{"id":552,"date":"2020-07-26T14:06:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T18:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.usbef.org\/?page_id=552"},"modified":"2023-04-19T18:09:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T22:09:55","slug":"about-us-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.usbef.org\/index.php\/about-us-2\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>OUR MISSION STATEMENT<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>To establish and promote throughout the United States an educational program&nbsp; devoted to the development of Badminton as a means of healthful and physical fitness, to promote the recognition in schools, colleges, YMCA and other institutions with physical education programs of the carry-over benefits of Badminton, to give coaching and instructions to players throughout the U.S. Badminton in clinics and exhibitions which are in furtherance of educational objectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usbef.org\/index.php\/about-us-2\/board-of-directors\/\">Board of Directors<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Phillip Ayoung-chee (FL\/GA), President<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dave Carton (San Diego, CA), Treasurer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Beth Sopka (Boston, MA), Secretary<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>David Zarco (Miami Lakes, FL)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lisa Ward-Knechtel (AK\/NC)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Liz Parker (Blaine, WA)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Anshuman Mishra (Atlanta, GA)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>David Shaw (Nashville, TN)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Howard Bach (San Francisco, CA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Committees<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Nominating<\/strong>: Dave Carton<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Special Projects<\/strong>: Lisa Ward-Knechtel<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Fundraising<\/strong>:&nbsp;Paul Knechtel<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Website<\/strong>: Phillip Ayoung-chee<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OUR MISSION STATEMENT To establish and promote throughout the United States an educational program&nbsp; devoted to the development of Badminton as a means of healthful and physical fitness, to promote the recognition in schools, colleges, YMCA and other institutions with physical education programs of the carry-over benefits of Badminton, to give coaching and instructions to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":80,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-552","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usbef.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usbef.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usbef.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usbef.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usbef.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.usbef.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"https:\/\/www.usbef.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/552\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usbef.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}