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Rick is the Assistant Championship Director for the AdventHealth Championship on the Korn Ferry Tour. The annual event is held at Blue Hills Country Club in Kansas City. Rick has over 20 years in sports management including stints with The Kansas City Royals, Sporting KC and IMG/Learfield with Kansas Athletics.

Rick is currently employed by Bruno Event Team, an event management company based in Birmingham, AL, that specializing in sports event management. BET (Bruno Event Team) oversees 10 golf events across all tours, gameday operations for several SEC universities and other events in the south. In 2020, BET pivoted without events to run and managed over 20 sites in Alabama for one of the most aggressive return to college COVID-19 testing programs in the US.

Rick resides in Shawnee, with his wife Jennifer and 3 kids Sarah (23) , NWMSU ‘20 (currently at UMKC working on her Masters in Higher Ed Administration), Josh (22), employed as an apprentice lineman for the City of Eudora and Jordan (19), currently enrolled at JCCC and a member of the Cavalier Softball team.

Suzi is the Manager of Special Events & Community Engagement for the Kansas City Monarchs Baseball Organization.

Her current responsibilities include planning events at Legends Field (previously T-Bones Stadium) as well and community outreach throughout the Kansas City area and region. She is also involved in expanding our partnership with The Negro League Baseball Museum.

Previously Suzi spent 30 years in the hotel/event planning industry handling group sales and marketing, operational planning for meetings and events as well as strategic alignment with key accounts.

She is a graduate from the University of Kansas, with a bachelor’s degree in visual communications.

She continues to volunteer at Read to Lead, Leawood Rotary events, K-State mentorship at the school of hospitality as well and many additional annual events.

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