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RoughRiders Add Three to Staff
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RoughRiders Add Three to Staff
<P><B>July 14, 2005</B> - The Cedar Rapids RoughRiders have added three new staff members, the RoughRiders announced today. Mark Meyer is the Riders’ new corporate sales executive, Matt Gaudry joins the team as an account executive and Patty Rodenkirk takes over as office administrator.</P>
<P>Meyer arrives after previously working as a media consultant for the Corridor Business Journal. With the Riders, he will be responsible for establishing and servicing corporate partnerships and for coordinating in-game promotions. Meyer, who grew up in Cedar Rapids, attended St. Mary’s University in Winona, Minnesota.</P>
<P>Gaudry joins the Riders after graduating from University of Idaho with a B.S. in Marketing. Gaudry had previously worked as an intern for the Idaho Steelheads of the ECHL. Immediately after graduating from Idaho, Gaudry attended the Game Face Academy, a premier sports marketing and sales training academy.</P>
<P>With the Riders, Gaudry will be active in season and group ticket sales, ticket office operations and game operations.</P>
<P>Rodenkirk assumes all of the Riders’ accounting responsibilities and will also assist in the ticket office and coordinate the Ricochet’s ‘Lil Riders Kids Club.</P>
<P>Prior to joining the Riders, Rodenkirk spent 21 years as the accounting manager for a Cedar Rapids hotel management company and, before that, worked in the accounting department of Excide Battery in Manchester for six years. A native of Earlville, Rodenkirk is a graduate of Area I Technical College (now Northeast Iowa Community College) in Dubuque.</P>
<P>The Clark Cup Champion RoughRiders will open the 2005-06 season on September 24 when they meet the Tri-City Storm in Kearney, Nebraska. The Riders will open on home ice on Saturday, October 8 when they play host to the Green Bay Gamblers at 7:05PM.</P>
<P>2005-06 RoughRiders season tickets are currently available through the Riders’ business office (247-0340). Fans who pay for season tickets in full before August 31 will receive a discount in addition to a host of other benefits available exclusively to season ticket holders.</P>
<P>The RoughRiders last season won the first United States Hockey League Clark Cup (playoff) title in team history and also claimed a share of the Anderson Cup (regular season) title for the first time ever. The Riders went 42-13-5 last season, the best record in team history.</P>
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Posted on Thursday, July 14, 2005 (Archive on Thursday, July 14, 2005)
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