{"id":289,"date":"2022-06-09T19:27:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T01:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/?p=289"},"modified":"2022-06-09T19:27:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T01:27:21","slug":"formal-officiating-mentorship-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/?p=289","title":{"rendered":"Formal Officiating Mentorship Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cThe DMOA is pleased to announce a formal mentorship program for interested veteran and new basketball and football officials.  The program, \u2018Each ONE, Bring ONE\u2019, will match veteran officials with inexperienced officials and will include personalized 1:1 discussions on officiating topics, mentoring\/encouragement and periodic observation\/evaluation\/feedback of new officials registered in the program.  DMOA membership is required to participate in the program.  The DMOA is currently accepting both mentors and interested newer officials in the program.  For more information, please visit www.desmoinesofficials.com<\/a> or contact:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dave Rittman, President (dkrofficiating@gmail.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jason Alons, VP-Basketball (jason.alons@gmail.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matt Caponigro, VP-Football (matthew.caponigro@gmail.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When asked about the new program, Rittman, who is also Director of Training and Retention for the DMOA, said, \u201cThe shortage of officials is at a critical stage, both in Iowa and around the country.  I have a passion for introducing new officials to the enjoyment of working with young student athletes, as well as providing opportunities for veteran officials to give back to the officiating community by sharing their enthusiasm, enjoyment, knowledge and experience.  While the physical demands of officiating may retire a few of our veterans, we have never needed their involvement more than we do now.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe DMOA is pleased to announce a formal mentorship program for interested veteran and new basketball and football officials.  The program, \u2018Each ONE, Bring ONE\u2019, will match veteran officials with inexperienced officials and will include personalized 1:1 discussions on officiating topics, mentoring\/encouragement and periodic observation\/evaluation\/feedback of new officials registered in the program.  DMOA membership is… Read More »Formal Officiating Mentorship Program<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,8],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mentors","tag-new-officials"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Rittman-150x200-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}