Responsibilities: Continental Disc Golf Development

Committee member: 2020-present

Current term ends: 2022

Craig has been a player, provincial and national administrator, tournament director, and promoter for the sport of disc golf since 2000. He has help both national and provincial masters titles, been captain of Team Canada and his home team, Mundy Park Disc Golf Club, he still players often and competes in MP50 for the most part. Disc golf keeps him busy as the Chair of the Canadian Disc Golf Association, member of the WFDF Disc Golf committee, the PDGA Seniors Committee, and the Tournament Director for the British Colombia Open. In the past he was the President and board member of the British Colombia Disc Sport Society for many years. Currently he is most interested in pursuing activities that advance the international game, extend the reach of disc golf globally, and athlete evaluation and development. Most recently Craig retired from his executive role at YMCA BC after 33 years of leadership in the not for profit sector. He plans on travelling the world, playing disc golf, and helping advance the sport where he can.

Responsibilities: WFDF World Championship Events

Committee member: 2017-present

My name is Bernd Wender, I live and work for an international IT company in Vienna, Austria. My first contact with disc sports dates back to 1985 when I was a student. I joined the Viennese Ultimate team "Scheibenkleister". In the beginning of the Nineties I played the European Ultimate Championships in Colchester. There I bought my first golf disc, a Cobra, from Charlie Mead, just to lose it in the middle of a big tree on the first day. But the disc golf virus has caught me. We played a lot in Vienna and the surroundings and began to travel to disc golf tournaments. Weilheim and Munich were great places to play these times, but there was not so much activity in Austria, so I lost touch. After these years of stagnation the Austrian disc golf scene came back to life again in the beginning of the new Millennium. I rejoined and started to play tournaments on a regular basis. In 2005 I went to the EC in Finland. From that time I played every EC, acting as the captain of team Austria. In 2008, Brian Hoeninger asked me if Austria wants to become a PDGA affiliated country. We agreed, and he asked me to be-come PDGA country coordinator. In this role I was member of the joint PDGA / WFDF committee that was established to plan for the first disc golf team championship. I am also member of the EC advisory committee that reports to the European disc golf asso-ciation. On National level, we founded the Austrian Disc Golf Association in 2010 which is affiliated to the Austrian Frisbee Association (WFDF member). My role in the association's board is International Coordinator. Furthermore, we are a founding member of the European Disc Golf Association. As a player, I am still active on National and International level in the grandmaster division where I could win two Eurotour events, the 2015 Konopiste Open and last year's Strudengau Open. I look forward to my new role in the WFDF disc golf committee where I will work together with Charlie on developing team events on regional, National and International level.

Responsibilities: Spirit of the Game

Committee member: 2019-present

2010-2017 - Ultimate and beach ultimate player and coach (2015/2016) 2013-present - treasurer and board member for APUDD (Portuguese Flying Disc Association) 2013-present - volunteer/staff at many world and continental ultimate and beach ulti-mate championships (ECBU 2013, WUCC 2014 and 2018, WJUC 2014 and 2018, WCBU 2015 and 2017, WUGC 2016, EBUC 2019, etc) 2014-2017 - TD for all the Portuguese Ultimate and Beach Ultimate National competitions 2015-2018 - member of WFDF's Beach Ultimate Committee 2016-present - Disc Golf regular player 2017-present - PDGA active member 2017-present - chair of APUDD's Disc Golf Committee and TD for all Portuguese DG national competitions 2017 - staff/volunteer at WTDGC 2018 - PDGA certified official 2018 - represented Portugal at EDGC

