Assistant AD - Marketing:
@VirginiaSports
. VA native &
@UofSC
alum. Proudly building and upholding the great tradition of the University of Virginia Cavaliers.
I told Coach O earlier that he should throw out the first pitch at an
@ECUBaseball
game this season and he (as he always humbly does) said, "Nobody would want to see that."
If you want to see Coach O throw one, please like this so I can show him how many people would love it!
🔸
#4
Public university in America (
@usnews
)
🔹
#5
Athletic department in the NCAA (
@LDirectorsCup
)
The University of Virginia is 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒍 to rank in the Top 5 nationally for both.
#GoHoos
🔸⚔️🔹
The state of North Carolina will have more teams in the tournament this year than any other state.
6 - North Carolina
5 - Florida
5 - Virginia
4 - Louisiana
4 - Texas
3 - Alabama
3 - Arizona
3 - Connecticut
3 - Mississippi
#BaseballState
Wahoos: Please help me with an experiment on organic reach in social!
Simply ‘LIKE’ this if you want to see the Virginia Cavaliers be successful in 2023-24.
#GoHoos
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S/O to the
@UVA
students for showing out last week. 6th highest student crowd in the last decade.
3 of the top 20 student crowds in program history have come in the last 7 home games. Run it back vs. the Terps!
#GoHoos
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I was able to check in on the latest progress at the FOC this morning and was thrilled to see the branding installs around the facility rounding towards completion.
A 🧵 of the sparkling new first-class home of
@UVAFootball
:
Extremely impressed by how the
@ECUPiratesFB
team area is shaping up visually.
All-Americans, NFL Pirates, championships, bowl games, history, traditions and more all featured.
It’s a first-class job that proudly tells our history - well done!
Keaton Mitchell ⚡️ is up to 6th nationally in rushing with 574 yards. His 9.6 YPC is also 2nd in the FBS.
Through 5 weeks, the Mitchell/Harris combo is the top rushing duo in the American with 793 yards.
Virginia 🏈 gave me my love of sports. Learned ball from my dad & grandad, sitting in Section 534, Row O, Seat 2 in Scott.
I’m passionate because being here & doing this is all I ever wanted.
Blessed for the role, excited for tm, proud to be a Cavalier!
#GoHoos
#PayItForward
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Just past the halfway point of the Games, our
@UVA
Olympians have earned 12 medals in
#Paris2024
. 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥉🥉
To put into context how dominant that is, all other VA colleges/universities across all 54 Olympic games ever contested have 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒃𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒅 for 2 medals.
With Baseball's run rule victory to clinch the series, Virginia wraps up the Commonwealth Clash more than doubling up Tech.
Hoos - 15
Hokies - 7
This matches the largest margin of victory in Commonwealth Clash history!
#GoHoos
East Carolina had the largest attendance ⬆️ in the American this year, and was 1 of just 3 teams to see a bump from 2019.
@ECUPiratesFB
- 8.8%
USF- 5%
Cincinnati- 3.8%
Also finished just behind UCF and Cincy for the highest average attendance in the conference.
#PirateNation
🏴☠️
UVA led the commonwealth of Virginia in attendance across all sports this year, setting new school & state att. records in a sports year!
@VirginiaSports
drew nearly 175,000 more fans than the next closest school. Fans came from all 133 counties/cities.
#Flagship
#GoHoos
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Beyond excited to head to Charlottesville next week to start as Assistant AD - Marketing at UVA.
I can't wait for our son to grow up going to Virginia sporting events as I did and to be closer to family.
Ready to hit the ground running!
#Wahoowa
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In 2023, Virginia has beaten UNC in the state of North Carolina in:
🏈: Last night in Chapel Hill
M🏀: ACCT in Greensboro
⚾️: Series win in Chapel Hill
This is the first time ever accomplishing this feat in a calendar year in school history.
#GoHoos
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After a 651 day hiatus, Rowdy Dowdy will be back and rocking Saturday.
Looking forward to a great game that should be emotional for plenty of reasons and fun for all involved.
Among the Group of 5, East Carolina finished 3rd nationally in attendance this season.
ECU also outdrew 12 different P5 schools representing all 5 conferences (Arizona, BC, Duke, Illinois, Kansas, Northwestern, Oregon St., Stanford, Cuse, Vandy, Wake, Wash St.)
