Tricia Hacker
By Jim Davies
Tricia Hacker joins our Lake Quivira staff as Clubhouse Assistant Manager. Tricia is originally from here, having grown up in Excelsior Springs and graduated from high school there. She earned a degree in hotel & restaurant management from the University of Missouri in 1996 and worked as catering and banquet manager at Oakwood Country Club, where she met her husband Tim Hacker, a member of the PGA who was on staff there. She went from there to work for Aramark, running an insurance company commissary until Tim joined the staff at the Nike Golf Learning School in Dayton, OH. There, she worked as banquet and catering manager for the NCR Country Club. Tricia said the name Hacker was always good for a laugh in the pro shop wherever they went, but she did even better when one of her emails went out over the NCR system to their entire network and the word was out that there was a “new Hacker on the staff”!
From there Tim went to the Trophy Club Golf School at the Atlanta to be head Pro and Tricia took the position of assistant clubhouse manager at the Cherokee Town and Country Club. Cherokee has been voted by its peers as the most outstanding Country Club in the nation a number of times. While they were in Atlanta their son Cameron was born. In Atlanta Tricia was asked to be the clubhouse manager in Austin, TX, at the Austin Country Club, and Tim took a position at one of the courses in the Sun City Country Club system there in Austin.
At the end of last summer’s drought, times were getting really rough for country clubs in Texas, and being among the younger professional employees at the respective clubs, both Hackers found themselves unemployed and the proud parents of a new daughter, Tylar. So it was time to come home to Kansas City and their roots. Grandma lives south of 435 on State Line, so that has now become home for the Hackers. Tricia is thrilled to have been able to join us here at Lake Quivira so soon after the move back and looks forward to meeting all of us and putting her skills to work. She said she and her husband have both seen firsthand how the financial crisis has affected country clubs across the nation, and they are both inspired to put forth extra effort in order to stay in their chosen profession.
Give Tricia a big Quivira welcome next time you are at the Clubhouse.
