{"id":2211,"date":"2007-10-23T14:48:28","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T22:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2211"},"modified":"2007-10-23T17:03:20","modified_gmt":"2007-10-24T01:03:20","slug":"nafa-announces-appointments-for-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2211","title":{"rendered":"NAFA Announces Appointments for 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

So Cal’s Robert Hernandez Among New NAFA Officers<\/strong><\/p>\n

From NAFA Executive Director, Benjie Hedgecock and Ronn Kopp, NAFA President:<\/p>\n

\n

We are proud to announce two new Vice President appointments for 2008. Robert Hernandez<\/strong> has been appointed Pacific Coast Vice President and Mike Watson<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very successful World Series in Des Moines, Iowa and will again serve as Tournament Directors at the 2007 Mankato, Minnesota World Series.<\/p>\n

We would also like to introduce Tony Schaaf as out new NAFA Statistician who also is on the Executive Committee.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

2008 Executive Committee<\/strong><\/p>\n

Executive Director, Benjie Hedgecock, Oregon
\nPresident and Chair of Exec Committee, Ronn Kopp, Wisconsin
\nVice President, Eastern U.S., Loren Lathrop, Wisconsin
\nVice President, Upper Midwest, Jon Kegel, North Dakota
\nVice President, Pacific Coast, Robert Hernandez, California
\nVice President, Lower Midwest, Mike Watson, Nebraska
\nUmpire-In-Chief, Carley Parish, Canada
\nBusiness Manager, Kris Russom, Oregon
\nWebmaster, Brett Bresnahan, Minnesota
\nStatistician, Tony Schaaf, Wisconsin
\nJim Williamson, President Emeritus, Washington
\nPat Bucknell, Executive Director Emeritus, Washington
\nDewey Yoke, Umpire-In-Chief Emeritus, Washington<\/p>\n

Once approved Mike Clark, Masters Committee Co-Chair, Iowa<\/p>\n

The members of 4 of the 5 NAFA Operating Committees are:<\/p>\n

Masters Program Committee<\/strong>
\nMike Clark, East U.S. Co-Chair
\nDave Birnie, East Canada Co-Chair
\nJim Williamson, West U.S.
\nLanky Johnson, East Canada
\nBenjie Hedgecock, Executive Director
\nCarley Parish, NAFA UIC
\n
\nHall of Fame Committee
\n<\/strong>
\nChair Ronn Kopp, NAFA President<\/p>\n

Research Jon Kegel
\nand the rest of the Executive Committee<\/p>\n

International Classification Committe<\/strong>e<\/p>\n

Mike Clark, new Co-Chairman, pitchers, order of finish pull through info
\nBrett Bresnahan, Minnesota, Open level Assistant Coach, Minnesota Director
\nJim Williamson, Washington, Former NAFA Classification Chair
\nBenjie Hedgecock, Oregon, NAFA Classification Co-Chair
\nDarren Strang, British Columbia Rep and pitchers evaluator
\nJon Kegel, Has had a team in every class
\nChad Mix, 2006 and 2009 Host, one of top catcher in game, Wisconsin
\nRonn Kopp, President, State Director of largest program in NAFA
\nLoren Lathrop, Sees more softball than most of us combined
\nBrian Looft, has played, A, AA, Minnesota
\nChris Wright, Northern California
\nRobert Hernandez, Southern California
\nMike Watson, Midwest
\nDave Birnie, Ontario, Canada
\n
\nRegional Umpire-In-Chief Committee<\/strong>
\nCarley Parish, NAFA UIC
\nPete Grebner, Midwest Region UIC
\nHenry St. Clair, Southern Region UIC
\nGreg Fowler, Northwest Region UIC
\nDanny Young, West Canada UIC
\nBob Wagner, East Region UIC
\nDarren Gerrior, Central Canada UIC<\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

Thanks on behalf of both of us,
\n Ronn Kopp, NAFA President and Benjie Hedgecock, NAFA Executive Director<\/p>\n

www.Nafafastpitch.com\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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