Spring 2016 - United States Bocce Federation
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Spring 2016 - United States Bocce Federation
Spring 2016 BEFORE DOING ANYTHING ELSE…. BEFORE GOING TO THE NEXT PAGE…. CLICK ON THE BOULES SPORT LOGO BELOW, WATCH THE VIDEO, READ THE INFORMATION AND SUPPORT THE CANDIDACY. All Rights Reserved - Copyright 2016 - United States Bocce Federation 2 UNITED STATES BOCCE FEDERATION QUARTERLY Spring 2016 EDITION IN THIS ISSUE Page From Midcourt by Jerry South……………………….…….....………..….3 Show Me The Money by Cynthia Rivera…………………………………..5 Campo di Bocce of Fremont………………………………………………..6 The Albuquerque Bocce Club ……………………………………………..8 Dante Club of Fresno ………………………………………..….…….……11 Sector Reports………………………………………….…..….………....…14 Directory of Officers……………………………...….…….…..…….……..18 Two Important Dates: The Competition Starts On June 25th The Last Day To Register Is May 6th. Click on the poster at left to get complete information, including competition and uniform rules, dates of each event, and applications for each event. Don’t miss out! The United States Bocce Federation Quarterly is published four times a year. Our mission is to promote bocce throughout the United States, with an emphasis on introducing bocce to our nations youth and young adults; perpetuating the sport in all age groups; providing clinics and other teaching methods to those who wish to improve their game and to prepare our elite players for National and International competition. USBF Board of Directors Jerry South, President Lio Gianotti, Vice President Colleen Randazzo, Secretary Cynthia Rivera, Treasurer Inquires or comments concerning this quarterly should be directed to Editor Frank Rivera at: [email protected] Written correspondence should be addressed to: USBF Quarterly c/o Frank Rivera, P.O. Box 22005, Carmel, CA 93922-0005 All Rights Reserved - Copyright 2016 - United States Bocce Federation 3 FROM MIDCOURT Warm welcomes to Dante, Albuquerque and Toccolana! Pan Am Games Update: Last year at Pan Am Games and The Olympics By Jerry South President, United States Bocce Federation Bocce Spring: It’s in the high 70s on our full-sun deck in San Rafael, California. The early lettuce crop is being harvested from our pot garden and our two tomato plants are budding. League play started three weeks ago at Marin Bocce. Ben Musolf, Margaret Shindelus and the nationals tournament team have been busy planning and looking after the weekly satellite tournaments that are leading up to the June 25 kickoff money tournament. There’s already a bunch of new teams signed up for the Money, Open A and B events. May 6 is the deadline for Nationals registration. Don’t delay and be disappointed! Membership: I don’t have hard figures on membership, but recently, I saw a stack of completed membership apps at Campo Livermore that came from the satellite tournaments and Ben’s solicitation of league players, all of whom reportedly were glad to sign up and support USBF. Larry Cereghino, Western Sector Rep, has been successful in garnering new members in the Northwest. We have three new member clubs: The Dante Club from Fresno, California has signed on, as has the Albuquerque Bocce Club in New Mexico. The big news from the Eastern Sector is from Rome, New York, the home of the Toccolana Club and host of the annual “world series of bocce.” Toccolana is now a USBF member and provides us with representation in upstate New York. the board meeting in Methuen, we agreed to host the first friendly Pan American competition at the Methuen Lodge in late October. Invitations were extended to two South American national federations to send men’s and women’s teams to compete against the top two men’s and women’s raffa teams from our June Nationals at Campo Livermore. Methuen, as host, will also provide two teams. I hope to announce the names of the South American teams in early May. In March, the board approved acceptance of an Invitation from the South American organization that sponsors the real Pan American Games, which features championship competition among all of the South American countries. As an additional reward, our gold medal women’s raffa team at the June Nationals in Livermore will represent our country. The date and venue of the games has not been set but we expect the date will be in August. Dealing with uncertainty is no fun for any of us!! 2024 Olympics and Bocce: The summer 2024 Olympics are expected to take place in France, and already there is a movement underway in CBI and member countries to include the Boule sports volo, raffia, petanque and lawn bowling as Olympic sports. Bernard Champey, a director of the French Boules Federation and CBI member is the man behind French raffa. He has organized a doubles tournament that will include players from France, Italy and China, the first of its kind in France. He urged me to begin planning for the 2024 Olympics. Unlike France, the boules sports in our country are fragmented, but hopefully the concept of American teams competing in the Olympics will be enough to start a conversation. Selecting Our National Team: The Olympics chestnut and the ascendency of American raffa players in world championships again elevates the discussion about selecting our best raffa players to represent us. A