Faron Asham

• BIRTHPLACE Brandon, MB

• BORN July 12, 1969

• INDUCTED 2018

Faron Asham was born in Brandon, Manitoba on July 12, 1969. Throughout his career, Asham built an extensive resume in coaching and administration of baseball in western and northern Manitoba. He has been actively coaching at various levels from grassroots to high performance since 1985. He has also served on executive committees in several associations and leagues since 1989 and has been on the Baseball Manitoba Executive Committee for over 16 years. Asham has been recognized for such honours as Baseball Manitoba’s 2003 Volunteer of the Year; Provincial, Regional, and National 2004 Aboriginal Coach of the Year; Baseball Manitoba’s 2004, 2012 and 2017 High Performance Coach of the Year; and 2004 and 2012 Baseball Canada’s Volunteer of the Year nominee. He recently served as President of Brandon Minor Baseball and Simplot Millennium Park for 10 years. In 2017, Asham was the Head Coach of Team Manitoba for the Canada Summer Games in which Manitoba won the silver. This was the first Canada Games baseball medal awarded to Manitoba since 1985.