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JULIE GRAUE VICE PRESIDENT OF BUSINESS OPERATIONS 2012 INDIANA FEVER MEDIA GUIDE FEVER BASKETBALL CORPORATION Beginning her 11th season with the Indiana Fever, Julie Graue has managed business operations for the franchise since 2005. She was promoted to Vice President for Business Operations following the 2006 season. Graue manages the day-to-day management of all Fever business matters including ticket sales, sponsorship sales, promotions and community relations. She also provides oversight on Fever marketing efforts. In 2001, she joined the Fever organization as a sales manager. She managed sales accounts, ticket pricing and the development of ticket packages for all individual and corporate accounts, She oversaw all Fever sales campaigns and ticket-related events, and was named director of Fever ticket sales in October 2004. She came to the organization after a 12-year stint with Ambassadair Travel Club. She served in a variety of roles including her capacity as advertising sales manager for the airline’s in-flight magazine, Journey Magazine, before she joined the Fever. During her tenure with Ambassadair, she also managed tour operations and helped in the development of new tours and products. Graue is a 1989 graduate of Ball State University where she completed her undergraduate degree in public relations. Born and raised in Greensburg, Ind., she has been an active participant in sports all of her life – taking part in basketball, volleyball, softball, track and tennis. Graue married her husband Geoff in November 2003, and the couple has a daughter, Sierra (6). A resident of Noblesville, Ind., she is an active member of Woman’s Life Chapter 611 and serves on the committee for the “Women Like Us” tea and speaker series. She also is a volunteer mentor for the Common Goal Task Force, an initiative of the Greater Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce to help raise high school graduation rates in Marion County. KEVIN MESSENGER MEDIA RELATIONS DIRECTOR Kevin Messenger is in his 10th year as the Fever's director of media relations, responsible for all duties related to the team's publicity, media operations and public information. He also serves as a PR contact for Bankers Life Fieldhouse events including concerts, ice shows, circus and rodeo events, and high school and college sports events. A native of Denver, Colo., he attended the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif., before embarking on a career which included collegiate stints at UNLV, Indiana State, Pacific and Maryland. Most recently, he worked with the Maryland football and women's basketball teams in 1999 and 2000 before directing media efforts for three seasons with the Terrapins' nationally prominent men's basketball program. While at Maryland, he worked in a media market comprising the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. metro areas - the largest media concentration of its kind among U.S. colleges. He twice attended the Final Four with the Terrapins' basketball team while working daily with local, regional and national media outlets. A college sports information director dating to his college years in California, Messenger has worked with baseball, basketball, football, golf, soccer, water polo and volleyball teams during his career. He boasts distinction as having been a part of three NCAA championship teams - 1985 and 1986 Pacific women's volleyball, and 2002 Maryland men's basketball. This is his second career stop in Indianapolis, having spent three years in Indy from 1995 to 1998, working with U.S. Water Polo and a professional indoor soccer franchise before making a return to college athletics. Messenger received a bachelor's degree in communications from UOP in 1987. His professional career began as an assistant sports information director at UNLV in summer of 1987. He was hired as the SID at Indiana State University in 1989, and made a return to his alma mater for a four-year stint as SID from 1991-95. He resides in Brownsburg with his wife Melissa and stepdaughter Madison. While Kelly Krauskopf has guided the Fever for 13 years, Graue and Messenger begin their 11th and 10th seasons, respectively. 18 • FeverBasketball.com
SEVEN CONSECUTIVE WNBA PLAYOFF APPEARANCES FEVER BASKETBALL CORPORATION ROBERTA COURTRIGHT COMMUNITY RELATIONS & SPECIAL PROJECTS MANAGER Entering her sixth season with the Fever, Roberta Courtright handles all day-to-day community efforts as the team’s manager of community relations and special projects. Courtright joined the Indiana franchise after two years with the Detroit Pistons and Detroit Shock. She served a community relations internship in 2005 before acting as the Pistons’ community relations auction manager during most of the 2006-07 NBA season. A graduate of Aquinas College in her hometown of Grand Rapids, Mich., she was a member of the Aquinas softball team in 2001-02, and traveled with the U.S. Coast-to-Coast Softball Team, ASHLEY FLOYD Pacers/Fever Basketball Operations Coordinator BRITTANY HOLLINGSWORTH Equipment Manager TIM EDWARDS Public Information Assistant representing the United States in an international softball tournament in the Netherlands and Belgium. She graduated from Aquinas while majoring in business administration/sports management, and receiving a minor in coaching. She also coached the Grand Rapids Christian High School softball team for four years, the same school from which she graduated and played softball. She served as a basketball statistician and volunteered with a variety of community programs when she was a student, and participated in an exchange student program by spending two weeks in Japan during 2000. Courtright has been an active participant in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program since 2002. HANSEN WONG Video Coordinator JENNY BRENNAN Assistant Trainer One of the company’s longest active staffers, Tim Edwards has represented Pacers Sports & Entertainment since 1983. FeverBasketball.com • 19
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