SIAC To Make History

Tucker, GA – Sebrina Brunson will become the first female football official to work a regular season collegiate game in the history of the SIAC. Ms. Brunson, from Lithonia, Georgia, will serve as Line Judge in the Stillman vs. Tuskegee TV game in Tuscaloosa on Saturday, September 20, with kick-off at 5:00 PM CST. Sebrina Brunson is a graduate of Florida Atlantic University, in Boca Raton, Florida. She began officiating football on the Junior Varsity and Youth level in 1996 with her ex-husband as away of spending quality time together.

After a while she began perfecting her “craft” of officiating football as a female. “I focused on the rules and mechanics of the game and applied what I had read on the field.” In 2001, Ms. Brunson set her goal on officiating on the collegiate level and began attending college football camps with the MEAC and SIAC. In 2006, she became a reserve official in the SIAC and in 2007, while still on the reserve list officials with the SIAC; was afforded the opportunity to work the clock, while at the same time observing the on field mechanics of the Line Judge position.

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