Team Personnel

Bliss Littler
General Manager

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NOTABLE QUOTES:

“His teams were always very competitive, well coached, prepared to play each night… his players always conducted themselves in a professional manner… I personally knew many of the players he coached over the years and I can say I never heard anything negative about him from any of them.” Jim Kronschnabel Former Owner/Managing Partner – Sioux City Musketeers, USHL Former Chairman of the Board, USHL

“I have experience at virtually every level of hockey, Major Junior, Tier II, lower professional and the AHL.  Bliss is by far the best coach that I have ever employed… is extremely organized. . . . can stay within a budget . . . he has also many great ideas that the marketing department can use to increase the bottom line ” Eric Bonanno Former Owner Billings Bulls, AWHL/NAHL Former President Kentucky Thoroughblades, AHL

“In Bliss Littler, you get the full package. Coach Littler will spend countless hours in preparing his athletes to perform at their best and achieve more than they expected.” Greg Shea President Tri-City Storm Hockey Club, USHL

“Bliss had a goal for our staff to “Do junior hockey today better than it has ever been done before.” If you do your job and do it well, Bliss will be your biggest supporter. On the flipside, if you slip in your performance he expects immediate improvement, which is quite fair in my opinion.” Bill Nervig Trainer, Omaha Lancers, USHL

With a career spanning 34 seasons behind the bench, Wenatchee Wild General Manager Bliss Littler is USA Hockey’s all time Tier 1 and Tier 2 winningest coach, with 836 regular season wins and a winning percentage of .635. The last 11 of those years were in the northwest with the Wenatchee Wild. Prior to arriving in Wenatchee, Bliss spent 11 years in the United States Hockey League as a Head Coach/General Manager with the Omaha Lancers, Tri-City Storm, and the Topeka Scarecrows. Five times he served as a coach for USA Hockey in international competitions. He launched his coaching career by spending seven years with the Billings Bulls of the AFHL and AWHL where he won five Borne Cups. He sported an overall record of 326-210-59 in the USHL, winning one Anderson Cup. In his career, he has coached over 300 players who moved on to play Division I hockey. He has also coached 25 NHL draft picks, including two first round picks, and seen more than 20 of his former players advance to the NHL. He also holds a Bachelor Degree in General Studies from Minot State University. Bliss is married to his wife Gretchen, and they have two children, Cade and Grace. They make their full-time home here in the Wenatchee Valley.

COACHING HIGHLIGHTS

• 2018 – BCHL – Joe Tennant Memorial Trophy for Coach of the Year
• 2018 – CJHL Doyle Cup Pacific Region Championship
• 2018 – BCHL Fred Page Cup Championship
• 2017 – BCHL – Joe Tennant Memorial Trophy for Coach of the Year
• 2016 – BCHL Mainland Division Coach of the Year
• 2011 – Assistant Coach USA World Junior A Challenge (Bronze Medal) Langley, B.C.
• 2008 – Assistant Coach USA World Junior A Challenge (Gold Medal) Camrose, Alberta
• 2002 – Head Coach USA 19 and under Viking Cup (3-1-1 record) Camrose, Alberta
• 2000 – Assistant Coach USA 19 and under Viking Cup (Gold Medal) Camrose, Alberta
• 1997 – Assistant Coach USA 19 and under, Berne Cup(Gold Medal)Berne, Switzerland

DEVELOPMENT

• More than 300 players have moved on to play Division I hockey.
• Over 25 NHL draft picks.
• 2 NHL first round draft picks.
• Over 20 players have advanced to play in the NHL.

Chris Clark

Assistant General Manager / Director of Hockey Operations
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Chris will serve the Wild in a full-time management & administration role for the first time in 2025-26, after serving as part of the Wenatchee Wild coaching staff since the team’s inception in 2008. Most recently, he was Wenatchee’s associate head coach and assistant general manager from 2023-25, following the team’s transition into the Western Hockey League. As assistant coach, Chris helped and worked with 8 NCAA Division I, 3 WHL and 2 NHL drafted goaltenders. He served as Head Coach from December 2019 to June 2023.

Prior to joining the Wenatchee Wild, Chris spent the 2007-08 season as a graduate assistant at Division I Minnesota State University – Mankato (WCHA).

