NAME: Gregory Pipher

 

NATIONALITY: Canadian

GENDER: Male

FUNCTION: Umpire

DATE OF BIRTH: 1973-06-05

OCCUPATION: Elementary School Teacher

LANGUAGE FOR INTERVIEW: English

PLAYING/COACHING CAREER:

- 20th season of Umpiring

- achieved International (ISF Certification) in 2005

- achieved Level V status in Canada (highest level) in 2003

- worked the ISC Men's World Championships in USA 2005

- Provincial Umpire-in-Chief for Softball Ontario, Canada

- Umpire Instructor/Evaluator for Softball Canada since 1997

 

Continued...

- this is my first World Women¡¯s Championship

- I have not officiated at the Olympics

 

NUMBER OF TIMES PARTICIPATED IN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP:

NUMBER OF GAMES UMPIRED IN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP:

NUMBER OF TIMES PARTICIPATED IN OLYMPIC GAMES:

NUMBER OF GAMES UMPIRED IN OLYMPIC GAMES:

THREE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT GAMES UMPIRED IN CAREER:

1) Gold Medal Game of last year's (2005) ISC Men's World Championship

2) Gold Medal Game Men's Canadian Championships (2003) 

3) Exhibiton Series Team Canada vs Japan (1996)

GENERAL INTEREST:

- Married to wife Lesley for the past nine years (she is a former member of the Great Britain National Softball Team and a certified Level Iv Umpire)

- have one son Brandon (6 years old) and a daughter Shaylyn (11 months old)