subset of that question is the role of our annual national tournaments. All Rights Reserved - Copyright 2016 - United States Bocce Federation 4 The Problem: We have been out of whack for several years between our Nationals and the Worlds. For example, our team from Palazzo Di Bocce, Detroit won the Club Team Gold Medal in St. Louis, 2013, and this year we expect the World Championships will take place again in Italy - 3 years overdue. There’s a consensus that USBF should conduct a qualifying event close in time to the world championship. The conflict arises regarding team events. Should the objective be to select the best players to form a team or should we select a team? In short, should the qualifying event be Singles competition or Team Competition? A case in point is the team that won the gold in our 2015 Nationals at Methuen. The team was undefeated and included two young players who gave us inspiration for the future. However, there were three older players on other teams who were stronger and more experienced players. If they had been selected, the Gold Medal team would have been a stronger team for world championships. Would a Selection Process Diminish the Role of Our Nationals?: I think not! Our national tournaments could be energized by offering more Open events and variations of raffa competition. Open players tell me that they find raffa triples so difficult with 12 balls on the court. They enjoy doubles and singles as a way to transition without worrying about the plethora of balls to contend with. As a first step I would like to see 3 person raffia teams, playing doubles and singles side-by-side with a rotation of singles players. Doubles champions would be determined by wins, head to head, etc, but the Singles would contribute points, which, .when .added to. the .Doubles points would determine Team champions. So it would be possible to have a different Team champion from a Doubles champion. A tournament within a tournament! Rotating singles players would be an equalizer! TOO RADICAL? If only the Sectors would experiment… Website: I am pleased to announce that Frank Rivera, our newsletter editor has taken over the reins as webmaster for the USBF website. He replaces Kathi Tesarz, who has ably performed the difficult task of establishing and managing the website for several years. Many thanks to Kathi and welcome to Frank. We will keep you posted as adjustments are made. That’s enough pensieri for the day. Enjoy the spring seasoon wherever you are, plant a garden, play bocce and count your blessings. I’m looking forward to seeing you at Campo Di Bocce Livermore for the Nationals. Remember to sign up by May 6. Jerry South All Rights Reserved - Copyright 2016 - United States Bocce Federation 5 SHOW ME THE MONEY Cynthia Rivera USBF Treasurer I’ve spoken with a number of club administrators over the last month or so regarding the cash incentive. They’ve had some legitimate questions. Who gets the incentive? How much does each club get? When do we get it? I will answer all three questions as briefly as I can. Who gets the incentive? The club itself gets the incentive to use in whichever way they decide. The money does not go to individual members who joined or renewed membership in USBF for 2016. How much does each club get? That depends on the size of the membership. The larger the club, the larger the incentive check. Each club gets $5 per member, new or returning. If a club had 25 returning members at the beginning of the year, and signed up 5 new members, that club is eligible for an incentive check for 30 total members if all 30 joined the USBF. And that’s the rub. That’s why we call it an ‘incentive program.’ It’s up to each club to use incentive to grow their club membership. When do we get it? This is where I come in. At the beginning of October, each club will receive an email from me with a very simple document attached. It will ask two questions. How many returning members did you have in 2016; and how many new members did your club sigh up? No names; just two numbers. This is so I can reconcile your membership numbers to the numbers I have for your club. Beginning in November, I will start issuing a check to clubs in the amount equaling $5 per member, new and returning. Now... this is where I have a request to make: Please report your membership numbers on a fairly regular basis. Your club may not start league and tournament play until the Spring and Summer months, but that doesn’t stop you from getting a jumpstart on signing up your members. We are already seeing a large jump in membership due to this program. I’m going to be quite busy at the end of the year, so I have a simple request for each club administration: Please send in your USBF Applications on a fairly regular basis. Every three or four months. This will allow me to keep a current membership count for the entire USBF, club by club, so that at the end of the year, I’m not inundated with applications and requests for incentive checks, which may delay the clubs getting their checks. A Friendly Reminder In becoming a USBF member, you are automatically added to our newsletter distribution list. Even though the USBF Western Sector Newsletter covers bocce news and tournament photo spreads primarily in the Western Sector, many