Tuesday, December 23, 2003

Tier Promotions Announced

By Gary Coy
Evaluations Chairman

The Board of Directors has approved the following promotions as recommended by the Evaluations Committee:

From C tier to B tier:
Larry Gillard
Vernon Dahl
Myron Smollen

From the B tier to the A tier:
Kris Carlstedt
Tony Burtt
Hal Shore
Shawn Young
Jason Burke
Bill Lewis

Also of note, promoted midseason from the C tier to the B tier were:
Paul Boys
Lee Koehler
Leo McKinley
Karen Meriwether

Congratulations to all!

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the evaluators who offered their time, knowledge, and experience to help the umpires in our Association become better umpires. I would also like thank all those umpires who took the time and made the effort to participate in the web-based evaluations and peer scoring.