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07-26-2007, 03:34 PM
Checkers Press Release
CHECKERS HIRE VETERAN ATHLETIC TRAINER BROGNA
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The Charlotte Checkers announced today that Dennis Brogna has been hired as the team’s new athletic trainer. Brogna, 61, is entering his 31st season as an athletic trainer in professional sports and was a member of last years Kelly Cup Champion Idaho Steelheads.
Brogna started his professional hockey career in 1996 with the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League of which Checkers general manager and head coach Derek Wilkinson was a goalie. Wilkinson says Brogna will be a great addition to the hockey operations staff, “Dennis has been around for a long time and there isn’t much he hasn’t seen. We are happy to have a veteran like that on-board.”
The native of Milton, Mass, Brogna spent 12 seasons working in Major League Baseball where he won two World Series rings with the Toronto Blue Jays. He spends his off-season in Murrells Island, South Carolina and says he is happy to be in Charlotte, “I look forward to starting with the Checkers and continuing the work I love.”
CHECKERS HIRE VETERAN ATHLETIC TRAINER BROGNA
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The Charlotte Checkers announced today that Dennis Brogna has been hired as the team’s new athletic trainer. Brogna, 61, is entering his 31st season as an athletic trainer in professional sports and was a member of last years Kelly Cup Champion Idaho Steelheads.
Brogna started his professional hockey career in 1996 with the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League of which Checkers general manager and head coach Derek Wilkinson was a goalie. Wilkinson says Brogna will be a great addition to the hockey operations staff, “Dennis has been around for a long time and there isn’t much he hasn’t seen. We are happy to have a veteran like that on-board.”
The native of Milton, Mass, Brogna spent 12 seasons working in Major League Baseball where he won two World Series rings with the Toronto Blue Jays. He spends his off-season in Murrells Island, South Carolina and says he is happy to be in Charlotte, “I look forward to starting with the Checkers and continuing the work I love.”