Our Current vice-president, having been born in the founding year of this sport, was ordained by a higher power (his wife) to serve the ringette community.  Yielding to this power he has served many posts in the Interlake up to and including  president, was on the Magic board, currently serves as U14 AA convenor and VP of the MRA.  About the only thing he doesn't do is ref and windows.

" never leave an AGM early,.... especially if your wife stays behind!"

Ringette has been part of my life since 1980. It came to my home town a bit late for me, but I followed my younger sister and became very passionate about the game.

My youngest daughter started playing in 1998, and since then I have gone from manager, to coach, to board positions with St.James, WRL and the MRA.

Life would be very dull if I didn't have ringette in it

I first became involved in Ringette when my mom tried to find a sport in the River East area for me to play rather than hockey with all the boys in my neighbourhood.Ringette was just being introduced to our area and I was on one of the first teams.

I am currently on the River East board as the convenor of North Kildonan. I had also held the position as the  Coaching Director and Player Development on our local association and havebeen on the board  for 20+ years.

All levels from B, A, AA and a Provincial Open team. I have been fortunate to coach teams thathave been successful League, City and Provincial Champions numerous times and Silver and Bronzemedal at the Canadian Ringette Championships.

I played Ringette from the time it first started in River East area until the time that coaching my daughters' team was more rewarding. As a player I was fortunate to attend 15 Canadian Ringette Championshipsand be on 6 successful National Championship teams.

I also was an official and a Player Development Instructor while I played Ringette and was the Technical Director for the Manitoba Ringette Association.

As the Director of Coaching I would like to provide more information and support for our coaches in Manitobato help them be (and become) the best coach for all our players. It is important to give them the resources to achieve their goals as a coach. The MRA will look into; hosting a coaching seminar; once againhost the 'coach the coach program'; provide a program and format for coaches to share ideas and informationand also other intiatives that will be posted on the 'new' website. 

Roman has been involved in Ringette for the past seven years.  He has three daughters playing Ringette at various levels.  He currently holds positions on the Selkirk Ringette Board (Treasurer), Interlake Ringette Association (Publicity), Magic AA (Past-Chair) and Manitoba Ringette Association (Publicity).  He has also dabbled in coaching and enjoys that aspect of his volunteer time the most, interacting with the players themselves.  

Romans Goals for the 2012/13 year include rolling out an electronic Newsletter, develop brochures on all MRA programs, expand the MRA website and provide technical support to his fellow Board Members to help them roll out their intiatives.  His primary Goal is to promote Ringette and help it grow in the Province.