NASO Board member Rich Fetchiet will be a panelist for the 31st annual Sports Officiating Summit. Fetchiet will participate in the session “It’s All About the Assignments,” which will feature the most complete and authoritative study about officiating assignments ever compiled. Fetchiet says, “I am honored and excited about being a part of this.”

Fetchiet is currently the Collegiate Baseball Umpire Alliance coordinator. He supervises seven NCAA Division I conferences (Big Ten, Big 12, Missouri Valley, Mid-American, Conference USA, Horizon, Summit); co-supervises the Big East and supervises several Division II and III conferences. Rich worked 33 years of college football, working multiple bowl games. He worked 35 years as a college baseball umpire, working two College World Series (1995, ’99) and one Division III College World Series. He also umpired the 2000 Olympic Games. He is the Director of Alumni Relations and Development in the School of Dentistry at the University of Michigan.