Mark Maloney on Kentucky sports

Turns out that the Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (KIAC), know for being among the premier conferences in the NAIA, has officials who are as highly regarded as the teams.

Sherianne Shuey

Sherianne Shuey, a KIAC official from Lancaster, has been selected to work the National NAIA Women’s Tournament for the next four seasons, starting next month.

Shuey joins Marla Gearhart, a KIAC official who has worked the last two national tournaments.

The National NAIA Men’s Tournament will include three KIAC officials: John Drake, Gary Durbin and Kevin Clary. Durbin worked the championship game last year.

“We are proud of all the officials on the KIAC staff,” Ron Dixon, who assigns conference officials, said in a press release on the KIAC web site. “Sherianne is just a continuance of what this officiating staff has done over the last four years. Everyone associated with the conference should be proud of these accomplishments, and commitment of all officials on a night-to-night basis for our student-athletes. I think it takes a special person to be an official, and we are excited to have found 115 special people to officiate the games our student-athletes play.”

Gone (ice) fishing

This will be my last blog on Kentucky.com until March. I’ll be vacationing at the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games. I’ll post updates on my personal site: www.monkeyalarm.com

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