WMG13 was a professional threshold. The sport was familiar; the environment was not. Teams arrived from around the world, English became the working language and the baseball/softball programme had to operate as part of a much larger multi-sport Games structure.
I conducted the Technical Meeting in English in front of the team representatives, planned the sport programme and then directed delivery across the competition footprint. The calendar was dense, the venues were distributed and the working team was larger than anything I had previously coordinated in an event setting.
Before the title became part of my professional identity, the work was already competition management and venue management at scale.
