'I would say we've probably lost 30% of our officials,' John Riley says. 'We will lose two or three a year and only get one. The only thing that they will say to me is, 'I don't want to deal with the parents.''
"I would say we've probably lost 30% of our officials," John Riley says. "We will lose two or three a year and only get one. The only thing that they will say to me is, 'I don't want to deal with the parents.'"Sadly, right now we're told there's a critical need for referees, umpires and other sports officials to preside over their games."We're hurting for officials," says John Riley from Phoenixville.
"My first year I did 15 games or something like that," Riley says. "I did 40 games this year for softball, which is a lot of games." Riley has been officiating volleyball and softball games for the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association, or PIAA, for the past 10 years.
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