U.S. Ski & Snowboard Chief of Sport LUKE BODENSTEINER is leaving the NGB after more than 12 years as the top athletics executive at the U.S.' largest winter sports team. He will leave in mid-July. President & CEO TIGER SHAW and Bodensteiner both declined to give a reason for his departure. Bodensteiner said his next position will involve the "same space, different place, and slightly different objectives" but declined to elaborate. Separately, MLS expansion club Austin FC on Monday named U.S. Ski & Snowboard Dir of Marketing & Communications TOM WEBB VP/PR & Broadcast (Ben Fischer, THE DAILY).
EXECS: Penn State Associate AD/Strategic Communications JEFF NELSON will retire effective July 31 after nearly 26 years with the school (Penn State)....The NBA Kings named Basketball HOFer JOE DUMARS Special Advisor to VP/Basketball Operations & GM VLADE DIVAC (SACBEE.com, 6/21)....Stats named Kofax Senior VP/Americas Sales WAYNE FORD Senior VP/Global Partners & Channels (Stats)....The Spirit Golf Association named Western Golf Association and Evans Scholars Foundation VP/Corporate Partnerships TODD ALFRED President (Spirit Golf).
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