President’s Pitch Happy New Year! Another year of pitching shoes are in the books. Let's look at 2026 to reach new goals and take the steps to making improvements to the game of horseshoes pitching! Improvements are being made at the National level with their website and newsletter improvements. Another is the NHPA will be implementing a new member initiative program. I do believe it will be similar to the referral program where they had a drawing for members that referred new members. The drawing had a value of $350 which was won by 2 members last year. So read the NHPA newline or digest to keep up with this program. I will do my best to keep up with the latest news from the NHPA and pass it along to you. Get the word out to those that don’t have access to the internet. 2025 membership only reached 190 pitchers. This is the lowest in the past 12 years. 2020 had 169 but that was during COVID. There were 36 new full...