CASEY POWELL
Assistant Director of Athletics for Facilities
Former Wildcats baseball star and assistant coach Casey Powell returned to his alma mater in the summer of 2024 as the Assistant Director of Athletics for Facilities.
Powell lettered four years in baseball as a student-athlete at Linfield. Playing second base, he hit .405 and added 17 stolen bases as a junior, earning Northwest Conference Player of the Year honors that season. The following year, he hit .397 from the leadoff position on the way to receiving another first team all-NWC honor.
After graduation, Powell launched his career as an assistant under retired Linfield Hall of Fame coach Scott Carnahan for three years from 1999 until 2002. The following spring, he landed in Walla Walla, Washington, taking the reins of the Whitman College baseball program for six seasons from 2003 to 2006. Powell then seized an opportunity to elevate to the Division I level three years later as an assistant in the Seattle University baseball program for four years from 2009 until 2013. From there, he gravitated back to Central Oregon, eventually taking over as general manager of the Bend Elks baseball club.
Additionally, he filled a seasonal coaching role with USA Baseball in 2019 and served as director of athletic facilities at Pacific University for two years in 2017 and 2018.
Most recently, Powell has focused raising his family while running his own small business. He and his wife Jen, a 1996 Linfield graduate and former Wildcats track and field athlete, are raising two daughters. Morgan and Cailyn.
As the primary manager of Linfield’s athletic and recreational facilities, Powell looks forward to not only enhancing day-to-day operations within the Health, Human Performance and Athletics department, but also contributing to several big-picture facilities projects that loom on the horizon.
JESSICA HOLLEN
Assistant Director of Athletics
NCAA Compliance Officer and Senior Woman Administrator
Jessica Hollen is in her third year at Linfield as assistant director of athletics, NCAA compliance coordinator and senior woman administrator.
A standout softball coach at nearby George Fox University for 16 seasons, Hollen is making the transition to a full-time administrative role at Linfield. During portions of her tenure at George Fox, she served as the athletic department's NCAA compliance officer and senior woman administrator.
Hollen is a four-time NWC Coach of the Year, receiving the honor following stellar seasons by the Bruins in 2012, 2015, 2018 and 2021. She compiled an overall record of 350-286 while leading the Bruins to a share of the program's first NWC championship in 2021.
In 2009, she took over a softball program that finished 3-29-1 the season prior and hadn't posted a winning record since 2001. Hollen eventually led the Bruins to a pair of NCAA Division III regional playoff berths in 2016 and 2021 and nine NWC Tournament appearances.
Hollen began her softball career as a player at North Salem High School where she first took an interest in coaching. She assisted her high school pitching coach with private lessons by working with the younger pitchers. In college, she played for a season at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, then transferred to Chemeketa Community College in Salem where she earned Junior College All-America honors as a sophomore.
Hollen's coaching career began in 2004 with a year as an assistant softball coach at Chemeketa. She served as the varsity softball coach at Stayton High School while completing a bachelor's degree in history at Western Oregon University in 2006. The following spring, she returned to Chemeketa as co-head softball coach.
Hollen attended Willamette University College of Law and spent a year as a law clerk with the Marion County District Attorney's office before deciding to return to coaching when the George Fox position became available.
Jessica is married to former Corban University baseball player John Hollen, who has served alongside her as an assistant on the Bruins softball coaching staff.
The Hollens live in Newberg where they are raising two daughters, Riley and Kinley.
DUANE DUEY
Certified Athletic Trainer
Duane Duey is in his 13th year as head certified athletic trainer at Linfield University.
He oversees the physical and mental care and well-being of over 500 student-athletes while managing a team of four assistant certified athletic trainers and as many as a dozen student athletic trainers.
Prior to coming to Linfield, he served as head certified athletic trainer at Portland State University from 2002 until 2013.
Duey completed a bachelor’s degree in physical education at Western Oregon University in 1993 where he was also a member of the Wolves football team. He went on to complete a master’s degree in kinesiology from Midwestern State University in 1995.
