STATS

Year(s)	Club	League	Sport	POS
2006-	Arkansas RimRockers	NBA D-League	Basketball	Director of Media & Community Relations

BIO

David Caldes was named the Director of Media & Community Relations for the Arkansas RimRockers in May of 2006.  A native of South Florida, David graduated in May of 2006, from the University of Florida with a degree in Business Administration and Sports Management. While attending the University of Florida, he spent a semester in Arkansas, interning with the RimRockers.

STATS

Year(s)	Club	League	Sport	POS
2001-	Portland Sea Dogs	EL	Baseball	Director of Media Relations

AWARDS

2005 - Ralphie Award - PR Director of the Year

BIO

Chris begins his ninth season in baseball and eighth with the Sea Dogs organization. In 2005, he was named Public Relations Director of the Year for all Minor League Sports by MinorLeagueNews.com. Chris began his baseball career as an intern for the Detroit Tigers Spring Training Camp in 1998. Chris joined the Sea Dogs full-time in 1999 serving as the Ticket Office Manager and moved to his current position in 2001. He graduated from Southern New Hampshire University in 1999 with a degree in Sport Management and was awarded the University’s “Sport Management Award”. Originally from Brunswick, Chris now resides in Portland.

Mike CAPPS

STATS

Year(s)	Club/Org.	League	Sport	POS
1999-	Round Rock Express	TEX	Baseball	Director of Broadcasting
1998	ESPN Radio	MLB	Baseball	Broadcaster
	CNN			Reporter
	ABC News			Assignments Mgr/Deputy Bureau Chief
	KPRC-TV			Weekend Anchor
	WFAA-TV			Bureau Chief/Exec. Sports Director

 

AWARDS

Mike has received numerous awards over his career including an MLN Ralphie Award for Broadcaster of the Year (2006), an Emmy Nomination and Cable Ace Award for the end of the Siege in Waco, the Alfred I duPont Columbia Award, the George Foster Peabody Award, and the Texas Headliners Award.

BIO

Mike Capps begins his seventh year as the Director of Broadcasting for the Round Rock Express. An author, reporter, and T.V. anchor, Capps brings over 26 years of news experience to the Express. He has been broadcasting baseball for the last nine years, including three major league games with ESPN Radio, one in 2005 and two in 1998.

Capps has been a reporter, bureau chief and executive sports director for WFAA-TV Dallas / Ft. Worth, an assignments manager and deputy bureau chief for ABC news in St. Louis, and also a weekend anchor for KPRC-TV in Houston. While working for CNN he covered the Gulf War, the Midwest Floods, the overthrow of the Haitian Government and the Siege in Waco. In addition to his news and broadcasting experience, Capps has also authored a book with legendary scout Red Murff entitled "The Scout: Searching for the Best in Baseball." Murff was the scout that uncovered Express owner Nolan Ryan.

Capps and his wife, Dee, have four daughters, Christa, Megan, Kelli and Karli, as well as a three year-old grandson Carter Wetsel, one year old granddaughter Avery Lows, and the newest addition to the family, grandson Cooper Gleason.

 

STATS

Year(s)	Club/League	League	Sport	POS
1994-1997	Sioux City Explorers			Director of Communications
1995-2000	Boise Hawks	CBA	Basketball	Director of Communications
1997-2000	Idaho Steelheads	WCHL	Hockey	Public Relations Director
2000-	ECHL	ECHL	Hockey	Communications Director; VP of Communications

AWARDS

Two Time Ralphie Award Winner - League Media Relations Director 2006 & 2003; Runner up 2001. WCHL PR Director of the Year - 1999 & 2000

BIO

Carnefix is in his second season as Vice President of Communications and his seventh season with the ECHL, having served five years as Director of Communications. He joined the ECHL in 2000 after six years as the director of communications for Diamond Sports & Entertainment in Boise, Idaho. Diamond Sports entities included the Idaho Steelheads hockey team, the Boise Hawks baseball team, the Idaho Sneakers World TeamTennis franchise, professional boxing events, and the Bank of America Centre, a 5,000-seat multipurpose facility in downtown Boise. Carnefix was presented the inaugural West Coast Hockey League Public Relations Director of the Year award in 1999 and won the award again the following season. He spent seven years with Oklahoma State University baseball and three years as the assistant sports information director at Oklahoma State.

 

STATS

Year(s)	Club	League	Sport	POS
2006-	Grand Rapids Rampage	AFL	Football	Director of Media Relations

BIO

Alex Clark is in his first year with the Rampage and the Arena Football League. He joined Grand Rapids in the summer of 2006 after spending a year in the media relations department of USA Hockey in Colorado Springs, Colo. There he served as the primary media contact during the 2005 USA Hockey National Junior Evaluation Camp, compiled and managed the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Men's and Women's College Hockey Polls, wrote and edited media guides for various U.S. national teams, and created and updated game notes for Team USA during the 2006 Olympic Winter Games.

Clark graduated Colgate (N.Y.) University summa cum laude in 2005 with high honors in History and a minor in Economics. During his time there, he assisted the Athletic Communications Department by providing feature stories, Associated Press game recaps and statistical compilation for football; men's and women's soccer, lacrosse and ice hockey; field hockey; and women's basketball. Clark served as a reporter for The Maroon News, Colgate's student newspaper, and was the play-by-play broadcaster and co-producer of Colgate Hockey coverage by CUTV, Colgate's student television station.

In addition to his work with Colgate, Clark served as an arena reporter and corresponding editor for U.S. College Hockey Online from 2001-05. His sports resume includes internships with ESPN Radio 1000 in Chicago in 2002 and Empire Sports Network in Buffalo, N.Y., in 2003.