Millbury resident and Press contributing writer Deb Wallace has been named Co-Woman of the Year by the National Amateur Baseball Federation.

Wallace has donated her time during six of the last seven NABF College World Series held in the Toledo area. She has been involved in marketing, public relations, and sports information. The first year she was involved, the now-defunct Erie Shores Collegiate League was the host and the last four years Toledo Amateur Baseball Federation has been the host. The City of Toledo will exercise an option to hold the CWS here again in August 2012.

“I am honored that the NABF College World Series tournament staff nominated me for the award in recognition of the help I have given during five different tournaments,” Wallace said.

After graduating from Lake, Wallace went on to major in sports administration at Miami University in Oxford. She is currently employed as a detail artist at The Lighthouse Facotry, which is located in Luna Pier, Michigan. There, she helps build and paint model lighthouses of all sizes.

“In my free time I enjoy going to baseball, hockey, football and basketball games; reading; going to the art museum and theater events with friends; and volunteering at the Wood County History Museum,” Wallace said.

She has also active in the Genoa Civic Theater for the last six years and been a member of the Board of Trustees for the last four years. She was recently recognized by the Ohio Community Theater Association for Excellence in Set Design for my work on the set for our spring 2011 production of 'Arsenic and Old Lace'.

She is the former public relations director for the Toledo Spitfire women’s professional football team, a broadcast and communications intern with the Toledo Storm hockey club, groundskeeper at the Toledo Zoo, and marketing administrative assistant for YWCA of Greater Toledo, and a student aid for the Miami University Athletic Media Relations Department.

The NABF was established at an organizational meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1914, and is the oldest continually operated national baseball organization in the country.

The NABF is a nonprofit organization run by a number of Officers and Directors from all parts of the United States. These volunteers help keep the organization running smoothly, as regional and national championship tournaments are held coast to coast.

NABF hosts over 50 regional tournaments, plus eight national championship tournaments, throughout the year. It is the only organization to consistently provide a national, wood bat World Series every year for summer college baseball teams, having done so since 1984.

In August, the College World Series was won by the Utica Brewers of New York, who play in a league partially funded by Major League Baseball and USA Baseball. They defeated the Crystal Lake Cardinals, 10-1, in a locally televised game at Fifth Third Field. Pool play, semifinal, and quarterfinal games were also played at the old Toledo Mud Hens ballpark, Ned Skeldon Stadium, in Maumee.

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