Chris played college hockey for the Minnesota State University -Mankato Mavericks from 2003 to 2007, when he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Sports Management and a minor in Marketing. Chris was a member of the WCHA All-Academic team from 2004-2007 and received the Mavericks Most Improved Player in 2004-05.  He was honored in the 2007 WCHA Final Five program for his volunteer work in the Mankato community.

Before moving on to college, Chris played junior hockey from 2001 to 2003 in the BCHL and was a member of the 2000-01 Fred Page Cup Champion Victoria Salsa.

Chris and his wife Julie live in Wenatchee with their son Cooper and their dog Madison.

 

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Leigh Mendelson

Director of Scouting
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The 2025-26 season will be the start of Leigh’s ninth season with the Wild. He previously served as Associate Head Coach through the 2022 season, when he transitioned to his full-time Director of Scouting role, and also served as goaltender coach through the 2025 offseason.

Leigh has coached previously in Europe, as well as the AHL, ECHL, WHL, NCAA, NTDP, USHL, BCHL and NAHL, and was on staff as part of the Wild’s 2018 BCHL Championship team.

Don Nachbaur

Head Coach

The Wenatchee Wild are excited to welcome Don Nachbaur back to the Wild family for his second season as the team’s head coach in 2025-26. Nachbaur came to Wenatchee after serving for the past three seasons as an American Hockey League assistant coach in the Calgary Flames organization, most recently for the Calgary Wranglers and previously the Stockton Heat.

A native of Kitimat, British Columbia, Nachbaur has built an extensive and decorated coaching resume following a 15-year professional playing career. Prior to moving into the pro ranks, he played two seasons in the WHL with the Billings Bighorns, scoring 67 goals and 146 points from 1977 to 1979. He still shares the WHL record with a five-goal playoff game in 1978. Nachbaur was selected by the Hartford Whalers in the third round of the 1979 National Hockey League draft and played in nearly 900 professional contests, including 223 NHL games for the Whalers, Edmonton Oilers and Philadelphia Flyers. He also claimed an AHL Calder Cup in 1988 as a member of the Hershey Bears.

During a 31-year coaching career, Nachbaur has guided teams at the highest levels of the sport, including eight seasons as an assistant in the NHL and AHL, and two years as a head coach in Europe. He is also a proven winner as a Western Hockey League head coach and is especially familiar with the league’s U.S. Division, with 20 seasons of experience as a bench boss with the Seattle Thunderbirds, Tri-City Americans and Spokane Chiefs, in addition to the Wild. The third-winningest head coach in WHL history, Nachbaur earned his 700th WHL victory November 20, 2024 at the Kelowna Rockets, and has earned three Dunc McCallum Memorial Trophies as the WHL’s Coach of the Year – he is the only coach in Canadian Hockey League history to earn Coach of the Year honors for three different CHL teams. He has also enjoyed international success behind the bench, serving as an assistant coach for Canada at the 2013 World Junior Championships, and winning gold at international competitions as an assistant coach for the Canadian under-18 team.

Nachbaur has family ties to the city of Wenatchee and the Wild organization, with son Daniel playing for the Wild in the British Columbia Hockey League during the 2015-16 season before embarking on a four-year NCAA playing career at UMass-Boston. Don and his wife Kim have two adult children, Sydney and Daniel.

 

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Dan Johnston

Assistant Coach

The Wenatchee Wild are pleased to welcome Daniel Johnston back to the Wild family for his second season as the team’s assistant coach in 2025-26. A native of Calgary, Alberta, Johnston served in his hometown with the Calgary Wranglers of the American Hockey League (AHL) for the previous two seasons, handling video coaching and team services duties.

As a player, Johnston stepped onto the ice for more than 250 games over six Western Hockey League seasons with the Portland Winterhawks and Lethbridge Hurricanes from 2007 to 2013. His professional playing career spanned nearly 200 appearances in a five-year ECHL career before his retirement in 2018. His hiring in Wenatchee marks a return to the WHL after opening his coaching career with a two-year stint as a video coach, and later an assistant coach, for the Brandon Wheat Kings from 2020 to 2022.

