Paul Seiler Executive Director/CEO
Paul V. Seiler assumed the duties of Executive Director/CEO of USA Baseball full-time in January of 2000. Seiler is a 19-year veteran of the organization, beginning his career with USA Baseball in 1988. He has held a variety of positions during that time, including the Director of National Team Operations from 1997-99.
In 2000, Seiler worked closely with Major League Baseball (MLB), the MLB Players Association and the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) to help lead Team USA to its first ever Olympic gold medal at the Sydney Games. The Trenton, N.J., native recently held an at-large position on the Executive Committee of the International Baseball Federation (IBAF) and is currently the second vice president of COPABE, the Pan American Baseball Confederation. Seiler was also one of two technical delegates for baseball in the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
Seiler holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology (Pre-Med) from the University of Scranton (Pa.) where he played soccer for the nationally ranked Royals. Paul and his wife Wendi, have a son Braden and a daughter Abigail, and they live in Cary, N.C.
Eric Campbell General Manager, Professional and National Teams
A 1980 graduate of Omaha Burke High School and a 1986 graduate of Creighton University (Neb.), Eric Campbell has spent 25 years in the sport industry as a professional player, a college coach, a college administrator, a college instructor, and currently as an administrator at USA Baseball.
Campbell helped lead Burke to the 1979 Nebraska State High School Championship. As a player at Creighton from 1981-84, Campbell played a variety of positions and even played all nine positions in a college baseball game. After being drafted by the Chicago White Sox as a pitcher and catcher, Campbell was released from professional baseball in 1985 and began his coaching/administrative career. After serving nine years in assistant coach roles at Creighton, St. Thomas University (Fla.) and the United States Air Force Academy (AFA), Campbell served as the head baseball coach at the AFA from 1995-1998. Campbell's 1995 club posted 29 wins, a mark that stands as the second most wins in a season in AFA history.
After serving as a volunteer administrator to two United States Olympic Committee Olympic Festivals and serving as an administrator and coach to various USA Baseball events, Campbell joined the staff at USA Baseball in January of 2000. After serving four years as the primary administrator for the Junior National Team (18U) program and various professional level programs, Campbell now serves as an administrator for USA Baseball National (Collegiate) and Professional Teams.
In his eight years at USA Baseball, Campbell has served as the primary or assistant team administrator for 20 national teams. USA Baseball's National Team won gold medals at the 2004, 2006 and 2008 FISU World Collegiate Championships, and he helped guide the 2008 U.S. Olympic Baseball Team to a bronze medal in Beijing. Campbell also served on the technical committee for the inaugural World Baseball Classic in 2006 and is the team leader for the 2009 squad.
Campbell is married to the former Janette Bushyager and they have two daughters -- Tillie and Lucy. The Campbells live in Raleigh, N.C.
Ray Darwin Director, 18U National Team
Ray Darwin was named 18U National Team Director in 2004. In this position, he oversees the organization's efforts at the 18-under age level. This includes all the functions surrounding the USA Baseball Tournament of Stars presented by Major League Baseball, the 18U National Team Trials and all 18U National Team domestic and international competitions. Since Darwin has taken over the 18U program, it has logged silver medals at the 2006 and 2008 IBAF "AAA" World Junior Championships.
In addition to directing the 18U program, Darwin assists the organization in the planning, selection and administration of USA Baseball's various professional teams that participate in the World Baseball Classic, IBAF Baseball World Cup and Olympic Games.
Prior to serving as the 18U National Team Director, Darwin managed the organization's 16U program from 1998-2003, compiling a 34-3 overall record and winning three straight IBAF "AA" World Youth Championships. Darwin joined the organization as a Media Relations intern in May 1997.
Before joining USA Baseball, Darwin gained sports management experience working for the Texas Rangers and University of Pennsylvania athletics. He earned a Bachelor of Science in economics with a concentration in marketing from the Wharton School at the Penn in 1997. He also completed the Major League Scouting Bureau's Scout Development program in the fall of 2000.
Darwin lives in Raleigh, N.C., with his wife Stacey, his daughter Miranda, and son Sam.
Jake Fehling Director, Media & Public Relations
A native of Southern Pines, N.C., Jake Fehling worked in USA Baseball's marketing department from 2003-05, where he was responsible for the development and execution of the organization's local marketing plan during its first two summers in North Carolina. In his current role with USA Baseball, he serves as the organization's contact for media inquiries, press releases and other official organizational communication. Fehling is also responsible for overseeing the organization's press officers who travel with the National Teams on an annual basis. He performs the same duties for the IBAF as well.
Fehling gained Olympic Games and National Governing Body experience when he served as an intern in the USOC's Media & Public Relations Department in 2002. Immediately prior and following his time with the USOC, Fehling interned for Pinehurst Championship Management and the U.S. Golf Association (USGA) at the 2001 U.S. Women's Open in Southern Pines, the 2002 U.S. Senior Open in Baltimore and the 2003 U.S. Open in Olympic Fields, Ill.
After leaving USA Baseball in 2005, he re-joined the USGA, overseeing the corporate merchandise operation of the 2005 Walker Cup in Chicago and the 2006 U.S. Open at Winged Foot in Mamaroneck, N.Y., before making his way to a marketing and sales role at Jet Set Sports/CoSport, one of the world's leading Olympic Games ticket and hospitality providers. Fehling also served as the press attaché for wheelchair basketball and boccia for the USOC at the Athens 2004 Paralympic Games.
Fehling graduated from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 2002 with a degree in Broadcast Journalism and lives with his wife Page in Raleigh, N.C.
