Our Team
Allen Fredrickson
General Manager
Serving since 2015
702-363-7457
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About Allen
Allen Fredrickson is originally from Oregon and moved to Atlanta, Georgia where we attended high school and college. He moved to Las Vegas in 1996 and has experience in managing a variety of restaurants throughout the Las Vegas Valley. Including Vegas strip favorites like Pink Taco at Hard Rock and Lavo at The Palazzo.Allen joined Canyon Gate in 2009 as the Food and Beverage Director. In 2012, Allen left Canyon Gate to become Anthem Country Club LV’s Food and Beverage Director. He returned to Canyon Gate in 2015. In December 2016, Allen became the Club's General Manager.He enjoys golfing, football, food & wine, and spending time with his wife and two sons.
Corey Strzalka
Membership Director
Serving since 2022
About Corey
Corey was born and raised in Cleveland, OH, where he attended Culinary School and received his A.A.B. in Hospitality/Food, Beverage & Restaurant Management after graduating High School. He moved to Las Vegas to continue his education where he received his B.S. in Hotel Administration and Hospitality/Casino Management at UNLV. Corey brings with him over 12 years of Casino, Hotel and Hospitality Sales and Marketing experience holding positions from Executive Casino Host to Director of Player Development on various Strip properties and Sr. Sales and Marketing Executive with luxury hotel brands. In 2012 Corey moved to Atlanta and started in Private Country Clubs as Membership and Marketing Director. He returned to Las Vegas in 2016 where he grew membership at DragonRidge Country Club as the Membership and Marketing Director until 2022. Corey’s passion is building long lasting relations with the members and he enjoys getting out on the golf course.
Courtney Feldscher
Member Experience Manager
Serving since 2018
702-363-3951
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About Courtney
Courtney is originally from Sonoma County, CA and earned her B.A. in Visual Arts Media with an emphasis in Photography from U.C. San Diego. After college, she pursued a Tech/SaaS Sales career in San Francisco while continuing to take classes in Visual Arts, Graphic Design and Event Planning. Her husband’s career lead them to Las Vegas in 2016 and she started working at Canyon Gate in 2018. Her role is focused on planning member events, and is responsible for marketing and social media. Outside of work, she loves spending time with her son, her puppy and she loves wine tasting!
Celeste Alvarado
Office Manager
Serving since 2012
702-243-2348
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About Celeste
As the office manager, Celeste is primarily responsible for ensuring the timely and accurate completion of club administrative processes such as: accounts payable, accounts receivable, human resources and payroll.Celeste is married with two children. She was born and raised in Santa Barbara, California and moved to Las Vegas in 2006.
Dominique Acevedo
Private Events Director
Serving since 2020
702-363-4650
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About Dominique
Dominique is an event-planning enthusiast originally born in Cleveland, but raised in Las Vegas where she earned her Bachelor’s Degree at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (Go Rebels!). She brings over a decade of hospitality and event management experience at luxury properties such as MGM Grand, The Mirage, Caesar's Palace and Shadow Creek Golf Course. During her tenure she has planned successful events for professional sports teams, multi-million dollar galas with celebrity performers and countless weddings and other social events. Her passion is making her client's dreams become a reality and she loves seeing their joyous reactions when they enter their room. Dominique believes that the smallest details can have the biggest impact on an event and loves thinking outside of the box and being creative. In her leisure time she loves going to bootcamp classes, snuggling with her two fur babies (Winnie the maltipoo and Krewella the yorkiepoo), and watching her Cleveland sports teams ...
Marina Turner
Private Events Assistant
Serving since 2021
About Marina
Marina was born in Boston, Massachusetts but raised primarily in Las Vegas. She earned her bachelor’s degree at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in Hospitality Management with an emphasis in Meetings & Events. After falling in love with events from a young age, she started working for various staffing & event execution companies which lead her to Canyon Gate now. When she is not working, you can catch her at any country music concert or sporting events (Go Patriots!)
Brandon Johnson
Head Golf Professional
Serving since 2020
702-363-0534
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About Brandon
Brandon Johnson was born and raised in Olympia, Washington. He grew up playing basketball and baseball, and it wasn’t until his dad took him to the driving range, the summer before high school, where he developed a passion for golf. By his Senior year, he was a top amateur in Washington and went on to play for Walla Walla Community College, which ranked as the best golf team for a Junior College in the Pacific Northwest. Brandon moved to Las Vegas in 2006 to continue to work on his game and attend UNLV where he earned a degree in Professional Golf Management. During that time, he gained an interest in teaching, and became a PGA certified teaching professional who has worked at a few different courses across the Valley. Before landing this great teaching opportunity at Canyon Gate, Brandon spent 4 years as the Lead Instructor at Topgolf Las Vegas where he taught everything from individual lessons to large clinics and corporate outings. He also became a Master Club Fitter for Callawa...