Daniel is excited about helping the Wild build on their foundation of talent for success.

 

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Ethan Goldberg

Assistant Coach

The Wenatchee Wild are pleased to welcome Ethan Goldberg to the Wild family for his first season as an assistant coach in 2025-26. A native of Green Oaks, Illinois, Goldberg brings 13 years of coaching experience to the organization, including nine in the United States Hockey League with the Youngstown Phantoms, Sioux City Musketeers & Tri-City Storm. He most recently spent the 2024-25 season with Youngstown as the club’s Director of Player Development.

He was noted for his success in guiding the Tri-City penalty kill over his five years in central Nebraska, helping the club win the USHL’s Anderson Cup regular-season title in 2019 and overseeing the league’s top penalty kill in both the 2018-19 and 2019-20 seasons. He also served on Sioux City’s staff during its run to the Anderson Cup title in 2017 under current Philadelphia Flyers assistant Jay Varady.

Additionally, he comes to the Wild with NCAA experience at Lake Forest College in Illinois and Bemidji State University in Minnesota, and two years of European coaching experience. Goldberg has one season under his belt as an assistant for the SaiPa club in Liiga, Finland’s top professional hockey league, and another as head coach of Angers in Ligue Magnus, the top professional circuit in France.

 

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Eric Williams

Goaltender Coach

The Wild are excited to welcome Eric Williams to the organization in 2025-26 for his first season as the club’s goaltender coach. The native of Langley, British Columbia comes to the Wild after a three-year stretch as a goaltender consultant for the British Columbia Hockey League’s Chilliwack Chiefs.

During his coaching career, Williams has lent his experience to West Vancouver Academy (now the North Shore Warriors) of the Canadian Sport School Hockey League and the Valley West Giants of the British Columbia Elite Hockey League, as well as the last three years with Chilliwack in the BCHL. In two of his three seasons on the Chilliwack staff, the Chiefs reached the Coastal Conference finals, with the club playing in the 2025 Fred Page Cup Final.

Williams built a decorated resume over a four-year playing career in the Western Hockey League with the Prince Albert Raiders and Spokane Chiefs from 2010 to 2014, appearing in 199 WHL games and earning 98 career wins, tying for 21^st on the league’s career wins list. He briefly joined the Colorado Eagles’ roster in the ECHL before embarking on a two-year collegiate run in Canada. He earned a spot on the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (now U Sports) National All-Rookie Team for the 2014-15 season, the first of his two seasons with the University of British Columbia.

Williams also reunites with Wenatchee head coach Don Nachbaur, for whom he played in Spokane from 2011 to 2014. His 73 wins in a Chiefs uniform rank third on the team’s all-time wins leaderboard.

 

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Jordan McTaggart

Skills Coach
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Coach McTaggart comes to Wenatchee from the Yellowstone Quake of the NA3HL. McTaggart, a Seattle native, played his junior hockey with the Quake before seeing an opportunity to be an assistant coach of the team he once suited up for. Following two seasons coaching in Wyoming, he came back to Washington to help coach with the Team Seattle AAA program. After two years there, McTaggart crossed the border north into Canada, taking a role as head coach of the Banff Hockey Academy midget varsity team in Alberta. That, along with being an assistant coach on the midget prep team, consumed McTaggart’s time for the next four years. Deciding to come back to the United States, McTaggart went back to Yellowstone for his second stint with the Quake, being an assistant coach there once again. With deep hockey roots, McTaggart’s father, Jim, played in the NHL for the Washington Capitals, and coached in the WHL with the Seattle Thunderbirds after retiring. Jordan looks to help prepare players for the next level of hockey, using the wisdom and experience he’s gathered from the junior hockey ranks.

