How Sportsmanship is Impacting the Shortage of Officials ​and What Are Some Possible Solutions?

Learning Objectives:

• The lessons high school and college sports can learn from Venmo, PayPal, Zelle, Apple Pay and others in digital payment efficiencies.
• Can the payment of 1099 workers (refs, game day workers, transportation and security personnel, and others) lead to alleviating shortages o f officials and workers?
• Can costs associated with digital payments be the responsibility of the finance department and not the athletic department?
• Can the scope of digital payments be expanded to other academic departments?

Presented by:

Kyle Ford - President & CEO of ArbitorSports

Max Kattwinkel - Athletic Director - Lubbock-Cooper ISD

About the Sponsor:

ArbiterSports impacts 65 million Americans each year, one in every five of us, through their network of products and strategic integrations including Arbiter Registration, Arbiter Scheduling and Arbiter Pay which are the leading high school and college software solutions for sports, events and scholastic management.