New acting executive director learns how to run City of Palms Classic national basketball tournament

Mary Schaack, who began her affiliation with the City of Palms Classic high school basketball tournament as an intern from Florida Gulf Coast University, has risen quite quickly to the top of the event’s totem pole in the past five years.  

An apprentice to the late John Naylor, Schaack, 31, began taking on more behind-the-scenes duties when his health began declining earlier this year.  

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