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Baseball
Stan Conte resigned as Los Angeles Dodgers vice president of medical services and head athletic trainer.

The Washington Nationals promoted Jacqueline Coleman to vice president of broadcasting and game production.

The Seattle Mariners promoted director of pro scouting Tom Allison to oversee all scouting operations and hired Andy McKay as director of player development, replacing Chris Gwynn, who resigned. McKay was peak performance coordinator for the Colorado Rockies.

SCAGLION
The Class A Lexington (Ky.) Legends hired Jesse Scaglion as senior corporate sales executive.

The Class AA Jacksonville Suns hired Noel Blaha as assistant general manager and Andrea Williams as community relations manager.

The Seattle Mariners named Joe Bohringer special assistant to the general manager.

The Los Angeles Angels hired Eric Chavez as special assistant to general manager Billy Eppler.

BRAMLETTE
Ripken Baseball named John Bramlette as executive vice president of amateur baseball.

The Minnesota Twins promoted Dustin Morse to senior director of communications and Chris Iles to senior director of content. Kevin Smith, senior director of corporate communications and broadcasting, left the organization.

The Baseball Writers Association of America named Derrick Goold president. Goold is the Cardinals beat reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

DENNIS
The Class AA Frisco (Texas) RoughRiders named Breon Dennis vice president of community development and executive director of the RoughRiders Foundation; Austin Cain, Jeff Clark, Johnny Coenen, Kaitlyn Cox and Kanavis Wright group sale executives; Hillary Adams, LaJewelia Lewis and Jacob Sappington ticket sales coordinators; and Adam Dolezal ticket operations and box office coordinator.

Basketball
The Charlotte Hornets’ Greensboro, N.C., NBA D-League team named Steve Swetoha president. Swetoha is former president of the WNBA Tulsa Shock.

The National Basketball Players Association named Erica McKinley chief operating officer.

The Utah Jazz named Linda Luchetti vice president of basketball operations.
    

NEAL
The Philadelphia 76ers hired Jeff Neal as director of digital and ticket marketing. Neal was manager of social media for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

The Atlanta Hawks hired the Rev. Toussaint Hill Jr. as a community consultant. Hill is senior pastor of the West Hunter Street Baptist Church.

Colleges
Rice University named Lizzie Haldane director of branding and Matt Anderson assistant director of marketing.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis hired Roderick Perry as athletic director. Perry was deputy athletic director at Wright State University.

The University of Texas hired John Bianco
as associate athletic director for football media relations.

Kean University promoted Jack McKiernan to athletic director.

Facilities
Pocono Raceway named Bob Pallo vice president of military affairs and hired Mike Evranian as senior director of business development and Ryan Yanoshak as senior director of communications.
 
Marketing
RBB Communications hired Marlon Lewinter as an account director. Lewinter was an account director at Catalyst IMG.

DERDA
Learfield Sports hired Bob Derda as general manager and Arielle Love as coordinator of business development at Duquesne University.

Team One promoted Jamie Elliott to management supervisor and Kaitlin Kerns to account supervisor.

Media
Comcast SportsNet Chicago hired Leila Rahimi as anchor and reporter.

Nickelodeon named Leslie Byxbee manager of corporate communications. Byxbee was manager of corporate communications and publicity for WWE.

BLANGIARDI
Fox Sports hired Barbara Blangiardi as senior vice president of strategies and creative partnerships.

Activision Blizzard hired Mike Sepso as senior vice president of e-sports. Sepso was co-founder and president of Major League Gaming.

Motorsports
AMA Pro Racing promoted Michael Lock to chief executive officer.

Olympics
Hugh Robertson was elected vice chair of the British Olympic Committee. Annamarie Phelps, Hew Chalmers and Ian Howard were elected to the board as National Governing Body representatives. Outgoing Vice Chair David Hemery was named life vice president.

Soccer
The Philadelphia Union hired Earnie Stewart as sporting director. Stewart was director of football affairs at Dutch club AZ Alkmaar.

Awards and Boards
The National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame named Mark Ball, Marc Hudak, Richard Lewis, Gerry McGuire and Tom Taradash recipients of the 2015 Chapter Leadership Awards.


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