Small but mighty! In celebration of Small Business Saturday, we’re sharing all-time staff-favorite designs from behind the doors at Waggle HQ.
Travis Baker - Founder/President
Favorite Design: Cocky Rooster. It was one of the first 5 polos ever made at Waggle, and is the oldest pattern still available to buy today.
Lindsay Koch - Director of Brand Experience & Stores
Favorite Design: Toon It Out. Nothing beats a day at the lake! Clearly anyone who has this hat knows how to have a good time.
Tim Boehm - Store Manager & New Store Opening Coordinator
Favorite Design: Waterfowl Camo Zip Hoodie. I’m an avid waterfowler and was impatiently waiting for this to drop. On my annual North Dakota trip this year, I was trying to talk a farmer into letting me hunt on his property. After initially turning me down, he asked about my hoodie and what I did for a living. After explaining Waggle, we got to talking about golf. 30 minutes later, he gave me permission to hunt and we harvested our limit each day!
Morgan House - Event Coordinator
Favorite Design: Buzzin’. An underrated classic. This design is a go-to staple in my closet. Plus, who doesn’t love to be buzzin’?
Katie Bremseth - Inventory & Supply Chain Planner
Favorite Design: Nutty. I wore this hat to a Minnesota Gopher football game recently and got like 5 compliments. Plus, it’s holding a little golf ball and that’s adorable.
Luke DeBruzzi - Director of Sales
Favorite Design: Wally. To some, it might just look like a fish with some sharp teeth and goofy eyeballs. To me, the walleye represents fishing trips with friends and family. Even if the fishing is bad, the company is great. When it’s good, you’ve got enough to take some home to eat—tough to beat the delicacy of fresh walleye!
Diego Hernandez - Sales Account Executive
Favorite Design: Moon Shot. I hit a high cut off the club face that disappears into the sky, landing (not often) in the fairway and creating a little crater from the impact.
Lukas LaPoint - Sales Account Executive
Favorite Design: Shooter. Happy Gilmore is one of my favorite movies of all time, and is actually one of the reasons I started playing golf. Blending hockey culture with casual golf makes it so relatable and funny. The hat itself is a great homage to the iconic “Shooter” celly—it’s always fun to pull out that move while draining a putt on the course with your buddies.
Marty Sundstedt - Key Account Manager
Favorite Design: Texas Golf. I was born and raised in Texas. My first week on the job, it was the only Waggle hat that I had. I wore it while running the Twin Cities Marathon and people were cheering me on and complimenting it the whole way… “Let’s go Waggle!” “Keep running Texas!”
Jacob Kohner - Director of Product
Favorite Design: Loon Lake Topographic. This was the first pattern I created when I was hired in 2022. 3 years later, it’s still a staple. My goal was to recreate a standard pattern in a way that gave it more meaning. Integrating the lake with Minnesota’s state bird creates a connection with those whose greatest memories are being up north on the water.
Brittney Kortbein - Associate Graphic Designer (Men’s Apparel)
Favorite Design: Find Your Fairway - Rockies. Color palette, mountains, gray hat and low-profile fit? Need I say more?
Jordan Stewart - Head Product Designer (Women's & Youth Apparel)
Favorite Design: Find Your Fairway - Great Lakes. Love the low-profile fit and homage to Minnesota!
Caroline Ponessa - Director of Marketing
Favorite Design: Celly from the 1980 Miracle Hockey Team Collection (coming soon…). I wasn’t alive in 1980, but I’ll never forget watching Miracle for the first time—our youth association rented out the entire theatre so we could all watch it together. I’ve seen it probably 20 times since then, so this collaboration would be pretty dang insane to 11-year-old me.
John Bickle - Social Media Specialist
Favorite Design: Loosey Goosey. My hometown is Rochester, MN—the goose capital of the world (but really just Minnesota…)
Claire Van Buren - Digital Marketing Manager
Favorite Design: The Opener. From days when I had to be bribed with Tootsie Pops to keep quiet in the stands to now, there’s always been sentiment around deer hunting for my family. There’s something indescribable about 3 generations getting up at 5 a.m., dispersing into the dark and coming in for a dive-bar-breakfast to share stories about wildlife we saw. A standout memory was sitting in my Papa’s blind with him, knowing it was probably one of his last hunts. Together, we saw the biggest buck we’d ever seen. It was like a movie, big fluffy snowflakes all around as we both giggled and shaked.
Sydney Urban - Marketing Designer
Favorite Design: Legendairy. When I was interviewing at Waggle, I photoshopped this hat onto a cow. After I got the job (but prior to starting), my cow wearing the Legendairy hat got posted on the Waggle Instagram. Since then, I’ve put several of our hats onto all kinds of creatures!
Travis Weidt - Photographer/Videographer
Favorite Design: Pheasant. It was a feature in one of my favorite photoshoots from this past year!
Taylor DeBruzzi - HR & Business Admin Manager
Favorite Design: Loon Lake Topographic. I grew up on the lake with a dad who is an avid fisherman, and is always checking his fishing graphs. Family pontoon rides quickly turn into research for his next outing. Instead of the classic “are we there yet”, we’ve learned to join in on the fun by asking “what’s our depth now!?”. Then you incorporate the loon into the design? Chef’s kiss!
Kyle Beaulieu - Finance Manager
Favorite Design: Loosey Goosey. I am terrified of geese on the course, so I try to blend in.
Kevin Kepler - Warehouse & Operations Manager
Favorite Design: Northwoods Quarter Zip. When I think of this design, I imagine snow gently falling while curling up on the couch with a movie or book and a steaming mug of hot chocolate—feeling completely at peace.
Evan Anderson - Logistics Coordinator
Favorite Design: Off The Grid. Reminds me of spending time with friends and family up at my cabin!
