Questions:
1. Who schedules your National Anthem performer for home contests? Operations/Game Management Staff, the Marketing Department, or other?
2. Who hires/pays for ticket takers for home contests? Operations/Game Management Staff, Ticket Office, or other?
- Dana Rieger, University of Hartford
Responses
Colorado College
Rick J. Merriam, Assistant Director of Athletics
(719) 389-6111
rmerriam@coloradocollege.edu
Our marketing, tickets, operations, and event staff is all in the same. We have 2.5 people who do all of this. Good times.
University of Texas
Teresa I. Pierce, Director of Marketing
(512) 471-7574
Teri.Pierce@athletics.utexas.edu
1. Operations
2. Event Staff
University of Washington Athletics
Carol Parrish, Assistant Director of Marketing and Promotions
(206) 616-8654
parrishc@u.washington.edu
1. Marketing schedules anthem singers.
2. The ushers/ticket takers are the same and Event/Game mgmt. pays for them
Marquette University
Craig Pintens; Assistant Athletic Director for Marketing & Sales
(414) 288-0264 craig.pintens@marquette.edu
1. Marketing schedules them
2. Other (We play at an off-campus arena who has its own personnel.)
Western Washington University
Steve Brummel, Director, Athletic Marketing
(360) 650-7758
Steve.Brummel@wwu.edu
1. Marketing department does the scheduling so it integrates with halftime contests, other promotions, etc.
2. Game operations staff hires ticket takers, ushers, etc. We try to get as many "adults" as possible since students aren't very assertive.
Boston College Sports Marketing
Kate Sheehan, Marketing Specialist
(617) 552- 1503
k.sheehan@bc.edu
1. BC Marketing/External Operations does the booking of national anthem singers.
2. Operations hires/pays for ticket takers. We work with an outside security company called CSC.
South Dakota State University
Jody Huntimer, Marketing Manager HPER & Athletics
(605) 688-5526
Jody.Huntimer@sdstate.edu
1. Our Marketing/Promotions Department
2. The Ticket Office hires and schedules the ticket takers with input from the Asst. AD for Internal Affairs
Rice University
Tammi Waford
twarford@rice.edu
1. Marketing Department
2. Ticket Office
Fordham University
Julio C. Diaz, Jr, Associate Athletic Director
(718) 817-4306
diazjr@fordham.edu
1. Singers- Marketing
2. Ticket Takers - Operations
University of Notre Dame
Beth Hunter, Director of Sports Marketing
(574) 631-9722
hunter.33@nd.edu
1. marketing dept. schedules anthem singers
2. ticket office pays for ticket takers
Virginia Tech Athletics
RaeLynn McAfee, Asst. Director, Marketing and Promotions
(540) 231-3236
rmcafee@vt.edu
1. Marketing Department
2. Game Operations Department hires all ushers (who take tickets at the doors and stand at all aisle-ways to help seat people).
University of Connecticut
Nino Vanin; Assistant Director of Marketing/Corporate Relations
(860) 486-4101 vanni.vanin@uconn.edu
Here at UConn, the Marketing Dept. auditions and schedules National Anthem singers for all events. We have had some great ones this year, so if you need any suggestions, let me know.
Florida State University
Jason Dennard, Assistant Director of Promotions
(850) 644-4397
jason.dennard@hostcommunications.com
Here at Florida State University, the marketing department schedules National Anthem performances and the ticket office hires and pays ticket takers for all events.
University of Southern Mississippi
Greg Herring; Director of Marketing
greg.herring@usm.edu
We in the marketing department hold try-outs and schedule our National Anthem performances. On that rare occasion, our AD or university President tells us when someone is singing! As for ticket takers, I believe that our Game Management staff handles the hiring and payment process. I can tell you that we are subcontracted with an outside company who handles all of the details, but the fees for that company come from Game Ops.
Hofstra University Athletics
Jesse Bonfiglio, Director of Marketing and Promotions
(516) 463-5187
Jesse.Bonfiglio@hofstra.edu
1. Student Activities schedules student Anthem singers; the Marketing Department schedules community groups/people. Students sing in most instances, unless we tell Student Activities that we have someone for a specific event.
2. Our ticket office hires our ticket takers, but Athletics pays out of our game budgets.
Ball State University
Joe Hernandez, Associate Athletics Director/External Affairs
(765) 285-8242
jhernand@bsu.edu
1.) Marketing Department
2.) Ticket Office
University of Maine
Shaun_Russell@umit.maine.edu
At the University of Maine we schedule the anthem singers for all of our home contests. This year we put 2-3 interns in charge of screening all those interested, with the exception of some of the more talented individuals from last year. They held auditions and scheduled each performer for 3-4 events (one men's ice hockey if they were really good, one men's basketball, one women's basketball, and one women's hockey game).
ticket office is in charge of hiring/firing the ticket takers and sellers at our home contests.
