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Outstanding Official

Mark Yeoman to be honored as State’s Top Official
Mark Yeoman of Elkhart is the recipient of the 2012 Yeoman was selected for this honor by a committee
Interscholastic Athletic Officials Association Award for representing the officials associations. In Indiana there are
excellence in the sport of 24 associations made up of men and women who assist in
volleyball. Yeoman will providing wholesome, worthwhile, and healthy activities for
be honored in a special the student athletes in our state. Statewide, there are more
ceremony at today’s state than 8,000 officials licensed by the IHSAA in 11 sports.
finals. A licensed referee for 18 years, Yeoman is a member of
Each year, the Indiana the Northern Officials Association, for whom he has served
High School Athletic As- as an assistant clinician and rules interpreter.
sociation, in cooperation Mark is a 1976 graduate of Elkhart Memorial High
with the National Federation School. He earned degrees in Economics and Busi-
of Interscholastic Officials ness Adminstration, with a minor in English at Hillsdale
Association, recognizes College (MI). He has served as a volunteer official at the
and honors an outstanding Mishawaka Family Children’s Center, and is currently in
official in each of 11 sports the process of forming a volleyball program at the Ray and
during the school year. Joan Kroc Center in South Bend.
During his career, Yeoman has officiated 12 sectionals,
eight regionals, three semi-states, and two state finals.

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