As a major community service project in my high school experience, I volunteered over fifty hours to umpiring little league baseball games. This organization is close to my heart as I played baseball in my youth and there was always a shortage of umpires. To help this shortage, I began umpiring at the age of nine for younger divisions. during my high school years I became very involved in umpiring higher-level little league games and all-star tournaments where umpires are very short due to the sporatic schedule.