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Jordan McTaggart

Co-Coach 18UAAA / Player Development Coach 14U / WWHA Travel Coordinator
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Coach McTaggart joined the Wild organization in 2018 from the Yellowstone Quake of the NA3HL. McTaggart, a Seattle native, played his junior hockey with the Quake before seeing an opportunity to be an assistant coach of the team he once suited up for. Following two seasons coaching in Wyoming, he came back to Washington to help coach with the Team Seattle AAA program. After two years there, McTaggart crossed the border north into Canada, taking a role as head coach of the Banff Hockey Academy midget varsity team in Alberta. That, along with being an assistant coach on the midget prep team, consumed McTaggart’s time for the next four years. Deciding to come back to the United States, McTaggart went back to Yellowstone for his second stint with the Quake, being an assistant coach there once again. With deep hockey roots, McTaggart’s father, Jim, played in the NHL for the Washington Capitals, and coached in the WHL with the Seattle Thunderbirds after retiring. Jordan looks to help prepare players for the next level of hockey, using the wisdom and experience he’s gathered from the junior hockey ranks.

 

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Pat Norlin

Head Coach 16UAAA
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The Wenatchee Wild Hockey Academy is excited to welcome Pat Norlin back to the Wenatchee Wild organization for the 2026-27 season as its 16U head coach.

After playing through the Wenatchee Amateur Hockey Association, Pat played junior hockey for the Kootenai Colts and the Puget Sound Tomahawks of the Northern Pacific Hockey League before into coaching. Pat has coached at the Tier 2 level from Mites to Midgets.

Pat was involved with the Wenatchee Wild from its inception through the first five years in many capacities including scouting, skill development and coaching its Tier 1 development teams.

Pat has coached 14U Tier 1 and 16U Tier 1 hockey at the highest levels in Western Canada and the United States, including the North American Prospects Hockey League and the Canadian Sport School Hockey League. Pat has also been an assistant coach for the Wenatchee Wolves, a 18U Tier 1 team that played in the Tier 3 Jr. A NPHL. Pat also spent a year coaching in Montana for the Helena Bighorns, where they went a franchise best 46-1-1, won the American West Hockey League and went to the national tournament. Across all these teams he has coached many players who moved on to higher levels including Tier 2 Jr. A, ACHA, NCAA and the NHL.

After spending several years working in tourism and finance, Pat finally returned to the Wild family ahead of the 2024-25 season.

Pat and his wife Rachel live in Wenatchee with their daughter Quinn, their son Cohen and their dog Jax.

 

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Josh Chamberlain

Assistant Coach, 16UAAA

The Wenatchee Wild Hockey Academy is excited to welcome Josh Chamberlain back to the Wild Family to serve as its 16U assistant coach for the 2026-27 season. A native of Spokane, Washington, Chamberlain has worn a Wenatchee jersey both as a member of the 18U Wenatchee Wolves club and the Wenatchee Wild organization during its Junior A era.

Chamberlain spent much of his junior playing career in Montana and Washington, starting with the Western States Hockey League’s Missoula Maulers in 2013-14. He racked up 53 points for the Wenatchee Wolves in NorPac Hockey League play the following season, and earned a pair of appearances for the Wild in the NAHL. In 2015-16, he split time between Wenatchee and Missoula, including five BCHL appearances for the Wild, before closing out his career over the next two years with the NA3HL’s Missoula Jr. Bruins and the WSHL’s Oklahoma City Jr. Blazers.

His five-year collegiate career included three seasons of NCAA Division III hockey with New England College, and two years of ACHA play at the University of Montana.

He returns to the Valley alongside his fiance and their mutt, Millie.

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Spencer White

Head Coach, 14UAAA

 

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Leigh Mendelson

Director of Scouting
[email protected]

The 2025-26 season will be the start of Leigh’s ninth season with the Wild. He previously served as Associate Head Coach through the 2022 season, when he transitioned to his full-time Director of Scouting role.

Leigh has coached previously in Europe, as well as the AHL, ECHL, WHL, NCAA, NTDP, USHL, BCHL and NAHL, and was on staff as part of the Wild’s 2018 BCHL Championship team.

 

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Riley Emmerson

B.C. Scout

Riley Emmerson is serving as the team’s provincial scout in British Columbia, after a 10-year professional career that included a seventh-round selection by the Minnesota Wild in the 2005 National Hockey League Draft. Emmerson played in the American Hockey League, ECHL and Central Hockey League during his pro career, and finished his playing career with a two-year stint in Great Britain. Emmerson currently serves as a head coach for the Fraser Valley Thunderbirds in the B.C. Elite Hockey League, and works with the B.C. Program of Excellence.

