KILLEEN, Texas (KWTX) - As schools across Central Texas and throughout the state deal with referee shortages, one high school in Killeen is helping students become referees.

At Shoemaker High School they offer a sports officiating class for students, which has already helped two students become certified football officials.

When Israel Caruthers and Jaylen Benning first signed up for a sports officiating class, neither were expecting anything to come from it.

Bennings, a senior at Shoemaker, says “I didn’t really know what it meant, I just knew it was something with sports and I play sports so I knew I’d probably like the class”.

“My counselor just felt it was the easiest class for me and I just took it,” said Caruthers, who’s also a senior at Shoemaker.

Now both of them are helping o

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