Nate Logan Intern, Merchandising
Nate Logan joined the USA Baseball team in September of 2007 after serving one year as an assistant baseball coach at Louisburg College (N.C.). Logan oversees USA Baseball's merchandising services and assists the organization's marketing department. In addition, he manages the USA Baseball team store and coordinates the Triangle Classic event held each fall at the USA Baseball National Training Complex.
Logan first gained experience with USA Baseball working in the operations department for the Tournament of Stars and later the 16U championships.
Logan received a degree in Exercise Science with a focus in Sport Management from Campbell University (N.C.) in 2006. He currently resides in Raleigh, N.C.
Miki Partridge Chief Financial Officer; Director, Woman's National Team
Miki Partridge took over the reigns as USA Baseball CFO in 1999 and was named the organization's first Women's National Team Director in 2004. The women's team won the gold medal at both the I IBAF Women's Baseball World Cup in Edmonton, Canada, in 2004 and the II WBWC in Taipei, Taiwan, in 2006. Team USA took home the bronze medal from the III WBWC in Matsuyama, Japan, in 2008.
Partridge joined USA Baseball when the organization was located in Tucson, Ariz. She moved from Boston to Tucson in 1994. Partridge had many years of experience in accounting and finance in Boston before moving to Tucson.
Partridge studied philosophy at the University of Vermont before getting her accounting degree from Bentley College in Waltham, Mass. in 1979.
Partridge resides in Bahama, N.C. with her husband Jack. She has a daughter, son-in-law, and two grandchildren in Albuquerque, N.M., and a daughter in Boston.
David Perkins Chief Operating Officer
David Perkins joined USA Baseball in March 1998, first working on the organization's Junior Olympic Baseball Championships. The then 56-team tournament has since become the 144-team USA Baseball 16U Championships. At the end of that summer, he assumed responsibility for USA Baseball's merchandise and retail programs. One year later, and prior to the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, Perkins moved into the role of Associate Director of Business Development.
In 2003, the Tucson, Ariz., native was promoted to Director of Marketing and Licensing, and, later that same year, he was part of a five-person relocation committee that selected North Carolina's Triangle-area as the new home for USA Baseball. More recently Perkins has worked to further develop the organization's revenue opportunities through both new on-field programs and marketing programs, which include USA Baseball's multi-year marketing partnership with MLB.
In early 2008, Perkins was named the organization's Chief Operating Officer. Perkins graduated from the University of Arizona with a degree in Finance. He now resides in Cary, N.C.
Rick Riccobono Director, 14U National Team
As a high school player out of Commack, N.Y., Rick Riccobono gained his first experience with USA Baseball as a member of the 18U National Trials Team in 1997. Drafted in the sixth round by the Boston Red Sox in 1998, he decided to forgo a scholarship at the University of Florida and went on to have a five-year Minor League career with a brief stop in big league spring training in 2000.
Riccobono resumed his education in 2002, which included studies in London in 2004. Later in that same year, he began employment with USA Baseball as an Operations Assistant at the Junior Olympics and 16U National Team Trials. For the next two years, he worked with various National Teams and events for the organization while earning his bachelors at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
In the fall of 2006, Rick formally took control of the 14U National Team program. The team competed in two events in 2007 taking gold twice while compiling a 14-0 record and outscoring opponents, 184-24, finishing the year as the 14U Pan American Champions.
Riccobono resides in Raleigh, N.C. with his wife Katie.
Jeff Singer Director, 16U National Team
Jeff Singer was named Director of the 16U National Team in 2004. In his position, he oversees the USA Baseball 16U Championships (formerly the "Junior Olympics"), the 16U National Team Trials and the 16U National Team in domestic and international competition.
Singer joined the organization after spending the 2003 season as the Assistant General Manager of the Vero Beach Dodgers, the then Los Angeles Dodgers Class A affiliate in the Florida State League.
Prior to that, Singer completed several internships within the baseball industry with organizations including MLB's Arizona Fall League, the San Francisco Giants, and a stint with USA Baseball during the summer of 2002. During that internship, Singer ran the Junior Olympics - East in Palm Beach County, Fla.
A native of Los Angeles and a graduate of the University of Michigan in 2000, Singer resides in Raleigh, N.C.
Matt Titus Director, Baseball Administration
Matt Titus began working with USA Baseball in 2005 as a Baseball Operations Intern in the Junior Olympic Program. In 2006 he was hired full as Marketing Coordinator, and in 2008 Titus was promoted to Director, Baseball Administration.
Before coming to USA Baseball, Titus served as an intern with the Wilmington Sharks in the Coastal Plain League and with the Burlington Royals, the Rookie League affiliate of the Kansas City Royals, as an Operations Manager.
Titus currently oversees the Golden Spikes Award, the USA Baseball Camp Program and the day-to-day operations at the USA Baseball National Training Complex in Cary, N.C. Matt also works closely with the National Team (Collegiate).
Titus graduated in 2001 from Riverside High School in Durham, N.C., and then graduated with a degree in Political Science with a concentration in Sports Management from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Titus is also a 2007 graduate of the Major League Baseball Scout Development Program.
Titus currently resides in Chapel Hill, N.C.
Bradley Young Intern, Media & Public Relations
Bradley Young joined the USA Baseball team in May of 2008 after completing his studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Young assists the media and public relations services for the organization, including media requests and website services. He also serves as the Coordinator for Media Relations for the International Baseball Federation (IBAF).
Young gained media and public relations experience as a student assistant in the sports information office at UNC. Primarily working with women's tennis and wrestling, Young worked very closely with numerous other sports including soccer, football, basketball and baseball.
Young received a degree in Communication Studies with a focus in Interpersonal and Organizational Communications, as well as focus in Sports Administration. He currently resides in Chapel Hill, N.C.