Dick Radatz, Jr. – Chairman, Baseball

Dick Radatz, Jr. is a co-founder of the Northwoods League and has an educational background and work experience in sports administration. Upon completion of a Master’s degree in Sports Administration, from Ohio University, Dick worked as an Administrative Assistant for the Los Angeles Dodgers at their Spring Training site in Vero Beach, FL. He then spent a year as General Manager of the Boston Red Sox entry in the New York-Penn League, setting a single-season attendance record, before serving six years managing the business operations of the Boston Red Sox Spring Training site in Winter Haven, FL, and as General Manager of the Red Sox wholly-owned subsidiary in the Florida State League, where he set another single-season attendance record. He was named Florida State League Executive of the Year in 1986. Following his pro baseball tenure, Dick was Assistant Director of Operations for Michigan Special Olympics. Dick is a graduate of Albion College (MI) with a B.A. in Economics and Management. He was also Captain of the baseball team at Albion and a four-year letter winner.

Kathy Radatz – Chairman, Softball

Kathy Radatz brings over thirty-five years of Human Resources (HR) experience in financial services and defense technology industries.

As HR Managing Director at Citigroup, she led global HR Transformation efforts to drive efficiency and effectiveness opportunities across key levers such as operating model, location strategy, shared services, process standardization, technology enablement and change management. Kathy successfully led the global Workday implementation across 200,000 employees and 98 countries.

In previous roles, Kathy managed the HR organization in support of Global Operations and Technology representing over 110,000 employees.  She was responsible for talent, staffing, compensation and benefits, employee relations, culture/work environment, leadership development and training. Prior to joining Citi, Kathy spent 14 years with Harris Corporation, a high technology defense contractor, in a variety of staff and line HR positions. Kathy retired in 2020.

Kathy holds MBA and BBA degrees from the University of Michigan with a concentration in Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations. She played on the first Michigan softball team.

Ryan Voz – President/Commissioner, Baseball

Ryan Voz was named the 4^th President/Commissioner of the Northwoods League in September 2020.  Voz started as an intern with the St. Cloud River Bats in 1998, was General Manager of the Alexandria Beetles from 2001-06 and was Northwoods League Executive of the Year in 2002.  He, along with Marc Jerzak, have owned and operated the Willmar Stingers since 2010, winning the League’s Organization of the Year award in 2010.  Ryan served on the Northwoods League Board of Directors from 2018-2020 as the League Affiliate Representative.  Ryan will continue to operate the Stingers, along with Jerzak, on a day-to-day basis.  Ryan is originally from Cold Spring, MN. He graduated from St. Cloud State with a degree in Mass Communications and he and his wife Melissa have two children, Noah and Eva.

Kathryn Reynolds, President/Commissioner, Softball

Reynolds graduated from the University of Iowa with a degree in Business Management in 2015 and earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Iowa College of Law in 2017. She was a member of the University of Iowa’s Women’s Basketball coaching staff for six seasons, serving as the director of basketball operations from 2017-2019 before being promoted to the role of director of player development from 2019-2023. In that time, the team won two Big Ten Conference Championships, two Elite 8 appearances, and one National Championship appearance.

As a student-athlete at Iowa, Reynolds was a member of the women’s basketball team, a 3-time Academic All Big Ten recipient, a 2-time Big Ten Distinguished Scholar, and a member of the Women’s Basketball Allstate Good Works Team.

Reynolds comes from a sports-oriented family. Her father has worked for the Cincinnati Reds and Los Angeles Dodgers organizations for his entire career and her brother is a professional baseball scout.

Matt Bomberg – President, Great Lakes Division

Matt Bomberg joined the Northwoods League front office after spending the 2010 and 2011 seasons as General Manager of the Green Bay Bullfrogs of the Northwoods League. Prior to his time in Green Bay he spent eight seasons working for two teams in the Goldklang Group. As the Senior Director of Ticket Sales with the Fort Myers Miracle, the single A affiliate of the Minnesota Twins, he led the team’s ticket sales initiatives focusing on groups, mini plans and season tickets. Matt also was instrumental in the operations of Minnesota Twins Spring Training during his time in Florida. Prior to Fort Myers, he was involved with the Saint Paul Saints for six seasons. Matt began as an intern with the Saints and ended as the Director of Ticket Sales. During his time in St. Paul he led a group sales department that posted record ticket and picnic sales each season. Before working with the Saints, Matt spent five years working for Dorna USA, a rotational signage company, where he was involved with the Minnesota Twins and the Minnesota Wild. Previous to Dorna, Matt also worked three years for Inside Edge, a baseball scouting company based in Bloomington, MN.

Glen Showalter – President, Great Plains Division

Glen Showalter joined the Northwoods League after 17 years in manufacturing operations at Hearth & Home Technologies, a division of HNI Corporation. Glen held different positions within the organization and worked his last 12 years as a Senior Product Line Manager at their manufacturing facility in Lake City, Minnesota. He was responsible for all aspects of the business, encompassing a wide range of product lines, accounting for tens of millions of dollars in annual sales and supporting sales in excess of 100 million dollars. During his time there, he helped to successfully launch numerous award winning products and helped to transform the organizational effectiveness to world class levels through the use of LEAN manufacturing principles, systems, and tools. Prior to his time in Lake City, he spent five years at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis as a Research Technician in the Mechanical Engineering department where the emphasis was on heat transfer technologies. Glen honorably served in the U.S. military for five years previous to this and he currently resides in Rochester, MN.

Dominic Etue – Director of Business Development