members of the Midwestern and Eastern Sectors enjoy receiving it. Due to the costs of maintaining the mailing list through our distributor, we keep only one mailing list to send out both the United States Bocce Federation Quarterly and the USBF Western Sector Newsletter. In the eyes of our distributor, two distribution lists double our subscriber numbers. Basically, the more subscribers, the higher the cost. Thus, our use of one distribution list. If you want only one of the publications, you never-the-less get both. Concurrently, if you use the ‘Unsubscribe’ option at the bottom of the email to unsubscribe from one of the publications you’d rather not receive, you unsubscribe from both. We apologize for this inconvenience, but it is a matter of fiscal sense for us. If you want to receive one publication but don’t care to receive the other, we would ask that when receiving the unwanted publication, please delete it from your ‘in’ box. This is the only way to continue receiving the publication you do want. If you don’t want either publication, one ‘unsubscribe’ will do. Thank you. Frank Rivera, Editor All Rights Reserved - Copyright 2016 - United States Bocce Federation 6 First came Campo di Bocce of Los Gatos then came Campo di Bocce of Livermore and coming in the Fall of 2016 Campo di Bocce of Fremont The people of the city of Fremont, California have something to look forward to in the Fall of 2016. Indeed, we all have something to look forward to; an expansion of the Campo di Bocce Empire! The third location of Northern California’s premier bocce venues is currently being constructed with no amenity left out. Preparing the surface for the wood frames and underlayment The process begins Like it’s two sister venues, Campo di Bocce of Fremont will include eight courts; four indoor and four outdoor courts. The size of these courts are not quite as big as in the other venues, but almost. Big enough to give the most experienced players all the challenge the other eight Campo courts offer. Space is the issue, both inside the preexisting building and outside. Applying the asphalt underlayment The four outdoor courts will be 9 feet wide by 75 feet long. The four inside courts will be a little larger; 9 ½ feet wide by 80 feet long. The side and back walls will be made of glue Lams, the same beams that hold up house roofs in today’s construction. They will be surfaced by Mike Grasser, owner of Da Vinci Bocce L.L.C. of Sylvan, Lake, Michigan, whose courts have been called better than any court in all of Italy (having played in the 2015 National Championships on Mike Grasser synthetic courts at the Sons of Italy Lodge in Methuen, Massachusetts, we won’t argue. They are superb surfaces). The outdoor courts, awaiting Mike Grasser’s surfaces. All Rights Reserved - Copyright 2016 - United States Bocce Federation 7 After several hours of rolling and shooting the two pound bocce, you may need a beverage to quench your thirst. Not to worry. There will be two full bars; one inside and one outside. The inside bar will feature ten beers on tap while the outside bar will have four to six beers. And if that bocce exercise works up an appetite, there is plenty of dining area. There will be three private dining rooms that can also be used as meeting rooms. Imagine having a typical Campo di Bocce lunch during a corporate meeting, then shaking off the business dust with a few frames of your favorite sport. That’s what we call a successful meeting! Need a larger space for your meet- ings? They will have 12,000 square feet of corporate convention space available for rent. If you need to get rid of a little energy after the excitement of beating all of your opponents in bocce, you can do so without leaving the building. Campo di Bocce of Fremont will have 16,000 square feet of rock climbing space called “The Peak of Fremont.” We’re looking forward to the opening of the newest edition of Campo di Bocce. It looks like this new venue will offer all the amenities the other two venues offer plus a few things the others don’t have to make the newest edition of Campo di Bocce of Fremont a welcome edition to the Campo di Bocce Empire. All Rights Reserved - Copyright 2016 - United States Bocce Federation 8 The United States Bocce Federation extends a hearty welcome to its two newest member clubs; The Albuquerque Bocce Club and The Dante Club of Fresno 3804 Camino Capistrano NE Albuquerque, NW 87111 When Trevor Levandoski was a young child in New York, bocce was a common activity played at both family and friend gatherings. It was a sport that all could play, and although it was considered a very social sport, many games became competitive. When Trevor married in 2000, he had a large yard which needed tending to. Trevor had talked with Alisa's family, especially her grandfather, about the game of bocce that was played in the coal camps when her grandfather was a young boy in Raton, NM. This seemed like a great idea to fill in the awkwardness of their "T" shaped backyard. After much thought, he and Alisa decided to build a bocce court to cover some of the space. For several months, Trevor would use his lunch hour to begin work on what would become the bocce court on Field Dr. Once the initial framework was completed, he and his brother moved 13 tons of "crusher fine" from the front of the home to the backyard to cover the court. 