Responsibilities: Sustainability and Equality

Committee member: 2017-present

I’m honoured and excited to be part of the WFDF Disc Golf Committee. I've been involved in disc golf since starting a Frisbee club at my community college in 1982, which prompted a road trip to the Huntington Beach course. Since then, I've been intensely dedicated to one or two roles at a time: competitor, tournament director, event producer, or course design-er -- save a long middle period where I only played occasional casual rounds. My resume includes: • Competitor: 8 PDGA MPO titles (1985-1990); 38th place PDGA Worlds MPO (1990) ; 2nd place WFDF Open (1991). • TD / Event Producer: 1988 WFDF Overall; 1991-1993 NorCal Disc Golf Series; 2016 St. Jude Disc Golf Charity Invitational; many demonstrations and clinics. • Course Designer / Co-Designer: ~20 temporary layouts (1985-2017); 7 permanent courses installed (2007-2016); 5 permanent courses under development (2017). Field Events/Other: US Open Accuracy title •1986); US Open Discathon title (1987-1990); top 10 US Open Overall (3-4 times 1984-1990); California State DDC title (1991); 24-Hour Pair Record (1986, 1988). • Organizations: PDGA Member #3974, PDGA Certified Official, Disc Golf Designers Group, founder and/or member of many local disc golf clubs. Presently, I'm fascinated by the arc of the sport's development. I’m wondering how WFDF might have long-term impact in these areas -- in order of my current interest: • Course design quality, safety, and standards • Cultural and economic evolution of free disc golf vs commercial disc golf • Golf disc technical standards • Equality and diversity • Successful international (nation-vs-nation) competitions • Developing technical bids -- did I hear someone say “Olympics"?! • Target technical standards I live in Hayward, California with my wonderful and generous wife and 9-year-old daughter, who support/tolerate my disc sports passion. Professionally, I'm a technical project manager for inter-net and software companies.

Responsibilities: Women in Sport and Equality

Committee member: 2018-present

I am an experienced promoter with a demonstrated history working in community outreach, re-cruitment, and event planning. I have 20 years working in program development and implementa-tion through Americorps, Parks and Recreation, and disc golf companies, clubs, and organizations. I received a BA in Psychology from the University of South Carolina in 1999 and worked as a rec-reational counselor for children in youth homes and shelters following graduation. I started running disc golf charity events and women and youth clinics in 2010. In 2013, I combined my two passions (supporting women’s health charities and encouraging more women and girls to play disc golf) and founded Throw Pink. Throw Pink has raised over $50,000 through community outreach, merchandise sales, and events spanning two countries and 15 states. Since our first Throw Pink event in April of 2014, we have made connections for disc golf promotion and sup-port with 21 non-profits centered around women’s health initiatives. I’ve been running women’s competitive disc golf events since 2011. During my tenor with the PDGA, I assisted with 20 events annually including two world championship events. I worked for the Professional Disc Golf Association as Memberships Manager from 2011-2015, then as a program consultant from 2015-2017. During my time with the PDGA, I helped revamp the women’s committee, start the Women’s Global Event, the largest PDGA event for a single demographic in history, and increase female participation in organized disc golf events. In 2016, I assisted in landing disc golf on the National Day Calendar. There is now an official National Disc Golf Day every year. Along with continuing the development of the Throw Pink program, I currently work for Innova Disc Golf in the Sales and Customer service department helping to grow the game through course development and promoter growth and outreach. I started playing disc golf competitively in 2008. I have 38 career wins including an Amateur United States Women's Championship title in 2012. I reside in Rock Hill, SC and have two cats appropriately named Parker and Birdie (Park the disc to get your birdie).

Responsibilities: Women in Sport and Inclusion

Committee member: 2019-present

Sue Summers is a flying disc sport enthusiast and keen disc golfer. She started playing disc golf in 2015 after four years playing ultimate, which had rekindled her love of playing sports after a long break. Sue represented Australia in ultimate at the World Ultimate Club Championships in 2014, and in disc golf at the World Team Disc Golf Championships in 2019 and 2022. Sue’s primary areas of focus on the Disc Golf Committee are gender equity and inclusion. An active member of the disc golf community in her hometown of Perth, Western Australia, Sue has been on committees for FEAR ultimate club, Perth Disc Golf Club and Australian Disc Golf, and is currently on the Mundaring Disc Golf Club committee. Sue began running disc golf tournaments in 2021, starting with a local edition of the PDGA Women's Global Event. Her 2021 single-gender event attracted the most female players to date at an Australian disc golf tournament (37 women and girls) and kicked off a popular local social women's group. Sue and her husband Ken are tournament directors for the 2024 World Team Disc Golf Championships at Mundaring, Perth, Western Australia. Sue attained a bachelor’s degree in Sound from Murdoch University, and runs her own business in music services.

