'We have an amazing team in place with exceptional community partners,' said the vice president of events for the Harris County Houston Sports Authority.
HOUSTON, Texas -- Duke, Kansas, North Carolina and Villanova are not the only teams game-planning in New Orleans this weekend.
Kesterson, who serves as vice president of events for the Harris County - Houston Sports Authority, is the president of the 2023 NCAA Men's Final Four Houston Local Organizing Committee. Along with more than two-dozen others, she traveled from Houston to New Orleans this weekend for a site visit in advance of the Bayou City hosting next year's NCAA men's Final Four.
"There's so much that has changed, and we just want to make sure that we're staying in front of those pieces," Kesterson explained."So we have a lot of our team members here and key community partners here in New Orleans, and their job is to get with their counterpart from New Orleans and see how they're doing it - how they are running it: from their volunteers to public safety initiatives to marketing and programming.
"There's a whole new world in front of us for events and I think, knock of wood, we are very hopeful we can be the first full Final Four back since COVID," Holly said optimistically.