Mike Mores joins K-State Team
K-State Sports Properties welcomes new Senior Account Executive and former Director of Marketing for Kansas State University Mike Mores back to Manhattan. Mike, his wife, Cathy, and 22-month-old son, Parker, will be moving from Denver, where he most recently served as the Assistant Athletic Director of Annual Giving for the University of Colorado Foundation. Prior to that, he was with Iowa State University Athletics Department serving as the Director of the National Cyclone Club for nearly four years. Before Iowa State, Mores was the Director of Marketing for the Kansas State University Athletics Department. He is an Iowa State graduate
Sterling Cryder leaves Purdue for Sooner Sports Properties becoming the newest Account Executive on the Sooner Sports Properties team. He's been serving as Account Executive at Purdue Sports Properties for two years, and before that, was with Millsport sports marketing agency in Dallas. Sterling also spent two years with Host Communications after graduating from Baylor University.
Todd Kucinski heads back to his native Ohio to be General Manager of our Bowling Green property, Falcon Sports Properties. Todd has been with the K-State team for the last year serving as Associate General Manager. He received his undergraduate degree from The Ohio State University and did his graduate work in Sports Administration at Bowling Green. Before Learfield Sports, he was Director of Sales in Ohio State’s Department of Athletics and prior to that, he was Assistant Director of Marketing. Todd also served as Marketing Assistant at Bowling Green (2000-’02) and Marketing Associate at Ohio State (1998-2000).
Our property at Southern Illinois welcomes Kevin Scherrer as Account Executive. He makes the move to the property level from serving as national sales intern in Atlanta for one year. Kevin is a graduate of the University of Kentucky, where he received his degree in marketing
Welcome Adam Froidl, the newest addition to our Sports Division Affiliate Relations Team. Adam comes to us after spending 4 years in the banking industry with Central Bank located in Jefferson City, MO, where he was the Retail Supervisor and in charge of branch sales. Prior to his banking years, Adam attended Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri where he majored in Marketing and was also a member of the Westminster Men’s Basketball team. 
Justin Barnes returns to his alma mater as our new Account Executive at Black Bear Sports Properties. He is a graduate of the University of Maine and lives on Pushaw Lake in Glenburn, Maine, with his wife, Heidi, and their golden retriever, Jasper. Before coming to BBSP, Justin was an Account Executive for the CBS and CW affiliate WABI-TV, and before that, served nearly six years as a Senior Account Executive with Unicel.
Say hello to Matt Sherman, who is a new Account Executive for Gopher Sports Properties at Minnesota. He has been in the medical sales arena for seven years, but prior to that, was a three-year starter as QB for the Iowa Hawkeyes, earning the All-Big Ten honors two of those years. Matt also played in the Arena Football League. He is married to Betsi, and has a nine-month-old son, Cade.
Mark Fields, an Account Executive for Black Bear Sports Properties at Maine the last two years, moves to Madison, Wisconsin to hold the same role at Badger Sports Properties. He is a graduate of Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio, and he earned his master's of sports administration from Ohio University. Mark's wife, Leslie (a UW-Green Bay alum), is thrilled about heading back to her native Wisconsin. Her family is still there and she is a loyal Badgers' fan.
Mike Unitan was awarded the highest prize a Learfield sales exec can win at ceremonies in San Diego this week. I got to applaud his performance along with inductees into the Chairman's Club: 
Jeff Tagliaferro ("Tags") heads up our New Hampshire property as General Manager. Jeff, a Durham, N.H. native who currently resides in Bedford with his wife, Jennifer, and their three children (Emma Jane, 7; Isabelle, 5; Domminic, 2). 
Jenna Kubesch joins Tags at Wildcat Sports Properties as Account Executive. After earning her master's degree at Memphis, Jenna served with our Tiger Sports Properties for one year before making the move to N.H. 
Jared Newland is a new Senior Account Executive for our Wyoming property. He already has strong ties to UW -- as a graduate, and as serving seven years as the Athletics Development Officer for the Cowboy Joe Club (UW Athletics' primary fund raising arm). Jared comes to us from Denver, where he was the Western Region Director of Sales for Red Foxx Solutions. His other experience includes serving as the athletic media relations assistant at the University of Texas at San Antonio and Utah State University, as well as account executive for The GEM Group, where he promoted the Sears National Champion football and men's basketball trophies. 
