{"id":10285,"date":"2017-11-09T19:42:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T19:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/rochester-honkers\/?p=10285"},"modified":"2017-11-09T19:42:13","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T19:42:13","slug":"joey-leibl-named-honkers-assistant-general-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/rochester-honkers\/2017\/11\/09\/joey-leibl-named-honkers-assistant-general-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Joey Leibl Named Honkers Assistant General Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">(Rochester, Minn.) &#8212; <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">\u00a0The Rochester Honkers Baseball Club announced today that Joey Leibl (Lie-bull) has been promoted to the team\u2019s Assistant General Manager focusing on Sales, Public Relations and Game Day Production.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">\u201cHaving the opportunity to come on full time with the Honkers has been a dream come true,\u201d said Leibl.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">\u201cWorking in sports is what I\u2019ve wanted to do since I was child, so for me to be able to take on this position, especially in the city of Rochester, has just been amazing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Leibl, 24, joined the front office in 2016 as a Winter\/Spring intern leading up to the 2017 season.\u00a0 He stayed on board full time for the 2017 season working in game operations, game production and assisted in overseeing player and team operations.\u00a0 He then accepted a full-time front office position on August 1, and has now earned the role of Assistant General Manager.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">\u201cJoey is a real go getter that has the passion and drive to succeed,\u201d said Honkers General Manager Dan Litzinger.\u00a0 \u201cHis energy and likeability is infectious.\u00a0 He loves to stay busy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Leibl, a native of West Salem, Wisconsin, attended UW-La Crosse majoring in Sport Management.\u00a0 In his spare time, he is a referee for youth basketball and part time bartender.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">\u201cI\u2019m excited to help bring great baseball and an even better fun-filled experience to the people of Rochester through Honkers baseball,\u201d added Leibl.\u00a0 \u201cThere is no such thing as a bad day when your job revolves around baseball.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">The Honkers are currently interviewing for an open position for an individual to focus on Sales and Food and Beverage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>###<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>The Rochester Honkers are a member of the finest developmental league for elite college baseball players, the Northwoods League. The 24-year-old summer collegiate league is the largest organized baseball league in the world with 20 teams, drawing significantly more fans, in a friendly ballpark experience, than any league of its kind. A valuable training ground for coaches, umpires and front office staff, more than 180 former Northwoods League players have advanced to Major League Baseball, including two-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer (WAS), two-time World Series Champion Ben Zobrist (CHC) and MLB All-Stars Chris Sale (BOS), Jordan Zimmermann (DET), Curtis Granderson (LAD) and Lucas Duda (TBR). \u00a0All league games are viewable live via the <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/portal.stretchinternet.com\/nwl\/\"><em>Northwoods League portal<\/em><\/a><em>. For more information, visit <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rochesterhonkers.com\">www.rochesterhonkers.com<\/a><em> or download the new Northwoods League Mobile App on the Apple App Store or on Google Play and set the Honkers as your favorite team.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; (Rochester, Minn.) &#8212; \u00a0The Rochester Honkers Baseball Club announced today that Joey Leibl (Lie-bull) has been promoted to the  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-team-news","category-update-ticker"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v26.5) - 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