2024 Latitude 64° - Ambassador Team

2024 Latitude 64° - Ambassador Team
Our second team to announce is our largest team, the Ambassador Team! Our commitment to our Ambassadors will only strengthen over the years, and we are looking forward to the base of disc golf enthusiasts we have on the team for 2024!


The 2024 Ambassador Team includes our most new players for 2024! One of our core values is growing the sport, which is the Ambassador Team’s focus. To join the Ambassador Team means that you are doing great things in your local, regional, or national disc golf community. Our Ambassador Team ranges from people introducing large numbers to disc golf in metro areas to organizers of national disc golf activities.

We are excited to highlight and bring even more of a spotlight to this team in 2024!

 

Bohdan Aleksieiev
Bohdan serves as an ambassador of frisbee sports in Ukraine. After seeing his enthusiasm for the sport and his dedication to using disc golf (and all frisbee sports) in Ukraine to bring recreation and joy to a country in need.

Favorite Disc: Savior
2024 Goals: Play in at least 15 tournaments, grow the sport and build new Courses.
Tournament Goals: DGPT Europe, WFDF World Team Championship, Ukraine Championships.
Top Event as TD in 2024? Disc golf tournaments are happening in Ukraine! If there’s a way for you to make it please join, it’s a good time!
One Cool Thing: Was a bass player in a post-hardcore band that toured Europe. Has four different university degrees.

 

Marijan Krištofić
Marijan joins the team from Solvenia. He has been participating in growing the sport in Solvenia for a few years now.

Favorite Disc: Orbit Grace
2024 Goals: Win the Slovenian National Championship
Tournament Goals: Amateur Worlds
Top Event as TD in 2024? Lipica Open B-Tier (maybe A-Tier!), a great, fun, challenging course in a beautiful part of Slovenia.
One Cool Thing: I was a former Professional handball player, played handball for 24 Years.

 

Raimo Kimmel
A member of the tournament staff for multiple events in Estonia, Raimo has proven his commitment to growing the sport in his country. We are looking forward to having another great ambassador for the sport in Estonia in 2024!

Favorite Disc: Core
2024 Goals: Focusing on fewer but more important tournaments
Tournament Goals: Baltic Disc Golf Championships
Top Event as TD in 2024: TD of the European Disc Golf Festival (DGPT) July 26-28 at the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds. We hope to see all the best disc golf players all over the world come to play in that event and all disc golf fans to watch the best players.
One Cool Thing: Is fascinated by the ruins of castles and the age of the Crusaders.

 

Brett Hanna
Brett stood out to us for all the work he is doing in Canada. As we seek to grow our presence in Canada, we decided to take a unique approach to who we sponsor. Brett has quite the list of goals for 2024 and we look forward to following along as he reaches them!

Favorite Disc: Compass
2024 Goals: In 2024 I’m looking to finish the redesign/overhaul of the Copper Ridge course, run 3 clinics and 5 tournaments! In the summer we’ll start working on one more course in Logan Lake too.
Tournament Goals: Falcons Flight
Top Event as TD in 2024: Crush Cub Cup – (October 2024) see a more worked in Dick Hart Park after a year of work goes into it. Phase 1 was fun but now its really time to make it shine and have some great competition.
One Cool Thing: Has a goal of making Logan Lake hold the title for the most disc golf courses per capita in Canada!

 

Tuukka Renkman
Tuukka joins the team as a content creator. His previous work with Powergrip and his passion for the sport is what drew us to sponsoring him in 2024. If you are in Finland, be looking for lots of fun Finnish disc golf content coming from his personal channel in 2024!

Favorite Disc: Trust
2024 Goals: Enjoy making content, and playing the sport
Tournament Goals: European Amateur Open
One Cool Thing: Is a really gooooooooooooood cook.

 

Cameron J. Harbachuk
Cameron joins us from the state of Florida where he is the PDGA State Coordinator and runs a series of tournaments leading up to the Gulf Coast Charity Open which has quickly become one of the largest tournaments in Florida. Cameron’s passion for growing the sport in Florida is infectious.

Favorite Disc: Grace
2024 Goals: Working on my backhand form and getting back to playing some events more consistently. I had a knee injury at the end of last 2022 that really limited my ability to practice and progress my game. Now that it’s healed, I’m super excited to get back and improve my game.
Tournament Goals: The Chain Hawk Open in Gainesville, FL. It is by far the best-run event in the state and its been years since I’ve been able to play it.
Top Event to TD in 2024:The 2024 Gulf Coast Charity Open Presented by The Florida Real Estate Team. The GCCO is the flagship event we run yearly that attracts 405 players to the Tampa area to compete across 7 courses with all proceeds donated directly to charity. The event is the culmination of a year’s worth of work for our staff and boasts the best player package around. This year, we anticipate an event value north of $60k with $12k donated to our beneficiary charity.
One Cool Thing: Is pretty good at Mario Kart and is always down to be challenged.

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