Dear Referees,
As another intense basketball season comes to a close, we want to express our deepest gratitude for your dedication, professionalism, and resilience on and off the court. This season, we navigated highpressure moments, the rollout of IRS, and the usual dose of passionate (and emotional) players and coaches. Your commitment ensured not only fair play but also that our competitions could take place at all. As we now shift into the off-season, take some well-deserved time to rest, recharge, and reflect. On this topic, we recommend a thoughtful blog post: ⛓️ Season is over – now what? Reflect & Recharge Thank you for a great season!
📌 Reminders
🔹 AGO – General Assembly
For organisational purposes, please confirm your attendance as soon as possible. https://adabl.org/quiz/2025-ago/
🔹 Membership Fee
If you haven’t yet paid your annual membership fee (10€, or 5€ for rookies), please do so promptly.
🏀 FIBA News
🔹 FIBA Camp for Potential National Referees
Kilian Lampe recently participated in the FIBA PNR Camp in Vienna (14–19 April 2025). 25 referees (5 women, 20 men) from 15 countries followed an intensive schedule, including gym sessions and officiating U18 and U20 games at the Basketball Wien Easter Tournament, one of the largest youth competitions in Central Europe.
🔹 New FIBA Commissioner
We proudly announce that Jill Altmann has successfully completed the FIBA commissioner requirements!
For 2025–2027, our FIBA Commissioners will be Jill Altmann and Alain Steffes.
We also say thank you and farewell to Guilly Mousel and Marc Mouton, who retired from FIBA duties this year after many years of dedicated service.
🌍 FIBA Summer Nominations
| Referee/Commissioner | Tournament | Location |
| Dotsenko Oleksandr | FIBA U18 Women’s EuroBasket Division B FIBA U20 Women’s EuroBasket Division B FIBA U16 Women’s EuroBasket Division B | Alytus, Lithuania Vilnius, Lithuania Miskolc, Hungary Istanbul, Türkiye |
| Malané Julien | FIBA U16 EuroBasket Division C | Tirana, Albania |
| Ozturk Hande | FIBA U18 Women’s EuroBasket Division B | Alytus, Lithuania Vilnius, Lithuania |
| Steffes Alain | FIBA U18 EuroBasket Division B | Pitesti, Romania |
| Weiwers Lynn | FIBA U16 Women’s EuroBasket Division B | Istanbul, Türkiye |
🧢 Merchandise
We still have AdABL backpacks available for only 10€! Order yours on our webshop:
https://adabl.org/luxembourg-basketball-referee-handbook/shop/
🎥 Ref Insight: Mic’ed Up Yohan Rosso
The Basketball Champions League recently released a new mic’ed up video featuring Yohan Rosso. It’s a great example of how body language and vocal tone can build respect and trust — independent of pure rule knowledge.
Highly recommended viewing!
🏃🏻 Summer Running Group
We’ve created a WhatsApp group for summer running meetups. Join us to stay fit, hang out, and maybe even shoot some hoops together.
🟢 No pressure: participation is casual, not tracked.
📅 We’ll vote on the best day weekly via poll in the group.
👉 https://chat.whatsapp.com/Ic8q4yaah00257cVYDrwK5
🎓 Referee Training and Licensing
🔹 C License (Cycle Inférieur) – 2025/26
We had an active C License course this season! Congrats to the following referees
who already passed both theory and practice:
- Bellusci Alex
- Penning Felix
- Delles Joshua
- Rusu Liviu
- Mladenovic Nemanja
- Maindron Klara
- Gu Weijia
- Kieffer Sam
- Richartz Emilie
- Sipetzis Efthymios
- Fernandez Gonzalez Eva
- Kerschen Céline
- Maindron Kamilis
- Mikalauskas Povilas
- Sijaric Amar
- Hoffmann Ayleen
- Dubois Emilie
Know someone interested in starting their referee journey? A new C License training cycle will launch next season. Dates will be shared soon.
🔹 A License (Cycle Supérieur) – 2025/26
And we had an active A License course this season! Congrats to the
following referees who already passed both theory and practice:
- Kilian Lampe
- Joé Greisch
- Lazaros Ntasis
- Michail Vanglovskij
- Panos Isigonis
- Annick Nuskowski
Remaining participants will complete their practical exams during the 2025/26 season.
📣 Your Feedback Matters!
This newsletter is a work in progress. If you have feedback, suggestions, questions, 💬please reach out to Julien or Joé by email or text. We’d love to hear from you.
Thanks again for being a part of the AdABL community. Enjoy your break, and we look forward to seeing you back on the court!
Warm regards, The AdABL Committee
