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Jeff Strohm (Vermont Frost Heaves Head Coach)

During a college-coaching career that began in 1989, Strohm, 42, has served as an assistant at Northern Illinois, Utah, Marquette and Western Kentucky, reaching NCAA Final Fours with both the Utes and the Warriors. He was one of the finalists in the University of Vermont’s 2003 search for a coach to replace Tom Brennan. “Jeff has a track record in all the areas that Frost Heaves basketball has become known for, from the recruitment of young men who are winners on and off the court, to the development of their potential once they sign on,” said team founder Alexander Wolff. “He’s helped to recruit and bring along five NBA first-round picks and, in Dwayne Wade, an MVP and Olympic gold medalist. He has fresh connections throughout the basketball world as well as a passion for teaching the game. From his associations with people like [former Utah coach and U.S. national team assistant] Rick Majerus, Frost Heaves fans can expect him to adapt quickly to the pro game. “More than that, Jeff understands how basketball and the Frost Heaves fit into the Green Mountain State,” added Wolff, who last month ceded management of the team to an investment group based in Central Vermont. “He grew up on a farm in Illinois, and as a Vermonter by marriage knows how important it is to ensure that the team continues to be part of life in Vermont during the winter.” Strohm is married to former Oxbow (Vt.) High School and Vanderbilt standout Jade Huntington, herself a former head coach at Colorado State. She played in four Vermont state title games at the Barre Auditorium, winning three. On accepting the Head Coach position, Strohm states, “My family and I are humbled and honored to be selected to serve the wonderful people of Vermont as The New Head Coach of The Vermont Frost Heaves. It is with tremendous enthusiasm, energy and excitement we accept this position. Vermont Basketball has produced so many great lasting memories over the years for my wife, her family and the great basketball fans in Vermont. We look forward to helping create many more of these memories in the years ahead for Vermont and its great Frost Heave fans”. Strohm, who holds a B.S. and M.S. in Education from Eastern Illinois, has organized, directed or participated in more than 100 basketball camps and will oversee the Frost Heaves’ Have-A-Ball Kids Camps and Basketball Academy. Strohm lives in Bradford, Vt., with his wife Jade and their daughters Sydney, Jordin and Rylee.

Joe Castiglione (Radio voice of the Boston Red Sox)

Castiglione joined the Red Sox broadcast team in 1983, teamed with Ken Coleman. He admitted not being in the booth when the ball rolled through Bill Buckner's legs in the 1986 World Series, as he was in the clubhouse covering Red Sox' seemingly-impending victory celebration. After Coleman's retirement in 1989, Bob Starr became the lead announcer for the Red Sox. After Starr's departure at the end of the 1991 season, Castiglione became the team's lead radio announcer along with Jerry Trupiano. Castiglione became nationally known when the team won the 2004 World Series, with his broadcast of the end of the game. During the 2007 season he shared announcing duties with a rotating duo of Dave O'Brien and Glenn Geffner. With Glenn Geffner leaving for the Florida Marlins broadcast booth, Castiglione shared the booth with Dave O'Brien, Dale Arnold or Jon Rish in 2008. Dave O'Brien and Jon Rish are his partners for 2009.

Castiglione claims to have been a New York Yankees fan as a kid. He said in his autobiography that he then closely followed the Pittsburgh Pirates because they were the closest to Youngstown, and likewise became an Indians fan after moving to Cleveland.

Castiglione is currently a Lecturer in the department of Communication Studies at Northeastern University, where he teaches a course on Sports Broadcasting. Current Red Sox play-by-play announcers Don Orsillo and Uri Berenguer were among his students and broadcast booth interns. He has also taught at Franklin Pierce University in New Hampshire.

In 2004, Castiglione published a book called Broadcast Rites and Sites: I Saw It on the Radio with the Boston Red Sox. The book is a collection of stories from his days covering the Cleveland Indians and Boston Red Sox. It was updated in 2006 to include material on the 2004 World Series.

(courtesy of Wikipedia)

Micki Sander (www.snowballexpress.org)

Micki Sander - Chairman of the Board
Business Development Chair
Micki Sander is married to Robert Sander, her life and business partner she is an avid golfer, who now teaches her grandchildren about the game of golf.

Attended the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida and Berkeley College in New York.

She has been a free lance writer with articles in the New York Times, of Westchester Magazine, Travel Navigator, Florida Golf, Avid Golfer Magazine and past Travel Editor of both Avid Golfer and Women’s Golf Magazine, Texas. Former producer of The Golfspot Radio Show. Member of the Golf Travel Writer’s Association. Women’s Editor of the PGA Magazine Fore Texas.

Past Community affiliations include the Dallas Arboretum Board of Directors, Trinity River Commission, Cable Board of Dallas, North Dallas Chamber Board of Directors, Chairman of the Turtle Creek Parknership, and a member of Board of Directors of the Caribbean Tourism Organization.

Received The City of Dallas Proclamation for creating ArtPicks, first major art festival in Dallas, voted Woman of the Year for AMC Cancer Research Center and Hospital’s National Council of Auxiliaries in 1979, received the Crystal Award from Cable Access of Dallas in 1987 and 1988 and co-chaired the first annual Dallas Blooms at the Arboretum.

Presently sits on the Board of Executive Women Golf Association, Dallas Chapter, 2008 President of SKAL (an international organization of the Hospitality Industry), immediate past President of the Four Seasons Sports Club Women’s Golf Association.

She is President of The Golfspot, a golf travel company owned and operated by Bob and Micki Sander.

Rebekah Splaine (Boston Celtics' Community Relations Director)

NO, I am NOT stranded in Africa. Although ...

Couldn't we all use $2,800.00?

Thanks all for your understanding.

The now infamous email.

Season's Greetings to you once again! How are you doing today? I am sorry I didn't inform you about my traveling to Africa/Nigeria for a Music Events It as been a very sad and bad moment for me because I misplaced my wallet on my way to the hotel where i lodged along with my mobile phone, bag where my passport was and since then i have been without any money. I am even owing the hotel here. So i have limited access to emails for now, I will like you to assist me with a soft loan urgently. I'm in a panic now, The total sum of money that is needed would be $2,800 to sort-out my bills at the hotel and get myself back home. I will appreciate whatever you can afford, I promise to reimburse you back as soon as i return, Let me know if you can assist me so that i can send you the details to use when sending the money through western union. I'll really appreciate your concern and support. Sorry for all the inconvenience caused. Please contact to let me know any possibilities.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Best Regards.


Jeff Fuller

Security Breach

Somehow someone hacked into my Yahoo! email account. I MORE than apologize to all of you who received an absolutely bogus email stating I was stranded in Africa requiring funds. (Feel free to send funds, just to me in Vermont not Africa.)

Please accept my sincerest apologies as that act was unprofessional in every way. I will do all that I can to secure your privacy.

Thank you again for your patience and understanding.