50+ wheelbarrow trips full of crusher fine did the trick. The bocce court was emerging as an eye-catching piece to Trevor & Alisa's yard. After several more months of clean-up and aesthetic improvements, the first bocce court was complete. To celebrate both the completion of the yard and Trevor & Ken's birthday, the first Bocce Birthday Bash was held in July of 2001. It was a small event, with just a few close friends and family. This small event did not last long. People continued to talk about the game of bocce and inquire as to when the next party would be. A few more small bocce events seemed to hold people off, however, each event brought in 10-20 more people with requests for monthly and even weekly events. The Lion Over the years, the lion has emerged as the symbol of the Albuquerque Bocce Club. The lion is a strong, brave creature. A "leader" of the pack. Additionally, the surname Levandoski is a Russian given name Leonid, which was originally derived from the Greek Leonides, from the byname LEO (LION). All Rights Reserved - Copyright 2016 - United States Bocce Federation 9 The buzz seemed to courts were ready for The Crest subside when Trevor & Alisa play. Each court holds a sold the house on Field unique characteristic. The Drive and moved to a bigger "Main Court" is where the home. This did not last final round is held, as it allong! Trevor's father, brothlows for adequate lighting er and good friend Mike delate into the night. "Diablo" cided it was time to build a The top left symbol represents the city of Albuquerque earned its name from the bocce court, and the land- and the hot summers when bocce is played. The bottom numerous anthills that sureagle is the “Polish Eagle,” which represents the scaping of the new backyard left Levandoski family name. On the right, the Monk repre- round it. "Muscle Beach" began! A traditional court sents the club members; the sword represents the com- earned its name from the was to be built, with 12' x 60' petitive nature of the sport and spirits represent the deep amount of crusher fine social aspects of the club. dimensions and a clay/ which forces the player to oyster shell surface. Following the first tournament "muscle up" in order to complete a good at the new location in 2003, the Albuquerque Bocce throw. Each summer, 130+ people attend this Club grew ten-fold. Players wanted to become event, with 64 competing in the tournament. Trevor members, friends wanted to invite more friends and & Alisa serve a traditional Italian meal at each toureveryone wanted to come and just watch if there nament. Bocce, food and drink make for a wonderwas no room to play. With this, it was decided that ful summer event, so.... Unisciti a noi e aggiungere alla nostra storia (come join us and add to our hisadditional courts needed to be installed. After much clean-up and labor, 3 additional tory)! All Rights Reserved - Copyright 2016 - United States Bocce Federation 10 All Rights Reserved - Copyright 2016 - United States Bocce Federation 11 Welcome to the USBF as a new Member Club 6176 Grantland Ave. Fresno, CA 93723 The Dante Club was established in 1932 and is operated today as a private social club to preserve and foster Italian-American heritage. It is an expressive private social organization that accomplishes its purposes through private membership and through social, educational, civic and charitable activities. Our membership consists of over 150 members who are a male descendant of an Italian father and a citizen of the United States. The Dante Club members meet once a week throughout the year with the exception of holidays at our current facility that was built in 1995 and sits on six acres in northwest Fresno. The other days of the year our facility is rented out to the public for weddings, parties, business meetings and social events and can accommodate seating of over 300 people with a full kitchen and bar on site. Our Club is popular for our social events held throughout the year where members and guests enjoy our great dinner events like our “BBQ turkey, Chicken Cacciatore and Polenta”, “Linguini & Clams with Cracked Crab” and “Famous Braciole” all chaired by our membership. Our members meet once a week to eat, socialize and “Play Bocce”! It has become our main draw for our membership. Our previous facility included one bocce court in the back surrounded by olive trees and members would enjoy a favorite beverage, cigar or ante-pasta plates socializing and playing bocce. When our new facility was built in 1995 we included an area to house the John Oberti Bocce ball “courts”, four of them which were named after an original member who loved the game of Bocce. At that time the Dante Club John Oberti Bocce Ball League was established, and now there are 16 Dante Club teams consisting of five members per team that play from May to November. Teams battle each other in regular season play to qualify for the eight team double elimination playoff tournament to win the Dante Club John Oberti Championship. The members still enjoy the eating, drinking and socializing but it has become a very serious Club activity. All Rights Reserved - Copyright 2016 - United States Bocce Federation 12 Every year