Softball Ontario Staff

Johnathan Baker

Johnathan Baker

Executive Director

Amanda Cote

Amanda Cote

Program Coordinator

Troy Moffitt

Troy Moffitt

Program Coordinator

Softball Ontario Board of Directors

Board of Directors

Softball Ontario, the sport governing body for softball in Ontario, consists of personnel in both a volunteer and staff capacity. Leading the volunteer component is an elected Board of Directors.

Providing the Board of Directors with information regarding the direction of the organization is a series of committees. These committees – the Ad Hoc Committees of Coaching, House League Development, Fast Pitch Umpires and Slo-Pitch Umpires, LTPD Competition Review, LTPD Technical Programs, and CANpitch manage the day-to-day operation of the organization within their area of responsibility.

Tom Buchan of St. Catharines, ON
Chair
Email: tbuchan@slopitch.org

Rose Lasalandra of Brampton, ON
Secretary
Email: Rose.lasalandra@hotmail.com

Ron Hawthorne of Kanata, ON
Director
Email: hawthorn@rogers.com

Roger Gillespie of Minesing, ON
Director
Email: rgillespie54@outlook.com

Debbie Malisani of Mississauga, ON
Finance Chair
Email: littlehands1@rogers.com

Dave Northern of Pickering, ON
Director
Email: dave.northern1@gmail.com

Mike Mulvey of Wingham, ON
Director
Email: mikemulvey70@hotmail.com

Andy Triest of Alvinston, ON
Director
Email: tootalltriest@hotmail.com

Softball Ontario Staff

Staff

If you are unsure of who may handle your inquiry, you may contact info@softballontario.ca.

Softball Ontario Coaching Committee

Coaching Committee

The Softball Ontario Coaching Committee is comprised of six members and a chairman. They meet twice a year (January and September) and report to the Softball Ontario Board of Directors. At these meetings they map out the directions of the Coaching Development programs for the province and address the needs and concerns voiced by the softball coaching community.

The committee is responsible for recruiting and training softball coaches to become learning facilitators/trainers of the new NCCP (National Coaching Certification Programs) and other Softball Ontario designed clinics such as Learn to Coach clinic (designed for the house league and beginner coach), and our Pitcher-Catcher, and Batting for Coaches clinic.

The Coaching Committee’s goal is to serve the coaches of softball who are our direct link to the participants of the sport. It is therefore important that lines of communication are available through our coaches registry program and our expanded web page, so we can meet the needs of all coaches from the house league and Learn to Play coaches through to the Senior Level and Canada Summer Games coaches.

Click on each committee member’s name to learn more about them!

  • Scott Searle
    Chair
    Email: scottmsearle@gmail.com
  • Matt Allen
  • Mark McCallum
  • Kevin Bradbeer
  • Johanna Malisani
  • Andy Triest (Board Liason)

Softball Ontario CANpitch Committee

CANpitch Committee

The Softball Ontario CANpitch Committee is comprised of seven members and a chairman. They meet twice a year (January and September) and report to the Softball Ontario Board of Directors. At these meetings, the Committee discusses the implementation and delivery of the CANpitch Program for our Ontario participants at the grassroots level and addresses the needs/concerns voiced by the wind-mill pitching community.

The CANpitch Committee is also responsible for recruiting and training Regional Pitching Instructors to become the lead Instructor in delivering the CANpitch Program to our grassroots participants throughout Ontario.

Every year the CANpitch Committee organizes and delivers 6-week training sessions to communities throughout Ontario, reaching out to the grassroots level participants who have little to no pitching experience.

Slo-Pitch Umpire Committee

Slo-Pitch Umpire Personnel

The Slo-Pitch Umpire Committee is under the leadership of the Slo-Pitch Provincial Umpire-in-Chief, who strives to provide quality officiating in Ontario. Both the Fast Pitch and the Slo-Pitch Umpire Committees ensure the proper and efficient delivery of umpire clinics, the on-field evaluation program, provide quality umpires to Provincial and Canadian championships, promote the program, trains qualified clinic instructors/evaluators and looks to the future for the program. The Committee meets twice a year in January and September to plan the upcoming season and discuss the previous. Each Umpire Committee consists of four members – a Provincial Umpire-in-Chief and three Deputies. Serving under the Slo-Pitch Umpire Committee are nine Zone Umpires-in-Chief (ZUICs). Each ZUIC serves one of the nine zones into which Ontario is divided.

