| Howard Mayo - Officiating |
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Howard Mayo began officiating high school basketball games
in Butte, Montana in 1956. In 1960, he relocated to Portland
and continued officiating high school games. From 1962
until 1983, Howard refereed small college basketball in both
Oregon and Washington.
From 1977 until present, Mayo has served as Commissioner,
of the Portland Basketball Officials Association (PBOA), and
is a past president of the organization. As well, he has served
as instructional chair for PBOA, conducting clinics throughout
Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. He continues to
conduct annual rules/mechanics clinics for PBOA, and for all
State of Oregon rule interpreters for the OSAA.
Howard is currently State of Oregon rules interpreter for
OSAA, and serves on the State Officials Fee Review Committee
and State Officials Council for the OSAA. He continues as a
regular supervisor of officials for OSAA at various boys and
girls state tournaments, and regularly assigns officials for over
115 schools in the greater Portland area.
Mayo is a life member of the International Association of
Approved Basketball Officials (IAABO) , and has been a
member of that organization’s instructional staff at officiating
camps held annually at WSU. He has also served on the
Rules and Manual committee of the National Federation of
High Schools, from which he received a distinguished service
award in 1994. He continues to serve as commissioner of the
Portland Basketball Officials Association. |
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