Ray Ames

Ray Ames resides in Great Falls, MT. He currently officiates within consortiums that cover games in the Big 12, Big West, Big Sky, WCC, WAC, Missouri Valley, GNAC & Frontier Conferences. 

Cory Thompson

Cory Thompson, is a Great Falls MT resident with over 30 years experience in the MOA, having the honor of working many postseason State tournaments. He also spent 12 years in the NAIA Frontier Conference on both the Men’s and Women’s sides, including postseason. Cory is the Director of the Giant Springs Basketball Officials Association and is a member of the MOA Post Season Committee and the MOA Camp Committee. Cory was selected as the NFHS Montana Basketball Official of the Year in 2021.

Craig Thompson

Craig currently lives in Billings MT. He has 22 years of officiating high school basketball, 15 years officiating junior college basketball, 12 years of experience officiating NAIA Women's basketball, as well as, 10 years officiating NCAA Division 2 Women's basketball.

Bo Scott

Bo is from Great Falls Montana where he has worked mainly as a Controller for Sletten Construction for the past 10 years. He has been officiating High School Basketball since 201, as well as, the Frontier & GNAC since 2015.

Gregg Morstein

Gregg is a well seasoned official with 43 years of experience. He has 11 years with State High School Tournaments, 28 years in the Frontier Conference with over 20 tournaments officiated. He has officiated National NAIA for 4 years, the Big Sky Conference for 20 years, as well as 9 Big Sky Conference Tournaments. 

Trevor Koterba

Trevor officiates High School basketball in Montana, as well as Junior College basketball in Regions 9 & 13, NAIA in the Frontier Conference, and Division 2 in the GNAC. He started his officiating career while in Bozeman attending Montana State University and now lives in Billings as a member of the Worden pool.  Trevor has been around officials & officiating his entire life. 

Craig Cyr

Craig Cyr is from Lolo Montana where he runs his own business, Cyr Construction Inc. Craig started refereeing high school basketball in 1991. He has worked numerous district, divisional and state high school tournaments. Currently Craig is one of the leaders of the Missoula referee pool where he conducts most of the training for their referee pool. Craig has worked on both the men’s and the women’s side of Junior College to Division II. Currently Craig works exclusively with the men’s side of the Frontier Conference, Northwest Athletic Conference and the Scenic West Athletic Conference.

Matt Shute

Current Coordinator of Officials - Frontier Conference MBB/WBB

• Division 1 Official - 15 years. Worked in the Big Sky, WAC, and Big West Conferences.
• Division 2 Official - 17 years. Worked in the GNAC and PAC-West Conferences.
• NAIA MBB/WBB official - Frontier Conference 20 years. (12 Frontier Conference Championship games and 6 NAIA National Championship games.)
• JUCO Region 9 Official - 5 years
• 11 High School State Tournaments

Tom Dwyer

Tom has experience officiating 23 seasons overall. He has 17 years in the Frontier Men's and Women's Conference, plus 8 years of High School Postseason State Tournaments. Tom has 14 consecutive years officiating College Postseason Frontier Playoffs. He has also officiated 4 times for the National Tournament Championship game from 2015 to 2018.

Shawn Schroeder

Shawn is from Great Falls Montana. He has been an MOA Official for 15 years, a Region IX Junior College official for 11 years plus a Frontier Conference official for 10 years and a GNAC official for 2 years. Shawn has also worked championship games in both Region IX and Frontier Conference. He has worked on Referee Camp staff for the last 8 years.

Jody Hansen

Jody has over 20 years of high-school officiating under his belt, including 15 years in Frontier Conference and a total of 51 years of being absolutely awesome! 

Rob Tesch

Rob Tesch has officiated 24 years of High School, 19 years of College, 5 years of D1 and 17 years of D2. He has also officiated 19 Years of NAIA, as well as, NAIA National Championships from 2015-2018. Rob also officiated the National Championship from 2016 to 2018. Rob has been the Camp Director at CCOC from 2010 to Present.

Kevin Flatow 

Kevin has over 14 years officiating High School, 10 years of Frontier & GNAC Conferences, as well as, officiating 5 Quarterfinals, 1 Semifinal and 6 State Tournaments.

Big Dad

Russ “Big Dad” Hansen was born in Butte America and lives in Missoula with his wife Kathy. He started my officiating career in 1975. He has worked 21 girls State tournaments and 39 boys State tournaments at every classification. He had the honor to work 33 years in the Frontier Conference, plus he has been involved in 20 plus playoff and championship games over those years. "Officiating is my life. It’s what WE do." 

Matt Mason

Matt is a resident of Sammamish WA. Matt just completed is 30th and final year of officiating men's basketball. Matt worked in D1 , DII, DIII, NAIA and Junior college conferences. Matt was been selected to work several post season assignments: Big Sky Tournament, NCAA D3 Final Four, NCAA Division II West Regional and 4 NAIA National Championship Tournaments with 2 National Title Game assignments. Matt has been employed by the Boeing Company for 33 years and is married to Gretchen with 2 boys, River and Dash.

Gretchen Fowell

High School district tournament official past 17 years, Divisional tournaments 10 years, State Tournaments 5 years. Frontier Conference NAIA official 10 years, NCAA Division II 6 years.

Kyle Bacon

Kyle Bacon resides in Mesa, AZ with his wife and two children. Having started his officiating career in Montana 30 years ago, he has worked Division 1 women’s for 20 years. Current conferences include Pac-12, Mountain West, WCC, Big Sky, Big West, Big12, & WAC. Career highlights include 2016 Women’s Final Four, 13 NCAA Tournaments, & multiple conference tournaments.