since 1996 the Dante Club has sponsored the Special Olympics Bocce Ball games. The event has grown to over two hundred students from the special education department of the Fresno Unified School District. The event is held over a two day tournament. From here the students go on to play in the State games up in Sacramento. This event is a very popular event and draws praise from the district, teachers and students. “We take a lot of pride in putting these games on for the students” says chairman and Dante Club member Ron Sidoli. In order to make this happen, the Dante Club members decided to remodel our four Bocce courts from sixty feet to regulation ninety feet and include pergolas on each end. We also have the room to increase our number of courts in the future if needed. “This is something we have discussed for many years” says co-chairman of the Dante Club John Oberti Bocce League Anthony Donato. “We have a vision to attract new club members, host an open bocce tournament , an Italian Festival and make the game of Bocce a very popular event here in the Central Valley!” The Club would like to host a one day tournament in the next three years and have it an annual event. “We want to show people that play bocce that we have a great facility to hold an event and beautiful Bocce courts to play on, but to do this we need to offer a nice purse for the winners”, says Donato. Top picture: Maria Sanchez, 16, from Sunnyside High rolls her ball. Above: Tony Sinongxa, 21, raises his arms after a good roll. Over the last several years some members from the Dante Club have played in out of town tournaments like the Monterey Bocce tournament which sparked an interest to someday host a tournament on our own Bocce courts providing Italian food for participants and a money prize to attract teams from out of the area to come and play on our Dante Club courts. All Rights Reserved - Copyright 2016 - United States Bocce Federation 13 The Dante Club members enjoy playing Bocce each week after dinner and it has become a very popular activity at the Club. The new courts are made up of a bocce mix of oyster shell & powder and sand over a compacted base. It is a very fast surface. The members put together a team consisting of their own family, good friends or level of play and battle each other each week in our league play or just pickup games after dinner. Some take it very serious, some come out for fun and some just enjoy the great Italian heritage of bocce. It’s a Club activity where every age can participate and enjoy each other’s company. We hope to see teams of the USBF come to the Dante Club of Fresno and enjoy a great game of bocce! Anthony Donato Dante Club Secretary All Rights Reserved - Copyright 2016 - United States Bocce Federation 14 Western Sector The Real Beauty of the Nationals By Dario Bernardi Western Sector President Ciao TuttiIt’s amazing…. The Nationals are just about here. I cannot believe it. What a great event. This is a chance to see people from all over the U.S. and play some great bocce. The event is being held at Campo di Bocce Livermore this year and as I have mentioned before, this is a great time of year to be in the Bay Area. Also, the event dates were pushed back this year to try and run into th 4th of July Holiday, so this is truly a great opportunity to plan a vacation in beautiful California. One of the best parts of this event is that there is bocce for EVERYONE!!!! And I mean everyone. From the open-money tournament to the raffa championship. There is open ‘A’, and open ‘B’ as well. I am truly hopeful that the Western Sector will have teams from all over representing us. Of course there will be great food and drinks available, so please feel free to come by and support bocce too!. Remember, at this time of year there are plenty of things to do around this area as well. The Alameda County Fair will be in town during the event. It is literally 10 minutes from CdB. We are also in the middle of the beautiful Livermore wine country. Great restaurants and wine tastings all over the place. We also have the San Francisco Giants in action as well as the Oakland A’s playing. There is also minor league baseball. All of these events are with-in an hour of Cdb. If you really want to experience and beautiful ride to the mountains, beautiful Lake Tahoe is a short 3 hour car ride as well. The Santa Cruz beach is also about an hour away. Sooooooo, there is something for everyone!! But again, I think the real beauty of this tournament is seeing the people that you only get to see once a year. I am looking forward to that. Happy rolling Dario Midwestern Sector Gregory Della Croce Midwestern Sector President No Sector Report submitted Eastern Sector Guy De Santis Eastern Sector President No Sector Report submitted All Rights Reserved - Copyright 2016 - United States Bocce Federation 15 USBF Treasurer ON THE RIGHT TRACK By Cynthia Rivera Treasurer and Membership Officer In the meantime, I’d like to thank the following clubs who have already taken care of their 2016 Club Membership: 4S Bocce Club in San Diego, California Albuquerque Bocce Club in Albuquerque, New Mexico It looks like we’re on track to having more member clubs this year than we’ve had in the past several years. Or maybe not. Three new clubs have joined