Dirk Lammers is an award-winning journalist who has spent more than two decades writing for the Associated Press in South Dakota and the Tampa Tribune, covering numerous beats including politics, business, energy and agriculture. His 2005 investigative report on the Small Business Association’s 9/11 loan programs won the 2006 UCLA Anderson School of Management Gerald Loeb Award, business and financial journalism’s highest honor. Other honors include the Associated Press Media Editors Enterprise Award and the Society of American Business Editors and Writers’ Best in Business Award.

Lammers is the author of Baseball’s No-hit Wonders: More Than a Century of Pitching’s Greatest Feats, which was named a 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Silver Award Winner in the sports category. He has appeared on multiple MLB Network television and Sirius XM radio shows and has been quoted in numerous national publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and ESPN.

Lammers holds a Bachelor’s in Communication from the University of South Florida and is a member of Sales and Marketing Executives (SME) Sioux Falls and the Sioux Falls Chamber of Commerce.

Angela Lammers has more than 15 years marketing management experience working for South Dakota companies with worldwide reach. Lammers is active in the Sioux Falls business community, where she is a member of the Sioux Falls Area Chamber of Commerce, Sales and Marketing Executives (SME) Sioux Falls, Downtown Sioux Falls Rotary and other organizations.

Lammers is a graduate of Minnesota State University Moorhead and North Dakota State University, where she earned her Master’s Degree in Communication with an emphasis on organizational communication. Angela Lammers is Pragmatic Marketing certified and has achieved additional certification through the Direct Marketing Association (DMA).

Lammers is a graduate of Leadership Sioux Falls.