My love for the intricacies of baseball morphed into a personal project during the COVID-19 shutdown: learning the rulebook and applying my newfound knowledge to youth baseball. In the summer of 2020, I became certified as a Babe Ruth baseball umpire and officiated my first game at 15 years old. Over the next four years, I umpired hundreds of games in the towns of Barrington, Farmington, Rochester, Dover, and Epping. I was selected to officiate a variety of major local New Hampshire Babe Ruth tournaments, including 12U 60' states (2021, 2023), 9U areas (2023), and Roger Allen's Kittredge Memorial Tournament (2023). As much as this position requires hard work — I once worked five games in one day, for a total of 10 hours — it is equally gratifying to be a fair, positive presence for today's generation of youth baseball players. 

Prior to the 2024 season, I was appointed as Umpire Coordinator for baseball and softball at the Barrington Youth Association. Within this role, I overhauled the existing recruitment process with an emphasis on hiring youth umpires. Within the first two months of my term, I grew the directory from zero youth umpires to 13 youth umpires and also recruited over three dozen additional experienced adult umpires. It has been incredibly gratifying to read the names of the youth umpires and realize that these are the same kids whose games I once officiated myself.

In addition to assigning over 400 games in this role, I led a training course for all new youth umpires in late April. This program allowed the umpires to gain on-field experience and instruction before they received their first game assignment. In addition to communication skills and fairness, this role demands several behind-the-scenes tasks, including tax documentation, observance of legal labor practices, and enforcement of Babe Ruth rules and policies.