There are two new faces in the Sedona Parks and Recreation department: Athletics and Aquatics Supervisor Carmen Brashier and Events & Rentals Administrator Carrie Wieber.

Carmen Brashier

“I’ve been in recreation for about 15 years,” Brashier said. “I’ve kind of been a little bit all over the place. I started in Tulsa, Okla., went to Breckenridge, Colo., for about five years, and then ran the hot springs in Ouray, Colo., for two years, and then here in Sedona now doing pools and sports leagues.”

Brashier started on June 12. She was accompanied in her move to Sedona by her husband Brandon Brashier, who is now working at a physical therapy clinic in Sedona. The couple are also active inoutdoor recreation across Northern Arizona in their free time. Brandon Brashier has been scouting area lakes for fishing and both are looking forward to spending time at Snowbowl Ski Resort this winter.

“In college. I played intramurals in all different sports,” Carmen Brashier said. “But particularly in my undergrad” at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Okla. “We went to nationals in flag football, we had won at the state level. We got fourth at regionals and then we got to go on and play nationals in New Orleans [in 2004]. Just having that team and at that college level, and even though it was an intramural, we still got to have a lot of fun competitions.” 

Braisher explained that she is looking at providing similar offerings to Sedona residents in the future.

“I’m going to work on a disc golf tournament that we can make an annual tournament,” Brashier said. “ I’m looking [at] late spring. With youth sports, we have quite  a lot of offerings right now. So I want to take this year to kind of see how those work, then find those holes in the community and what’s needed. Then next fall, I’m going to look at doing an adult coed flag football league.”

Carrie Wieber

Carrie Wieber started in her new position in the middle of July as the replacement for Aaron Day. Wieber has lived in Arizona for the last eight years and is originally from East Lansing, Mich. 

During her time in Arizona she has held a variety of jobs in resort management, banking and “a variety of different things.”

Wieber has moved to Sedona with Ryan, her husband of six years; the couple have been together for 15 years.

“I enjoy working with the public organizing and creating something that’s enjoyable for everybody,” Wieber said. She added that what she most looks forward to is “getting familiar with the events and the community and starting to establish more of a relationship through the community by putting on successful events that kind of grow and enrich the community.”

The greatest concert she’s been to was experiencing Jon Bon Jovi, although she doesn’t have a preference between the “hair metal” of the 1980s or the shorthaired Bon Jovi of later years, who took up penning country rock albums such as 2007’s “Lost Highway.”

“I’m looking forward to get in and creating more events and make them appeal to more people and then the potential to create more use of [Sedona] parks,” Wieber said.