Slo – Pitch Umpire Committee

  • Dave Jones of Grimsby, ON

    Provincial Umpire-in-Chief
    Email davidj55@sympatico.ca
    Phone:905 – 870-5009

  • Don England of Port Robinson, ON

    Deputy Umpire-in-Chief, Recruitment and Retention
    Email dfengland@hotmail.com
    Phone:905-941-0919

  • Robert Smith of Ajax, ON

    Deputy Umpire-in-Chief, Clinics & Evaluations
    Email rs17315@outlook.com
    Phone:289-275-8444

  • Marc Decosse of Komoka, ON

    Deputy Umpire-in-Chief, Recruitment & Retention
    Email: marc@listwithus.net
    Phone: 519-859-5895

Slo-Pitch Zone Umpires-In-Chief

  • Zone 1

    Essex, Kent, Lambton
    VACANT

  • Zone 3

    Perth, Wellington, Waterloo, Brant, Grey, Bruce
    Jeff McKay, Brantford, ON
    Zone 3 UIC
    Email: jeff.mckay@bell.net
    Phone: 519-755-0133

  • Zone 5 West

    Peel and York (West of Yonge Street)
    Howard Kornbluth, Mississauga, ON
    Zone 5 (West) UIC
    Email: howardkornbluth@hotmail.com
    Phone: 905-568-8142

  • Zone 6

    Dufferin, Simcoe, Muskoka
    John Blanchette, Angus, ON
    Zone 6 UIC
    Email: johnblanchette50@gmail.com
    Phone: 647-962-5647

  • Zone 8

    Renfrew, Lanark, Carleton, Prescott & Russell, Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry, Leeds-Grenville
    Stuart Bowden, Ottawa, ON
    Zone 8 UIC
    Email: zone8zuic@yahoo.ca
    Phone: 613-725-2556

  • Zone 2

    Middlesex, Elgin, Huron, Oxford, Haldimand-Norfolk
    Kyle Freel, London, ON
    Zone 2 UIC
    Email: kyleumpy49@gmail.com
    Phone: 519-691-6013

  • Zone 4

    Niagara, Hamilton-Wentworth, Halton
    Will Murray, Port Colborne, ON
    Zone 4 UIC
    Email: wmurray7@sympatico.ca
    Phone: 905-932-7663

  • Zone 5 East

    Durham and York (East of Yonge Street)
    VACANT

  • Zone 7

    Peterborough, Northumberland, Haliburton, Victoria, Lennox & Addington, Frontenac, Prince Edward
    Terry Gavas, Kingston, ON
    Zone 7 UIC
    Email: umpytg56@gmail.com
    Phone: 613-217-7458

  • Zone 9
    Algoma (Manitoulin), Sudbury, Parry Sound, Nipissing

    VACANT

Fastpitch Umpire Committee

 

Fastpitch Umpire Committee

John Snook

Fast Pitch Provincial Umpire in Chief
Email: fastballumpire@hotmail.com
Phone: 519-532-3531

Jamie Woodend

Clinics, Education, Recruitment & Retention
Email: jamie@jamiewoodend.com

Steve Gallagher

PWSA Tournaments
Email: hockeyman77@hotmail.com

Ron Boucher

Finance and Discipline
Email : rboucher@contollersondemand.com

Jen Keller-Nelson

Junior Development
Email : jenkellernelson12@gmail.com

Brad Weese

OASA Tournaments, Recruitment & Retention
Email: lua.umpire@gmail.com

Fastpitch Zone Umpires-In-Chief

  • Zone 1

    Essex, Kent, Lambton, Elgin, Middlesex
    Jennifer Johnston
    Zone 1 UIC
    Email: jenntheump@gmail.com

  • Zone 3

    Haldimand-Norfolk, Brant, Waterloo, Hamilton-Wentworth
    Kevin DiDomenico
    Zone 3 UIC
    Email: ichido9@hotmail.com

  • Zone 5

    Peel, Halton, Wellington
    Chris Moffatt
    Zone 5 UIC
    Email: cmoffatt@sympatico.ca

  • Zone 7

    York
    Vito Fiore
    Zone 7 UIC
    Email: vitodonfiore@gmail.com

  • Zone 9

    Northumberland, Prince Edward, Hastings Lennox & Addington, Frontenac
    Chris Carroll
    Zone 9 UIC
    Email: Carrolly36@live.ca

    Zone 11

    Halburton, Muskoka, Parry Sound, Temiskaming, Sudbury, Algoma (Manitoulin)Cochrane, Thunder Bay, Rainy River, Kenora

    Dave Thomson
    Zone 11 UIC
    Email: thedavethomson76@gmail.com

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Phone: 416-426-7150
Fax: 416-426-7150

5063 N Service Road, Suite 200
Burlington, ON L7L 5H6

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