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More than 50 high school students had a special opportunity to learn sports officiating skills from professional umpires, referees and sports officials during a Game On clinic at the Polaris Career Center in Cleveland. 

In addition to learning positioning, making calls and blowing a whistle correctly – yes, there is a skill to that – the teens had a chance to hear from the pros about their careers, stories from working big games and life lessons. Teens heard from the likes of Mike Elliott, a Big Ten back judge who has officiated at many prominent college football games including the 2019 College Football Championship Game, and Division I women’s college basketball referee Kristen Csontos, who worked the NCAA Division II Elite Eight this year.