If you love basketball, want to make new friends, and contribute to the growth of Australia’s favourite sport, then the chances are you may have what it takes to become a referee and experience the following:

 

• Earn money and work flexible hours

• Be physically active and get fit

• Be involved in basketball (especially if you love the game)

• Gain a better understanding of basketball and its rules

• Meet new people, make new friends and share many great experiences

• Improve your life skills (e.g. communication, independence, confidence, decision making and awareness)

• Opportunity to travel

 

Cairns Basketball coordinates training courses for new referees. Depending on your age, you may be trained as an Association Community referee or Association Development referee. New referees begin in a Basketball Australia green shirt and run alongside a mentor referee who will train new referees over a number of weeks.

 

All referees are coached and observed by referee coaches and senior referees who provide feedback and solutions to areas for improvement. Most referees improve through match experience which is gained each week by being faced with challenges that you learn to overcome. With this experience and knowledge come better opportunities to referee higher quality games and an increase in payrates.