Kevin Ticen spent more than six years as the Director of Marketing and Communications for the Seattle Sports Commission.  A former catcher on the University of Washington baseball team, Ticen played professionally in the Anaheim Angels minor league system and then overseas in Austria.  His sports writing career began in the off-season during his minor league days writing for one of the many Seattle startups during the dot.com boom.  His post-playing days have been spent coaching baseball, first for five years on the staff at the University of Washington and now leading a high school aged summer program in the Seattle area.