In an email sent Tuesday morning from the National Association of Women’s Gymnastics Judges, the Women’s Collegiate Gymnastics Association is looking for a supervisor of officials to conduct “activities related to the review, evaluation, and assessment of the performance of collegiate gymnastics judges.” This position, which will report to the WCGA executive director, is a long-awaited step toward providing oversight to college gymnastics judges who are often criticized for their inconsistency and sometimes inaccurate scoring.
The supervisor of officials will oversee a newly created “SCORE Board,” which will be responsible for oversight, feedback, and training of NCAA judges. The SCORE Board will create baseline routines, which are used by judging panels immediately prior to a competition to aid in standardizing deductions and scoring on each event. This process is already in place for NCAA judging, but the process may change under the direction of the new board and supervisor of officials.
The SCORE Board and supervisor of officials will conduct weekly reviews of routines during the NCAA season. For the first time, individual judges will receive detailed feedback on their scores from the SCORE Board, which will ideally help them judge better in the…
