Sports Sales Leader
Current• Drive economic impact throughout the state by recruiting sports tourism events to Delaware• Create the state's first sports tourism grant incentive program with a budget of $500,000• Manage a $22M sports tourism facility investment fund that provides the opportunity to expand and enhance our facility offerings to event organizers• Develop educational opportunities about sports tourism through virtual and in-person events with national experts• Create a blueprint for the Division of Public Health for return to play during the pandemic and was approved to return to play July 2020• Provide resources and best practices for multiple new sports facilities to be built or enhancedNoteworthy Records & Achievements o Responsible for over $100,000,000 in economic impact since August 2019o Sports tourism represents over 90% of state tourism sales goalso Sports sales goal has increased 80% since 2019 and each year’s sales goal has been achieved including during the pandemico Since August 2019, the Atlantic 10, PGA Tour and USA Lacrosse have selected Delaware as a destination for eventso Brought in the state’s largest ever youth lacrosse tournament that hosted 230 teams across 3 facilities that created an estimated economic impact of over $5M