Award Winners

Losing in front of 15,554 fans is never easy. And although the team suffered a “Mammoth” loss to the Roughnecks of Calgary in the playoffs, Colorado isn’t going home empty handed. Mammoth forward Dan Carey walks (hopefully) away from this season with the NLL’s Sportsmanship Award after suffering a debilitating injury 11 games into the season.

Carey scored 22 goals in his 11 games this year with 27 assists, and has made the all star game every year in his three year career.

But Carey wasn’t the only one with Mammoth season awards. Brian Kitts and Dave Reeder of Kroenke Sports Enterprises won team executive awards for the 2008 season. Kitts is the director of marketing and public relations, and received the NLL’s Marketing Executive of the Year. Under his excellence, the team has ranked in the top two in NLL attendance in each of its six years in Denver, including the number one spot the last three seasons.

Reeder, an account executive, has guided growth of sponsorship revenue in each of the last two seasons and has done an excellent job managing team inventory.

Well, at least we got something for all the hard work. We’ll see if we can add a National Title to the list of awards come November.