Sacred Heart University
Mark Adzigian, Associate Athletic Director for External Relations
(203) 365-7601
adzigianm@sacredheart.edu
Anthem singers is Marketing.
Ticket takers is Ops / Game mgt.
Cal State L.A.
Chris Hughes, Assistant Athletic Director
323-343-5308
chughes3@exchange.calstatela.edu
1. Marketing handles the national anthem
2. Operations handles the ticket personnel
Florida Atlantic University
Dexter LaMont ;Assistant Athletic Director - Marketing
(561) 297-2953
dlamont@fau.edu
1. Marketing Department
2. Ticket Office
Western Kentucky University
heather.soto@wku.edu
1. Marketing Dept. schedules national anthem performers
2. Ticket Office hires/pays for ticket takers
University of Evansville Athletics
Ayodele Taylor-Dixon; Assistant AD for Marketing &Ticket Services
(812) 479-2395
at40@evansville.edu
1. Marketing Department
2. Game Manager (who is usually an intern for all sports but Men's & Women's basketball)
Mount St. Mary's University
Mike Hardisky, Assistant Director of Athletics Marketing, Promotions & Development
(301) 447-5227
hardisky@msmary.edu
At Mount St. Mary's I am both the marketing department and the operations/game management director for all events that we sell tickets to which includes M/W basketball and men's lacrosse.
So the answer to both question is: yes. I look at the anthem singers and ushers/ticket takers as a game management responsibility
Louisiana State University
Guy Gaster, LSU Athletics Marketing
(225) 578-1886
gaster@lsu.edu
1. Marketing schedules the anthem singers for all events. They have a large audition at the beginning of the year. You can't sing at one our events if you didn't go through the audition process.
2. Operations/Game Management hires and pays for ticket takers. ushers, security and parking.
Wheaton College (IL)
jay.martin@wheaton.edu
Our Games Management Staff handles both National Anthem performer and Ticket Takers.
Pace University
Brian Mundy, Assistant Athletic Director Marketing & Promotions
(914) 773-3271
bmundy@pace.edu
Here at Pace, the Marketing/Promotions Dept. (me) schedules the National Anthem singer. I hire the ticket staff, but they have work-study so I don't pay them from my budget. However, for outside events that use our facility such as high school basketball, wrestling, etc., our Facilities/Operations Director hires the ticket staff. Hope this helps.
UC Davis Athletics
Scott Brayton, Assistant Athletic Director - Auction, Marketing and Promotions
(530) 757-3135
sabrayton@ucdavis.edu
1. Promotions Office
2. Game Management
Purdue University
Joel Rasmus
jrasmus@purdue.edu
Marketing/Promotions. We provide all National Anthem soloist with 2 complimentary tickets. Duets and larger receive one ticket per singer. We sell a good many number of tickets to friends, grandparents, aunts, etc.
Ticket Office. We use an outside firm for our 4 revenue sports (Andy Frain Services) who also provide our ushers, parking lot attendants and event security. Non-revenue sports use Athletic Ticket Office personnel.
Belmont University
Eric Jones, Assistant Athletics Director for Marketing
(615) 460-6205
jonese@mail.belmont.edu
1. National anthem singers are subject to tryouts conducted by the marketing office.
2. Ticket takers are hired and paid for by the Ticket Office of our box office.
Canisius College
John Maddock, Associate Athletics Director
716-888-2977
maddock@canisius.edu
Anthem - External Affairs
Ticket sellers - External Affairs
Ticket Takers - Facilities
University of Iowa Athletics
Toby Trail, Assistant Director of Marketing
(319) 335-9431
Toby-Trail@hawkeyesports.com
1. Event Management
2. Event Management
UMKC Athletics
Jana Ross, Director of Marketing and Promotions
(816) 235-5475
rossjan@umkc.edu
1. Marketing Department
2. Operations/Game Management
UC Irvine Athletics
Robby Ray; Assistant Director of Marketing
(949) 824-8719
rayrb@uci.edu
1) Marketing and Promotions schedules National Anthem Singers
2) Game Management staff at our larger events take tickets, but if it is a smaller Olympic sport the ticketing office hires them
Texas A&M University
rstewart@athletics.tamu.edu
1. Marketing Office
2. Operations
Texas State University
Steven Beeler, Director of Athletics Marketing & Promotions
(512) 245-2022
sb32@sa.txstate.edu
Our marketing department (usually an intern or grad assistant) schedules our national anthem singers. As for ticket takers at home contests, they are paid out of the facilities/game operations budget. Our ticket sellers are paid out of the ticket office budget. Hope this helps!
