2010 MEDIA GUIDE - Seahawks Online Media Packet

28 FRONT OFFICE
TAG RIBARY
DIRECTOR OF PRO PERSONNEL
Tag Ribary rejoined
the Seahawks for the
2009 season as a pro
scout before being promoted
to director of pro
personnel in February
2010. Ribary spent 11 seasons
with the Sea hawks
from 1990-2000 as the
team’s assistant director
of pro personnel. In his current
role, Ribary is responsible for coordinating
the advance scouting of Seahawks’ upcoming
opponents and evaluating players in all professional
leagues including the NFL, the Canadian
Football League, Arena Football Leagues and
the United Football League. During the season
he also coordinates free agent tryouts, monitors
NFL transactions and assists in the recruiting
and signing of all free agent players.
Following his time in Seattle, Ribary became
the director of pro personnel for the
Washington Redskins in 2001. The next season
he moved into a pro scouting role with the
Carolina Panthers where he remained through
the end of the 2007 season. He was part of a
staff that helped the Panthers reach Super Bowl
XXXVIII and reached the 2005 NFC
Championship Game versus Seattle. A native
of Seattle, Wash., Ribary graduated from
Washington State University and Bellevue
Christian (Wash.) High School. He and his wife,
Eva, have a daughter, Regan, and son, Bennett.
SCOTT FITTERER
DIRECTOR OF COLLEGE SCOUTING
Scott Fitterer joined
the Seahawks’ staff on
June 25, 2001, as an area
scout. He begins his first
season as the club’s
director of college scouting
after spending the
last five as the western
region director of college
scouting. He coordinates
the Sea hawks’ entire
scouting operation and compiles all of the college
scouting information required to set the
draft board. Spent the previous three seasons
with the New York Giants, 1998-99 as a parttime
scout before being assigned to the West
Coast region for the 2000 season. Was a 1995
draft pick of the Toronto Blue Jays and spent
three years in the Blue Jays system (1995-97)
before his career ended due to three shoulder
surgeries. Was a two-sport athlete in college,
playing quarterback in football and pitcher in
baseball at UCLA (1992-94) and LSU (1994-95).
In 1998, Fitterer returned to UCLA to earn his
undergraduate degree in history. Born in
Seattle, he is a graduate of Kennedy High
School in Seattle. Scott, his wife Cherish,
daughter Ella, and son Cole live in Sam -
mamish, Wash.
TRENT KIRCHNER
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF
PRO PERSONNEL
Trent Kirchner joined
the Seahawks as assistant
director of pro personnel
on February 5,
2010. Before joining
Seattle, he spent the last
eight seasons (2002-09)
as a pro scout with the
Carolina Panthers where
he served as an advance
scout while evaluating free
agents, waiver wire transactions and practice
squads. Before his time with the Panthers, he
spent one year as the college scouting coordinator
for the Washington Redskins. During his
senior year in college (spring of 2000) he volunteered
with the Kansas City Chiefs at the NFL
Scouting Combine in Indianapolis. From there,
Trent joined the Seahawks as an intern splitting
time between the public relations and college
scouting departments. He also interned with
the Minnesota Twins in 1999. A native of
Minnesota, he graduated with a degree in business
management from St. John’s (Minn.)
University, where he played quarterback for
two years. Trent is married to Jessica.
ERIC STOKES
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF
COLLEGE SCOUTING
Eric Stokes enters his
12th season with the
Seattle Seahawks as a
former player and scout.
He begins his first season
as assistant director of
college scouting after
working seven seasons
as an area scout (2000-
01, 2005-09). He served
three years (2002-2004) as
an assistant in the Seahawks pro personnel
department. While serving in the pro personnel
department, Stokes was responsible for the
weekly advance of upcoming opponents as
well as assisting in the evaluation and writing
of player reports on potential talent in free
agency, NFL Europe, the Canadian Football
League and the Arena Football League. Stokes
played three seasons as a safety in the NFL, but