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‘‘Thank You’ goes a long way’: How ASU facilities’ employees set the standard amid chaotic host weekend

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TEMPE - If the Red Bull in Mark Gorski’s hand wasn’t signaling that he’d been hard at work, the passing comments from Sun Devil fans in the concourse of Desert Financial Arena sure did.

“You gotta be gassed, man,” one passerby said.

Gorski, the Athletic Facilities Maintenance Manager now in his 13th year at ASU, was amid one of the most hectic weekends in the ASU athletics calendar-year. From Thursday-through-Sunday, ASU hosted 10 NCAA-sanctioned ASU matches, an NHL game and various Sun Devil practices and shoot-arounds. A schedule that packed demands manpower only few schools possess, ASU being one of them.