{"id":24185,"date":"2016-08-05T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T17:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/?p=24185"},"modified":"2016-08-12T15:04:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T20:04:18","slug":"ice-continues-to-be-good-to-sadie-lundquist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2016\/08\/05\/ice-continues-to-be-good-to-sadie-lundquist\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice Continues to be Good to Sadie Lundquist"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sadie Lundquist ‘13 (right) and brother Sever Lundquist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

When Bemidji State women’s hockey forward Sadie Lundquist<\/b> changed majors from elementary ed to sports management and business marketing, she could not have imagined a better fit than the Minnesota Wild.<\/p>\n

Outside of her work for the NHL team, Lundquist has followed in the skates of her older brother Sever to become a serious competitor on the Red Bull Crashed Ice tour. She compares the sport known as ice cross downhill to “skating on a rollercoaster.”<\/p>\n

The 2013 graduate from Cloquet is part of the Wild’s 11-person fan relations team. She manages 700 season ticket accounts, ranging from families to companies who invest thousands of dollars to entertain clients.<\/p>\n

“We like to joke about ‘other duties as assigned’ because we wear a lot of different hats,” Lundquist said. “I work in sales and service, but we do a lot of marketing and PR. We really dip our toes in everything depending on what account we’re working with.”<\/p>\n

After first interviewing with the NBA’s Minnesota Timberwolves at a career fair, she discovered an opening with the Wild on a professional sports jobs website.<\/p>\n

\"PQ-Lundquist-Hockey\"<\/a>Lundquist quickly moved from her single-season starting role onto the permanent sales staff. She’s worked in fan relations for the past year.<\/p>\n

“It’s perfect, it really is,” Lundquist said. “I get paid to talk a lot of hockey.”<\/p>\n

The Crashed Ice tour remains a lark, but Wild management encourage her participation, and she clearly loves it. As a top-five U.S. women’s competitor, Lundquist traveled to Quebec City and Munich this past winter, and she has her eye on more international competition during the 2016-17 season.<\/p>\n

So far, neither she nor her brother has any big-name sponsors. They proudly wear the logo of a restaurant her grandparents Gordon and Marilyn Lundquist opened in Cloquet 56 years ago — Gordy’s Hi-Hat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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