Member Becomes First Female Official to Work Regular Season Collegiate Game
Sebrina Brunson
Alpha Kappa Alpha scores another first
Sebrina Brunson
Sebrina Brunson will become the first female football official to work a regular season collegiate game in the history of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC).
Brunson, of Lithonia, GA, achieved this milestone when she served as line judge in the Stillman vs. Tuskegee TV game in Tuscaloosa on September 20. She's a graduate of Florida Atlantic University, in Boca Raton. She began officiating football on the junior varsity and youth level in 1996, with her former husband, as a way of spending quality time together. After awhile, 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 read on the field," she says.
In 2001, Brunson set her goal of officiating on the collegiate level and began attending college football camps with the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference and the SIAC. In 2006, she became a reserve official in the SIAC and, in 2007, while still on the SIAC's reserve list, was afforded the opportunity to work the clock. She was also able to observe the on-field mechanics of the line judge position.
"I appreciate the leadership and training afforded to me while attending a number of college camps in the past, as well as attending weekly study sessions with SIAC. I am very privileged and honored to embark on this endeavor as the first female official to work in the SIAC. I will make all those who have assisted me along the way, very proud."
Brunson joined Alpha Kappa Alpha in 1987 at Bishop College (TX). She then transferred to Texas Southern University, where she became a member of Gamma Psi Chapter.