WMLL Board Member Profiles



Tom Heneghan, President 

Tom joined the board 5 years ago and is currently beginning his third year as President.  He has two daughters who play WMLL Softball and a son who played WMLL Baseball and is now preparing to play collegiately.  Tom is an attorney for the Merchant & Gould law firm in Madison.  Tom is married and has coached both baseball and softball at WMLL at all levels.  He has also served for many years on the Softball Committee.


Harry Miller, VP-Baseball, Past President

Harry is the second longest tenured member of the board, having served over 15 years.  He has filled a variety of positions in the organization, including President, VP-Baseball, Baseball Operations Committee chair, Umpire Coordinator and Tournament Team Coordinator.  Harry has also coordinated several of our special events, such as Little Lg Night at the Brewers.  He is married and has two sons who played at WMLL and a daughter who managed the concession stand for a number of years.  Harry works for the Wisconsin Historical Society Archives and has coached at WMLL in all levels of play.
 
Mike Metcalf, VP-Softball

Mike has been on the board for 10 years and has primarily been involved with the Girls' softball program.  He was one of the founding committee members for the softball program and was instrumental in securing funding so the league could improve the two softball diamonds at Jefferson Middle School for WMLL use.  Mike has also served as the league's Safety Officer and for many years has been in charge of screening WMLL Volunteer applications, as required by Little League Int'l.  He has a son who played at WMLL for 8 years and a daughter who played for 10 and worked in the concession stand.  Mike is married, is retired as Chief of Police for the State of Wisconsin, and currently serves as the Security Director for Edgewood College.  He has also coached both baseball and softball, and currently is the assistant softball coach at Edgewood College.
 
Maury Tomczak, Secretary-Treasurer 

Maury is the longest tenured member of the board, having served for 28 years.  He is married and has a son who played at WMLL from 1979-85 and a daughter who worked in concessions from 1987-90 (before the current concession stand was built).  He and his wife, Sharon, have coordinated the printing of the annual Team Roster Books for the past 22 years.  Over the years, he has coordinated the coach mailboxes, field clean-up day, announced tournament games and coached his son's teams and tournament teams.  Maury is a retired tax auditor for the Wisconsin Dept of Revenue and currently serves the board as secretary-treasurer.

 
Andy Chitwood 

Andy has been on the board for many years and is currently serving as Senior League Coordinator.  Prior to this role, he served a number of years as the Lg Coordinator for the Badger Lg.  Andy is married, has coached at all levels of WMLL play and had a son and two daughters come through the program.  In addition, he has served on a number of committees, including the concessions and groundskeeping committee.  He will be taking on the role of board liaison to the concession stand manager for 2010.  Andy has also been very involved in the new multi-purpose building project.


Chip Hunter 

Chip joined the Board in 2007 after a number of years working on the volunteer softball committee.  He has primarily been involved with the Girls' Softball program and has served in a variety of capacities, including coach, league scheduler, league coordinator and chair of the softball committee.  He has been very instrumental in promoting the Girls' Softball program and raising funds for field improvements.  Chip is married and has two daughters who have played softball at WMLL.  He is on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

 
 

Bob Jordan
Bob is the latest addition to the board, having been elected in the fall of 2009.  He and his wife, Le, own and operate Communicators of Wisconsin (COW), an association management firm.  Bob has twin sons who have played the past 5 years at WMLL.  He has volunteered to take over the helm for WMLL's Sponsorship and Fund Raising programs, as well as all Special Events, such as the Bowlathon and Little Lg Night at the Brewers.

 


Frank Lenoch 

Frank is a long-time member of the WMLL family having coached four sons through the program.  He joined the board in 2007 and immediately assumed the role of Central League Coordinator.  The crowning jewel in Frank's coaching career came in 2009 when he served as the head coach of the WMLL Senior Tournament Team that advanced to the Senior Little League World Series in Bangor, ME!   Frank has also served in a number of other roles including game scheduler for the WMLL Fall Ball program.  He is married and works at Gentel Biosciences.


Nick McNamara 

Nick joined the board three years ago and initially served as registrar for two years.  He is now entering his second season as the WMLL Umpire Coordinator.  Nick is married with three children, two of whom play baseball and softball at WMLL.  He is a long-time Madison area attorney, who was recently appointed as a judge by our state's Governor.  Nick was also involved on the committee charged with formulating initial plans for the Challenger Program for children with disabilities in 2009.

