Jeff McCarron, Director/MBBN publisher
The owner and Director of Pacesetter Sports is Jeff McCarron, who began working in camps in 1976 and created Pacesetter in 1980. He has been a basketball camp clinician and the director of all Pacesetter activities for the past 27 years. Since starting Pacesetter in 1980, McCarron has helped provide over 3,000 programs for over 200,000 young athletes. He has also been the publisher of Minnesota Basketball News since 1994.

McCarron was a member of Minnesota’s last single-class state high school basketball championship team with Sherburn in 1970 and was a member of the Minnesota Gophers’ Big Ten basketball championship team in 1972.

Tracey Haines, Office Manager/Coordinator
Tracey has been Office Manager/Coordinator of Pacesetter Sports since 1991.  She graduated from The University of Minnesota at Morris in 1989.

Joe McCarron, Webmaster
Joe is a sophmore economics major at Saint Cloud State University. He designed and maintains the website, and is in charge of IT at Pacesetter and Minnesota Basketball News.

Ron Haggstrom, Minnesota Basketball News Editor
Ron has been the editor of Minnesota Basketball News since 2001.  He was formerly the sports editor of the Mesabi Daily news in Virginia for 13 years and currently works full-time for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.

Dave Hill, Photographer/Tournament Director
Dave has been the photographer for Minnesota Basketball News since 2001. Dave is a freelance photographer who covers high school basketball throughout Minnesota. He works full-time in technologies for a large financial services company.