Jim Paronto

Baseball

Coordinator of umpires, Mountain West Conference

Years of SRE service: 2003-present.

Education: B.A. 1965, Adams State College; M.A. 1966, Adams State; EdD 1983, Brigham Young University.

E-mail: Paronto25@aol.com

Strangest interpretation/situation: "Gunfire outside the stadium interrupts a conference tournament game, causing officials and administrators to suspend play. They ask whether the teams should resume play later that night or the following day. Obviously, the tournament committee uses sound judgment and decides to have the contest completed the following day."

Current playing rules issues: Definitions of regulation games and the wind-up position for pitchers.

Ed Bilik

Men's basketball

Former coach, athletics director, Springfield College

Years of SRE service: 1996-present.

Education: B.S. and M.S., Springfield College; EdD, University of Oregon.

E-mail: edbilik@aol.com

Current playing rules issues: Considering expansion of free-throw lane and extension of three-point line.

Barbara Jacobs

Women's basketball

Assistant commissioner, Big East Conference

Years of SRE service: 1996-present.

Education: B.S., University of Wisconsin, La Crosse; M.S., State University Col lege at Cortland.

E-mail: bjacobs@
bigeast.org

Current playing rules issues: Experimenting with 10-second backcourt rule and extension of three-point line.

Ron Holmes

Women's bowling

Head coach and professor, Central Missouri State University

Years of SRE service: 2005-present.

Education: B.S. and M.S., Central Missouri State.

E-mail: holmes@
cmsu1.cmsu.edu

Current playing rules issues: Development of rules book; transitioning teams from club level to varsity.

John Adams

Football

Special assistant to the commissioner, Western Athletic Conference

Years of SRE service: 1992-present [has spent 31 years affiliated with the Football Rules Committee, six as a voting member (including two as chair) and nine as a member of the editorial subcommittee].

Education: B.A. 1946, University of Denver; M.A. 1958, Denver.

E-mail: kschild@wac.org

Current playing rules issues: Video replay, dangerous blocks, length of games.

Paul Duffy

Ice hockey

Former head coach, State University College at Geneseo

Years of SRE service: 1989-present.

Education: B.S. 1968, St. Lawrence University; M.S. 1973, Michigan State University.

E-mail: duffyp@geneseo.edu

Strangest interpretation/situation: "At the Men's Frozen Four in Cincinnati, a University of Michigan player cradled the puck on his stick (much like a lacrosse player would) and came from behind the net to score. The stick was never above four feet off the ice (the top of the goal cage), so the goal was legal."

Current playing rules issues: Proper rules enforcement in the areas of obstruction and hitting from behind; change in the goal crease rule.

Chuck Winters

Men's lacrosse

Former athletics director, Gettysburg College

Years of SRE service: 1992-present (also served from 1974 through 1982).

E-mail: cwsl@
supernet.com

Education: B.S. 1969, Bowling Green State University; M.S. 1970, Bowling Green.

Strangest interpretation request: "I was asked by an official how to rule on a ball that hits the sideline/end line pylon and goes out of bounds. How do you know if it went out over the sideline or the end line?"

Current playing rules issues: Regulating the dimensions of the crosse and process to ensure fair faceoffs.

Ed Etzel

Rifle

Former head coach, West Virginia University

Years of SRE service: 1984-present.

Education: PhD, West Virginia University.

E-mail: eetzel@
wvu.edu

Current playing rules issues: Adding rules about the use of electronic targets.

Terry Aldrich

Skiing

Head coach, Middlebury College

Years of SRE service: 1989-present.

Education: B.S., St. Lawrence University.

E-mail: aldrich@middlebury.edu

Current playing rules issues: Added rules for individual sprint competition.

Cliff McCrath

Soccer

Head men's soccer coach, Seattle Pacific University

Years of SRE service: 1974-present.

Education: B.A., Wheaton College (Illinois); M.A., Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.

E-mail: cmccrath@spu.edu

Current playing rules issues: Use of artificial noisemakers.

Dee Abrahamson

Softball

Associate athletics director, senior woman administrator, Northern Illinois University

Years of SRE service: 1996-present.

Education: Western Michigan University.

E-mail: Abrahamson@niu.edu

Current playing rules issues: Rules to speed up the game, bat standard.

Susan Petersen Lubow

Swimming and diving

Athletics director, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy

Years of SRE service: 1991-present.

Education: Springfield College.

E-mail: lubows@usmma.edu

Current playing rules issues: Diving formats, new backstroke turn and breaststroke dolphin kick rules.

Bob Podkaminer

Track and field

Years of SRE service: 2004-present.

Experience: Certified Area Technical Official for International Association of Athletics Federation (second-highest possible level of distinction).

E-mail: RPodkam@aol.com

Current playing rules issues: Complete review of rules book language, honest-effort rule.

Bob Bubb

Wrestling

Former head coach, Clarion University of Pennsylvania

Years of SRE service: 1990-present (has been affiliated with the wrestling committee since 1984).

Education: B.A. 1959, University of Pittsburgh.

Biggest challenge: "Without question, the weight manag ement system. It's the biggest addition to what's being required of wrestling coaches. I'm responsible for answering questions from coaches, administrators and trainers about it. While it is considered a playing rule, there are so many interpretations involved that one of these days I'd like to see it become a bylaw."

Current playing rules issues: Weight management, expanding wrestling at the edge of the mat.

Marcia Alterman

Women's volleyball

Executive director of Professional Association of Volleyball Officials; coordinator of officials for the Big Ten Conference and Conference USA

Years of SRE service: National Association of Girls and Women in Sports rules interpreter from 1993 to 2002; NCAA secretary-rules editor from 2002 to present.

Education: B.A. and M.B.A., Wichita State University.

E-mail: Rules.interpreter@PAVO.org

Current playing rules issues: Location of official's stand during televised matches.

Barbara Kalbus

Water polo

Former instructor and administrator, Long Beach City College

Years of SRE service: 2001-present (22 years as a consultant).

Education: B.S., PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

E-mail: bkalbus@mindspring.com

Current playing rules issues: Minor acts of disrespect, cap co