Canada Soccer reported today that Kevin Blue has been named its new Broad Secretary and President, carrying with him a scope of effective involvement with business, game, and CEO jobs.
Blue joins Canada Soccer subsequent to filling in as Golf Canada’s Main Game Officer beginning around 2021, where he regulated a scope of capabilities for the NSO and assisted with rolling more than $20M in new monetary help for the public groups and grass roots programming.
Beforehand, Blue was a main school sports chief in the US, where he held the job of Games Chief at the College of California, Davis. Blue was the most youthful Promotion in Division I at the hour of his recruit – age 33 – and drove a fruitful social and monetary circle back of the Division I school throughout the following five years. UC Davis experienced record raising money and income producing sums alongside best-ever aggressive exhibitions in a few games. Blue’s residency was featured by the raising support and development of another $52M sports execution and clinical focus.
Kevin likewise arose as a generally perused public idea pioneer on issues connected with the monetary construction of US school sports. His exposition “Increasing Costs in School Sports and the Non-Benefit Conundrum” showed up as master declaration in a US Senate catching wind of school sports finance.
Preceding UC Davis, Kevin worked in dynamically senior business jobs and in the end drove the business elements of Stanford’s $120M games division. Income developed forcefully during his seven years at Stanford and the Cardinal football crew showed up in a long term stretch. The Stanford soccer groups delivered worldwide stars, for example, Initiate Press, Kelly O’Hara, and Jordan Morris.
“In Kevin, we have a groundbreaking and results situated pioneer in our group to assist with directing us towards a more certain future for soccer in Canada and to catch the extraordinary open doors ahead.” said Charmaine Evildoers, Canada Soccer President.
Blue holds a Ph.D. in Game Brain science from Michigan State College and a B.A. in Brain science from Stanford College where he was commander of the golf crew. Kevin was named one of Canada’s “Five to Watch” in sports business for 2023.
Kevin and his better half Betsy have four youngsters – Jalen, Nobleman, Brooklyn, and Maya and live in Mississauga, Ontario.