March 20, 2013 Current News

This years Northwest Board banquet will be held at the Eaglemont Golf and Country Club in Mt. Vernon on Saturday, March 23rd. A link to the site is provided below. A no-host bar will open at 6:00 P.M. with dinner served at 7:00 P.M. Please R.S.V.P. Mike McManus at 708-5513 or email him at mpmcmanus@comcast.net no later than March 3rd if you plan on attending.
Directions to Eaglemont Golf & Country Club (NWB banquet location 2013)
http://www.eaglemontgolf.com/sites/courses/layout9.asp?id=378&page=66458
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Northwest Board (NWB) services high schools and middle school basketball contests in Island, Skagit and Whatcom counties.
•The Navigation bar on the left provides a great deal of information about what NWB offers on this site.
•Northwest Board is recruiting both men and women who are interested in  becoming a basketball official.  Go to the Join our Team  page of this  site. To sing up.
•Basketball referee officiating information can be found on the Referee Training page.
•Be sure to check out the Referee Links page for other top notch basketball officiating sites.
•The forms used by NWB officials are located on the NWB Forms page.
•Where to meet your fellow officials when carpooling to your game assignment is located on the Park & Ride page.
•All NWB basketball referees want to look their best and links for pants, shoes and other required gear is on the Referee Gear page.
•Have a basketball question on a game situation or where to be in the best position on the court to make a call?  Try out our interactive Clinician’s Page form to receive an email response from NWB’s resident basketball clinician.
•For those not exactly sure where the game site’s school is located, visit the Arbiter Sports link at the top right portion of any web site page.  Then just sign-in, go to the schedule page and click on the school’s address when highlighted.  Arbiter Sports will then open up a page with a map to the school on it.
•Don’t have the right program to look at the information provided throughout NWB’s web site?  Visit the Program Viewers page on the Referee training submenu.