Benny Leung
First Assistant Golf Professional
Serving since 2022
About Benny
Benny was born and raised in the city of Hong Kong, came to the U.S at the age of 15 where he picked up his passion for golf. Benny began his golf career as golf shop attendant with Troon Golf Management at the Westin Mission Hill Golf Resort & Spa located in Palm Spring California, then joined the Invited family a premier private facility established in 1956 and home of the Bob Hope Classic for 40 years at Indian Wells Country Club as assistant golf professional. Benny came to join us Canyon Gate family with highly focused on creating an exceptional golf experience that exceeds Member and Guest expectations by uniquely anticipating their needs and offering tremendous service. Benny is currently enrolled in the PGA Professional Golf Management Program as an Apprentice at UNLV.
Chris Shearer
Assistant Golf Professional
Serving since 2019
Gordon Parker
Regional Tournament Sales Director
Serving since 2020
702-994-4662
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About Gordon
Gordon was raised in Kentucky. He studied voice at the University of Louisville and went on to sing with Kentucky Opera for 5 years and then retired from singing at a young age and became the Special Events Director of the Opera for 10 years.He then was one of the founders of Sports Blast International, a chain of Indoor Soccer Arenas with six arenas in five states that are still open today. He was the Chairman of Indoor Soccer in the United States.He moved to Las Vegas in 2004 and obtained a Real Estate License that he still holds today. He worked for Invited, Bear’s Best Las Vegas, as their Private Events Director from 2008-2016 where his accomplishments put him in the Hall of Fame for Invited. He retired as went back into Real Estate.In 2020 He became the Regional Tournament Sales Director for Canyon Gate and Bear’s Best selling golf outings and tournaments for both clubs.He has a son and two granddaughters that live in Las Vegas. He enjoys golf. Tennis, and bowling.
Greg Todd
Golf Course Superintendent
Serving since 2018
702-845-0827
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About Greg
Greg Todd is originally from Colorado until his family was transferred to Tucson, Arizona where he attended High School. This is where he fell in love with being on the golf course and began his career as a Golf Course Superintendent.He attended Michigan State University and received his degree in Turfgrass Management. His 36 years of experience range from being a Grow-in Superintendent for the Robert Trent Jones Trail of Golf in Alabama. To working for the PGA Tour here in Las Vegas at TPC Summerlin.When Greg isn’t on the golf course he enjoys spending time with his wife, Kimberly, who is an Assistant Principal here in Las Vegas at CCSD. They also enjoy camping, fishing and riding their Harley Davidson Motorcycles.
Crombie Hatfield
Tennis Director
Serving since 2012
702-363-4574
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About Crombie
Crombie Hatfield was born in Zimbabwe and grew up in South Africa. After graduating high school he spent two years in the Army. At age 20, Crombie left for Europe where he spent almost two years teaching tennis in Austria.While playing tournaments in Europe, he was recruited by UNLV and received a full tennis scholarship. After college, he returned to South Africa where he successfully managed his own tennis school for over 10 years.Crombie returned to the United States and became the Head Tennis Pro at Red Rock Country Club and at The Bridges at Rancho Santa Fe in San Diego. In 2012, Crombie accepted the Director of Tennis at Canyon Gate.Crombie, his wife Cally and their two daughters, Kate and Mia all play and enjoy tennis.
Adrin Hemelhebber
Tennis Professional
Serving since 2019
About Adrin
Adrin Himmelheber was born and raised in Las Vegas and was a top junior along with being a class 4A State Singles champion for The Meadows School. He played for UNLV and had a brief run on the pro tour after being sidelined with ACL knee surgery.
Adrin has worked with club-level adults to national junior champions. He works part-time with tour players and has worked with Grand Slam champions and Olympic Golf medalists including Andre Agassi and Nicholas Massu. Adrin is a USTA certified high-performance coach and a USPTA Professional 1 which is the highest certification in the tennis coaching professional industry.
Nick Zinsmeister
Tennis Professional
Serving since 2022
About Nick
Nick just recently moved to Las Vegas from Austin, TX. He is excited to continue teaching tennis here at Canyon Gate, he’s been teaching for over 30 years.