 

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Jeff Urekar

B.C. Scout

Urekar joined the Wild scouting staff during the 2023-24 season, and has served as the head coach for the U15 program at Okanagan Hockey Academy in Penticton, British Columbia since 2021. He previously served in coaching and scouting roles with the British Columbia Hockey League’s Trail Smoke Eaters.

Prior to his time with the Smoke Eaters, Jeff spent five years with the Vancouver North East Chiefs, holding several roles for the U18 club including Head of Scouting, Associate Coach and Head Coach. He has also spent time as a regional camp evaluator for BC Hockey at the U15 and U16 levels, serving as head coach for both the 2017 U15 BC Cup and the 2018 U16 BC Cup teams. Jeff was also on the bench as an assistant coach to Team BC at the 2021 U16 WHL Cup.

 

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Keegan Bell

Alberta Scout

Keegan Bell is serving as the team’s provincial scout in Alberta, after getting his start in the scouting world with the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League’s Kindersley Klippers in 2011. He joined the United States Hockey League’s Sioux City Musketeers in 2014 as their Western Canadian scout, and had served as Sioux City’s Assistant Director of Scouting since 2019, helping the team to a 2022 USHL Clark Cup title. He was also the Northern Head Scout for the Alberta Junior Hockey League’s Drumheller Dragons during the 2017-18 campaign.

 

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Andrew Bailey

Saskatchewan Scout

Andrew Bailey is serving as the team’s Saskatchewan scout, returning to the organization for which he once played – Bailey suited up for four years in the WHL with the former Kootenay ICE from 2005 to 2009, playing in 276 consecutive games. He played for five years at the University of Saskatchewan while obtaining a bachelor’s degree in commerce, and played one season of pro hockey in Germany. Andrew has spent the past 15 years involved in coaching and player development.

 

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Mitchell Kirkup

Manitoba Scout

Mitchell Kirkup is the team’s provincial scout in Manitoba, entering his 12^th season as a WHL scout after previous stints with the Spokane Chiefs and Prince George Cougars. Kirkup also serves as the Director of Scouting for the Manitoba Junior Hockey League’s Swan Valley Stampeders, playing three years in the MJHL before obtaining his degree in education.

 

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Sharon Seguin MD, FAAD

Team Physician

Dr. Seguin earned a BS in Microbiology from UCLA and a Doctor of Medicine from Loyola University of Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine. She completed post-doctorate residency training in Internal Medicine at Madigan Army Medical Center and in Dermatology at Walter Reed AMC and earned Board Certification in both specialties. She served in the US Army for 11 years. Sharon and her husband Matt moved to Wenatchee in 2000 where they have raised three sons. Dr. Seguin is a physician at Confluence Health and has been a team doctor for the Wild for 12 years. The Seguins have served as a billet family for the Wild for 10 years.

 

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Dan Ritzke PA-C

Team Physician Assistant

Dan has been part of the Wild medical staff since the 2014 season.  He earned his Bachelor of Science in Exercise and Sports Science at the University of Wisconsin -La Crosse and completed his physician assistant training at Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana.  He is board certified by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants.  Dan has practiced in orthopaedics for 19 years with the last 16 as part of the Confluence Health Orthopaedic Department.  The Ritzkes have also been a billet family for the past seven seasons.  Dan and his wife Billie live in Wenatchee with their two boys, Jacob and Zach.

 

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Ben Albertson, M.D.

Team Physician

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Mark Anderton, D.M.D.

Team Dentist

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Larissa Gemer

Athletic Trainer

Larissa is in her first full season with the Wenatchee Wild after joining the team in February from Okanagan Hockey Academy in Penticton, British Columbia, where served from 2022 through 2025. A graduate of the University of British Columbia’s School of Kinesiology, she later completed an Honours Bachelors of Applied Heath Sciences degree in Athletic Therapy from Sheridan College in Ontario.

Since first interning with high school hockey and football programs in Wisconsin in 2008, Gemer has also worked at the university level with the University of British Columbia and Toronto Metropolitan University hockey teams. She has worked in a variety of sports in her career in addition to her work on the ice, including field hockey, soccer, volleyball and basketball.