#PirateNation
🏴☠️
ECU is 1 of just 11 programs nationally to reach the 40-win benchmark so far this season, joining Florida, Stanford, Texas Tech, Stetson, Oregon St., Ole Miss, FSU, Clemson, NCSU, and Tennessee Tech. Only Florida & Florida State have a higher Strength of Schedule.
#LoyalAndBold
In the 2nd Half, Virginia held BC to just 111 net yards.
In 6 possessions, the Cavalier D scored a TD, forced 3 turnovers, 2 punts & had a 4th down stop w/ the longest drive going 29 yards.
BC ran 3 total plays in UVA territory, converted just 2 3rd downs & was shut out 🔥🔥🔥
The sun has set on another season in Dowdy. Couldn’t be more appreciative of Pirate Nation for showing out this year & rocking - it makes a huge difference for our student-athletes and coaches.
You make our job really fun & we’re already planning ways to improve it in 2022! 🏴☠️
Over the last 20 years, Virginia has won more conference titles than any school in the ACC with 80.
17 different teams (of 25 possible) have won an ACC title while 7 different programs have combined to win 20 national championships in this span.
#GoHoos
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With last night's win,
@ECUBaseball
became just the 4th team in conference history to reach the 18-win mark in league play. The list:
2014 Louisville
2019 East Carolina
2021 East Carolina
2022 East Carolina
🏴☠️⚾️
Fans coming to Scott Saturday night can expect several concession stands to now feature dedicated specialty items. For example:
🌭 Chicago Dog
🐷 BBQ Brisket Sandwich
🍔 Pulled Pork Burger
Different options will rotate in at these stands for successive games to keep it fresh.
Digging through some files tonight and found this quote graphic from April 5th, 2019 👇
Anybody else amped up for this one? See you Friday, Pirate Nation. 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
Virginia starting QB Anthony Colandrea's current passing ranks nationally:
🔸 Yards - 10th
🔹 TDs - 19th
🔸 % - 9th
🔹 Rating - 20th
He is 1 of 4 players nationally in the Top 25 for all 4 categories, joining Jaxson Dart (Ole Miss), Cam Ward (Miami) & Garrett Nussmeier (LSU).
Put some work in today on the '21 marketing campaign for
@ECUPiratesFB
and dug up this gem of a billboard from the archives.
Thinking it could be fun to do a retro series this year 🏴☠️
Over the last two seasons, over 90,000 patrons have visited Disharoon Park for postseason baseball, good for 3rd in the entire country.
As DI Baseball has the highest attended on-campus postseason among all NCAA sports, that's not bad company to be in!
#GoHoos
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For the first time since 1955-56 (pre-dating Minges Coliseum)
@ecubasketball
is 10-0 at home.
Season highs in both student and overall attendance today.
See y’all back here Tuesday night!
#PirateNation
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We went 30-4 in Clark-LeClair this season, and you made the difference in the moments that mattered the most all season long.
Tip of the cap to you, Pirate Nation! 🏴☠️⚾️
Over the last 15 months, we have steadily worked to re-imagine our pre-game experience at Scott. I think our fans will find it refreshing in some ways & enhanced in others with several nods to our past.
New band show, new intro, new pyro, new graphics & more!
#GoHoos
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Not many know this, but this season marks Morgan Ahlers' 30th year doing PA for
@ecubasketball
!
In a year unlike any other, it's a nice reminder that while the whole world can change in a minute, some things are just institutions.
Appreciate you and congrats on the big 3⃣0⃣!
In his first 2 career starts, Holton Ahlers has averaged 490.5 yards of Total Offense per game.
The 2018 FBS national leader is at 397.4 per game. Small sample size for Ahlers of course, but a heckuva start.
Support the Pirates in our home finale! 🎟️:
Last night, our starting QB attended a rainy doubleheader and hung with fans in the
@ECUJungle
.
Today, our head football coach took out a full pager in the local paper.
Tomorrow, a fun new video series with our AD is dropping.
@ECUAthletics
is full steam ahead!
At the halfway point of fall sports, Virginia is 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐏𝟒 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 with a winning record in Football, Volleyball, M Soccer, W Soccer & Field Hockey.
UVA's other 4 fall sports (M/W XC, M/W Golf) are also all nationally ranked.
