The Crown Refs Podcast

Diana Depaul has been working as referee scout in the NBA for the past 2 years. She is a former 20-year Division 1 official who has also worked the NCAA tournament, the NBA’s D-League, and the World University Games. She joins us on the podcast to discuss her path to the NBA, the qualities of a great official, and creating your own pathway to achieve your goals.

Verbal Judo Institute has equipped over a million individuals with the necessary skills to redirect behavior and generate voluntary compliance. They believe in “Staying calm in the midst of conflict, deflecting verbal abuse, and offering empathy in the face of antagonism.” Alex Bromley is an 8-year law enforcement officer who partnered with the Verbal Judo Institute in 2018 and is now a National Instructor. He joins the podcast to share some of Verbal Judo’s tactical communication methods and how they can be applied for basketball officials. We know you will find a ton of value in this audio that can be directly implemented in your game. (Music produced by Riddick X-Motivate)

Jerry B. Jenkins, New York Times Best-Selling Writer, discusses verbal judo and its application in officiating. Topics include handling criticism with grace and empathy, generating automatic responses, controlling the situation, and setting boundaries in sports.

Brenda and Tim Hilton have taken on the initiative of improving the treatment of all referees. Officially Human was founded to restore respect to, and positive treatment of, sports officials through increased education and communication to all stakeholders (administrators, coaches, and fans) while recruiting and retaining new officials at all levels. Their mission is to improve the culture of officiating. Some of their core values are to promote sportsmanship, fairness and to develop solution based ideas for the issues officials face today. Officiallyhuman.com

Officially Human was founded to restore respect to, and positive treatment of, sports officials through increased education and communication to all stakeholders (administrators, coaches, and fans) while recruiting and retaining new officials at all levels. Their mission is to improve the culture of officiating. Some of their core values are to promote sportsmanship, fairness and to develop solution based ideas for the issues officials face today. Officiallyhuman.com

Live From: House of Sports returns with volume 4 featuring Nicole Robinson. Thanks for listening to the audio experience for basketball officials. In this episode, Nicole explains how growing up the daughter of a referee helped spark her officiating career. Plus, we discuss signal preferences and some situations from our 3 games together. This was the first time Nicole and I had ever worked together. We hope you enjoy the episode. Here are 18 ways to help you run and #servethegame https://link.medium.com/zjN1C5AuZ2 click here to watch Crown Refs: All: Access episode #2 https://youtu.be/isqEGDrBa6k

Thank you for listening to the Crown Refs Podcast. We appreciate your continued support. We think you’re going to love this episode because it’s a mash-up of some of the best content of the year. #68 features Joey Crawford, Scott Foster, Al Battista, Stacey Thomas, Reggie Greenwood, Derrick Stafford, Ed T. Rush and Ronnie Nunn. On behalf of Crown Refs we wish you a happy and healthy new year.

Stacey Thomas had a legendary college career at Michigan and was selected 23rd overall in the 2000 WNBA draft. She went on to play 6 seasons in the league and won a championship in 2003 with the Detroit Shock. Since retiring from basketball, she's built a 12-year career as an official. She currently officiates at the division 2 level and her goal is set on reaching D1. To support his podcast click here. https://anchor.fm/crown-refs

NBA scout Al Battista returns to the podcast to give us sequencing and guidelines. He broke down some play types ranging from jump shots, rebounds, push offs, blocked shots, clamps, flops, game management and much more. He also emphasized the fact that more officials need to stand up for themselves and respond to the disrespectful behavior that coaches often demonstrate. We hope you enjoy and hit us up on social with feedback. Have a great season!

Christian Watson, 31, is the Bo Jackson of referees. He currently works at the division one level in football, baseball and basketball. He is the youngest D1 crew chief in America and is the son of a former 2-sport official. We discuss what it took for him to ascend up the ladder, the skills that transfer over to any sport, his future goals and much more. #servethegame