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This year we are holding regular elections for President, Secretary, Graphics Chair, and Information Services Manager. Additionally, we are holding a special election to fill a vacancy for Vice President. The responsibilities of the BAA Board and the election procedures are defined in the Bylaws and Constitution.
President
The President of the BAA is the most public facing position. The President interfaces with students, alumni and the university to promote buggy initiatives. This role requires diplomacy and eliminating all biases towards individuals or organizations. Important skills for the role are relationship development, negotiation, leadership, and project management. Time commitment is roughly 5 hours a week for most of the year, ramping up to 15-20 in the month leading into raceday.
Jeremy Tuttle
I’m running for re-election as President of the BAA because my heart is still in the work. Over the last year, the BAA has made huge strides, many of which I’ve already talked about in our newsletters. Most recently, I’m proud to have rallied and organized the volunteers required to not only make Bonus Raceday happen, but also make it memorable, special, and as close to a normal raceday in quality of coverage and amenities as possible. I am eager to continue leading the BAA for another two years, and once again, I ask and thank you all for your continued support.
Vice President
The Vice President assists the other officers in their projects, and coordinates with Sweepstakes as necessary. A good BAA VP candidate is someone who wants to improve Buggy, or Raceday, or the BAA in some way, and has some ideas for how to do it.
Ian McCullough
I love buggy! I’ve been to 29 consecutive Carnivals, without a miss. I’ve built a buggy (Jubatus). I’ve done essentially every job on a buggy team except drive and push. I have the time to dedicate, and I’d love to give back to the BAA. I’d like to give back more in the future too, but this VP vacancy feels like a good match for my present situation. I’m active on the Discord and vocal in the chute. I hope I can serve the buggy community.
Jacob Mohin
Excited to help the sport of buggy grow and evolve.
Lewis Rockwell
I am passionate about finding avenues to promote, strengthen, and improve the Sweepstakes tradition. As a student, I gained experience helping new/inexperienced teams build safe buggies, which is something I want to continue working on as an alumni. My skills, experience, and passion would add value to the BAA executive board.
Experience: SDC Head Mechanic (2024), pusher (Apex, SDC), built Lust, Paranoia, and Gluttony
Secretary
Listed in the BAA By-laws as the person to coordinate distribution of meeting minutes to general membership as well as handle and maintain the membership list in partnership with the Treasurer. The Secretary’s duties overlap with several other positions, providing support across the main functions of the BAA. The secretary’s diverse responsibilities provide a broad variety of opportunities.
Christian Lanuza
Hi, I’m Christian. I graduated in 2025 and served as the Chairman for PiKA Racing for the last three years but have been involved in Buggy since I walked onto campus in the fall of 2021. I am running for secretary to help the BAA and Buggy Community plan events, help things go smoothly, and to make Buggy a better sport. During my time at CMU I was the captain of varsity swim team, secretary for Pi Kappa Alpha for numerous semesters, and secretary for the Plaidvocates during my sophomore year. I have plenty of experience coordinating events, staying organized, and getting people to fill out Google Forms. I have a tremendous love for the sport and would like to continue supporting it as the BAA secretary.
Graphics Chair
The primary role of the Graphics Chair is to create the Raceday preview which can be done either with InDesign, Canva, or an equivalent software. This is a 15+ page digital document that BAA members get Tuesday or Wednesday before raceday. The Graphics Chair needs to work with multiple contributors to get a summary of the teams this year, an interview with an alumnus, a raceday prediction or two, and the schedule of events for Raceday. This time commitment is primarily in spring. The Graphics Chair’s secondary role is to put together merch for sale year round or for give away on raceday weekend.
Sam Connor
I have served as graphics chair for the BAA for the past two years. Using my expertise in design and merchandise production, I have been able to run multiple successful drop-shipping fundraiser campaigns, including for BAA tote bags and beanies, as well as redesign the timeless BAA Raceday shirts, introduce Schenley the Sheep, the newly-designed BAA mascot, and overhaul the graphics used for social media posts and Raceday events. If re-elected, I would continue to support the rest of the BAA team with graphics assistance and support BAA efforts by bringing merchandise to our community members via fundraisers, expanding the variety of items we can offer, and working to create graphics and support the needs of the social media and website team.
Information Services Manager
Previously known as the Webmaster, this position has been renamed to better represent its breadth of responsibility. The primary responsibilities of the ISM are leading the website subcommittee in ensuring that cmubuggy.org has correct and up to date information (Carnival events, rosters, Sweepstakes Bylaws, history data, etc.), maintaining the cmubuggy.org’s back-end code, managing the BAA’s information systems, and helping the BAA with technical tools as needed. The more interesting work revolves around updating the website to fit today’s standards and to be more useful to the Buggy community as a whole.
Rob Siemborski
It is my pleasure to have served as ISM (previously Webmaster) for the BAA over the last 2 years. If you don’t know me, as a student (98-03) I was both Chairman of W3VC, as well as involved in several buggy broadcasts with WRCT. As an alum, I’ve been continuously involved in various ways beyond my BAA officer role including the radio safety net, broadcast, and rolls reports.
During my previous term I completed the website redesign, resulting in an easier to navigate and more dynamic web site. I have also worked with students to directly integrate our data into the broadcast (most notably, via roster and leaderboard graphics). I’ve also reduced our hosting costs by about half through several different efforts.
In my next term, beyond the day to day operations and improvements and a general eye towards sustainability, there are two areas I want to focus on – The first is a long term solution for our ever-expanding video library to better serve our historians and video editors. The second is a more flexible approach to web site updates, as we found several limitations during this year’s extended and bonus raceday.
Finally – and to give you an idea of how I try to approach other issues that come to the BAA board – some thoughts on the parts of the BAA mission that resonate deeply with me. I strongly believe that the BAA should take a supporting/mentoring rather than leading role with current students in their effort to build and evolve sweepstakes – be that rule changes, the broadcast, or operational raceday issues. It is also very important to me that we both recognize and celebrate all forms of participation in sweepstakes, not only the visible competitive team members.
I hope to serve you for another term as ISM.
The Ballot
Thank you for your time and consideration. Please fill out your ballot here: https://cmubuggy.org/vote
