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The 2025-26 season of Kalamazoo Wings Hockey marks the 10th season for K-Wings Governor & General Manager Toni Will. During Will’s current glass ceiling-shattering tenure, Toni has established herself as a highly respected leader in professional hockey. Will is Kalamazoo’s first female general manager, the first woman ever to be named to the ECHL Board of Governors and currently sits on multiple ECHL executive committees. Under Will’s leadership, the K-Wings have seen attendance growth skyrocket for seven consecutive seasons. A lifelong resident of Southwest Michigan, Will graduated from Vicksburg High School and Western Michigan University. Will prides herself in not only being born and raised in the Kalamazoo area, but also in raising her family here as well. 

Brad embraces his career and considers it an honor to support, counsel, coach and mentor his K-Wings Front Office staff, Hockey Operations department and K-Wings players. Brad spent his first 32 years in business as owner of The VandenBerg Company, a manufacturer’s representative company in the apparel industry. Sixteen years ago, Brad was offered a leadership role at Greenleaf Hospitality Group and Stadium Management Corporation, which has since evolved into the role of Team President of the Kalamazoo Wings. Brad is a graduate of Western Michigan University, lives with a ‘family-first’ mentality, and loves boating, playing golf and saltwater fishing.

Hometown: Mendon, MI What's your professional experience/background: Massage Therapist for 3 years, Starting my 10th season with the K-Wings Favorite Food: Ice Cream! Favorite Color: Aqua Favorite Activity: Hikes with my family of 5 If I Could Live Anywhere in the World: Bavaria Favorite Thing About Working in Hockey: I love working in hockey because of the energetic atmosphere!

Hometown: West Bloomfield, MI but Kalamazoo has been home for over 12 years! 

What's your professional experience/background: I have been affiliated with the K-Wings since the 2010 season when I joined the team as an intern. During the 2011-13 seasons, in addition to my duties with the K-Wings, I was the broadcaster and media relations coordinator for the Kalamazoo Jr. K-Wings of the North American Hockey League. In the following years, I took over in-game hosting duties along with other broadcasting roles around the community. Prior to the 2015-16 season, I was named the team's Director of Public Relations and Broadcaster, and I spent the next three seasons as the play-by-play radio voice and social media liaison, learning the ins and outs of the industry. In the summer of 2018, I was hired by the Utica Comets of the American Hockey League to be their radio play-by-play voice and Director of Team Services. After two seasons with the Comets and a family starting to grow, the decision was made to move back to Michigan. 

Favorite part of a hockey game: The anticipation in the build-up to a great goal. Those moments that take the whole crowd on the same journey to pure jubilation. 

Favorite Sports Team: Detroit Lions 

Favorite Color: Gray.

Favorite Hobby: Playing with my kids. I do love a round of golf, too.

This is Chris Cadeau’s fifth season as the Kalamazoo Wings' play-by-play broadcaster and public relations director. Cadeau joined Kalamazoo after spending two years with Bally Sports Arizona in December 2021, working as an integral part of their production & digital content departments. Chris also worked as the director of public relations and digital media for the Arizona Rattlers & Tucson Sugar Skulls (2021). The Canton, MI native owns both an undergraduate (Arizona State - Sports Journalism) and graduate degrees (Northwestern - Journalism). Cadeau's prior experience as talent / play-by-play broadcasting includes: Pac-12 Network (streaming coverage), B1G Network (streaming coverage), MLB Network, Perfect Game, Grand Canyon University Hockey, and PrepSpotlight.TV. Prior to Chris’ career in sports, and educational accomplishments, he served honorably in the United States Marine Corps for nearly 8 years. Cadeau is also a former Arizona Veteran Advisory Board member for U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and is a founding member of both the Veteran Outreach Team at the Pat Tillman Veteran Center and ASU Recovery Rising. Chris and his wife Christine live in Portage with their two children Guinevere and Jack.

Hometown: Decatur, MI. Professional experience/background: I spent 15 years working for WWMT here in Kalamazoo, MI, before joining the Kalamazoo Wings and Wings Event Center as their Creative Video Director Favorite part of a hockey game: The intensity of the crowd. Favorite Sports Team: Detroit Tigers Favorite Color: Blue. Favorite Hobby: Hanging with the Family

Hometown: Hastings, MI. Experience: Box Office Assistant with the Myrtle Beach Pelicans, Promotions Intern with the West Michigan Whitecaps, Game Operations Intern with the Kalamazoo Wings. Favorite part of hockey: When the K-Wings score and the fans sing Billy Idol in unison Favorite Color: Honolulu Blue Hobbies: Watching sports and playing video games Hangout: On the couch watching movies Food: Pizza