#GoHoos
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The level of connection
@ECUCoachHouston
is establishing between his men and Pirate Nation is spectacular. Slinging pigs last night, greeting last night’s cooks, now hanging with fans on the field. Can’t ask for anything more out of this program!
Season tickets are flying for
@UVAWomensHoops
; Sales have nearly tripled over the last 2 years and are at their highest mark in over a decade.
Jump on board and support this program now:
What a great win for Coach Mox and
@uvawomenshoops
!
With that, Virginia has now won the most recent baseball series, football, men's basketball and women's basketball games over North Carolina.
3 (W🏀 -
#20
), (🏈 -
#10
), (⚾️ -
#14
) were also over ranked teams.
#GoHoos
#ABC
Really, really love how evident Mike and Amanda’s joy is in this video we played at the hoops game yesterday.
It’s been a long journey back to bowl games for ECU, and man I’m fired up that
@ECUCoachHouston
is our head football coach steering that ship! 🏴☠️
Another 🧹🧹🧹 for
@ECUBaseball
this weekend. Now a whopping 47-9 (83.9%) at Clark-LeClair over the last 3 years (!!!)
12-0 in weekend series’ with 9 sweeps. Simply put,
#PirateNation
gives us a tremendous home-field advantage.
I’ll admit that the stress and pressure to deliver in our business during football season can sometimes be overwhelming.
But boy does that all evaporate when you come home to this 🥹
There are no words to describe the void you leave behind, Jeff. Your impact stretches across generations - Thank you for the indelible memories.
I know you’re in heaven watching your beloved college basketball, your presence is courtside for the Hoos & Blue Devils.
#RIPVoice
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Virginia leads the ACC and is 7th nationally in combined average attendance of spring sports.
The Top 10:
1 Arkansas
2 LSU
3 Miss. State
4 Ole Miss
5 Texas
6 South Carolina
7 Virginia
8 Texas A&M
9 Florida
10 Alabama
In a year of record turnout, the Hoos are finishing strong.
What Coach O’Connor has done with
@UVABaseball
is virtually unparalleled from any coaching job in the sport’s history.
Prior to his arrival, the program appeared in the postseason just 3 times ever (program started in 1889).
SIX trips to Omaha and a natty since 2009. 🤯
Just 8 schools nationally won 4 conference championships and a national title last year, a combo that would be considered a banner year for any athletic department nationally.
@VirginiaSports
has 𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒅 this feat over the last 20 years.
#GoHoos
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Yesterday many groups came together to launch a sensory room at
@ecubasketball
.
Received an e-mail this morning that this young fan came specifically because he felt he would be comfortable and PeeDee was going to be like him.
Stuff like this makes my week.
Thanks
@ClowESPN
for the high praise on discussion of best entrance in college football.
Awesome, but well-deserved to have
@ECUPiratesFB
in the same convo as South Carolina, Clemson, Oklahoma, Florida State, Virginia Tech, Nebraska, and Georgia Tech.
At the close of the first weekend at
#Paris2024
, Gretchen Walsh is 1 of just 3 athletes with multiple medals in the Games already.
Only 8 of the 206 participating nations have earned more medals than
@UVA
’s 3.
#GoHoos
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At the end of the regular season,
@UVABaseball
is 1 of just 6 programs nationally to reach 40 wins while playing a top 50 SOS, joining Tennessee, Texas A&M, Arkansas, North Carolina and Clemson.
Just 13 of the 305 D1 schools reached 40 wins (0.4%).
#GoHoos
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Virginia has made major strides in virtually every tangible statistic from last year to this one. Offense, Defense, Special Teams, efficiency, discipline 📈
Always neat when the numbers back what the eyes see.
#GoHoos
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Total population of C’Ville: ~44,000
Total attendance at
@VirginiaSports
events this week: Over 82,000
What a week, Virginia fans are amazing!
#EverythingSchool
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Tomorrrow is my first Commonwealth Cup since working at Virginia, but it’s also my 125th game all-time in Scott Stadium.
Seen so many great moments here over the years, excited for the next great one Saturday!
#GoHoos
#TakeTheCup
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✅ Scripts and PA books done.
✅ Social media content in the can.
✅ Virtual Ticket video stream created and tested.
✅ Music computer loaded up.
Ready for gameday! 🏴☠️🏈