{"id":1578,"date":"2014-01-28T22:08:20","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T22:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/?p=1578"},"modified":"2014-04-02T21:13:54","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T21:13:54","slug":"rafters-announce-addition-and-promotion-to-front-office-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/2014\/01\/28\/rafters-announce-addition-and-promotion-to-front-office-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafters Announce Addition and Promotion to Front Office Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\"Darren<\/a>       \"Jake<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t(Pictured Left to Right: Director of Outside Ticket Sales Darren Besch and Inside Sales and Operations Manager Jake Serwe.)\n<\/p>\n

\n\tWisconsin Rapids, WI- Tuesday, January 28th.  The Wisconsin Rapids Rafters announced today that Darren Besch has joined the front office as the team’s Director of Outside Ticket Sales.  The team also announced that Jake Serwe, who has been with the team since 2012, has been named Inside Sales and Operations Manager. \n<\/p>\n

\n\tBesch joins the Rafters for his first season as the Director of Outside Ticket Sales.  In his new role, he will work with local business leaders to create business development and client and employee entertainment solutions.  Prior to the Rafters, Besch worked as a Sales Executive with Princeton Group, Inc., a sports marketing firm in Middleton, Wisconsin.  He has also spent the previous four years as an assistant coach with the Madison LaFollette High School baseball team.  Besch received his bachelor’s degrees in Biology and History from Edgewood College in May 2010.  During college Besch spent five seasons as a member of the Edgewood baseball team, helping the team to two conference titles.  He is a native of Madison, Wisconsin.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tSerwe returns for his third season with the Rafters and first as Inside Sales and Operations Manager.  He spent the summer of 2012 as an operations intern and head groundskeeper for the team before most recently serving as Ticket Sales and Box Office Manager last summer.  In his new role, Serwe will work with Rafters season ticket package holders, small businesses, and local non-profit organizations, including churches and little leagues, to find fundraising and group outing solutions.  He will also manage the Incourage Community Foundation Lil’ Rafters Reading Program as well as Rafters ballpark operations during the summer.  Serwe began his career in baseball as an intern with the Omaha Storm Chasers of the Pacific Coast League in 2011.  He received his bachelor’s degree in Sport Management from UW-Parkside in December 2012 and is a native of Brownsville, Wisconsin.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Wisconsin Rapids Rafters are a member of the finest developmental league for elite college baseball players, the Northwoods League. Playing its 21st season of summer collegiate baseball, the Northwoods League is the largest organized baseball league in the world with 18 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 115 Northwoods League players have advanced to Major League Baseball, including MLB All-Stars Max Scherzer (DET), Chris Sale (CWS), Jordan Zimmermann (WAS), Curtis Granderson (NYM), Allen Craig (STL) and Ben Zobrist (TB). All league games are viewable live and free of charge via the Northwoods League YouTube channel.  For more information, visit www.raftersbaseball.com.\n<\/p>\n