us; all three in March. The Albuquerque Bocce Club in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the Dante Club in Fresno, California and the Toccolana Bocce Club in Rome, New York. Although we are happy to see these clubs join, we are woefully short of reaching the number of member clubs we had last year. And the year is already one third over. I have been told that many of the clubs, particularly in the Eastern, Midwestern sectors and the Northwest area of the Western Sector don’t really get started with their bocce season until late Spring or Summer due to the weather, and the fact that they have outdoor courts. This can be a perfectly good reason for not renewing their club membership yet, but there are a number of clubs yet to renew who have indoor courts and have already started league play and have had tournaments. We all know the USBF fiscal year begins on January 1st. Here’s a little suggestion from me that all clubs might consider: take care of the business of USBF club membership early so you can concentrate on playing bocce. Then when your season is in full throttle, you can sign up new members and renew members from last year with your eye on the prize: that incentive check that will come in November. American Sons of Columbus in Kansas City, Missouri Dante Bocce Club in Fresno, California East Portal Bocce Club in Sacramento, California Elkhorn Bocce Club in Stockton, California Italian American Citizens Club in South San Francisco, California Idaho Bocce Club in Boise, Idaho Italian Athletic Club in Stockton, California Italian Athletic Club Ladies Auxiliary in Stockton, California Italian Benevolent Society In Sutter Creek, California Mount Vernon Bocce Club in Mount Vernon, New York Paesano Bocce Club in Gresham Oregon Portland Bocce League in Portland, Oregon Scotts Valley Bocce Club in Scotts Valley, California Toccolana Bocce Blub In Rome, NY Waterloo Gun and Bocce Club in Stockton, California Woodland Park Bocce Club in Seattle, Washington All Rights Reserved - Copyright 2016 - United States Bocce Federation 16 To print the application, click “print” on the menu bar. Remember to select “current page” to avoid printing the entire newsletter. UNITED STATES BOCCE FEDERATION MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION - PLEASE PRINT LEGIBLY Name:________________________________________________________ ______________ Spouse (if Family Membership): ________________________________________ USBF Card # Issued Address:______________________________________________________ ______________ City:_____________________________ State:______ Zip Code:________ USBF Card # Issued Email Address:________________________________________ Phone #__________________ Email Address (Spouse) :_________________________________ Phone #: _________________ USBF Bocce Club Affiliation (if applicable) :_______________________________________________ Individual Membership………………...$15 Bocce Club Membership ……………………….……$ 75 Family Membership………………$25 Senior Citizen Club, School or Community Club ....$ 50 New Member (first year) or Under 21...$5 Please make check payable to USBF and send with this completed application to: USBF c/o Cynthia Rivera, Treasurer P.O. Box 22005 Carmel, Ca. 93922-0005 Commercial Membership ……………………….….$ 250 Contact Name___________________________________ Phone _________________________________________ Email __________________________________________ All Rights Reserved - Copyright 2016 - United States Bocce Federation 17 The Three USBF Sectors Western Sector Alaska Arizona California Colorado Hawaii Idaho Montana Oregon Nevada New Mexico Utah Washington Wyoming Midwestern Sector Alabama Arkansas Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Nebraska North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma South Dakota Tennessee Texas Wisconsin All Rights Reserved - Copyright 2016 - United States Bocce Federation Eastern Sector Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Georgia Maine Maryland Massachusetts New Hampshire New Jersey New York North Carolina Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina Vermont Virginia West Virginia 18 United States Bocce Federation - Directory of Officers President Jerry South San Rafael, CA WESTERN SECTOR President Dario Bernardi Pleasenton, CA Vice President Margaret Shindelus Livermore, CA Secretary Ursula Hansen Stockton, CA Treasurer Cynthia Rivera Carmel, CA Western Sector Representative Larry Cereghino Milwaukie, OR Populous Directors Vern Cooper Sacramento, CA Vice President Lio Giannotti Chicago, IL Secretary Colleen Randazzo Martinez, CA MIDWESTERN SECTOR Treasurer Cynthia Rivera Carmel, Ca. EASTERN SECTOR President Gregory Della Croce St’ Louis, MO President Guy De Santis Yonkers, NY Vice President Jason Wisniewski Detroit, MI Vice President Gabriel Quattrocchi Baldwinsville, NY Midwestern Sector Representative John Liberto Kansas City, MO Sector Representative Ralph Bagarella Salem, NH Populous Directors Populous Director Mike Grasser Sylvan Lake, MI Joe Quartarone Miami FL Jack Grandi Highwood, IL Rich Robertson Florissant, MO Laura de la Rosa Sacramento, CA Nancy Martignago Stockton, CA Ben Musolf Los Gatos, CA Frank Rivera Carmel, CA All Rights Reserved - Copyright 2016 - United States Bocce Federation