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Bruce Doane Jr., Camp Director
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Mark Uyl, Chief of Instruction
In addition to his responsibilities with the MHSAA, he has continued to umpire college baseball, working primarily in the Big Ten, American Athletic, Conference USA and Mid-American Conferences. He has worked conference tournaments in the Big Ten, Big East and Mid-American conferences. Mark has worked eight NCAA D1 Regional tournaments, four NCAA D1 Super Regional tournaments and worked the 2014 College World Series. He also represented USA Baseball as an umpire at the 2007 Pan American Games in Brazil. Mark has also umpired independent league baseball in the Frontier League over the past 16 years. He is a nationally recognized speaker and has addressed a variety of officiating, coaching, athletic administration and sport audiences across North America. He is currently the coordinator of football officials for the MIAA (NCAA D-III), moving off the field in that league after having worked as a referee for nearly a decade that included NCAA postseason contests in several seasons. His wife Marcy, an accomplished educator and high school basketball coach, and three children (Jackson, Madison and Grant) reside in DeWitt, MI. |
Bruce has been umpiring for
40 years and was instrumental in creating
this camp along with his father, the late Bruce Doane Sr., for whom this
camp is named. Bruce attended Kinnamon, Wendelstedt, and Brinkman Umpire
Schools and has worked at all levels of amateur baseball and independent
league baseball. He has umpired high school baseball in Michigan and
Georgia and worked the Georgia High School State Championship. Bruce
umpires primarily in the Big Ten, Mid-American and Big East
Conferences and has worked ten conference tournaments. He has also
umpired post season at the JUCO and NAIA levels, including working four
NAIA World Series. Bruce has umpired in the Frontier League for
seventeen
years. He serves as Supervisor of Umpires for the JUCO and NAIA schools
served by the Collegiate Baseball Umpires Alliance.
Mark is currently the Assistant Director of the Michigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA). His duties include supervision and coordination of the 11,000 registered athletic officials in Michigan, along with sport responsibilities of baseball and wrestling. He is a former member of the National Federation High School Baseball Rules Committee (2007-2010). Prior to joining the MHSAA staff, Mark was an accomplished high school teacher, coach, athletic director and assistant principal at two high schools in the Grand Rapids, MI, area.Camp Staff
Ron Black
Ron has been umpiring for 26 years. He has 14 OHSAA Regional tournament assignments and 11 Semi-final/Final OHSAA
assignments. He has also worked at the NCAA level for 24 years, and has
worked conference tournaments in the GLIAC, Heartland, NCAC, WHAC and
PAC conferences. In addition, Ron has officiated multiple NCAA Division
III and NAIA Regional tournaments, as well as multiple
Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League
Conference tournaments. He is a former Frontier League umpire and serves as the
assigner for the Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League and the Ohio Regional Campus Conference.
Ron resides in Bellefontaine, Ohio.
Dave Buck
Dave is in his
32nd year of umpiring. He attended the Harry Wendelstedt Umpire
School in 1984 and was chosen as the school’s outstanding student. Dave
worked the next eleven years in the minor leagues, including four years
at the AAA level. He has been umpiring college baseball since 1995, and
currently works in the Big Ten, Big West, Conference USA, American Athletic
Conference,
Mid-American Conference, PAC-12 Conference, and Western Athletic
Conference. His post season assignments include two
Division III Regional tournaments, one Big Ten Conference tournament,
three Conference USA tournaments, two Big East Conference tournaments,
nine
Mid-American Conference tournaments, fifteen Division I Regional
tournaments, and nine Division I Super Regional tournaments. Dave was
chosen for and worked the Division I College World Series in 2004 and
2007. He also umpired the 2007 World Cup and 2008 Olympic Qualifying
tournaments in Taiwan. In addition to umpiring, Dave officiates high school and small college
basketball, observes the umpires in Chicago and Detroit for Major League
Baseball and is actively involved with fundraising in the fight
against cystic fibrosis, a disease affecting his oldest daughter,
Hannah.
Mark Ditsworth
Mark's
umpire career spans 35 years. He came off the field as an active umpire
following the 2013 season, which culminated in an assignment to the
Division I College World Series. While he will be greatly missed on the
field, Mark was recently named as NCAA Division I Regional Advisor,
replacing Dick Runchey. In this position, Mark will primarily cover and
evaluate D1 umpires throughout the Midwest. During his on-field career,
he umpired all levels of
amateur baseball and has served as the Umpire-In-Chief for the MHSAA
State Baseball Finals since 1993. Mark began working college baseball
in 1987 and umpired 18 conference tournaments in the Mid-American
and Big Ten Conferences. He concluded his on-field career on the staffs of the Big Ten,
Big East, Mid-American and Atlantic Ten conferences. Mark was assigned to 12 Division
I Regionals, 8 Division I Super Regionals and
worked the Division I College World Series in 2007, 2010 and 2013. In 2007
Mark umpired the Connie Mack World Series in Farmington, New Mexico. He
umpired the World University Games in the Czech Republic in 2008. Mark
has also worked international baseball, umpiring the 2007 World Cup in
Taiwan, the first ever World Cup of Women's Baseball in Edmonton,
Canada and multiple Olympic qualifiers. Mark also officiates Division
II, III, NAIA and junior college basketball.
Mike Duffy
Mike has been umpiring for over 20 years. He currently works
college baseball primarily in the Big
Ten, Mid-American, and American Athletic Conferences. He has umpired post season
tournaments for the Big Ten, Mid-American, Big East and Midwestern Collegiate
Conferences and has worked nine NCAA Division I Regional Tournaments
and three NCAA Division I Super Regional Tournaments.
