ELECTED: NOVEMBER 2006 INDUCTED: NOVEMBER 2007

SCOTTSDALE, AZ DAYTONA BEACH, FL

JOHN USIE FROM BREAUX BRIDGE, LA HAS BEEN INDUCTED INTO THE USSSA HALL OF FAME IN THE UMPIRE CATEGORY.

JOHN PLAYED FOR MURPHY TAUZIN IN THE FIRST USSSA TOURNAMENT HELD IN NEW BERLIN, WI IN 1968, BUT IT WAS AS AN UMPIRE THAT JOHN WOULD MAKE HIS MARK ON THE ASSOCIATION. HE HAS SPENT 42 YEARS UMPIRING, 39 OF THOSE WITH THE USSSA.

HE HAS ATTENDED NATIONAL UMPIRE CLINICS IN 1985 AT PELICAN PARK, 1987 IN AUSTIN, TX, 1988 IN BATON ROUGE, 1997 & 2001 IN LAFAYETTE. HE UMPIRES IN SEVERAL STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS EVERY YEAR. IN 1984 HE WAS VOTED UMPIRE OF THE YEAR IN LAFAYETTE, AND IN 1986 HE WAS VOTED UMPIRE OF THE YEAR FOR THE ENTIRE STATE OF LOUISIANA.

IN 2000 HE WAS INDUCTED INTO THE LOUISIANA STATE USSSA HALL OF FAME.

HE UMPIRED IN THE 1981 CHURCH WORLD TOURNAMENT IN PINE BLUFF, AR, 1985 MEN’S CLASS “A” AT PELICAN PARK, LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA, 1985 MEN’S MAJOR WORLD SERIES IN GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA; AND IN 1986 HE UMPIRED IN THE PEE WEE WORLD AT PELICAN PARK, THE MEN’S CLASS “B” WORLD IN FORT WORTH, THE MENS CLASS “C” IN AUSTIN, AND THE CORPORATE IN BAYTOWN, TEXAS.

JOHN SAYS HIS ULTIMATE UMPIRE EXPERIENCE WAS “CALLING THE DISH” FOR THE FINAL GAME AT THE 1985 WORLD SERIES IN GREENSBORO.