in June. We are also assigning the Metro Varsity Girls League on Monday nights at Papiliion-LaVista High School. These league nights are June 4, 11, 18, 25.

Officials wishing to write checks for their dues may do so to Nebraska Basketball Officials. Receipts will also be available for those wishing to pay with cash. The registration form is attached to this email. You can print it, fill it out, and bring it to the meeting to save time. Officials will not be registered with Arbiter this year until 2018-19 dues are paid. This includes all lower level officials.

Anyone with questions can contact Monaco at monaco.nbo@gmail.com. Or, they can call him at 402-525-0699.

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Nebraska Basketball Officials, the organization which assigns lower level and varsity officials for the Metro Conference, will have its organizational and sign up meeting for the 2018-19 season, Wednesday night, May 9, at 7 pm in the Cafeteria at Omaha Burke High School. NBO Assignor Al Monaco will go over the group’s two-year contract extension and some structure changes for the upcoming season. This will be the only meeting before assigning begins this summer, so officials are encouraged to attend and pay dues so they are ready to be entered into Arbiter for assignments.

Annual dues remain unchanged and will be $50 and includes being registered with Arbiter, NBO’s online scheduling software.

Officials working varsity contests in the Metro will need to be registered with the Nebraska School Activities Association ($45 fee) and NBO ($50 dues). No additional fees will be charged by NBO. Officials do NOT need to pay additional fees or be registered with the Nebraska High School Officials Association (NHSOA) to work varsity or lower level Metro contests.

The meeting at Omaha Burke will last approximately one hour and will include varsity and lower level assigning discussion.

NBO is once again assigning the Omaha Bryan Varsity Summer Tournament, Saturday and Sunday, June 2 and 3. NBO will be conducting a 3-person clinic on Saturday, June 2. Limited spaces are available for the clinic, which is intended to help officials gain experience in 3-person mechanics. Monaco will conduct the clinic. Officials can register for the clinic at the May 9 meeting. Veteran officials will also be used to work the tournament. NBO is also assigning the Metro Varsity Boys League on Monday nights at the Iowa West Fieldhouse in June. We are also assigning the Metro Varsity Girls League on Monday nights at Papiliion-LaVista High School. These league nights are June 4, 11, 18, 25.

Officials wishing to write checks for their dues may do so to Nebraska Basketball Officials. Receipts will also be available for those wishing to pay with cash. The registration form is attached to this email. You can print it, fill it out, and bring it to the meeting to save time. Officials will not be registered with Arbiter this year until 2018-19 dues are paid. This includes all lower level officials.

Anyone with questions can contact Monaco at monaco.nbo@gmail.com. Or, they can call him at 402-525-0699.

One of the largest high-quality AAU Basketball tournaments of the off-season is scheduled for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, April 20-21-22 at multiple courts in Omaha and Council Bluffs. If interested in working games, please text your availability for all three days to 402-618-2859.

Games are scheduled for Friday night at Omaha Sports Academy and the Iowa West Fieldhouse. Saturday and Sunday, games will be held at OSA (4 courts), Iowa West Fieldhouse (8 courts), Millard North High School (3 courts), Genesis Health Club (2 courts), Northstar Foundation (2 courts) and Liberty Middle School in Papillion (2 courts). There are close to 300 games on Saturday alone.

This tournament is during an NCAA Live period, meaning NCAA coaches are invited and encouraged to attend for the purpose of recruiting high school players. The quality of play should be high, especially at the high school level. The tournament has divisions from fourth grade to high school.

This is a CASH tournament!!! Please be as specific as possible with your availability.

Thank you!

Brent Robinson

The review for the NSAA Part 1 Open Book test will be tonight at 6:30 pm, at the Omaha Burke High School cafeteria. Brent Robinson will go over the test for anyone interested. This review is intended for all basketball referees, including those who are not registered with the NSAA, but are intending to work lower level and youth games at the Omaha Sports Academy. The meeting should last just over an hour.

The Nebraska School Activities Association open book (Part 1) test review has been scheduled for Tuesday night, November 7, at 6:30 pm, in the Omaha Burke High School cafeteria.

We will go over all 100 questions on the NSAA test and discuss answers. The session should take just over an hour and all in attendance should be able to go online and complete their tests after the meeting.

This test review is very worthwhile for all officials planning on officiating basketball this winter, whether or not you plan to work Nebraska High School games. It is also a valuable informational meeting for youth officials planning on working Omaha Sports Academy or other youth basketball games.

Please bring a copy of the NSAA test with you to the meeting. We will NOT have copies of the test available. If you cannot print out the test, text Brent Robinson at 402-618-2859 or email him at robinson.nbo@gmail.com. We will try to see if some of our officials can bring an extra copy.

This will be the only test review scheduled this season.

Nebraska Basketball Officials, the organization which assigns lower level and varsity officials for the Metro Conference, as well as middle school and elementary officials for the Omaha Public Schools, will have its fall meeting for the 2017-18 season, Wednesday night, September, 27, at 6:30 pm, in the small Auditorium at Omaha Westside High School. This will be the last meeting before assigning gets into full swing for this coming winter, so officials are encouraged to attend and pay dues so they are ready to be entered into Arbiter for assignments.

Annual dues will be $50 and includes being registered with Arbiter, NBO’s online scheduling software.

Officials working varsity contests in the Metro will need to be registered with the Nebraska School Activities Association ($45 fee) and the NBO ($50 dues). No additional fees will be charged by NBO. Officials do NOT need to pay additional fees or be registered with the Nebraska High School Officials Association (NHSOA) to work varsity Metro contests.

The meeting will last approximately one hour with Nebraska Basketball Officials’ assignor Al Monaco going over updates for the 2017-18 season. Lower Level NBO assignor Justin Albrecht will also be in attendance.

Officials wishing to write checks for their dues may do so to Nebraska Basketball Officials. Receipts will also be available for those wishing to pay with cash. Officials will not be registered with Arbiter this year until 2017-18 dues are paid. This includes all lower level officials.

Anyone with questions can contact Monaco at monaco.nbo@gmail.com. Or, they can call Monaco at 402-525-0699.

The Metro Basketball Prep Fall League will be bigger with more teams this year and games will be played at the Iowa West Fieldhouse in order to handle the growth. First games are scheduled for Saturday, September 16, and will be played for five consecutive weekends. Games will be played at 8, 9, 10 and 11 a.m.., on six courts at the Fieldhouse. Officials can begin texting their availability for the weekends now to Brent Robinson at 402-618-2859.

The Saturdays are September 16, September 23, September 30, October 7 and October 14. Officials should turn in availability for either two- or four-game sets. Two-person crews will be used with some special three-person crews as assigned by Nebraska Basketball Officials’ Assignor Al Monaco.