In 2015, he was selected for and umpired the Division I College World
Series in Omaha, NE. Mike has also worked NCAA Division II, III, and JUCO Regional
Tournaments. Mike has umpired three baseball high school State Championships.
He
currently works high school football and officiated a MHSAA State Final
in 2012. He retired recently after a long
career as a high school basketball official.
Tim Farwig
Tim is in his 16th year of umpiring, working the last ten years at the collegiate level. He currently works at the Division I level in the Mid-American, Horizon and Atlantic 10 conferences. Tim also works in the Frontier League. His postseason experience includes the 2015 MAC Conference tournament, 2011-14 NAIA World Series and multiple NJCAA regional tournaments. Tim is a two-time attendee of the Bruce Doane Sr. Umpire Camp and resides in Elkhart, Indiana with his wife Kristin.
Cory Hinga
Cory
has been umpiring for 14 years. He attended the Wendelstedt Umpire
School in 2005 and spent six seasons umpiring in Minor League baseball
before choosing to retire in 2010. His last season was spent as a crew
chief in AA in the Eastern League. Cory umpired in the Appalachian,
Midwest, Florida State, and Eastern Leagues, working the Championship
series in the Midwest and Florida State Leagues and the playoffs in the
Eastern League. He was selected to umpire in the fall Florida
Instructional League twice and the fall Arizona Instructional League. He
was also selected to umpire in the Venezuelan Winter League for the
2008-2009 season. Currently Cory umpires collegiate baseball in the MAC
and Horizon as well as at the DII, DIII and NAIA levels. He also officiates high school
football and basketball and teaches high school math in Schoolcraft. Cory resides
in Kalamazoo with his wife, Jennifer and children, Grace and Brody.
Jim Jackson
Jim came off the field after the 2015 season and joined the NCAA as a
Division I Regional Evaluator.
He
was an active umpire for 35 years, spending the last 28 years
working college baseball. The majority of his assignments were in the Big Ten, Missouri
Valley and American Athletic Conference. He umpired ten Big Ten Conference
Tournaments, five Missouri Valley Conference Tournaments, and one Big East
Conference Tournament. Jim was selected thirteen times for Division I Regional Tournaments
and eight times for Super Regional Tournaments. In 2010 Jim was selected for
and worked the Division I College World Series. He also umpired the 2002
Division III World Series and numerous Division III and NAIA Regionals,
as well as 15 high school Regionals and Sectionals in Indiana. In 2005
Jim worked the 36th World Cup of Baseball in the Netherlands and in 2008
umpired the Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Taiwan. He recently
retired as an Indiana State Police Officer after 32 years of service,
and is currently employed as a safety officer for a trucking company.
Steve Linton
Steve has been umpiring for 26 years. Currently he
umpires in the Mid-American Conference and Horizon League, as well as DII, DIII and JUCO levels. His post-season experience includes one MAC tournament, two Horizon
League tournaments and nine DII Midwest Regional tournaments. Steve has also umpired 14 years of
Independent League professional baseball in the Central, CanAm, Atlantic and American Association. In addition to umpiring baseball, Steve also referees high school volleyball and basketball. He resides in Bay City, MI with his wife Cindy.
Nick Sweeney
Nick as been umpiring for 23 years, since the age of 13. He started umpiring JUCO college at the age of 17, working his way through college. While at Northern Illinois he worked numerous exhibition games for the Schaumburg Flyers of the former Northern Independent Professional League. After graduation, Nick attended the Jim Evans Academy of Professional Umpires in January of 2005. Nick was asked to work spring training that year where he was able to work several Major League intersquad games. His first assignment was the Appalachian league where he worked the championship series. He was assigned to the South Atlantic League the following season but decided to retire after the 2006 strike and go into the business world. Since then, Nick has mainly worked JUCO college at all levels working a number of regionals, quarterfinals, and sectional finals. He resides in Cedar Springs with his wife Megan and two children, Griffin and Kyla.
Scott Taylor
Scott Taylor comes back to the Bruce Doane Umpire Camp after being recently named the NCAA National Coordinator of Umpires for Division II baseball. He began his umpiring journey working Little League games with his father Adrian in Blackwell, OK at the age of 13. He continued working all levels of youth baseball through his college years until deciding to attend the Bill Kinnamon Umpire School in 1982. Scott then began a five year minor league career that included stops in the Pioneer League, Arizona Instructional League, Florida State League and the Texas League in 1985-86 before leaving the game to begin a career in business. His collegiate career began in 1987,
as he began working many different levels of baseball. After taking 11 years away from umpiring, Scott returned to college baseball in 2006 and immediately achieved success, including many postseason assignments at both the Division I and Division II levels. He counts one of the biggest highlights of his long career
as being selected to work at two consecutive NCAA Division II World Series in 2007 and 2008. Scott retired from active umpiring after the 2014 season and spent the next two years as the Supervisor of Umpires for the Great Lakes Valley Conference before accepting the NCAA job in November.
He resides in Indianapolis with his wife Brenda, where he is self-employed.
Dave Uyl
David currently umpires college baseball in the Big Ten, MAC and Horizon Leagues. He worked his first regional in 2014. David previously spent ten seasons in professional baseball. He attended the Jim Evans Umpire Academy and later served as an instructor. His career included work in the Gulf Coast, Pioneer, Midwest, California, Eastern and International Leagues. He was twice invited to the Arizona Fall League, which led to him working two MLB Spring Trainings. David worked four seasons in AAA, serving as a crew chief for two of those years along with working the IL championship series. David also officiates college football and high school basketball. He played football and baseball at Hope College. David is currently a regional sales manager with a genetic testing company. He resides in Chicago with his wife and two sons.