Thornton Academy Postscripts Alumni Magazine Summer 2012 | Page 8

A t h let ics

Bringing it on Home with Bill Rosario ‘97
For Bill Rosario ’97 the best thing about his job is that
he gets to go to a ballpark on a beautiful day and say
he’s at work. As Assistant to the President of the Eastern League, an affiliation of Minor League Baseball, Bill
thinks and breathes baseball - all day, every day - and
he gets to live in Portland with his wife, Annie, while he
does it.
As a competitive, three-season athlete at TA, Bill wanted
sports at the center of his life after high school. “(Since) I
knew I wanted to work in sports, I started looking at colleges and found the Sport Management major at Springfield College.” This major has drawn a number of alums,
including myself and Elizabeth Riley ’01, who works at
the Sea Dogs in Portland.
After Springfield College, Bill attended the job fair at the
Baseball Winter Meetings in Boston. A few months later,
he received a call offering him an internship
with the Eastern League, a Double-A baseball
league with an office in Portland, Maine.
“When I accepted the internship, I knew a paying position was going to open up at the end of
the season. Fortunately things went well and I
was able secure a job.” Eleven years later, Bill
still pursues his passion for athletics. Rosario creates the schedule for all 12 teams in the Eastern
League. “There is a lot to consider …the priority is to
make sure that all the teams have an equal number of
weekend dates since that is when clubs draw the most
fans. I also make sure the home dates are balanced
equally between all the months of the season. We also
have to consider travel as our league has a fairly large
geographic footprint with clubs stretched from Portland,
ME to Richmond, VA to Akron, Ohio.”
Bill also helps to oversee the Eastern League umpires
who are assigned to the league at the start of the year

Bill Rosario ’97 with his wife, Annie.

and work and travel together in three-person
crews for the entire season. Like the players
that are trying to make it to the “bigs,” umpires
must attend one of two umpire schools and work
their way up; if they perform well in the Eastern
League, they receive a promotion to Triple-A, just
one step away from a possible job in the majors.
“It is great to be able to work with an umpire and
eventually see them reach their ultimate goal of becoming a major league umpire.”
As far as Rosario moving up to the majors, he says he’s
content right where he is. “When I was attending TA, I
probably would have told you that my dream job would
have been to become the GM of the Boston Red Sox.
Looking back on it now, I can honestly say there is no
place I would rather be working than in the Eastern
League.”

- Marissa Gagnon Fortier ‘99

Julia Geaumont ‘12 Named Gatorade
Maine Softball Player of the Year
Summa Cum Laude student Julia Geaumont ‘12 was named 2011-12
Gatorade Maine Softball Player of the Year. The Gatorade Company recognized Julia for her outstanding athletic excellence, her high standards
of academic achievement, and exemplary character. “Student athletes like
Julia Geaumont are the reason we go into the coaching profession. After just
two years in our program, she was voted team captain because of her ability
to lead, her dedication to the program and her outstanding contributions
during game play and at practice,” said head softball coach John Provost.
She went 14-2 for the second-ranked Trojans with a 0.656 Earned Run Average and 136 strikeouts in 96 innings. At the plate, Geaumont batted .679
with 10 home runs, eight doubles and three triples. She drove in 35 runs.
Geaumont will be attending Bowdoin College where she will be majoring in
Biology and playing softball.
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