Hometown: Jackson, Tennessee. What's your professional experience/background: Bachelor's degree in sports management from Western Michigan University. I worked with the K-Wings as a Game Ops intern before being hired as a full-time sales representative. Before graduating from Western Michigan University I graduated from Lake Michigan College with an Associate’s degree in general studies. While attending school there, I worked softball and baseball games. Favorite part of a hockey game: I have to say my favorite part of hockey has to be the big hits. Favorite Color: I have a deep love for Tar Heel Blue. Favorite Hobby: Favorite hobbies are playing basketball and video games. Favorite Hangout: Anywhere that has a basketball rim. If you could buy any type of food what would you buy?: I definitely would buy some Chinese food. General Tso is my go-to.

Hometown: Fountain, MI. Experience: Sports Management Degree from Central Michigan University. Previously worked as a Game Ops and Community Relations intern for the Kalamazoo Wings in the 19/20 season. Favorite part of hockey: How fast-paced and exciting OT is, especially a K-Wings game-winner to cap it off. Favorite Color: Green. Hobbies: Hunting and Fishing Hangout: Around a campfire with friends on a summer night Food: Thick and Juicy Steak

The 2025-26 season is the fourth season for Martin as Head Coach and Director of Hockey Operations of the K-Wings, and seventh overall on the coaching staff with the previous three spent as the team's assistant coach. This follows a playing career that spanned 15 seasons across all levels of professional hockey. On January 18, 2021, Martin was inducted into the ECHL Hall of Fame. Martin is no stranger to Kalamazoo, as the former player, assistant and now head coach played nine seasons for the K-Wings before retiring after the 2017-18 season. Currently, Martin ranks No. 1 in ECHL history for career 30-plus win seasons (3), is fifth in ECHL history for career wins (200), and he put together the third-best season by any ECHL goaltender, posting 36 victories in 2015-16. Martin resides in Kalamazoo with his wife Caroline and sons, Louis and Thomas.

McCreary enters his second season on the K-Wings staff after serving as the president & director of hockey operations for the Danbury Jr. Hat Tricks (NAHL | 2022-24) and head coach & general manager of the Danbury Hat Tricks (FPHL | 2019-20, 2022-24).

The Southhampton, ON native's playing career spanned parts of six seasons at multiple levels from 2007 thru 2012, winning the SPHL Championship with Huntsville in 2009-10 after playing collegiately at Providence & Curry colleges (2003-07).

McCreary also comes with an NHL pedigree, as both his father and grandfather played in the NHL.

Tanner Sorenson enters his first season off the ice for the K-Wings in 2025-26, after assistant coaching for Merrimack College last season. No stranger to Kalamazoo, Sorenson played six seasons for the Wings (2015-2017, 2018-2020, 2021-22, 2023-24) totaling 91 goals and 137 assists in 310 games, picking up an ECHL Player of the Month award in January, 2019. One of the team's three Anchorage, AK natives (Strand & Walker), also had brief stints with the Nottingham Panthers (England), Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk (Kazakhstan), EHC Winterthur (Switzerland), Utica (AHL), and Alaska (ECHL). Before entering the pros, Sorenson played four years for Michigan State University (2011-2015) charting 18 goals and 17 assists for the Spartans. 

This is Logan Thorne's third season as Kalamazoo's Video coach. Logan also serves as KOHA's assistant Hockey Director.

The 2025-26 season is the fourth season for Lindhorst as the K-Wings' Head Athletic Trainer. Cody is one of the most respected athletic trainers at the ECHL level, earning the 2024 ECHL Athletic Trainer of the Year award, and serves as the current President of the ECHL Athletic Training Committee. Lindhorst joined Kalamazoo's staff after seven seasons as the head athletic trainer for the Rapid City Rush before spending 2021-2022 at Pennfield High School in Battle Creek, MI. A Traverse City native, and Central Michigan University alumnus, Lindhorst was also the Divisional Representative for the ECHL Sports Medicine Executive Committee his final three seasons in Rapid City. Cody currently lives in Climax with his wife Lindsay, daughters Oakleigh & Cienna, and his two dogs Ember and Brystal.

This is Evan Watts' first season as the Kalamazoo Wings Equipment Manager. Evan grew up in Kalamazoo and comes to the K-Wings after serving as the equipment manager for the Iowa Heartlanders last season. Previously, he was the assistant equipment manager for Milwaukee (AHL) from 2022-24, and before that, he spent two seasons as equipment manager of Youngstown (USHL) from 2000-22. Watts started his career (2017-18) as an assistant under Brent Overkamp here in Kalamazoo.  

School: Michigan State University

School: Western Michigan University

School: Western Michigan University