Part- Time Athletics Gameday Basketball Shot Clock Operator

The Athletics Department is accepting applications for a part-time Gameday Basketball Shot Clock Operator. The qualified candidate selected for this position will assist in the following capacities:

Duties and Responsibilities:

Come be a part of the AUM Warhawks game management team and enhance the experience of the game day atmosphere at AUM Athletics events.

Requirements:
Serve as shot-clock operator for all preseason, regular season and postseason men’s and women’s basketball home contests. Comply with all NCAA DII and GSC basketball rules, regulations and policies, as listed below.
1. Use a 30-second shot clock.
2. Use the shot clock for the entire game, including overtime(s), except when there is less time remaining on the game clock than in a shot-clock period, in which as the shot-clock display shall not display.
3. Control a separate timing device with a horn that shall have a sound that is distinct and difference from that of the game-clock horn.
4. Have an alternate timing device available.
5. Start the shot clock when:
a An inbounds player legally touches the ball after the throw-in has been released; b. A team gains initial control following a jump ball or unsuccessful try for goal; or
c. There is a change in team control.
6. Stop the timing device and:
a. No reset when play is stopped under the followingcircumstances:
1. The ball is deflected or caused to be out of bounds by a defensive player;
2. A player is injured or loses a contact lens;
3. A charged or electronic-media time out has concluded;
4. During team control as defined by Rule 4-8, a defensive player causes a held ball and the alternating-possession arrow favors the offense;
5. After any double personal fouls, simultaneous personal fouls, or fouls with penalties of equal gravity when there is team control, unless the penalty for the foul results in a change of team control;
6. After an inadvertent whistle when there is team control as defined in Rule 4-8 or following an unsuccessful try that does not strike the ring or flange and the alternating-possession arrow favors the shooting team;
7. After any administrative technical foul(s) is assessed to the team in control of the ball, or to the team entitled to the ball before it is at the disposal of the thrower-in, or to the bench personnel of followers of that team;
8. After a simultaneous held ball as described in Rule 6-4.2 occurs during a throw-in or after an unsuccessful try that does not contact the ring or flange and the alternating-possession arrows favors the shooting team; and
9. After the ball goes out of bounds and was last touchedsimultaneously by two opponents,

both of whom are either inbounds or out of bounds, or when there is doubt as to who last

touched the ball.

Note: The offensive team, upon being awarded the ball for the throw-in, shall have the unexpired time on the shot clock to attempt a try.

b. Reset it to 30 seconds when:
1. There is a change in team control;
2. Team control is reestablished in the backcourt after the team loses control of the ball;
Note: The mere touching of the ball by an opponent does not start a new shot-clock period when the same team remains in control of the ball during loose-ball situations.
3. A held ball occurs or inadvertent whistle occurs when thereis no team control and the alternating-possession arrows favors the defense of non-shooting team;
4. A try for goal strikes the ring or flange and the non-shooting team is first to gain control of the ball;
5. A single personal foul is committed by the defense/non-shooting team in the offense/shooting team’s backcourt;
6. An administrative technical foul is assessed to the defensive team or when neither team is in control of the ball;
7. A single player/substitute or bench technical foul, a single intentional foul, or a single disqualifying foul is committed;
8. Fouls are committed by opposing players, and one of the fouls is intentional or disqualifying.

Minimum Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications