INDIANAPOLIS - Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC) Commissioner Tom Daeger has announced Art Hill as the league's first Supervisor of Softball Umpires. Hill will assume the role for the 2012-13 season and provide the conference supervision of the league's softball umpires, including hiring, assigning, training and evaluation.

“Art brings vast experience as a Supervisor of Softball Umpires and will do an excellent job in developing the umpiring program in the G-MAC,” said Daeger. “He works with numerous NCAA conferences in this region and comes highly recommended for the position. We are lucky he has agreed to provide this service to our conference.”

Hill will add the G-MAC to an impressive stable of regional conferences he currently assigns for which includes the National Pro Fastpitch League, Big East Conference (Division I – Midwest Universities), Horizon League (Division I), Great Lakes Valley Conference (NCAA Division II), College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (Division III), Northern Athletic Conference (Division III), and Washington University (St. Louis).

Hill also assigned umpires for the Rebel Spring Games, a collegiate spring softball program in Kissimmee, Florida as the Director of Umpires. The Rebel Games are the longest running spring collegiate program in the Nation, drawing 190 or more teams playing 800+ games over the spring break period every year.

Some of his other experiences include the NCAA Division III World Series, eight NCAA post season regionals (DII & DIII), multiple DI, DII, and DIII Conference Championship Tournaments, seven World Cup Events and World University Games, three NSA World Series, and three AFA World Series.

A retired Federal Aviation Administrator for 30 years, mainly at the Chicago O’Hare International Airport, Hill is a former Police Officer (Detroit Metropolitan Area) and a former U.S. marine who served in Vietnam.