ROBERT WAYNE RINEHARDT

 

 

ELECTED:  JANUARY 1999

                PETERSBURG, VA

 

 

 

INDUCTED:  NOVEMBER, 1999

                CHARLOTTE, NC

 

 

 

ROBERT WAYNE RINEHARDT, SERVING THE USSSA AS PLAYER, COACH, UMPIRE DIRECTOR AND EXECUTIVE, HAS BEEN SELECTED FOR INDUCTION INTO THE USSSA HALL OF FAME IN THE LONGEVITY CATEGORY.

 

THE WEST COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA NATIVE PLAYED AND COACHED USSSA BALL FOR 10 YEARS AND UMPIRED FOR 5 YEARS.  HIS DUTIES AS A LEADER IN THE ASSOCIATION BEGAN IN 1973 WHEN HIS FRIEND AND MENTOR, MR. DWIGHT HALL, APPOINTED HIM AS AN AREA DIRECTOR.  DWIGHT RECOGNIZED, EARLY ON, THE LEADERSHIP ABILITIES OF WAYNE AND IN 1980 APPOINTED HIM AS THE SOUTH CAROLINA STATE DIRECTOR.

 

WAYNE HAS SERVED ON MANY COMMITTEES IN IS USSSA CAREER INCLUDING THE NATIONAL MASTERS COMMITTEE AND THE NATIONAL GOLF COMMITTEE.  HE SERVED AS THE DIVISION VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE ATLANTIC COAST DIVISION AND UNTIL RECENTLY SERVED AT THE EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE USSSA AND AS A MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD.

 

IN 1994 AT THE NATIONAL CONVENTION IN CHANDLER, ARIZONA WAY WAS SELECTED TO RECEIVE THE NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS AWARD OF EXCELLENCE.  AT THE NATIONAL CONVENTION HELD AT ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO IN 1996 WAYNE RECEIVED THE PRESTIGIOUS NATIONAL PRESIDENT’S AWARD.  MR. RINEHARDT IS ALSO A MEMBER OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA USSSA HALL OF FAME.