Perspective: You probably never noticed Dwayne Gladden. That's exactly how he wanted it.
in Orlando would almost certainly be his last game after 32 years, beginning with high school games that included a young Allen Iverson through games in the top collegiate conferences.
He began quietly telling people, starting with his wife, Cynthia, and his three grown children. By the time he reached the Atlantic 10 tournament in Brooklyn, word had spread. “I didn’t want to go home like a lot of my friends had,” he said. “Too many of them ended up on drugs or in the streets. Honestly, I was afraid of that. I thought the military would give me a kind of discipline I needed. My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I needed authority figures in my life. I got that in the Air Force.”He started out as a security officer and ended up as a nurse. He spent 22 years in the Air Force, retiring in 2004 with full benefits.
“I honestly never thought about working the ACC or any other big-time league,” he said. “I knew it was tough to move up when you were a Black official. I was thrilled to get a chance to work the CIAA tournament. That felt pretty big-time to me.”But Kersey saw Gladden work and suggested he attend Barakat’s summer camp for officials to get more experience and exposure. Barakat liked what he saw and hired him to work Big South games. A year later, he began using him in the CAA. Then came the ACC.
Gladden worked as many as 84 games in a season and every NCAA tournament until 2022, when then-NCAA officiating coordinator J.D. Collins called and told him he wouldn’t be selected. Gladden was disappointed. He had had both knees replaced in July 2020 and had worked fanatically to be ready for the start of that covid-stricken season.
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