Sabrina Brunson became the first female football official to work a regular season collegiate game in the history of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference when she served as line judge for the Stillman-Tuskegee game in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Saturday
Sabrina Brunson became the first female football official to work a regular season collegiate game in the history of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference when she served as line judge for the Stillman-Tuskegee game in Tuscaloosa, Ala. on Saturday.
A graduate of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida, Brunson began officiating football on the Junior Varsity and Youth level in 1996 with her ex-husband, as a way of spending quality time together. After a while she began perfecting her “craft” of officiating football as a female.
“I focused on the rules and mechanics of the game and applied what I had read on the field,” Brunson said.
In 2001, Brunson set her goal on officiating on the collegiate level and began attending college football camps with the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference and SIAC. In 2006, she became a reserve official in SIAC. Then in 2007, while still on the reserve list with SIAC, Brunson was afforded the opportunity to work the clock, while at the same time observing the on-field mechanics of the line judge position.
“I appreciate the leadership and training afforded to me while attending a number of college camps in the past, as well as attending weekly study sessions with SIAC. I am very privileged and honored to embark on this endeavor as the first female official to work in the SIAC,” she said.
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