A farm boy from Pawpaw, Illinois, Kent Politsch became a federal employee at the Department of Agriculture late in his professional career. After spending 20 years as a television news producer, Politsch added to his resume Communications Director for the Governor of Missouri and nine years as Corporate Communications Manager for Yellow Corporation, a freight transportation company headquartered in Kansas City. When following his wife's banking career to Baltimore in 1998, Politsch was commissioned to write a historical book about Yellow Freight System in honor of the company's 75 years of service. The book, Legends and Legacy, published in 1999. In 2001, Politsch joined two Baltimore area… brothers in forming a not-for-profit youth organization that he named Leadership Through Athletics. He directed construction of the organization's $2 million gymnasium that became known as Leadership Gym and opened in 2004. He remains a board member of the organization, but retired as an Amateur Athletic Union boys and girls basketball coach when his son Alex and daughter Annie entered college and after each played on state championship teams with the Maryland Sure Shots. Politsch and his wife Nancy make their home in Hanover, Maryland.