ELECTED: NOVEMBER 2005 INDUCTED: NOVEMBER 2006

ORLANDO, FL SCOTTSDALE, AZ

DWIGHT GEHRING FROM HUTCHINSON, KS HAS BEEN INDUCTED INTO THE USSSA HALL OF FAME IN THE UMPIRE CATEGORY.

THIRTY TWO YEARS OF UMPIRING, 21 OF THOSE WITH THE USSSA, HAVE MADE DWIGHT’S LIFE AN UMPIRES DREAM COME TRUE. HIS PARTICIPATION IN USSSA EVENTS HAS INCLUDED 53 WORLD TOURNAMENTS, 12 DIVISIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS, THE 1988 MEN’S MAJOR WORLD SERIES, THE 1989 WOMEN’S WORLD SERIES, UIC FOR THE WOMEN’S “B,” “C,” “D,” AND MEN’S “C” IN 2004, WOMEN’S “B,” “C,” AND MENS “B” IN 2003, AND UIC FOR 6 FAST PITCH WORLD SERIES.

HE SERVED AS KANSAS AREA UIC FROM 1985-2001, FUN VALLEY UIC FROM 1985 TO THE PRESENT, AND STATE UIC FROM 2001-2004. HE WAS THE CENTRAL DIVISION REPRESENTATIVE TO THE NATIONAL RULES COMMITTEE FROM 1992-1994 IN ADDITION TO ASSISTING IN NUMEROUS NATION, STATE AND LOCAL UMPIRE CLINICS. HE WAS NAMED STATE UMPIRE OF THE YEAR IN 1990, 1993,1998, AND 2000. HE RECIEVED THE DIRECTOR OF OFFICIALS AWARD IN 1999, AND WAS NAMED DIVISIONAL UMPIRE OF THE YEAR FOR THE GREATER SOUTHWEST DIVISION IN 2000.

AMONG HIS MOST MEMORABLE UMPIRING MOMENTS DWIGHT INCLUDES: A BOYS STATE TOURNAMENT WHERE A LIGHT POLE FELL ONTO THE FIELD DURING A GAME, A TOURNAMENT WITH WINDS GUSTING TO OVER 80 MPH, AND A GIRLS TOURNAMENT IN JOPLIN, MO WHERE THE LOCALS QUARTERED HIM AND 10 OTHER KANSANS IN A BAPTIST COLLEGE DORM - NO TOBACCO, NO ALCOHOL - AND THEY ALL HAD A GREAT TIME.