NATE PV

Nate learned about Kickball during the lunch break during the bar exam. He had just moved back to Portland from Eugene and he found out about this team called the Bad News Barristers. It was the U of O Law School Alumni team and his introduction to kickball. It’s hard for Nate to pick one single favorite memory from kickball, but his first Red Shirt was with his first team and it was pretty epic. They were a 27 seed in the Hosford Cup in the summer of 2012 and there were almost 100 teams that year. Tournament was at Delta Park and it was in the 90s. They didn’t expect to stay in for long, so no one brought much food, drink, or shade. After they defeated half of the top 10 teams to get into the finals, their bloodied, sun-burned, and dehydrated crew of Barristers pulled out a come from behind victory that included a suicide squeeze in the 5th inning. It still gives Nate chills. Nate joined the Recesstime Kickball board because of his proclivity for reading, writing, and studying rules. He stepped in as the rules guru and ref chair in 2017. Kickball was very central his my life long before that, though. His kids have grown up spending their weekends with him at the kickball field and he has found lifelong friends in the Recesstime community.