Gene serves as the Fitness Leader at the Montrose Community Recreation Center. He has worked with the MRD for 3 years and started as a Manager on Duty.  He then was promoted to the full time position of Facility Leader and then to Fitness Leader.  Gene says he enjoys all of the people he works with, patrons and staff.  He loves the team environment,  much different than the corporate environment that he previously worked in, where numbers were the priority. As Fitness Leader, he organizes and oversees classes, instructors, helps patrons and ensures the equipment is functioning. He works hard to balance the needs and wants of patrons with the availability of instructors. He tries to provide a wide spectrum of fitness options.  Gene grew up in Montrose and sees many positive benefits that the MRD offers this community.  He said that there is sometimes the misperception that the MRD is only for kids, but in reality, it is for all ages!  Gene has three kids and he and his wife enjoy spending time as a family.  In his off time, he loves coaching basketball and LaCrosse, fishing, boating and hunting with his boys.