2010 MEDIA GUIDE - Seahawks Online Media Packet

26 FRONT OFFICE
JOHN IDZIK
VP FOOTBALL ADMINISTRATION
John Idzik begins his
fourth season with the
Seahawks after joining
the club on February 16,
2007. With Seattle, Idzik
oversees player negotiations,
the team’s compliance
with the NFL salary
cap and player personnel
transactions, all football
operations budgets, staff
and team contracts, team travel and most
aspects of the day-to-day football operations
while also remaining active in player evaluations.
In addition, he serves as the club’s liaison
to the NFL Office. Prior to joining the
Seahawks Idzik spent three seasons as Senior
Director of Football Operations for the Arizona
Cardinals. Idzik entered the NFL in 1993 with
the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He spent 11 years
with the Buccaneers, first as a pro personnel
assistant and then was elevated to director of
football administration in 1996 and assistant
general manager in 2001. Prior to his tenure
with the Buccaneers, Idzik spent the 1991-92
seasons as a graduate assistant at Duke
University, where he coached the offensive
line. In 1990 he was the offensive backfield
coach for the Aberdeen Oilers (Scotland) of the
British American Football League. Idzik’s first
coaching assignment came in 1982 as receivers
coach at the State University of New York at
Buffalo. Raised in a football family, Idzik’s
father, also John, was the head coach of the
Aberdeen club after serving as an NFL assistant
coach with the Miami Dolphins, Baltimore
Colts, Philadelphia Eagles, and N.Y. Jets. They
became one of the NFL’s few father-son Super
Bowl champions in 2003 when the younger
Idzik’s Buccaneers won Super Bowl XXXVII, as
his father was the offensive backfield coach of
the Super Bowl V champion Baltimore Colts. A
native of Detroit, Idzik graduated with magna
cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa honors from
Dartmouth College in 1982 earning a bachelor’s
degree in mathematics, where he also played
wide receiver for the Ivy League Champion Big
Green. He later earned a master’s degree in liberal
studies from Duke University in 1992. Idzik
and his wife, Carol, have two sons, Bryant and
Bradley, and a daughter, Holly.
RON JENKINS
VP CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS
Ron Jenkins enters
his 12th season with the
Seahawks and his fourth
as Vice President of
Corporate Partnerships.
He and the Corporate
Partnership team also
manage Seattle Sound -
ers FC’s (MLS) relationships
with their corporate
and media partners. Jen -
kins joined the Seahawks staff in June 1999 as
Director of Ticket Sales and has since held positions
as Director of Suite Sales & Service (leading
the sales effort for the opening of Qwest
Field from 2000-02), Director of Marketing
(2003-04), and Director of Partnership
Development (2005-06). Prior to joining the
Seahawks, he served nine years in various
sales and marketing management positions
with Bacardi USA in the midwest and southeastern
U.S. After a less than illustrious college
football career as a quarterback and receiver at
Columbia University and Vanderbilt University,
Jenkins graduated from Vanderbilt (class of ’85)
with a B.A. in Economics. A native of Rochester
Hills, Michigan, Ron and his wife Dorothy live in
Enumclaw, Wash., with their two girls; Ava and
Chiara, and a plethora of critters. The Jenkins
family enjoys the outdoors together through
horseback riding, biking, hiking, and camping.
DAVE PEARSON
VP COMMUNICATIONS &
BROADCASTING
Dave Pearson is entering
his 22nd season in the
NFL and begins his 13th
season with the Sea -
hawks. Originally joining
the Seahawks as director
of public relations in
1998, he added the dayto-day
oversight of the
team’s broadcast department
in 2004. He was
promoted to vice president
of communications and broadcasting on April
29, 2008. Pearson is responsible for managing
the public image and overall communications
strategy for the Seahawks and Sounders FC
while serving as the primary liaison for local
and national media outlets and broadcast partners.
He also oversees all radio broadcasts,
preseason telecasts, team-produced radio and
television shows, publications and website
content. As vice president, he also assumes
various responsibilities revolving around game