2009 CUMBERLAND BEAVERS Players and Coaches

# (Black)	NAME	CLASS	POSITION*
2	Beau Bergstrom	Sophomore	C
4	Ryan Behling	Sophomore	U
5	Adam Bielmeier	Freshman	P/MIF
6	Graham Severson	Junior	2B
7	Sawyer FollansbeeDelong	Junior	OF
10	Tommy Zappa	Sophomore	P/OF
11	Mike Forster	Senior	1B
11	Vaughn Waite	Freshman	P/1B
15	Sam Clark	Sophomore	P/3B
18	Graham Miller	Junior	P/OF
22	Nolan Scheps	Junior	P/SS
23	Brady Rose	Freshman	OF
24	Bryce Sebens	Sophomore	U
34	Mitchell Blaser	Junior	1B
JV	Eric Turcott	Freshman	OF
JV	Eric Nyhus	Freshman	U
JV	Tim Carlson	Freshman	P/C/U
JV	Fabian Dimmers	Junior	U
JV	Mike Harris	Freshman	3B
JV	Travis Nyhus	Freshman	MIF
JV	Jake Ritchie	Freshman	OF
JV	DJ Cifaldi	Freshman	OF

*Positions are tentative, and subject to change.

Coaching Staff

The Coaches: The difference between a “team” and a “program” is what is accomplished over time. Beaver baseball was a non-entity until Head Coach Mark Fuller took over the program in 1980. Up until that time, eight different coaches had achieved a combined record of 85-164, with only four winning seasons and one conference championship (under Jim Dimick in 1960) in 29 years. In Fuller’s 29 years at the helm, they have won 397 games while losing 192. They have won nine Heart O’ North titles, and have gone to State four times. Dozens of outstanding players have been in the program during that time, but those familiar with baseball in the Upper Midwest have no doubt that every player that has come through the program has become a better player because of the passion and dedication of Coach Fuller.

Fuller is widely known and respected nationally in baseball. A past president of the Wisconsin Baseball Coaches Association and currently on the eight-man Executive Board, Fuller organizes clinicians for the State Clinic. He picks the West Team for the All-Star Classic, and is involved with every baseball issue at the state level. He has spoken all over the United States and overseas (in Canada, Slovenia, and Croatia) and is known as one of the State’s best baseball ambassadors.

Fuller continues to be incredibly active at the local level, coaching both PeeWee and Little League summer school baseball, in addition to coaching the American Legion team in the summer. He runs hitting and pitching clinics as well, and is found at Islander Park almost all hours of the day in the summer, coaching baseball to kids of all ages. Fuller played with the Cumberland Old Timers up until last year, until a shoulder surgery derailed his career. Don’t count out a comeback! Even at the age of 58, Fuller can still play.

Assistant Coach Joe Waite has been with the program for 19 years. Waite, who was head coach at Owen-Withee High School for three years before coming to Cumberland, has worked with the Beaver defense and hitters during his tenure. He too is widely recognized in the State for his contributions to baseball at the state level. He has written and edited Baseball Wisconsin, a state preview guide for the Wisconsin Baseball Coaches Association for 17 consecutive years, and also serves on the WBCA Executive Board. He also maintains baseballwisconsin.com and writes the WBCA All-Star
Classic Program. He received the 1995 Wisconsin Baseball Man of the Year Award and has been twice named District I Assistant Coach of the Year. He was named the 2001 Assistant Coach of the Year in Wisconsin. He has also worked with the Little League and Babe Ruth programs.

Waite played town-baseball for Weyerhaueser for 18 years, and helped manage that team for two years. Two shoulder surgeries and a knee surgery have cut his ‘non-promising career’ short! Waite’s son Vaughn is a freshman in the program this year.

Assistant Coach Randy Bielmeier has worked with pitchers and the junior varsity team for the past eight years. Bielmeier, who is also the head boy’s basketball coach and assistant football coach, has also coached at the youth levels throughout his career. He received the District I Assistant Coach of the Year award in 2003 for his work with the Cumberland pitching staff. Always on the cutting edge for new techniques in strength training and conditioning, his recent work with the pitching staff has paid off with stronger pitchers that can go deeper in games.

The experience and ambassardorship of baseball has helped make the Cumberland Baseball program one that is recognized for excellence across the state.