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Executive Transactions

The WNBA Indiana Fever added GM to VP/Basketball Operations TAMIKA CATCHINGS' title (AP, 11/26)....Marquee Sports Network named Chicago-based WGN-TV Dir of Production BOB VORWALD Special Advisor to GM MICHAEL MCCARTHY. Vorwald had been with WGN Sports since '98 (Marquee)....Univ. of Northern Iowa AD DAVID HARRIS signed an extension to add five years to his contract, which will keep him in his role through June '25 (UNI)....The Univ. of Maryland named Big Ten Assistant Commissioner/Communications JASON YELLIN Associate AD & Strategic Communications Officer (Maryland)....IMSA promoted VP/Marketing DAVID PETTIT to Senior VP/ Marketing & Business Operations and Senior Dir of Corporate Partnership Marketing BRANDON HUDDLESTON to VP/Partnership Marketing & Business Development (IMSA)....Golf Canada named former Golf Channel Senior VP/Programming & Digital Partnerships PHIL PIAZZA to an advisory role, where he will report to CCO JOHN SIBLEY (Golf Canada)....Kansas-based design firm Dimensional Innovations named DOUG HANCOCK to the newly created position of Project Manager. Hancock will be based in Gainesville. The firm also named FRANK DAVI Account Dir (Dimensional Innovations).

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