Contributing Columnists

Chris Palatinus
Chris was Vice President of the Challengers and now plays in the NLA. He was also the playing-coach of the Challengers in 2003 and 2004, winning a total of five National titles between 1998 and 2004.

Adrian Kaempfer
Adrian "Hendrix" Kaempfer has studied german literature and is a vivid reader of American history and baseball in particular. He's was assistant coach of the NLA-team in 2003 and 2004, and now assists his wife in raising their two sons.

Serge Kuenzler
Serge has been a member of the board for the last couple of years. He's responsible for media relations and has published articles in several newspapers on a regular basis. Since 2004, he's also in charge of the newly founded Softball team, and has been elected Vice President.

Peter Rothenhaeusler
Peter Rothenhaeusler is a senior writer for the Challengers. He was one of the founding fathers of the organization back in the 80's.

Renato Staub


Johnny Mueller
Johnny Mueller joined the Challengers in 1986. Even, or because he did not play, the Challengers became Swiss Champions that year. He started in the front office in 1988, where he founded the Challengers second team, to accommodate the growing number of new players. Over the years he played NLA, NLB and first league with little success. He had a better hand at coaching, winning cadets championships in 1989 and 1997. With the second team he moved back up in the NLB the first year of coaching. Over the next years, the team reached the playoff, (top four teams) every second year. Lately he can be seen at most games with his camera, taking pictures. In the 2004 season, he took over 14`000 pictures.

Birgit Zuber


Brigitte Burger


Leandra Simitovic


Simone Zurschmitten


Bryan Shemley


Thomas Blank


Tobias Siegrist


Micha Seger