He and his wife, Kim, live in Newberg and have four children, two of whom competed in women’s lacrosse while students at Linfield.
CHASE FISK
Director of Athletic Communications
Chase Fisk enters his second year as Linfield's Director of Athletic Communications in 2025-26.
Fisk, who came to Linfield after two years as the Assistant Director of Sports Communications at fellow Northwest Conference institution Pacific Lutheran, takes over day-to-day leadership of the athletic communications office.
In 2025, Fisk was selected for the second class of the NCAA Division III and D3Sida Athletic Communicators Emerging Elite Program.
An award-winning sports communications professional in his two years at PLU, Fisk earned six College Sports Communicators Creative & Digital Design citations, including consecutive titles in recognition of the top Signing Day Package for Division III. He has been a member of College Sports Communicators (CSC) since 2023, currently serving on CSC's New Media Committee. During his time in Tacoma, Fisk covered four Northwest Conference championship teams which also competed in the NCAA Division III Tournaments.
Native of Tumwater, Washington, Fisk returned to the Pacific Northwest after spending three years developing his sports communications tool kit at Division II University of Wisconsin-Parkside where he served as a graduate assistant for External Relations and Marketing and was the primary media contact for the Rangers men's golf team and nationally-ranked wresting team.
A three-year golf letter winner at UWP, Fisk graduated in 2022 with a bachelor's degree in Sports Management, earning Academic All-Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference honors and All America Scholar recognition from the Golf Coaches Association of America. He went on to complete a master's degree in Sports Management two years later.
Prior to attending UW-Parkside, Fisk competed on the men's golf team at Bellevue College, where he earned the Northwest Athletic Conference's Sportsman of the Year in 2020.
He and his wife, Marissa, reside in Carlton with their dog, Sadie, and cats, May and Loki.
LEE BAKNER
Faculty Athletics Representative
Psychology professor Dr. Lee Bakner starts his 20th year as Faculty Athletic Representative(FAR).
Since coming to Linfield in 1992, Bakner has distinguished himself as an exemplary member of an already strong faculty.
He has been honored with the Samuel H. Graf Faculty Achievement Award and Northwest Conference Distinguished Service Award. Dr. Bakner was a Visting Scientist in Behavioral Neuroscience, School of Medicine, at Oregon Health & Science University (1999-2000, 2008-2009, 2018-2019), has developed a research program evaluating drug influences on brain and behavior, and teaches a variety of courses in psychology and neuroscience at Linfield.
Dr. Bakner received a bachelor’s degree in psychology at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania (1987) and earned a master’s (1990) and doctorate (1992) in experimental psychology with a specialty in biopsychology from Kent State University.
He resides in McMinnville with his wife Tonya, and they have two grown children, Erika and Kaelah.
ALINA GARSTKA
Athletics Operations & Administrative Coordinator
Alina Garstka enters into her first year as the Athletic Operations & Administrative Coordinator at Linfield in 2026-27.
A native of Newberg, Oregon, Garstka comes to McMinnville after one year of serving as an account executive for LEARFIELD at the University of Oregon. She holds internship experience across numerous levels of sport, spending one season as a Youth Sports & Events Intern with the City of La Crosse Parks, Recreation, & Forestry following one season as a Ticket Sales & Service Game Day Intern with the MLB's Minnesota Twins while pursuing her undergraduate degree.
Currently pursuing her Masters degree in Sports Leadership online from Endicott College, she graduated from Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wisconsin in 2025, double-majoring in Sports Management and Leadership and Business Administration, with a minor in Human Resources Management. While at Viterbo, Garstka competed as an outfielder on the V-Hawks Softball team for three seasons, earning CCAC, NSAA, and NAIA Scholar Athlete honors. She served as the Vice President for the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) in her senior year.
Garstka currently resides in her hometown of Newberg, where she grew up playing basketball, golf, soccer, and softball. She is an avid Seattle Mariners and Oregon Ducks fan and enjoys playing pickleball and tennis.
