Russ Ekeblad represented the United States in 2 Bermuda Bowls - 1993 in Chile, where his team finished 5-8 and 2005 in Estoril, where his team earned the bronze medal and in one Senior Bowl - 2008 in Beijing, where his team earned the silver medal. Russ finished 3rd in the Rosenblum in 1990 and won the IMP Pairs in 1998.
Russ has played in too many USBCs and Senior USBCs to count and his originality and smile will be sadly missed next year.
The time for petition candidates in the 2018 election of USBF Board members has passed, and there have been no petition nominations. Therefore, the nominating committee slate has been elected without the need for voting. Welcome to new Board members Kate Aker & Mark Aquino and second-term Board member Beth Palmer!
The Nominating Committee has nominated the following slate of candidates for the 2018 election to the USBF Board of Directors:
Kate Aker |
Mark Aquino |
Beth Palmer |
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Additional candidates may be nominated until November 30, 2018 by petition, as set forth in the USBF Election Procedures. If no candidates are nominated by petition, the three candidates nominated by the Nominating Committee will be elected to the USBF Boards, with their terms of office commencing on January 1, 2019.
In response to concerns about the dates we had scheduled for the Mixed USBC (it overlapped the European Mixed Team event and started on Shavuous, an important Jewish holiday), we have moved the Mixed USBC to May 22-29 starting 2 days after the end of the Open USBC & 1 day after the end of the Women's USBC. The Senior USBC will now start on Friday, May 31st and end on Sunday, June 9th, after one session of play.
We also had the option of moving the Women's USBC to overlap the Seniors instead of the Open. Having polled the women who played in the latest Women's USBC and a few others who asked to vote, we have left the Women's dates for 2019 unchanged - the Women's starts on May 14th, opposite the Open Quarterfinal and ends on May 20th.
We were able to make this change thanks to our DIC, Mckenzie Myers, being willing to work all of the USBCs in a row with only a day off in between, instead of taking a week off and working a Memorial Day Regional and the Schaumburg Hyatt Regency's willingness to be flexible about our dates. Thank you!
