Matt Tomasic founded the Police Athletic League of KCK in 2018, and has been the executive director since then. Born and raised in the Strawberry Hill neighborhood of Kansas City, Kansas where the PAL KCK is located, Matt recently served on the Kansas City Missouri police force for 23 years. During his time on the police force, he played a central role in the Westside Community Action Network, which established strong relationships between police officers and the communities they serve and produced significant reductions in crime and gang activity in urban areas. He and his wife have three children.