Leadership

Mike Meyers

Commissioner

Phone254-368-1180

Mike Meyers serves as the current Commissioner of the Military Basketball Association. As a founder and volunteer head coach for over 20 years, Mike Meyers has been one of the leaders in the effort to support military basketball with a globally established volunteer association. He is a one of the pioneers to bring military basketball to the world as a tool to prevent harmful behaviors. He is a retired, 23 year Army combat veteran. He joined the Army in January of 2000 as an enlisted Soldier with the MOS of 75B10 (Human Resources Specialist) and then commissioned in 2005 from ROTC as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps. In 2006, Mike deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom during the Surge. He was medically evacuated in 2007 and uses basketball to stay resilient and build mental fitness. Mike has contributed over 15,000 hours of volunteer service in various communities and utilizes military basketball platform as a method to provide active duty service members recreation while off duty.

In June of 2017, Mike Meyers and Angel Acevedo founded the Military Basketball Association (MBA) which was designed to provide volunteer basketball coaches and players an organization that seeks to promote the military athlete. The Association is governed by its Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner, Conference Commissioner, President of Basketball Operations, and Basketball Council. It has currently accepted 4 Major Military Basketball Conferences that make up a total of 44-50 volunteer varsity level programs.

Every year the MBA host its Playoffs/Finals. Teams qualify and compete to determine the best installation in Men’s and Women’s Military Basketball. The Finals has been an excellent volunteer opportunity for members of the community to interact and support military veterans from all services around the nation and world. The tournament has been a great opportunity to bring awareness to suicide prevention and Post Traumatic Stress Injury (PTSI) while military communities celebrate men and women in uniform.

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Angel Acevedo

Deputy Commissioner

Angel R. Acevedo serves as a volunteer with the MBA in the role of Deputy MBA Commissioner. He is a twenty-five year retired Army veteran who has served with the 4th Infantry Division G4, Fort Carson, CO, 43rd Special Troops Battalion, Fort Carson, CO,, 4th Special Troops Battalion, Fort Carson, CO, 183rd Maintenance Company Fort Carson, CO, 60th Ordnance Company, Fort Carson, CO, 3rd ACR Support Squadron, Fort Carson, CO, V Corps G4, Heidelberg, Germany, 501st Forward Support Battalion, Freeburg, Germany, 115th Forward Support Battalion, Fort Hood, Texas, 565th Ordnance Detachment, Panama, 193rd Support Battalion, Panama, Joint-Task Force Bravo Soto Cano, Honduras, 10th Support Group Okinawa, Japan, 228th Infantry Brigade Fort Jackson, South Carolina, Advanced Individual Training at Red Stone Arsenal, Alabama. Angel Acevedo earned his First Sergeant stripes in 2013 as the S3 NCOIC of the 10th Support Group which was followed by the 183rd Maintenance Company Fort Carson, Colorado. Angel has also contributed over 10,000 hours of volunteer service hours towards military basketball with a method to provide for active duty service members. Angel was recently inducted into the MBA's first Hall of Fame Class in 2019.

Jason Lafasciano

Conference Commissioner

Phone816-248-2918

Emailconferencecommissioner@mymbaglobal.com

Jason Lafasciano currently serves as the Conference Commissioner over three military basketball conferences (CUSMBL, PWMBC, ACMBC), s the head of officials for the MBA Officials Association (MBAOA) where he assigns the officials for the Conference end of season tournaments, and the MBA Finals, as well as the Tournament Director for the MBA Playoffs.

His military basketball career includes play for various post level teams to include, Ft. Gordon, Ft. Campbell, Korea, Ft. Meyer, Germany (Ansbach), Ft. Riley. Jason also played professional Basketball from 2000-2004 in Germany while stationed there for several teams in the German Bundesliga to include, Ansbach, Wurzburg, Bonn-Colon, and Stuttgart. He started coaching military basketball in Ansbach Germany leading the Post team to (3) consecutive Southern Championships and (1) USAREUR Championship in 4 years. Before taking the helm as the conference commissioner, he was an assistant coach for Fort Riley from 2015-2018 helping build the team into a CUSMBL contender highlighted by two, 3rd place finishes at the CUSMBL conference tournament and a perfect 28-0 regular season record in 2017.

Jason became the commissioner for the CUSMBL in 2015, where he helped expand the conference from 8 to 16 teams over the last 5 seasons. He has opened up the opportunities for the military basketball athlete by moving the conference championships off base and hosting it at Wichita State University for 2 years and Hy-Vee Arena in 2019. This allowed for a various network of college coaches, G-league contacts, and oversees scouts to come watch our players.

In 2017, Jason was the first to start the live streaming of the conference tournaments by broadcasting the CUSMBL conference final four out to all that could not attend and give them the chance to watch the games via the internet.

He is the originator of live-streaming for military basketball on a large scale and has promoted military basketball across the continental United States by starting up two more military basketball conferences on the east and west coasts. The Atlantic Coastal Military Basketball Conference (ACMBC) and Pacific West Military basketball Conference (PWMBC), with all 3 conferences playing by the same rules and By-Laws.

He is a founding member and current board member of the Military Basketball Association (MBA) which is the overarching association that works on securing funds for military basketball through community partners and non-profit organizations as well as the host for the Military Basketball Finals at the end of each season. Jason has volunteered over 10,000 hours and personally invested and donated to military basketball for over 20 years.

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