By Emily Younger
Why did a baseball-loving family from California choose Wichita? The simple answer? Opportunity. The long answer. Well, we will get to that in this #RelentlesslyOriginal story.
Meet Timias and Katie Woods. The couple and their fun-loving daughters, Charlie, 8, and Rory, 5, moved to the Air Capital of the World from the Greater Los Angeles area in March of 2021. Katie, the former assistant general manager for the Lancaster JetHawks, was offered the director of marketing and community engagement position with the Wichita Wind Surge for the minor league baseball team’s inaugural season.
“I had never been to Wichita until the night before I started with the Wind Surge,” said Katie.
“At the time, I didn’t know anything about Wichita. We knew we had to move so she could continue her career in minor league baseball. We were deciding between Binghampton, New York, Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Wichita, Kansas. I am from Oklahoma, so Kansas seemed doable. The other two places seemed like more of a stretch and lacked the days of sun necessary to make life magical. We rolled the dice on Wichita and are glad we did,” said Timias.