Adam Falloon is set for a big trip in March.

The Montgomery County High School activities director has been selected to work the biggest assignment of his 12-year refereeing career. He is one of five people chosen as referees for the Missouri State High School Activities Association Final Four at Missouri State University in Springfield.

This will be the first time Falloon will be working as a referee at the Final Four. For the last several years, he was a referee in the district, sectional and quarterfinal rounds.

“It’s an accomplishment,” Falloon said. “I think when a lot of guys get into it, one of the goals is to be able to say they got the opportunity to do that (work at the Final Four). I’m pretty excited. I’m looking forward to it.”

Besides Falloon, Jake Osgood, Craig David, Sam Barnes and Jamie Hughes also have been selected as Final Four referees.

“Those guys are awesome guys,” Falloon said.

Falloon started his refereeing career in 2010, when he was coaching the Clopton Middle School boys basketball team.

“The basketball season is over by Christmas time,” Falloon said. “So from Christmas break to the start of spring sports back then, I didn’t have a whole lot to do. Me and one of the other guys at Clopton decided to go and take our test, get our license and use it as a hobby for something to kill time between the end of Christmas and baseball season. We started doing it, we had fun with it and we liked it. We enjoyed it. We got to meet a lot of new people and made a lot of new friends. The first four to five years, we were stuck to freshman and JV games and things like that.”

Falloon became more hooked on refereeing after being hired as activities director at MCHS in 2012.

“Once I moved back to Montgomery, I started taking it a little more seriously and I started doing some high school games, championship games and tournament games,” said Falloon, a 2002 MCHS graduate. “It kind of became something that I enjoyed doing. It was fun to be around the other guys and go see the other teams play.”

Falloon later got involved with the Columbia Basketball Officials Association, an organization that officiates basketball for MSHSAA.

“I’ve been around them for several years,” Falloon said. “They’ll find you games, get you out there, help you get better and put you in a situation to work for bigger games. I’ve been doing that with that group. Since I’ve been with the Columbia group, I got a chance to meet Jake, Sam and several other guys. It’s a fun crew. Night in and night out, you don’t know exactly who you’re going to work with until you get your assignments. It’s a good group of young officials and better officials, too. They do a good job of putting everybody together and rotating them around. You get to work with a wide variety of guys.”

Falloon said now that he works as MCHS activities director and a basketball referee, he’s been extremely busy.

“It’s a grind this time of year because between what we’re doing at school all of the time and the nights that I’m not in school, I feel like I’m out in a gym somewhere,” Falloon said. “When you look back over the course of the winter, you feel like you’re out quite a bit.”

Falloon will be working at the Class 4, 5 and 6 Final Four, scheduled for March 17-19. He said he plans to take his family down to Springfield to do some sightseeing and watch some basketball games.

“I’ve been there as a spectator and I’ve been there as an AD,” Falloon said. “When I was at Clopton, there was a stretch of eight years in a row during my time there that the girls basketball and softball teams played in the finals or the Final Four. I’ve been there from the administrative side of things and I’ve been there as a spectator, but I have never been there as a referee. So it’s all kind of new to me and there are a lot of unknowns, but it’s exciting and I’m looking forward to it.”