Mercedes Lopez
Tennis Professional
Serving since 2022
About Mercedes
Mercedes has always been involved in tennis. From the ages of 12 – 18, Mercedes was in the top 5 for juniors in Spain. She went on to play for UNLV from 2014- 2018 and won the Mountain West Conference Championship. After completing college, she was the assistant coach for women’s and men’s tennis at Shepherd University in Virginia. She will be continuing her career here at Canyon Gate becoming the Tennis Professional.
Jeremy Correia
Executive Chef
Serving since 2021
About Jeremy
A Native of Hawai'i, Chef's introduction to food was assisting all of his Ohana (Family) with gatherings through a melting pot of ethnic foods such as Polynesian, Hawaiian, Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, Korean & Portuguese. He was determined and motivated to elevate his knowledge in a larger arena. He made the move from Hawai'i to Las Vegas where he worked at Todd's Unique Dinning and a few casinos where he gained additional culinary skills with American, Italian and Latin cuisines. As Chef navigated through his career path, he was very interested in "Fine Dining". He packed up his knives, relocated to Southern California and accepted a Sous Chef position at Marché Moderne in Orange County, CA. His humble talents created his promotion to Chef de Cuisine at Marché Moderne where he worked under acclaimed French Chef/Owners Florent & Amelia Marneau for 12 years. He refined his craft and mastered the art of modern fine dining in rustic French and modern American cuisine.
Audrey Brodeur Ducharme
Food & Beverage Director
Serving since 2021
702-363-0303 ext. 5348
702-363-0303 ext. 5348
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About Audrey
Right after graduating with a degree in hospitality management, Audrey moved from Montreal, Canada to the United States to start working for JW Marriott.
Her passion for food and wine led her to live in seven different states in only 12 years, while working for multiple hotels and restaurants across the country.
It is finally in Gilbert, Arizona where she started her journey with Invited as the service director for Seville Golf and Country Club.
Audrey and her husband moved to Las Vegas and are working respectively for Bears Best and Canyon Gate! Let's say it's a family affair!
When she is not at work, she loves spending time with her family and brand-new little baby girl, Charlie Sky.
Audrey believes that food is an amazing way to get people together and a great excuse to have a wonderful time!
Eddie Drayer
Food & Beverage Manager
Serving since 2021
About Eddie
Eddie was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, and began his Food and Beverage Career in Atlanta, GA where he relocated to shortly after college. After years of managing a host of quick service restaurants, he began to feel unfulfilled in that position. He had an opportunity to join a team to host premium events, and through that experience, he realized that providing exceptional guest service is what motivates his talent. Soon after, he found myself moving to Las Vegas. After living in the hospitality capital of the world for a decade, he's had the opportunity to manage Food and Beverage venues from Arenas to Health Care locations.
He’s always looking to create magic moments through leadership, and is thrilled to be the Food and Beverage Manager at Canyon Gate Country Club!
Drey Arbelaez
Captain
Serving since 2018
About Drey
Drey was raised in Queens, NYC. He started out as a busboy in the restaurant industry at the age of 16 where he worked at Don Peppes (yes, the one from HBO's Entourage). He quickly moved through the ranks from Prep, Runner, Bar, Server, Expo, Maitre D, Manager, Sommelier, etc. He made his way out to Vegas and has been fortunate to work alongside Sommeliers at the Venetian, Mixologists at Southern Wine, and other industry professionals that have helped elevate his insight and understanding of the Service Industry. He has been working at Canyon Gate since 2018 and could not be more thrilled with the team and Members.
Vince Brown
Fitness Director
Serving since 2015
702-759-5180
702-759-5180
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About Vince
Vince Brown was born and raised in Cedar Rapids, Iowa where he became a 6 Time Iowa Golden Gloves Boxing Champion.After, Vince fought in the 1984 and 1988 Western Olympic Trials Box Off Tournament and on the undercard of Oscar Dela Hoya along with Floyd Mayweather at Thomas & Mack Arena in Las Vegas Nevada in 1997. He decided to move to Las Vegas in 2001.Before moving to Vegas Vince was the General Manager at a Gold's Gym in Cedar Rapids Iowa for 7 years.Prior to becoming the Fitness Director at Canyon Gate Country Club, Vince worked as a personal trainer, boxing coach at City Athletic Club Las Vegas from 6/11 to present and Round 1 Boxing Gym here in Las Vegas from 4/04-6/11.In 2011 and 2012 Vince organized and staged two charity boxing events for the local Boys & Girls Club at the Tropicana Hotel Casino & Palms Hotel casino with an average attendance of 1,200 guest.What Vince does for enjoyment is putting together social entertainment events such as his neighborhood block party wi...