ÖRSTERREICHISCHER DARTSVERBAND – AUSTRIAN DARTS FEDERATION
Dietmar SCHUHMANN- Coordinator
President of the Austrian and Youth Commissioner of the World Darts FederationMr. Schuhmann is an Architect, living in the City of Vienna/Austria, married, 2 children.He has led for years one of the biggest Darts Clubs in Austria and implemented a youth section with responsible persons and funding to lead the club at the top of Austrian youth players.
He is also Vice-President of the Viennese Darts Federation (the biggest regional darts federation within the Austrian Darts Federation), hosting international WDF world ranking tournaments and contributing the most young players to national teams.
Within the board of executives of the Austrian Darts Federation he has the function as youth commissioner and is responsible for the youth national team, its selection by a national ranking system and opening possibilities for all Austrian youth players.
Mr. Schuhmann is also part of the board of executives of the World Darts Federation – also as youth commisioner, responsible for all youth related tasks and organisational structures. The main goal is to create the opportunity for sportive/technically outstanding and highly motivated single youth players and national teams, who see themselves as the sporting spearhead of Darts, who can turn motivation and fun into sporting success at these international events. This shall include darts as a school and university sport. A special focus is the promotion of darts among female players.
Paul FREYSINGER
Treasurer within the board of executives of the Austrian Darts Federation
Paul Freysinger has finished College and is at the moment community service provider. He will start
studies at University in late summer this year.He is part of the board of executives of the Austrian Darts Federation, responsible for finance and funding. He is also a successful young darts player himself, being part of the Austrian national team last year at Europe Cup Youth in Ankara.
He’s also leading the public relation of the ADF and especially doing the social media activities around the “ADF Youth Squad”, to promote darts among children and young people, to transform this interest into motivation and enthusiasm, and to keep it on a consistently high level in order to increase the number of youth players in Austria and their performance.
He is also part of the team around the youth commissioner of the ADF.
Raphael ROKUS
Vice youth team manager within the board of executives of the Austrian Darts Federation
Raphael Rokus has finished college and is now student at the University of Vienna.
He is part of the board of executives as general secretary of the Austrian Darts Federation. As that, he is together with the president responsible for the management of the federations business, furthermore he is responsible for all youth related issues within the ADF. As player he was part of the Under-18 and the Under-21 national team of Austria.
One of his duties is also the support of the public relations of the Austrian Darts Federation via social media: He fills the social-media accounts of the Federation with content of all kinds. One large part of that are youth related posts, to promote darts among children and young people, to transform the interest into motivation and enthusiasm, and to keep it on a consistently high level in order to increase the number of youth players in Austria and their performance.