Darren Drake

- Married to Jen for 12 years

- two kids Deanna & Dylan

- Packaging Sales for 15 years

- started refereeing in 2006

- 3 Frontier Conference Championship games

- 3 NAIA National tournaments (2 Semis & 1 Championship game)

- West Coast Conference

Michael Price

- 23 years WNBA Finals

- 25 years NCAA

- 7 Final Fours

- 8 years CBA/Finals

- 1 year D League

- 4 years World Basketball League

- 12 years NCOA High School Association.

- PAC 12 Tournament Final

- Mountain West Tournament Final

- Big West Tournament Final

Kevin Sullivan

Livings in Billings

20+ years of high school and college basketball

Multiple state tournaments

James Booth

James resides in Billings, MT. He has over 23 years of officiating high school basketball. He is 5 years of experience officiating Junior college basketball. James has officiated multiple district, divisional and state boys and girls high school basketball tournaments since 2005.

Ty Armstrong

Ty has been officiating high school basketball for 18 years and officiated junior college for 6 years. His passion for continuous improvement comes from his 20 years of military service He has worked multiple high school and junior college tournaments in Colorado and Montana. Ty resides in Billings Mt.

Eric Boyce

Home town of Idaho Falls, ID.

22 years officiating experience

15 years Men's College Official

9 year Men's DI Official.

Member of the Western Basketball Officials Consortium.

Working West Coast Conference, Big Sky, Western Athletic Conference and Big West.

GNAC, Cascade Conference and Frontier Conference.

Frontier Conference postseason official for the last 12 seasons

D3 National tournament.

NAIA National tournament

Ike Jessee

Ike Jessee currently resides in Belt, MT with his wife and three daughters. Ike has over a dozen years of officiating experience at the youth, high school, and collegiate levels. Ike currently works as part of the Big Sky, Big West, Mountain West, WAC, and WCC women’s basketball officiating staff as well as in the GNAC and RMAC (NCAA DII), Northwest Conference (NCAA DIII) and Frontier and Cascade Conferences (NAIA). In addition to multiple high school postseason tournaments, Ike has had the honor of working the NAIA Women’s Basketball National Tournament several times having the privilege to work three semifinals (2022, 2023, 2024) and the National Championship game in 2024.

Nate Whiteman

Graduated from Hardin, MT, currently resides in Missoula, MT with his wife Lisa & son Cody. Has 18 years of officiating at the high school level and 9 years at the collegiate level. Currently working DII, DIII, NAIA and Junior College in the Pacific Northwest & Montana.

Katelyn Hansen

Katelyn currently lives in Helena, MT. Her dad, Jody, helped her develop a love for the stripes at a very young age. She constitutes all of her officiating success to the CCOC, as she attended for 7 years before becoming a clinician. She has 10 years of high school experience. Katelyn has been working women’s basketball since 2021. She referees for the GNAC (NCAA Division II), Northwest Conference (NCAA Division III), Frontier Conference and Cascade Conference (NAIA). 

Logan Grant

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Logan lives in Bozeman, MT and has been officiating High School basketball since 2010. Logan has worked multiple district and divisional tournaments as well as 2 state tournaments. He has been officiating NAIA Men’s basketball in the Frontier Conference since 2021 and worked a quarter final game in 2025. 

Pat Foster

Pat is currently in Kalispell with his wife, Victoria, and daughter Finnley, for which he is full time caregiver. He has been an MOA for 34 years. He has worked numerous State tournaments at every class, along with working both men and women in the NAIA Frontier conference for 8 years.

Keith Denton

Keith Denton is a Louisiana native but has lived in Great Falls since 1998. He has officiated high school basketball for 25 years. He is a current member of the Giant Springs Basketball Officials Association and serves as a board member. He previously served as a pool leader for a number of years. He has previously coached basketball and other sports at different levels. He has had the honor of being selected to work numerous district, divisional and state tournaments

Scott Crews

Scott is from Missoula, Mt. he has officiated high school basketball for 29 years, 20 years of college basketball. Scott has worked on both the men’s and women’s side in the Frontier

conference, currently working on the women’s side. Scott has also worked multiple district, divisional and state tournaments. Scott currently works mainly in the Frontier and GNAC conferences, but also officiates in the Northwest Conference and Cascade conference.

CJ Evans

CJ Evans is a Havre, MT native, which is where he currently resides with his wife, Lauren. He works as the manager of Prairie Farms Golf Course. CJ began officiating high school basketball in 2014 and has officiated 5 State Tournaments. He is also the head of the Havre MOA Pool. CJ began officiating college basketball in 2018. At this time, he works Men's Division 1, Division 2, and NAIA for several conferences including: The John Higgins Consortium, The Northwest MBB Officials Consortium, and The Frontier Conference. CJ has worked multiple NAIA National Tournament games as well as the 2024 Frontier Conference Championship

David Loessberg

David currently lives in Bozeman, MT. He has 21 years officiating high school basketball, 9 years officiating Women's college basketball, and many years of postseason experience in both. David runs a small business in Bozeman, is married to Julie, and they have 3 daughters and a son. 

Jeanann Lemelin

Jeanann Lemelin, is a Billings native and currently resides in Lolo, MT. She officiates at the NAIA level in both the Frontier and Cascade conferences as well as at NJCAA level in the Scenic West Athletic Conference. Jeanann is also an MOA with post season experience.