SWAC joins officiating consortium, Cofer joins SEC

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (June 17, 2020) – The Southwestern Athletic Convention (SWAC) has joined the lads’s basketball officiating consortium fashioned by the Southeastern Convention, American Athletic Convention, ASUN, Southern and Solar Belt Conferences, it was introduced Tuesday.

The Southeastern Convention additionally introduced that Reggie Cofer, a veteran NCAA official with Last 4 expertise and present coordinator of officers for the SWAC, will be part of the SEC as Assistant Coordinator of Males’s Basketball Officers. In his new capability, he’ll work carefully with SEC Coordinator of Males’s Basketball Officers Mike Eades and SEC Affiliate Commissioner for Males’s Basketball Dan Leibovitz.

“We’re happy to reinforce our basketball officiating program by welcoming the Southwestern Athletic Convention to our officiating consortium and to have a veteran official and coordinator like Reggie Cofer be part of our employees,” mentioned SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey. “I admire the help of SWAC Commissioner Dr. Charles McClelland in creating this relationship and we stay up for collaborating with the conferences within the consortium to proceed to enhance our basketball officiating program.”

The officiating consortium was established to permit the conferences to collaborate on all officiating issues associated to recruitment, training and coaching, scheduling and analysis of officers within the sport of males’s basketball.

“The Southwestern Athletic Convention (SWAC) is worked up to hitch the lads’s basketball officiating consortium that features the Southeastern Convention (SEC), American Athletic Convention, Atlantic Solar Convention (ASUN), Southern Convention and Solar Belt Convention,” mentioned SWAC Commissioner Dr. Charles McClelland.” Collectively we really feel that we presently have a number of the greatest officers on the NCAA Division I stage inside our convention. We stay up for the continued progress and growth this partnership will convey to our league as a complete. Our final objective is to proceed to have a excessive stage of high quality officiating throughout all video games in our convention. Being part of this consortium is undoubtedly a major step in that path.”

Cofer, who has served as Coordinator of Officers for the SWAC since 2009, was a Division I official from 1991-2005, working within the Southeastern, Atlantic Coast, Massive South, Colonial and Southern conferences. He was chosen to work within the NCAA Match from 1999-2005, together with two Candy 16 appearances and the 2003 NCAA Nationwide Championship recreation. He was additionally an NCAA Regional Officiating Advisor and an SEC Officers Observer.