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Visit Panama City Beach Announces Several Personnel Additions

Visit Panama City Beach has announced new staff appointments including Kristen Krasinskas as sports business development manager while promoting Justin Kelley to sports marketing operations manager. Krasinskas served as the director of member experience at InnoLead. She also has previous stops at Invictus Boston, the Cleveland Cavaliers, the AHL’s Lake Erie Monsters, the AFL’s Cleveland […]

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Visit Panama City Beach Tabs Richard Sanders as VP of Special Projects

Visit Panama City Beach has appointed Richard Sanders as vice president of special projects with a focus on the development of the Panama City Beach Sports Complex. Chris O’Brien, director of sports marketing and member of the Sports Events and Tourism Association board of directors, will assume leadership of Panama City Beach sports tourism. “For […]

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Tammy Dunn, Chris O’Brien Named to Sports ETA Board of Directors

Sports ETA has named Tammy Dunn, executive director of the Snohomish County Sports Commission, and Chris O’Brien, director of sports marketing at Visit Panama City Beach in Florida, to its board of directors. Sports ETA is a non-profit trade association for the sports events and tourism industry in the United States with more than 600 […]

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PCB College Baseball Classic Field Announced

Publix Sports Park will host 16 junior college baseball teams in the second annual Panama City Beach College Baseball Classic in Florida scheduled for February 3–5. The three-day preseason tournament features seven teams that finished the 2022 season ranked in the top 20 nationally wth three players in last year’s tournament selected in the first […]

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Publix Sports Park in Panama City Beach, Florida, has tabbed Mike Higgins as its new general manager.

Publix Sports Park Hires Mike Higgins as General Manager

Publix Sports Park in Panama City Beach, Florida, has tabbed Mike Higgins as its new general manager. Higgins comes to Publix Sports Park from the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, where he served as director of championships. While at the NAIA, Higgins led initiatives to improve the student-athlete experience at national championships and was tournament […]

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Panama City Beach Sports Complex Announces Publix as Title Sponsor

Publix Super Markets has signed a new deal to become the title sponsor of the outdoor fields facility at the Panama City Beach Sports Complex, which will be re-christened as “Publix Sports Park” at Panama City Beach. Publix Sports Park is a $41 million-dollar facility with nine turf fields, four natural grass fields, dedicated tournament […]

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Panama City Beach Sports Complex to Host College Baseball Classic

The Panama City Beach Sports Complex and Visit Panama City Beach will host the 2022 NJCAA College Baseball Classic starting February 4 with 16 junior college teams from across the country, 10 of which being nationally ranked either last year or in the 2022 preseason poll. Teams committed include 2022 preseason No. 1 San Jacinto […]

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NAIA Beach Volleyball Heading to Florida in 2022 and 2023

The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics has awarded Visit Panama City Beach in Panama City, Florida, hosting rights for the 2022 and 2023 NAIA Beach Volleyball National Invitational. Beginning in April 2022, NAIA beach volleyball will crown its champion at Russell Fields City Pier Courts. There are 11 regulation beach volleyball courts located on the […]

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Jamie Cox Named General Manager of Panama City Beach Complex

The Panama City Beach Sports Complex has hired Jamie Cox as its general manager. The complex, created by Visit Panama City Beach and managed by Sports Facilities Management, opened in 2019 and was previously led by J.D. Wood, who recently left for a position at the Dallas Sports Commission. Cox has 15 years of experience […]

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Panama City Beach Complex Celebrates Grand Opening

The Panama City Beach Sports Complex recently held its grand opening of the 160-acre project that will serve as a venue for more than 50 sports events in the first year alone. The opening was held days before the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Michael’s landfall, an event that set back the complex’s construction. The complex […]

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