Gretchen Littler
Director of Sales & Marketing
Gretchen Littler serves a dual role in the office, handling group ticket sales as well as corporate partnerships. As a hockey mom and hockey wife, Gretchen is surrounded by hockey and is committed to helping the franchise continue to grow in the Valley.
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.
Jesi Janes
Bookkeeper
Jesi Janes joined the Wenatchee Wild at the end of the 2016-2017 Season as their Bookkeeper. Jesi was born and raised in the Wenatchee Valley, and graduated from Central Washington University. For the last two 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 participate in Youth Hockey. 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!
Austin Draude
Media Relations & Broadcast Manager
Austin Draude joined the Wild in October 2022 as the team’s Media Relations and Broadcast Manager, after a nine-year run with the North Iowa Bulls of the North American Hockey League. He served 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.
Kimber McLaughlin
Director of Digital Media
Kimber McLaughlin joined the Wild in October 2022, serving the team first as its Director of Digital Media and Merchandise, and currently handles many of the creative duties for the team, including video content, graphic design and social media.
McLaughlin enters the Wild family with extensive experience serving clients in the state of Washington, most recently on a freelance basis and for Horizon Credit Union in Spokane Valley. Their work was an important part of Horizon’s advertising and communication efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the company’s largest merger to date.
While at Eastern Washington University, Kimber handled graphic design and multimedia editing duties for EWU Marcom in Cheney, Washington, managing EWU and EWU Global’s internal marketing and social media. McLaughlin was also closely involved with Eastern Washington’s marketing efforts through the school’s commercials, programs, sports graphics and webshow, “Get tü Class,” prior to graduating from the university in 2017.
Halcyon McKenna
Account Executive
Halcyon joined the Wild in May of 2023 as an Account Executive. She comes to the organization from One Medical in Everett, where she had been working as a referral specialist, but Halcyon credits the Vegas Golden Knights for pulling her into the sport when they got off the ground in 2017.
After becoming familiar with the youth hockey scene in Everett, she is excited to be able to be involved in the sport on a full-time basis, and to settle in and call the Wenatchee Valley home with her family.
Jeri Elsasser
Graphic Designer
Jeri Elsasser joined the Wenatchee Wild in 2013 as a graphic designer in Fresno, California, joining the staff with team owners David and Lisa White. She graduated from Fresno State in 2008 and began her marketing career full-time in hockey with the Fresno Falcons Hockey Team in the ECHL after a year-long internship. She then went on to become the first staff member hired when the Fresno Monsters Hockey Team formed in 2009, working as the Marketing Director for both the WSHL and NAHL teams.
Away from the office, Jeri is a proud wife, mom, and avid Colorado Avalanche Hockey fan. GO WILD!
Maddy Corgiat
Office Manager & Merchandise Coordinator
Maddy recently graduated from Central Washington University with a degree in sports management. She grew up playing sports and she 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 Central Washington University she officiated different levels of intramural sports.
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.
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!