Monday, September 3, 2012

Summer Mentorship Component

Literal (Know)

Mentorship Log

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Literal (Need to Know)

How should I appropriately assert my authority while respecting elders at the same time?
When confronted by an upset parent, at what point should you decide to eject the parent from the game?
When is it appropriate to stop a game?
What do I do when a team does not pay their referee fee?
A player has fouled another player. The victim immediately retaliates in self defense albeit, aggressively. Should the victim be penalized as well?

Interpretive

The most important thing I gained from my experience in my mentorship as a soccer referee was leadership. As a referee, you have 22 players on the field who expect you to properly referee the game. While focusing on the game, I also have to deal with parents who will throw a few choice words at me with nearly every call I make. When I started refereeing, I thought that as long as I called everything fair, everyone would be happy. I quickly learned that this was not the case. No matter how well I refereed, 50% of the crowd always hated me at the end. I've learned to be a leader on the field, and how to accept the fact that not everybody is going to agree with my decisions.

Applied

I feel that my experience has helped me choose soccer refereeing as my topic because I find it so much more interesting to mediate the sport I love instead of playing it. As a player, I never really cared for the referee and frequently challenged calls I didn't agree with. Now that I stand in their shoes, I've grown to respect the people who do this for a living, and this really motivates me to continue being a referee.


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