Sources for Officials Module

Here is an annotated (and expanded) bibliography related to the "Respecting the Game: Supporting Officials in Youth Sports" Module. I offer brief annotations to the sources that were referenced in the Module. I then share additional resources that I have found helpful to my learning and perspective-taking over the years. Have other sources that may be of interest? Let us know!

Information in the Module was based on the following resources:

Medina, E. (2022, April 21). Bad Behavior Drove a Referee Shortage. Covid Made It Worse.

Retrieved from New York Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/21/sports/referee-shortage-youth-sports.html

National Association of Sports Officials. (n.d.). National Association of Sports Officials

National Officiating Survey. Retrieved August 16, 2025 from

https://www.naso.org/survey/

Radziszewski, S., Parent, S., St-Pierre, E., & Fortier, J. (2024). “Never having the right to make a

mistake, I think that’s the hardest part of being an official”: Exploring young sport

officials’ experiences of abuse and their related coping mechanisms. Journal ofApplied

Sport Psychology, 36(2), 187-209. Retrieved August 16, 2025 from

https://doi.org/10.1080/10413200.2023.2197964

National Association of Sports Officials. (n.d.). State legislation. Retrieved August 16, 2025

from https://www.naso.org/resources/legislation/state-legislation/

Additional Sources, with brief annotations: