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You Can Start Late And Still Be Great! Jim Lacey Shares Regionals Experience.
You Can Start Late And Still Be Great! Jim Lacey Shares Regionals Experience.
Send us Fan Mail You can be in your mid-50s, start refereeing “late,” and still earn the biggest assignments if you show up prepared, fit, and professional. That’s the heart of our conversation with Jim Lacey, a Los Angeles-area-based grassroots referee, mentor, and instructor who also happens to be a cancer epidemiologist. Jim shares how he moved from AYSO into USSF, started working higher levels alongside his son, and learned what tournament environments like Far West Regionals truly reward...