April 2, 2003

The University of Notre Dame announced today the hiring of Heidi Uebelhor as assistant business manager and Maja Hansen as associate director of ticketing. Both Uebelhor and Hansen begin their new assignments immediately.

Uebelhor moves from the ticket office where she served as the systems administrator to the business office. In her new position, Uebelhor will assist the assistant athletic director for business operations in budgeting and all athletic department financial matters.

Uebelhor is a 1999 graduate of Notre Dame and has worked in the Notre Dame athletic department in a variety of roles the past six years. She has served as a student employee in the ticket office, the athletic department Y2K contact person and the ticket office coordinator before being promoted to the systems administrator position in January of 2002.

Born April 8, 1977, she is married to Josh Uebelhor, a 1998 Notre Dame graduate. The couple resides in South Bend.

Hansen comes to Notre Dame after serving as the assistant director of ticket operations at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., since July of 1998. In her role at Navy, Hansen trained, scheduled and supervised office staff and game day personnel, reconciled all ticket receipts, managed the processing, allocation, printing and distribution of all tickets and was the primary liaison with Playerguest.com and Ticketmaster.

Before her stint at Navy, Hansen was a graduate teaching assistant at Miami University. She also served as a ticket office and event management intern at Navy during the 1996-97 season.

Hansen graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1996 with a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology and sport studies, where she was a first-team All-American in both soccer and lacrosse. She currently is pursuing her master’s degree in sport organization from Miami University. Born Oct. 15, 1972, Hansen is single and lives in South Bend.