\n\t###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        (Pictured Left to Right: Director of Outside Ticket Sales Darren Besch and Inside Sales and Operations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":1651,"comment_status":"open","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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-team-news"],"yoast_head":"\nRafters Announce Addition and Promotion to Front Office Staff - Wisconsin Rapids Rafters<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/2014\/01\/28\/rafters-announce-addition-and-promotion-to-front-office-staff\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rafters Announce Addition and Promotion to Front Office Staff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"        (Pictured Left to Right: Director of Outside Ticket Sales Darren Besch and Inside Sales and Operations [...]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/2014\/01\/28\/rafters-announce-addition-and-promotion-to-front-office-staff\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Wisconsin Rapids Rafters\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-01-28T22:08:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-04-02T21:13:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2014\/01\/front_office-copy.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"602\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"347\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin-wisconsin-rapids\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin-wisconsin-rapids\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/2014\/01\/28\/rafters-announce-addition-and-promotion-to-front-office-staff\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/2014\/01\/28\/rafters-announce-addition-and-promotion-to-front-office-staff\/\",\"name\":\"Rafters Announce Addition and Promotion to Front Office Staff - Wisconsin Rapids Rafters\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/2014\/01\/28\/rafters-announce-addition-and-promotion-to-front-office-staff\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/2014\/01\/28\/rafters-announce-addition-and-promotion-to-front-office-staff\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2014\/01\/front_office-copy.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-01-28T22:08:20+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-04-02T21:13:54+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/#\/schema\/person\/0d30f20430fedd89f3e0aa8c7f0682bd\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/2014\/01\/28\/rafters-announce-addition-and-promotion-to-front-office-staff\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/2014\/01\/28\/rafters-announce-addition-and-promotion-to-front-office-staff\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/2014\/01\/28\/rafters-announce-addition-and-promotion-to-front-office-staff\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2014\/01\/front_office-copy.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2014\/01\/front_office-copy.jpg\",\"width\":602,\"height\":347},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/2014\/01\/28\/rafters-announce-addition-and-promotion-to-front-office-staff\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Rafters Announce Addition and Promotion to Front Office Staff\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/\",\"name\":\"Wisconsin Rapids Rafters\",\"description\":\"Where Our Community Comes Together\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/#\/schema\/person\/0d30f20430fedd89f3e0aa8c7f0682bd\",\"name\":\"admin-wisconsin-rapids\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/119e41625e0a5b01f45cdcc305652a5f1892da2cb0af763b974d6d9448910337?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/119e41625e0a5b01f45cdcc305652a5f1892da2cb0af763b974d6d9448910337?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"admin-wisconsin-rapids\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/author\/admin-wisconsin-rapids\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Rafters Announce Addition and Promotion to Front Office Staff - Wisconsin Rapids Rafters","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/2014\/01\/28\/rafters-announce-addition-and-promotion-to-front-office-staff\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Rafters Announce Addition and Promotion to Front Office Staff","og_description":"        (Pictured Left to Right: Director of Outside Ticket Sales Darren Besch and Inside Sales and Operations [...]","og_url":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/2014\/01\/28\/rafters-announce-addition-and-promotion-to-front-office-staff\/","og_site_name":"Wisconsin Rapids Rafters","article_published_time":"2014-01-28T22:08:20+00:00","article_modified_time":"2014-04-02T21:13:54+00:00","og_image":[{"width":602,"height":347,"url":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2014\/01\/front_office-copy.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"admin-wisconsin-rapids","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin-wisconsin-rapids","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/2014\/01\/28\/rafters-announce-addition-and-promotion-to-front-office-staff\/","url":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/2014\/01\/28\/rafters-announce-addition-and-promotion-to-front-office-staff\/","name":"Rafters Announce Addition and Promotion to Front Office Staff - Wisconsin Rapids Rafters","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/2014\/01\/28\/rafters-announce-addition-and-promotion-to-front-office-staff\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/2014\/01\/28\/rafters-announce-addition-and-promotion-to-front-office-staff\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2014\/01\/front_office-copy.jpg","datePublished":"2014-01-28T22:08:20+00:00","dateModified":"2014-04-02T21:13:54+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/#\/schema\/person\/0d30f20430fedd89f3e0aa8c7f0682bd"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/2014\/01\/28\/rafters-announce-addition-and-promotion-to-front-office-staff\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/2014\/01\/28\/rafters-announce-addition-and-promotion-to-front-office-staff\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/2014\/01\/28\/rafters-announce-addition-and-promotion-to-front-office-staff\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2014\/01\/front_office-copy.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2014\/01\/front_office-copy.jpg","width":602,"height":347},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/2014\/01\/28\/rafters-announce-addition-and-promotion-to-front-office-staff\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Rafters Announce Addition and Promotion to Front Office Staff"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/#website","url":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/","name":"Wisconsin Rapids Rafters","description":"Where Our Community Comes Together","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/#\/schema\/person\/0d30f20430fedd89f3e0aa8c7f0682bd","name":"admin-wisconsin-rapids","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/119e41625e0a5b01f45cdcc305652a5f1892da2cb0af763b974d6d9448910337?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/119e41625e0a5b01f45cdcc305652a5f1892da2cb0af763b974d6d9448910337?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"admin-wisconsin-rapids"},"url":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/author\/admin-wisconsin-rapids\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}