 

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Pepe Sandoval

Support Staff

Pepe has been with the Wild franchise since the beginning. It’s been said, “If you don’t get along with Pepe, it’s probably YOU!” Pepe lives in Wenatchee.

 

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Tammi Flynn, MS, RD, CSSD, CSCS

Nutritionist / Strength and Conditioning

Tammi is a registered dietitian and fitness professional who has been in the industry since the 1980’s.  Her more recent certifications are in CrossFit, sports nutrition, and as a strength and conditioning specialist.  Her current interests are focused on programming and diet for young athletes to maximize their performance.  She has worked with local soccer, lacrosse, track, cross-country skiing, wrestling, and hockey teams.

 

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Max Crowell

Worx of Wenatchee
Strength Training

Max is a Certified Personal Trainer at Worx Gym of Wenatchee Valley.  He works with the Wild several times a week with strength and conditioning.  He attained his bachelors degree in Clinical Physiology at Central Washington University and is working on becoming a certified strength and conditioning specialist through NSCA.  Max pursues a career in training high level athletes.

 

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Mike Harris

Security Liaison

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Shawn Little

Team Chaplain

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Dr. Ali Morgan

Academic Advisor

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Jesi Janes

Billet Coordinator

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Don Myers

WHL Respect Champion

Gretchen Littler

Director of Sales & Marketing

Gretchen began working with the Wild organization during the 2016-2017 season working with group sales, and joined the Wild family full-time in 2017-18 as the team’s Director of Sales and Marketing. She wears many hats for the organization, handling group ticket sales, season tickets and corporate partnerships.

Gretchen and her family moved to the Wenatchee Valley in 2012 and has been surrounded by hockey as a coach’s wife and her kids’ hockey journeys.  The Littlers are proud to call the Wenatchee Valley home.

 

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David Rayfield

Senior Sales & Operations Coordinator

David returned to the Wenatchee Wild as Senior Sales and Operations Coordinator in 2018. David was previously a member of the Wild staff from 2013-2016 as the Director of Game Day Operations. David was born and raised in the Valley, graduating from Cascade High School in Leavenworth. He then headed to Pullman to attend Washington State University, where he graduated in 2013 with a bachelor’s degree in Sport Management. Making the Wild a fun family experience that everyone in the Wenatchee Valley can enjoy is extremely important to David.

His primary focus includes developing and evolving partnerships via creative sponsorship opportunities. David is always looking to present local business brands in front of Wild fans. Representing our sponsors in a fun interactive way to our fans is extremely important and beneficial to all. David also assists in the selling of season tickets, groups, and single-game tickets.

 

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Maddy Corgiat

Office Manager & Merchandise Coordinator

Maddy returns for her fifth season with the Wild in 2025-26, and fourth season as part of the full-time front office staff. She interned with the team in 2021-22, and graduated from Central Washington University in 2022 with a degree in sports management. She grew up playing sports, and loved visiting Wenatchee for tournaments. Maddy is competitive by nature and loves the camaraderie of sports, but most of all likes being behind the scenes making the competition happen. At CWU, she officiated different levels of intramural sports.

 

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Jesi Janes

Bookkeeper & Billet Coordinator

Jesi Janes joined the Wenatchee Wild at the end of the 2016-2017 season as the team’s Bookkeeper, and added Billet Coordinator duties in June of 2025. Jesi was born and raised in the Wenatchee Valley, and graduated from Central Washington University.  For the last three years, she has played an active role as Secretary and Registrar for the Wenatchee Amateur Hockey Association.  Away from the office, you will find her at the rink a majority of her time as both of her sons have participated in Youth Hockey, and son Mason currently plays for the Wenatchee Wild Hockey Academy’s 16-and-Under team. She has a passion for hockey and her family have been Season Ticket Members for numerous years.  She is honored to be a part of the Wenatchee Wild team and is excited about being a part of this great organization. Go Wild!

 

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Austin Draude

Media Relations & Broadcast Manager

Austin Draude marks his 13th season in junior hockey and fourth with the Wild in 2025-26, joining the team in October 2022 after a nine-year stint with the North Iowa Bulls of the North American Hockey League. He started part-time as the team’s primary play-by-play voice before moving into a full-time Director of Media role in 2019.

