CVE CORNER


Scott Kavanaugh, CVE Is the Venue Manager of Brigham Young University’s LaVell Edwards Stadium,


The Marriott Center, and Marriott Center Annex in Provo, Utah. By Matt Hollander, CVE


What path brought you to the venue management business? While going to school here at BYU, I was taking a facility manage- ment class from Scott Williams. After class one day, I asked him what I needed to do to work for a professional sports team. I had played college baseball, my passion was sports, and if I was going to have to go to work every day, I wanted to do something that I really enjoyed. Scott told me that while working for a team would be nice, the best route would be to diversify and work for the facility. Concerts, rodeos,    my career.


Tell us about your current position. I am currently back at BYU and work as the venue manager for LaVell Edwards Stadium, The Marriott Center, and the New Marriott Cen-  women’s basketball, Stadium of Fire, and a wide variety of other campus events, some of which don’t sound like much, but are harder events than the big ones. I schedule the building, plan, coordinate our events, and work on facility projects. I am very fortunate to work for Justin Durfey, CVE, who serves as director of special events. His leadership makes my job very easy.


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You have had the benefit of working in different venue types and different markets. How do you feel these diverse experi- ences have shaped you as a venue professional? When I started in this business, I would never have imagined where my       along the way. I have learned from so many people it’s crazy. There is no way that I could have made it to this point without a lot of as-           - agement, state universities, private universities, cities, counties, and management companies.  been, and my thought process would be altered if I had just stayed in  us to advance faster in this business and sometimes we are always look-  


  our contemporaries how they do things is a great resource but going to a facility and seeing how it works in a day-to-day situation is a far   business and all I have had to do is go, watch what they do, and try to


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