At the 2025 annual Top Gun awards ceremony on December 6, Jeff Blakeman was presented with the coveted President’s award. Jeff was a member of the executive board as the Secretary for the past two years. However, Jeff has been serving the Top Gun Community for much longer and in many capacities. As Secretary, some of the duties that Jeff was responsible for were maintaining all of the administrative and many critical financial documents, drafting the agenda for the board meetings and keeping all of the Top Gun members informed of the organization’s news and events. Jeff performed these functions exceptionally well as well as managing and fielding a highly successful majors rated softball team.

His total commitment to the Top Gun philosophy, also included assisting virtually every other member of the board of directors, entering and reviewing articles for the websites, writeups for Hall of Fame applications, and assisted in representing Top Gun on nearly all TG/SSUSA tournaments. His absence from the board of directors will be truly missed but we are very fortunate to have him in the organization where he continues to inspire us all.