Lance oversees the day-to-day operations of the World of Little League: Peter J. McGovern Museum and Official Store, a 22,000-square foot museum newly renovated and dedicated to preserving the history of the world's largest organized youth sports program, and to providing a key educational asset to the children and families of Central Pennsylvania and visitors from around the world. As its Executive Director, he leads Little League's efforts to publicize the new museum through traditional and new media. In his previous role with Little League International, he led the communications efforts, and was responsible for a staff of professionals who created all print, Internet, social media and… video productions for Little League -- emphasizing the education of millions of children in the program, as well as adults. He produced and directed a variety of short films on specific educational topics for Little League, for in-house and worldwide distribution in several languages. He also served as the chief spokesperson for Little League for more than 15 years. His guest appearances include stints on The Today Show, CNN, Outside the Lines, BBC, Al Jazeera, Nightline, PBS, MSNBC and other outlets. He has been quoted in hundreds of newspapers and magazines worldwide. From 2001 through 2008, Lance was the liaison for Little League International to The White House and President George W. Bush's Tee Ball on the South Lawn initiative. During that time, 20 Little League Tee Ball games were played at the White House under his direction, with President Bush attending each game. He served for 17 years on the Little League Rules Committee, and is the author of all rules enacted in Little League since 1996, including a 13-page rule regarding the first use of video replay at any level of baseball. This rule has been employed successfully at the Little League Baseball World Series for four years. Prior to Little League, Lance was a professional sports reporter. He attended St. Petersburg College (FL) majoring in communications, and attended and graduated from the U.S. Department of Defense Information School at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana.
Robin Van Auken is an editor and writer. She also owns a literary agency, The Omnibus.