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Battlefields to Ballfields: How Veterans are Helping Solve the Sports Officiating Crisis (ENCORE)

Battlefields to Ballfields: How Veterans are Helping Solve the Sports Officiating Crisis (ENCORE)

Update: 2023-11-07
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Few jobs are more thankless than that of the referee. At best, your existence is completely invisible. No one notices when you do a terrific job. At worst, you become enemy #1 for fans or coaches or in lower levels, angry parents. Combine that with low pay and high pressure, and it's no wonder why officiating is undergoing a crisis at the moment. Not enough people are willing to do the job –– a job without which, the games quite literally cannot go on. But, today, ahead of Veteran’s Day weekend, we revisit the story of Battlefields to Ballfields, an organization working to make military vets part of the solution. And in many cases, it’s the kind of opportunity some struggling former soldiers have dreamed of.


For more on Battlefields to Ballfields, you can read McGee’s story here.


This episode first ran on November 11, 2022.

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Battlefields to Ballfields: How Veterans are Helping Solve the Sports Officiating Crisis (ENCORE)

Battlefields to Ballfields: How Veterans are Helping Solve the Sports Officiating Crisis (ENCORE)

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