We are proud to announce two new Vice President appointments for 2008. Robert Hernandez has been appointed Pacific Coast Vice President and Mike Watson has been appointed the Lower Midwest Vice President. This brings the number of Vice Presidents back to 4 with Jon Kegel, Upper Midwest/Canada and Loren Lathrop as the Eastern U.S. V.P.
These two additions as Vice Presidents are outstanding individuals that always put the good of the program before anything else. They are both very intelligent and bring a wealth of knowledge to the table. They both are in the core age category of the people that play our sport. They both served as Tournament Director at this year’s very successful World Series in Des Moines, Iowa and will again serve as Tournament Directors at the 2007 Mankato, Minnesota World Series.
We would also like to introduce Tony Schaaf as out new NAFA Statistician who also is on the Executive Committee.
Congratulations to Regional Umpire-In-Chief, Henry St. Clair for being inducted into the NAFA Hall of Fame and to Todd Malnoury and to Bill Sklebar that were inducted as well.
2008 Executive Committee
Executive Director, Benjie Hedgecock, Oregon
President and Chair of Exec Committee, Ronn Kopp, Wisconsin
Vice President, Eastern U.S., Loren Lathrop, Wisconsin
Vice President, Upper Midwest, Jon Kegel, North Dakota
Vice President, Pacific Coast, Robert Hernandez, California
Vice President, Lower Midwest, Mike Watson, Nebraska
Umpire-In-Chief, Carley Parish, Canada
Business Manager, Kris Russom, Oregon
Webmaster, Brett Bresnahan, Minnesota
Statistician, Tony Schaaf, Wisconsin
Jim Williamson, President Emeritus, Washington
Pat Bucknell, Executive Director Emeritus, Washington
Dewey Yoke, Umpire-In-Chief Emeritus, Washington
Once approved Mike Clark, Masters Committee Co-Chair, Iowa
The members of 4 of the 5 NAFA Operating Committees are:
Masters Program Committee
Mike Clark, East U.S. Co-Chair
Dave Birnie, East Canada Co-Chair
Jim Williamson, West U.S.
Lanky Johnson, East Canada
Benjie Hedgecock, Executive Director
Carley Parish, NAFA UIC
Hall of Fame Committee
Chair Ronn Kopp, NAFA President
Research Jon Kegel
and the rest of the Executive Committee
International Classification Committee
Mike Clark, new Co-Chairman, pitchers, order of finish pull through info
Brett Bresnahan, Minnesota, Open level Assistant Coach, Minnesota Director
Jim Williamson, Washington, Former NAFA Classification Chair
Benjie Hedgecock, Oregon, NAFA Classification Co-Chair
Darren Strang, British Columbia Rep and pitchers evaluator
Jon Kegel, Has had a team in every class
Chad Mix, 2006 and 2009 Host, one of top catcher in game, Wisconsin
Ronn Kopp, President, State Director of largest program in NAFA
Loren Lathrop, Sees more softball than most of us combined
Brian Looft, has played, A, AA, Minnesota
Chris Wright, Northern California
Robert Hernandez, Southern California
Mike Watson, Midwest
Dave Birnie, Ontario, Canada
Regional Umpire-In-Chief Committee
Carley Parish, NAFA UIC
Pete Grebner, Midwest Region UIC
Henry St. Clair, Southern Region UIC
Greg Fowler, Northwest Region UIC
Danny Young, West Canada UIC
Bob Wagner, East Region UIC
Darren Gerrior, Central Canada UIC
Please change our email address in your address book. The new address for the National Office and Executive Director, Benjie Hedgecock is: Nafafastpitch@gmail.com
Thanks on behalf of both of us,
Ronn Kopp, NAFA President and Benjie Hedgecock, NAFA Executive Director
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