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Arts | Entertainment | Sports 2025: LEMBKE, KEVIN
PRESIDENT, BUSCH GARDENS WILLIAMSBURG & WATER COUNTRY USA, WILLIAMSBURG
Virginia Business //September 2, 2025//
Arts | Entertainment | Sports 2025: LEMBKE, KEVIN
PRESIDENT, BUSCH GARDENS WILLIAMSBURG & WATER COUNTRY USA, WILLIAMSBURG
Virginia Business //September 2, 2025//
On May 16, Busch Gardens Williamsburg hosted a parkwide celebration for its 50th anniversary, complete with 75-cent beer, a 1970s cover band, a fireworks finale and a “lookback presentation” from Lembke.
One week later, the park launched its newest attraction: The Big Bad Wolf: The Wolf’s Revenge, an homage to the original roller coaster that closed in 2009. The inverted coaster with 2,500-plus-feet of track travels up to 40 miles per hour.
Lembke became president of Busch Gardens Williamsburg & Water Country USA in 2018 and has been part of the amusement park industry since 2000, when he started at SeaWorld Orlando. Busch Gardens and Water Country USA are owned by United Parks & Resorts, a name change for SeaWorld Entertainment, effective February 2024. The company owns 12 parks in the United
States and a 13th park in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Lembke serves on the board of Visit Williamsburg. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the University at Buffalo, after which he interned at the marketing sales department of the Buffalo Bills NFL team before joining SeaWorld.
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