Patrick Kurish Email & Phone Number

Phoenix, AZ, US

Greater Phoenix Area

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

• Oversee all baseball communications, media relations and player relations efforts, including utilizing proactive strategies to advance baseball and organizational messages. Collaborated with organization leaders to.
• Provide strategic communications counsel to baseball operations, including all coaching staff and player personnel, through proactive media training as well as crisis management strategies. Also prepared message points.
• Serve as the primary contact for all player and staff requests for internal purposes as well as for local, national, and international media.
• Collaborated with cross-departmental counterparts to leverage players, uniformed staff and team leadership towards organizational sales, marketing and philanthropic goals.
• Work closely with the creative team in creating compelling content geared towards reinforcing organizational messages and storylines.
• Align the club’s messaging with editorial opportunities on the team’s website, as well as earning coverage via external media outlets.

Mesa, Arizona, United States

• Responsible for leading the strategic communications team, including public relations, marketing, media relations, event media operations, social media, graphic design, photography, and content creation for a portfolio.
• Develop and implement a strategic communications plan and timelines that promote the company, its brand partners, and events.
• Enhance and maintain public relations and marketing initiatives that engage current and prospective clients, events, fans and sponsors.
• Coordinate the planning and logistics of press conferences, media availabilities, and press box operations for all events.
• Facilitate and participate in creative ideation processes for current and potential clients.
• Serve as the external communications contact and company spokesperson for the Delano Media Group, Position Sports, Slapbox Creative and Visual Graphx.

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

• Responsible for creating, developing, implementing and managing a content and communications strategy for company’s entire portfolio of brands, including Pit Boss, Louisiana Grills, A-MAZE-N Smokin’ Products, Country.
• Established brand standards and style guides for each brand and developed an integrated marketing and communications plan for streamlined messaging.
• Developed and executed public relations campaigns that integrated with internal marketing strategies. Wrote press releases and stories, pitched ideas to media and compiled research and reports. Arranged interviews.
• Responsible for product and advertising copy writing, creating compelling stories for blogs and external features, as well as ghostwriting correspondence on behalf of the leadership team.

Phoenix, Arizona

• Serve as a primary contact for all player requests for internal purposes (community, corporate, special projects, etc.), as well as for local, national and international media.
• Responsible for maintaining a media calendar for communications department counterparts to execute requests.
• Primary contact for baseball information, including, but not limited to daily pre- and postgame notes, press releases, media guide, season summary and other various team publications.
• Responsible for daily and full-season credentials.
• Travel with the club on 40 percent of the annual regular season road trips as well as attending all 81 home games and all spring training dates in Scottsdale, Arizona.
• Heavily involved in the organization’s content creation plan, including developing strategies and executing ideas for social media, publications, in-game features and external media.

San Diego, CA

• Primary contact for baseball information, including, but not limited to daily pre- and postgame notes, press releases, media guide, season reviews and other various team publications.
• Worked alongside department counterparts in managing a media calendar, and served as the liaison between team personnel to the media both locally and nationally.
• Primary contact for media credentials.
• Assisted with the organization's social media campaigns, including work on Twitter (@Padres), Facebook (/Padres) and Instagram (@Padres).
• Traveled with the club on 50 percent of the annual regular season road trips as well as attending all 81 home games and the entirety of the Spring Training in Peoria, Arizona.

San Diego

Scottsdale, AZ

• Responsible for continuously updating and maintaining the Twitter accounts and Facebook pages for the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl and the various events involved in the “Festival of College.
• Assisted in media training for staff and committee members, teaching the importance of proper social media behavior.
• Compiled the Fiesta Bowl and Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl’s pregame, halftime and postgame notes
• Heavily involved in writing and editing all press releases, brochures and game day publications.

St. Petersburg, FL

• Collaborated and assisted with department counterparts to ensure the timely distribution of daily baseball information and publications, including team media guide, postseason guide, game programs and team yearbook.
• Heavily involved with the research and creation of the daily pre- and postgame notes and was responsible for the distribution of all game day materials to the coaching staffs, the media and the front office.
• Assisted in daily and full-season credential approval and distribution.
• Updated and monitored the content of multiple team-affiliated Twitter accounts, with topics ranging from statistics to events.
• Compiled daily press clippings and developed a digital report of all stories relevant to the organization into a daily email for members of the Rays front office.

St. Petersburg, FL

Phoenix, Arizona Area

• Coordinated the Arizona Fall League’s credentialing efforts and facilitated interviews with uniformed personnel.
• Responsible for researching and writing daily pregame notes for the entire league as well as helping draft and edit press releases sent out to the media and Major League Baseball personnel.
• Heavily involved with the preparation and content for the league’s media guide and All-Star Game information packets.
• Created and operated the league’s social media campaign and assisted with various game day operations as needed.

Glendale, AZ