Youth Sports - Baseball - Lower Loudoun Little to Induct Four into Hall of Fame as Part of Opening Day Ceremonies

Sterling (Apr. 15, 2010) - The Lower Loudoun Little League will induct four individuals for their baseball career and volunteer achievements into the league Hall of Fame as part of its annual parade and 48th Opening Day ceremonies for over 850 Little Leaguers and their families on Saturday morning, April 17.

The four selected for the 2010 class of the League’s Hall of Fame include Pat Cassidy, Ed Young, Ernie Rojas, and Olaf Halvorsen.

The opening day celebration begins at 9 a.m. with a new walking parade. Ball players and coaches will gather at the athletic fields next to the Knights of Columbus Good Samaritan Council complex (401 West Holly Avenue) and travel through the Sterling Middle School parking lots, ending at Jeff Cobb Field, located in Bill Washington Park at 333 South Sterling Boulevard.

The Hall of Fame is a means of honoring and recognizing former League players, as
well as volunteers, who have excelled on the ball field, or made valuable contributions to the
League and our community. The festivities should conclude by 10:30 AM.

More information on Lower Loudoun Little League, host of the 2010 Virginia State
Juniors Baseball Tournament in July, can be found at www.llbaseball.com.

More on Pat Cassidy
Selected for induction to the Lower Loudoun Little League’s Hall of Fame in 2010
on the basis of his career achievement in baseball and having made a meaningful
contribution to furthering the League’s mission, progress and reputation in the community.
Pat began his baseball career in Lower Loudoun Little League as an 8-year old in
coach pitch and played through the Seniors division. He was part of All-Star teams
throughout that time, including the 1986 Juniors District 10 Championship team.
Pat’s high school career at Broad Run (’91) was spent as a member of both the
baseball and basketball teams. He played second base on the 1991 AA State
Championship team that went 20-1 on the season. Cassidy played point guard on the
basketball team that won the Northwestern District Championship in both 1990 and 1991.
While at Catholic University of America in Washington, D. C., Pat was a four-year
letter winner on the Varsity Basketball team which twice set the school record for wins in a
season, culminating in their first appearance in the 1993 NCAA Division III Men’s
Basketball Tournament in over 44 years. As a senior, he was voted Captain by his
teammates. And in both 1994 and 1995, Cassidy earned Catholic University’s Student-
Athlete Leader award for academic, athletic, and community excellence.
As Head Coach of Broad Run’s High School Baseball team, Pat has over 140 wins
highlighted by their 2008 AA State Tournament appearance, three consecutive trips to the
Region Tournament in 2007 - 2009, and back to back Dulles District Championships in
2007 and 2008. Coach Cassidy has coached 20 players that have continued their baseball
careers at the college level. He has been named Dulles District Coach of the Year in 2004,
2007 and 2008. In 2005, Cassidy published Effective Coaching: Teaching Young People
Sports and Sportsmanship (available on amazon.com) which serves as a guide for
beginning coaches at the youth league level.