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Arts | Entertainment | Sports 2025: CAMPBELL, CLAY
Campbell’s life has taken him off to the races for as long as he can remember. Grandson of Martinsville Speedway founder H. Clay Earles, who built the paperclip-shaped speedway in 1947, Campbell has worked at Martinsville since he was a child. He worked in maintenance, concessions and souvenirs before moving up to vice preside[...]
Arts | Entertainment | Sports 2025: CAPSHAW, CORAN
The Allianz Amphitheater at Riverfront, a max-7,500-capacity outdoor venue from Red Light and Live Nation Entertainment, opened in downtown Richmond in June. The $30 million amphitheater will host about 30 events per year and is expected to bring top-name artists to the greater Richmond region. Additionally, it will serve as a s[...]
Arts | Entertainment | Sports 2025: LEMBKE, KEVIN
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 ori[...]
Arts | Entertainment | Sports 2025: NYERGES, ALEX
Nyerges is now in his 19th year as director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Free to all visitors, the museum opened in 1936 and has more than 545,000 square feet of galleries, event space and dining. In the works is a 173,000-square-foot, $261 million expansion to be named for the late philanthropist Jim […]
Arts | Entertainment | Sports 2025: ROTHROCK, BEN
Becoming COO in 2023, Rothrock is now the highest-ranking Virginia- based boss of the Richmond Flying Squirrels Double-A baseball team, although he shares leadership with Brendon Porter, the team’s president, who spends part of his time in Alabama. Rothrock also held the title of general manager from 2017 until this year, when[...]
Arts | Entertainment | Sports 2025: NEIL, ERIK H.
Since joining the Chrysler Museum in 2014, Neil has guided the museum’s growth. In 2022, his position was endowed through a $34 million donation from Virginia Beach philanthropist Joan Brock that included donated artwork. He’s been focused on the $30 million Perry Glass Studio expansion project. The culmination of a $55 mill[...]
Arts | Entertainment | Sports 2025: ODOM, RYAN
Odom became head coach of the ’Hoos in March, after Tony Bennett’s unexpected October 2024 retirement less than three weeks before the start of the season. Now in his fifth collegiate head coaching role, Odom previously led Virginia Commonwealth University’s Rams for two seasons, coaching them to a 52-21 record, an appeara[...]
Arts | Entertainment | Sports 2025: PRY, BRENT
A former defensive coordinator at Vanderbilt University and Penn State and a player for the University at Buffalo until he suffered a career-ending injury, Pry became the Hokies’ 35th head coach in November 2021. His first season, not surprisingly, was not exactly stellar, with a 3-8 record, but in 2023, the Hokies improved to[...]
Arts | Entertainment | Sports 2025: SCHOFIELD, JENNIFER
With 34 years of theme park industry experience, Schofield started her new role on May 31, succeeding Bridgette Bywater as head of the 400-acre amusement park following corporate restructuring. Previously vice president of retail at the Cedar Point amusement park in Ohio, Schofield holds a bachelor’s degree in hospitality and [...]
Arts | Entertainment | Sports 2025: JOHNSON, DWAYNE ‘THE ROCK’
Known as “The Rock,” Johnson shot to fame as a professional wrestler and is now one of the nation’s most popular and prolific movie and TV actors. He’s also been a relatively quiet resident of Virginia for several years, although for its 2024 Men of the Year issue, GQ interviewed him at the Orange County […]
Arts | Entertainment | Sports 2025: EDMUNDS, ANDY
Edmunds originally began his career in the music industry. As a musician and songwriter, he produced a video for MTV, thus beginning his love affair with film production. As director of the Virginia Film Office since 2011, Edmunds helps land TV and film projects that touch all parts of the commonwealth’s economy, from buying o[...]
