Brewster Boys and Girls Club hires new director

BREWSTER – The Brewster Boys and Girls Club (BBGC) has a new director who made his introduction to members of the Brewster Chamber of Commerce at their regular monthly meeting last Wednesday, Jan. 9.

Jamie Sluys, who recently relocated to Pateros from Auburn, has been tapped to run the BBGC, replacing former director Brian Paine who left the position last fall.

Sluys told Chamber members that he grew up with the Boys and Girls Club and has coached at the college level, been a high school athletic director, and Certified Athletic Administrator (CAA).

Sluys is a 1992 Western Washington University graduate and coached college baseball at Bellevue University in Nebraska and for the Alaska Goldpanners of Fairbanks, a collegiate summer baseball team. Sluys’ Bellevue team won the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) College World Series Baseball National Championship in 1995. He was inducted into the Bellevue University Athletic Hall of Fame in 2018.

Sluys has worked in the education field for the past 17 years, 11 of those as an athletic director and the last seven at Muckleshoot High School, a 1B school in Auburn. Since last September he has been employed by the Brewster School District as the 21st Century Grant Director for the Brewster, Bridgeport, and Pateros school districts. Sluys has also been a member of the Washington Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) Diversity Committee since 2015.

Sluys said he was persuaded to move to the area by friend, Brewster alumnus and college baseball teammate Jerrod Riggan who went on to play professional baseball with the New York Mets and Cleveland Indians. Sluys has two children, Jamison, a Canadian hockey player, and Julia, a sophomore at Grays Harbor College in Aberdeen where she is a red shirt scholarship wrestler. Sluys is currently building a home on Star Road in Pateros.