The Indiana High School Athletic Association has announced Akron resident Kirk Robinson has been chosen to officiate the 38th Annual Girls Basketball State Finals Saturday at the Hulman Center at Indiana State University in Terre Haute. Robinson has been assigned as head referee on the 2A Champ-ionship between top-ranked Evansville Mater Dei and sixth-ranked Eastern. Robinson has officiated basketball for 29 years and has been assigned to 23 sectionals, 17 regionals, 10 semistates and this will be his fourth state championship in girls basketball. He has also officiated one boys basketball state championship and seven in volleyball. He was the 2012 Indiana Girls Basketball Official of the Year. Robinson is a 1977 graduate of Tippecanoe Valley High School and received a bachelor's degree in mortuary science in 1979. He is employed as the purchasing manager at Pike Lumber Company in Akron. Robinson is a member of the Northern Indiana Officials Association and is currently the secretary/treasurer.