A few years after graduating with my B.Ed. in Brisbane, Australia, I moved to Shanghai, China, in January 2002 to work as a teacher. I have been resident in China since then and got married here in 2015. I am fairly comfortable in speaking, listening, reading, and typing in Mandarin Chinese to a competent conversational, but not highly technical, level. I’ve played many sports in my life, notably soccer, cross country running, track and field, tennis, and mountain biking. In about 2008-2009, I and some others (in Hangzhou city) started organising some casual Ultimate sessions. I’d seen the sport in Australia as I cycled through Queensland University, but I had never tried it before. I soon fell in love with it and it became my main sport for the next 8-9 years. When I moved to Qingdao city in 2016, I also helped to set-up a new Ultimate club there. Unfortunately, starting a new high intensity sport at about 40 years old, when almost everyone else was 20-something, eventually led to all too frequent torn muscles and finally a knee injury. As chance would have it, right when I got injured in December 2016 was when organised disc golf was just beginning in mainland China with both Yikun disc sports and XCOM disc sports holding micro “tournaments” (more like come and try disc golf events) in 2017. I’d already been throwing some disc golf discs for 3 or 4 years during my once-a-year summer holiday trips back to Australia and in 2017 I switched my main sport from Ultimate to Disc Golf. In 2017 I moved to Suzhou city and started the Suzhou Disc Golf Club with a temporary pop-up practice course which became a bit of an incubator for quite a few future Chinese disc golf players and club and event organisers. I also began to travel to play in disc golf events and increase my disc golf tournament and course design knowledge in other countries and regions including Australia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan at many PDGA sanctioned C-Tier tournaments, some B-Tiers, and a couple of A-Tiers. In 2018 the first ever PDGA sanctioned tournaments were held in mainland China. I also started to organise my own tournaments as TD and over the years I also became the TD for several other tournaments organised by Chinese players/organisers. I have always tried to involve the Chinese players and venue hosts in the tournament organisation process so that the local disc golf community here develop more knowledge of the processes and standards required to be followed in running PDGA sanctioned tournaments. I’m especially proud to have been the organiser and TD for mainland China’s first ever Women’s Global Event (WGE) tournament in 2021 which, I think, in spite of Covid restrictions, remains the largest PDGA sanctioned tournament held in China so far with 53 players. I also organised and was TD for the 2022 WGE in China. I’m very much looking forward to doing all I can to help WFDF ensure that the Disc Golf events at the 2025 World Games in Chengdu are well run and also give opportunities for local Chinese players and organisers to see how elite tournaments are organised. I have a soft spot for Chengdu as I lived there for 6 months in early 2010. It’s a beautiful city with some unique cultural and culinary elements and is one of the major modern metropolises in central China.

Committee member: 2023-present

Disc Golf History 2012 • Started playing disc golf. 2013 • Competed in my first PDGA competition. 2014 • Organized my first disc golf competition (Alutaguse Open). • Founded the disc golf club Alutaguse Eagle. • Have organized Alutaguse Open every year since 2014 without missing a single year. 2015 • Organized my first PDGA-sanctioned event. 2016 • Organized my first Estonian Nationals. • Began volunteering for the Estonian Disc Golf Association (EDGA). • Created Mäetaguse Disc Golf Park. 2017 • Created Kiikla Disc Golf Park. 2017–2019 • Served as the Sport Technical Committee Leader for the Estonian Disc Golf Association. 2018 • Organized the Estonian Nationals for the second time. • Created Iisaku Disc Golf Park. 2019 • Organized the WFDF World Team Disc Golf Championship. 2020 • Organized the Estonian Nationals for the third time. • 2020–Present • Elected as President of the Estonian Disc Golf Association. 2021 • Created Tudulinna Disc Golf Park. 2022 • Created Karjamaa Disc Golf Park. 2024 • Organized the Estonian Nationals for the fourth time. • Created Kohtla-Järve Disc Golf Park.