Bradley University
Dennis Kalina, Associate Athletic Director
(309) 677-2682
kalina@bradley.edu
1. Our national anthem singers are scheduled by the Department of Music (Band Director). He insists on individuals who are affiliated with their department.
2. We play in a municipal facility for MBB, so the facility hires for the ticket takers, we essentially pay them through our rental of the facility.
University of Minnesota Duluth Athletics
Matt Beckman, Marketing and Advertising Sales Coordinator
(218) 726-8397
mbeckman@d.umn.edu
Operations/Game Management Staff for both questions.
The University of Georgia
John Bateman
jbateman@SPORTS.UGA.EDU
1. Promotions staff schedules the National Anthem singers for all of our home athletic events
2. Event Management staff coordinates the ushers/ticket takers at the games
Juniata College
Kelly Casperson, Athletics Development Coordinator
(814) 641-3526
casperk@juniata.edu
1. The event managers do all the scheduling of national anthem singers. Our event managers are coaches that are not in season 2. Again our event managers do the scheduling. The general athletics budget pays for our workers.
West Virginia University
Matt Wells, Assistant Director of Marketing
(304) 293-3086
Matt.Wells@mail.wvu.edu
1. The Marketing staff schedules anthem singers and the color guard.
2. We have a contract with CSC for ticket taker/ushers/security.
UCLA Athletic Dept.
Scott Mitchell
smitchell@athletics.ucla.edu
1. Marketing schedules National Anthem performers
2. Game Management hires and pays ushers and ticket takers
University of North Carolina Athletics Association
Marie Baker, Assistant Director of Sports Marketing
(919) 962-5499
mbaker@uncaa.unc.edu
1. We do not schedule any anthem singers; however, we have a few here and there and they get scheduled thru the Marketing Dept.
2. Game Ops takes care of this.
University of San Francisco
Peter Simon, Associate Director of Athletics
(415) 422-6161
simon@usfca.edu
1. Promotions
2. Game Management
Portland State University
Molly K. Moore; Assistant Athletic Director - Marketing & Game Operations
(503) 725-8274
mkm@pdx.edu
We have a fairly combined Game Ops and Marketing staff, but they do have separate budgets. My marketing assistant schedules the national anthem singers. My game operations assistant hires our ticket takers and those funds come out of our game operations budget. Our ticket sellers are scheduled/paid through the university box office (which then we get billed for). The university box office used to schedule our ticket takers as well, but they charged us so much overhead that we now hire and schedule those folks ourselves.
UNC Wilmington
Rob Brickels
brickelsr@uncw.edu
1) Marketing Department - we hire a Local High School Choir Director in exchange for 2 season tickets,
2) Operations Game Management
Montana State University
Angela Baumann, Assistant Athletic Director Corporate Relations & Marketing
(406) 994-4224
abaumann@msubobcats.com
1. Marketing Department
2. Athletics
High Point University
Chad Hartman, Director of Sports Marketing
(336) 841-9239
chartman@highpoint.edu
1. Marketing Department
2. Operations/Game Management Staff
George Mason University
Andy Ruge
aruge@gmu.edu
1 & 2 Operations/ Game Mgt
The University of Nevada Reno
Kurt Esser
kesser@unr.edu
1. Promotions staff schedules the National Anthem singers for all of our home athletic events... and the Anthem singers NEVER please everyone!
2. Event Management staff coordinates the ushers/ticket takers at the games
The Bonham Group
Christina Hixson; Communications Coordinator
(303) 592-4290
chixson@bonham.com
In regards to your first question (who schedules your National Anthem performer for home contests - Operations/Game Management Staff or the Marketing Department other?), prior to working for The Bonham Group I was the Manager of Advertising and Promotional Event for the University of Kansas. At KU, the marketing department scheduled the National Anthem performers for home football and basketball games. On a side note to the scheduling, we found that if the performers had a pre-recorded tape/cd, that things ran much better. It allowed us to determine if the singer was appropriate for our needs and prevented any hiccups that might occur during a live performance.
Upper Iowa University
Mike Powicki; Assistant Athletic Director/External Affairs
(563) 425-5336
PowickiM@uiu.edu
For us, the National Anthem performances (singing, flag presentations, etc) are arranged by Marketing. Our ticket takers are hired and paid by our Operations/Game Management.
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