Nominees, Winners Recognized in Three Separate Virtual Sessions This Year

PLANO, Texas (July 22, 2021) – The annual CLYDE Awards, recognizing success among employees throughout LEARFIELD, are being announced virtually this year. Today, during the company’s 2021 Virtual Company Conference, the final award session will take place.

The “CLYDES” were rooted in the celebration of sales success and named for the company’s founder Clyde Lear. The first awards were presented in 2014, recognizing the achievements of employees throughout the company’s multimedia rights (MMR) division. The CLYDES since expanded to recognize successes reflective of all company areas. MMR category nominees and winners were honored on July 16 in the CLYDE Awards day one. The second award session was held on July 21.

Award category Nominees and Winners recognized today are as follows:

CHAIRMAN’S CLUB PROPERTY OF THE YEAR WINNERS

Tier 1 (representing East, South, West, Central Regions respectively):
Ohio State, Arkansas, Texas Tech, Iowa

Tier 2
West Virginia, Ole Miss, Oregon State, Missouri

Tier 3
KFC Yum! Center, Lafayette, TCU, Tulsa

Tier 4
Seton Hall, Louisiana Monroe, UT Arlington, Illinois State

Tier 5
Drexel, College of Charleston, San Jose State, UW-Milwaukee

National Sales
Bill Hirsh and Eddie Quagliariello (New Business)
Lori Bland and Jason Wilmoth (Partnership Management)

BEST NEW PRODUCT AND/OR INVENTORY
Cruising with the Coaches (Univ. of South Carolina)

Fanbase
Fan365
Shirsey (WKU)

COACH OF THE YEAR

Corporate Groups
Ashly Mendez (Field Marketing); Kary Huls (Field Marketing); Leslie Monteith (Quality Control); Matt Epperson (Finance)

Innovation Group
Allie Callari (Insights); Chris Ferris (Broadcasting); Jennifer Walker (Fan365); Korena Stowell (SIDEARM Sports)

Venue Solutions (ANC)
Kevin Faciane, Kristen Savage, Matt Hupfeld, Michael Hopkins

Licensing (CLC)
Cory Moss, Jenny Wallace, John Greeley, Nicole Armentrout

Ticketing
Calleagh Darby (SMU Ticket Solutions); Casey Van Sickle (Washington State Ticket Solutions); Lisa Langham (Paciolan); Rama Sankaralingam (Paciolan)

Multi-Media Rights
Andrew Wheeler (EVP, West Region); Brandon Forbis (Washington); Mike Haake (VP, South Region); Steve Williams (Missouri Valley Conference)

CUTTING EDGE PARTNER INNOVATION
Amazon/Trevco Brand Store & Licensing

Greater Starkville & Mississippi State
Iowa Farm Bureau & Iowa
Toyota & Oregon State 

TICKET SOLUTIONS PROPERTY OF THE YEAR
University of Georgia
University of Iowa
University of Oklahoma