Hurricanes Add Two External Staff Members

CORAL GABLES, Fla. – Leah Gross and Marcus Pauda have joined the University of Miami Athletics external team, announced Thursday by AD Blake James.

Gross, who will be the Associate Director of Marketing, comes to Miami after spending the last year as Assistant Director of Marketing & Promotions at LSU, where she managed all marketing efforts for women’s soccer, women’s basketball and baseball. She also spent time in Marketing & Ticket Sales at Marquette (2011-13) and Marketing at Auburn (2010-11).

At Miami, Gross will handle the marketing efforts for men’s and women’s basketball. She graduated from Tennessee with a bachelor’s in sport management from Tennessee in 2010 and a master’s in leadership from Marquette in 2013.

Pauda joins the Ticket Sales team as an Account Executive. Since January 2013, he was a Sales Executive for the Texas Tech Athletics Department, assisting in community outreach, ticket sales collateral, and sales and service initiatives. He graduated in 2012 from Texas Tech with a bachelor’s degree in communications.

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