 


Mark Newburg

Mark is entering his fifth year on the board.  He has primarily served as the Pacific Lg Coordinator and Uniform/Equipment Coordinator for the Fall Ball program.  Mark has also been the lead contact for WMLL's Night at the Mallards each year in June.  He is married with two sons, both of whom played at WMLL.  He has coached at all levels of the program, including tournament teams.  In addition to his WMLL activities, Mark volunteers as the Coordinator of the Memorial Tri-County Basketball program, is a member of the West YMCA's Program and Membership Committee and serves on the National W Club's Hall of Fame Nominating Committee.  Mark is the Sales Manager for Gard Specialists.

 


Randy Norton 

Randy joined the board in 2008 after serving on the Softball Committee for several years. He has served in a number of capacities since joining the board, including Junior Softball Lg Coordinator, Fall Ball Coordinator and Special Events Coordinator.  Most recently, he has become WMLL's resident expert on the Online Registration System for the regular and Fall Ball seasons.  Randy is married and has two daughters who both play WMLL softball.  He works for the State of Wisconsin Dept of Employee Trust Funds as IT Manager.  Randy has coached softball at WMLL the past four years.

 


Steven Smith

Steven has been on the board for 6 years and has served in numerous capacities, including Badger and Senior League Coordinator, WMLL Clothing Coordinator and liaison between the board and the concession stand manager.  In 2010, he will assume the role of Tournament Team Coordinator in addition to coordinating all WMLL clothing.  Steven is married and has three children.  His son played baseball at WMLL and one daughter has played softball.  He is employed at Lands' End in Dodgeville.

 


Jim Steeves 

Jim was elected to the board in 2007, but actually had been involved with the organization for 7 years prior to becoming a board member.  He is a pretty handy guy and has done basically all the carpentry, electrical and plumbing work for WMLL for years.  Jim is married and his son Chris is WMLL Groundskeeper, while daughter Angela is Assistant Concessions Manager. Wife Sheila also works at WMLL on grounds and concessions......its a family affair!  Jim works at American TV as Senior Technical Support Specialist and has been with American for 32 years.  He began his board service as Sponsorship Chair and will now be moving into the role of Facilities Maintenance Coordinator

 

Mark Wood
Mark is entering his second year on the board.  He served as Co-Coordinator for the Atlantic League in 2009 and will be the Coordinator in 2010.  He has also served as Junior Lg Coordinator for the Fall Ball program.  Mark is married and has four children, including a son who has played at WMLL in the past.  Mark is a financial advisor at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney.

 


Paul Zwaska 

Paul joined the board 7 years ago bringing his first-hand Major League Baseball  groundskeeping experience to WMLL.  Prior to returning to Madison, Paul spent 16 years with the Baltimore Orioles groundskeeping staff, the last 10 as head groundskeeper.  He currently works at Beacon Athletics in Middleton as a technical sales advisor and seminar instructor.  Paul conducts seminars all over the US on proper groundskeeping techniques, materials and products....that's why WMLL has such fine playing surfaces!  He also serves the board as Budget Committee Chair, which includes monthly Budget Tracking Reports for the organization.  Paul has two children and his son played baseball at WMLL from 2002-07.  He has also coached at WMLL over the years and is the coordinator of the current building/picnic porch project.  He also serves as chair of the Long Range Facilities Planning Committee.

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Greg Mueller, Past President (ex-officio board member) 

Greg is currently an ex-officio, non-voting member of the board in his capacity as a Past President.  He served WMLL for many, many years as coach, board member and board President.  Many of the solid organizational processes used at WMLL today are a result of Greg's leadership over his many years of service.  He is currently retired from teaching at Memorial High School, but continues to serve as assistant coach and pitching coach for the Memorial baseball team each spring.  Greg continues to assist WMLL by arranging the annual Skills Session and Pitching Clinics at Memorial each spring.  He is married and has several children.

 


Bill Battista, Executive Director, Past President (ex-officio board member) 

Bill
began his WMLL involvement in 1995, assisting his brother Bob in coaching Bob's son.  He was elected to the board in 1999 and volunteered as Major Lg Coordinator, a position he continues with today.  Bill has also served as VP-Baseball and has chaired a number of committees.  He has been involved with the concessions and grounds committee and serves as the board liaison to District 4 Little Lg.  He coordinates the District Majors Tournament each July for the district.  Bill is married and has three grown daughters (none of whom played at WMLL, as Girls' Softball had not yet been started).  He has coached at all levels of the program including tournament play.  He retired from his full time job in 2007 and now serves as part-time WMLL Exec. Director.