Draude filled a number of roles for the Bulls, broadcasting games for the team as well as overseeing the team’s social media, graphic design and multimedia efforts. He also helped to see the team through its move to a new arena in 2020 and its transition from the North American 3 Hockey League to the NAHL the following year.

A native of Des Moines, Iowa, Austin is blessed to have a chance to call the Wenatchee Valley home and excited to be a part of the Wild family.

 

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Sky Engler

Account Executive

Sky comes to the Wild family by way of Pullman, Washington. Originally from Sonoma, California, she was raised in a military family and has lived in quite a few states, but that’s given her the chance to decide on Washington as her favorite!

Sky enjoys traveling, adventures and experiencing new places, and is excited for this new adventure in Wenatchee.

 

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Michelle Scarabello

Accountant

Michelle Scarabello was born and raised in Fresno, California. She attended California State University, Fresno and graduated with a degree in Business Administration, emphasis in Accounting, in 2016. She still resides in Fresno and currently works for Krikorian & Company Accountancy Corporation. She’s worked for Krikorian & Company since early 2016.

Michelle loves sports, but hockey is her favorite. She’s been to many NHL games and loves the experience. As a hockey fan, she was very excited for this opportunity and officially joined the Wenatchee Wild in February 2020.

 

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Arch Ecker

Broadcaster Emeritus

Arch Ecker joined the Wenatchee Wild in the summer of 2016 after working 20 seasons of junior hockey in the AFHL, AWHL, and NAHL, all Tier II Junior A leagues. He’d spent the prior ten seasons with the Topeka (and Santa Fe) RoadRunners, following four seasons with the Helena Bighorns and six with the Butte Irish. He performed numerous duties over the years with the teams in the front office and was a talented musician, playing in the band “No Promises” and releasing his first single, “I’ve Got a Feeling,” just before his passing in September 2022. However, his true passion remained broadcasting, calling nearly 1,500 regular season and playoff games at the Tier II level, and dozens more at Tier III and Junior B levels. 

Though Arch is no longer with us, he will always be a member of the Wild family!

The game day experience for Wenatchee Wild fans is one that we strive to make special and memorable. It takes a coordinated effort by dozens of individuals to make every Wild home game not just a thrilling spectacle of sport, but a family friendly, bright and colorful event.

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AV Booth

• John Connor, Ryan Nelson, Creighton Wright – Public Address Announcers
• Bethany Morrison – Graphics/AV Booth Director
• Chris Cochran – Graphics
• Levi Day – Replay
• Zach Cook – Lights
• Carl Polson – Switcher
• Kellen Manhart – Music Director
• Sarai King – Switcher/Camera
• Sam Fresonke – Replay/Camera
• Tommy Ware, Teegan Morgan, Barrett King, Elisabeth Silva, Blain Raven, Jagen Longwill, David Muchnikoff, Jakob Buhler, Donny Joiner, Drew Whitman – Camera Operators
• Alman Media Group – Team Photographer
• Ben Holten – Team Photographer
• Logan Finley – Team Photographer

Off-Ice Officials

• Suzy Howard – Computer Scorekeeper / Off-Ice Scheduler
• Lonnie Howard – Goal Judge / Penalty Box
• Megan Howard – Shot Chart / Stats
• Jim Clark – Score Sheet
• Chris Cronrath – Goal Judge
• Howard Perryman – Clock / Scoresheet / Penalty Box
• John Bleichner – Penalty Box
• Brad Buchsieb – Shots / Stats / Goal Judge
• Kasey Hampton, Spencer White – League Replay

Part time off-ice officials include: Michelle Singleton, Willow Merritt, Casi Tarr, Josh Tarr, Monte Montoya, Gary Roy, Lisa Peterson, Russ Peterson.

Ushers

• Debbie Gravelle – Lead Usher

Merchandise

• Julie Seward – Merchandise
• Mike Seward – Merchandise

Interns

For info on becoming an intern: https://www.wenatcheewildhockey.com/wild-interns/

Back of House

• Zack Hendricks – Director of Operations (TTC)
• Jeremy Posenjak – Zamboni Driver

Mascot Coordinator

• David Rayfield – Mascot Coordinator