• Camps in Texas train basketball officials to make the right call.basketball image by Alexey Klementiev from Fotolia.com
  
  Few other sports inspire fervor and spark the imagination like basketball. The panache and guile of the sport's best athletes is astounding. Yet without a solid corps of referees, the game would quickly devolve into a wrestling match, thanks to its intensity. Officiating camps in Texas train officials to ensure a fair, balanced and well-managed game.
  
  

Camp Texas

• Camp Texas focuses on higher-level skills and building the knowledge and teamwork needed for working as part of a three-person officiating team. Instruction, which emphasizes the importance of game management by an officiating team, is a combination of classroom teaching, discussion and live game refereeing. Many of the teachers are experienced and active officials in the Houston area. . The camp is approved by the Texas Association of Sport Officials.
  
  Camp Texas
  P.O. Box 541801
  Houston, Texas 77254
  713-775-6537
  camptexas.us
  
  

Dallas Basketball Officials Association

• The Dallas Basketball Officials Association runs five camps per year. Two of the annual DBOA camps cover the mechanics of three-person officiating teams, two cover the mechanics of two-person teams and one covers both two- and three-person teams. The camps are taught through classroom instruction and the officiating of games over a two-day period. Participants are permitted to take up to two camps per year.
  
  DBOA
  c/o Mike Slaton, Treasurer
  P.O. Box 550156
  Dallas, TX 75355
  dallasref.com
  
  

Great Southwest Officials Association

• The Great Southwest Officials Association offers a handful of camps scheduled annually at locations throughout Texas. Camps in 2010 will be held at Lewisville, Duncanville and College Station. Though GSOA training is limited to Texas locations, the association covers Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, New Mexico, Mississippi and Kansas. GSOA training camps are the first step to becoming a member of the association, whose clients include Divisions II and III of the NCAA. The camps and association place great value on loyalty, work ethic, respect and professionalism.
  
  GSOA
  100 N. 6th St.
  Suite 406
  Waco, Texas 76701
  gsoa.org