Nelligan Sports Marketing Hires Five New Employees

Nelligan Sports Marketing (NSM) is pleased to announce the hiring of five new employees: Kevin Bryant, Rusty Huelle, Peggy Busch, Dominic Fitzgerald, and Brett Moody. These five bring a variety of experience, knowledge, and energy to NSM and the properties they serve. Kevin joins NSM as the General Manager of Eastern Michigan University. He has an extensive background in radio and sales after earning a degree in Television and Radio Broadcasting from the Specs Howard School of Broadcast Arts in Southfield, Michigan, in 2002. For the last six years Kevin has been employed by Clear Channel Radio and Cumulus Radio as an Account Executive – Sports Marketing Specialist. He also interned with Detroit NBC affiliate WDIV for Sports Final Edition, a weekly sports show, and has over 10 years of advertising sales experience in the Southern Michigan region. He has also sold display advertising for Ann Arbor News. During the 2006-07 season, Kevin was the Public Address announcer for Eastern Michigan men’s basketball. Rusty Huelle is the new Director of Sales for Colorado State University (CSU). He attended CSU from 1985-87 where he was a defensive back and wide receiver on the Rams’ football team. He went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Metro State College of Denver and a master’s degree in Sports Administration from the University of Northern Colorado. As a former coach, recruiter, and business owner, Rusty has a history of success in sales and recruiting in both the business and athletic arenas. His career began in 1989 as an assistant men’s basketball coach for Metro State College of Denver while finishing his degree and continued at the University of Minnesota-Morris in 1992-95 as the head assistant men’s basketball coach. Following the 1995 season, Rusty moved back to Colorado and began his business career in sales. He worked for Lifetime building products in Greeley, Colorado, from 1995-2001, while working simultaneously as a part-time assistant coach for the University of Northern Colorado during their 1999-2002 men’s basketball seasons. In April of 2001, he founded his own home improvement company, We Improve It. In January of 2005, Rusty expanded his business by entering into a partnership with HomeProUSA, which produced increased product lines, revenue, and territories. Peggy Busch will join Rusty at CSU as the Director of Sales. She is a graduate of Northern Iowa University with a master’s degree from the University of Minnesota where she worked in sports marketing for the past five years. Dominick Fitzgerald from Lexington, Kentucky, is a recent graduate of the University of Louisville with a degree in Sports Administration. He has been a volunteer intern with NSM since 2003 and upon his graduation in May 2007 took the graduate assistant position of Marketing Coordinator. This past summer Dominick interned with the Denver Broncos in their sales division. Brett Moody now joins the Little Falls office full-time as a Sales Assistant after interning last summer at NSM’s Providence College office. A 2007 graduate of Williams College, she majored in English and Psychology.