Before an Oklahoma high school basketball game in 2015, Melody Campbell Stewart, as she tends to do, had a conversation with one of the officials.
Campbell Stewart, the head coach at Lincoln Christian in Tulsa, knew this official and his family quite well. She had coached in the same conference as the official's wife, Darlean Calip, who was the head coach at Sapulpa High.
Campbell Stewart, the starting point guard on the 2001 Missouri State Lady Bears team that reached the Final Four, asked the official about the recruitment of his daughter, Brice Calip, who was in her senior year.