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Joe Butler
USSSA San Diego
Director
Joe a San Diego native, organized the first youth travel baseball world series under BPA in 2006 and was the San Diego Director for USTBA, USTSA, and XDS from
Joe served on the Sweetwater Little League Board for 19 years from 1994 - 2013 and served on the design and planning committee for the present Sweetwater Baseball Complex. Before Joe's career in tournament promoting and organizing Joe worked with Chevron USA Inc., then later spent twelve years as an insurance broker.
In 2008, Joe became the founder and CEO of the West Coast Umpires Association, which was formed to develop tournament umpires. Joe has attended eight JIm Evans professional umpire clinics and actively coordinates an annual professional umpire clinic in San Diego.
Joe has served on San Diego County's Baseball Umpire Association's board for six years and umpires high school and college baseball. He has also been involved with youth baseball and girls' fastpitch tournaments for over nineteen years and has promoted and organized seventeen World Series events in San Diego. This year will be the 18th World Series he has planned and organized.
Jim Tuyay
USSSA San Diego
Director
Jim was born and raised in San Diego. A graduate from Morse High, he entered the Navy and served in the Submarine Forces, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. After his Honorable Discharge, he attended the University of Hawaii graduating class of 1976 and soon after became a research analyst in the Senate and House of Representatives for Hawaii's State Legislature. He returned to San Diego with his wife Marilyn to raise a family.
In San Diego, Jim began his career in private banking with several major banks specializing in trusts and estates, simultaneously being the San Diego Director for USSSA (United States Slo Pitch Softball Association). After leaving the bank business 10 years later, he joined Sportsplex USA as Vice President/Manager where he currently holds the position at the Santee branch, overseeing the operations of league and tournament events for the company.
Jim has over 25 years of experience hosting baseball, softball, and beach volleyball tournaments and leagues. Presently he is also the San Diego director for the California Beach Volleyball Association. His two children Kimo and Pua were San Diego high school Players of the Year for volleyball, and went on to continue their successful collegiate careers at the University of Hawaii and Rutgers University respectively.
He spends his free time traveling to Hawaii four times a year to visit his two young grandchildren and play golf twice a week. He is currently "Living the Life".
