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USA Badminton named USA Water Polo Dir of Marketing JEFF DYREK CEO (USA Badminton)....The Lightning have hired the following: SAVANNAH DEISERING as Partnership Activation Manager and MADELINE HOOPER and DAN WILLIAMS as Partnership Activation Account Execs (Lightning)....The Double-A Southern League Pensacola Blue Wahoos promoted Dir of Guest Services & Community Relations DONNA KIRBY to VP/Operations and Sales Exec TANNER TUCKER to Corporate Sales Exec. Meanwhile the club appointed the following: PATRICK FOLEY as VP/Sales; CANDICE MILLER as Human Resources Dir; TOMMY TO as Sales Exec and BEN FULTZ as Sales Exec & Community Relations (Blue Wahoos)....Grambling State named South Carolina State AD PAUL BRYANT to the same position. Bryant had been serving as SC State's AD since Aug. '14 (Grambling)....Cornell Univ. AD ANDREW NOEL's contract "has been extended" through June '22 (CORNELL.edu, 11/30)....Georgia Tech named Portland State Univ. AD MARK ROUNTREE Deputy AD (Georgia Tech).

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