Responsibilities: Football home game manager; Advance football travel; assist with football travel and bowl trips; supervise all facility graphic displays, photos, and sign updates; assist with Capital Improvement projects; supervise Assistant Director for Event Production; Ben Hill Griffin Stadium and Indoor Practice Facility facility liaison; assist with game management for all home softball games.
Alma Mater/Degree/Year: University of Florida/BS-Exercise Sport Sciences, Sport Management/2000; University of Florida/Masters-Exercise Sport Sciences, Sport Management/2003
Hometown: Annandale, VA
UAA staff since: July 2001
In their own words...
What is your favorite memory as a UAA employee?
There are many, but a few highlights:
- 1997 Florida-Florida State football game in the Swamp, 32-29 Gators! (as a student)
- Being on the field when Football won the National Championship in 2006 and 2008
- Being there when Basketball won the National Championship in 2006 in Indianapolis, then in 2007 in Atlanta
- Being there when Gymnastics won the National Championship in 2015 to make it three in a row
- Traveling to Omaha with Baseball for the College World Series in 2005 and being there for nearly two weeks
- 2008 SEC Football Championship game in the Georgia Dome vs. Alabama…it was loud and fun in the dome that night
- Halloween 2002 with the Green M&M
- Any press conference with the Head Ball Coach
What is the best part about your job?
Working with amazing people and coaches that are the best in the business. Helping support all of our staff and teams, knowing you played a part in assisting them to be successful. Helping plan events and facilities that are successful and knowing you played a part behind the scenes. Seeing young staff and interns grow and accomplish great things. Seeing all our amazing student-athletes and their many backgrounds and talents…succeeding in the classroom, community, collegiate, and on to professional and Olympic levels…they are truly amazing and help bring energy to the Gator nation every day.
What do you like to do “off the field”?
Spending as much time as possible with my beautiful wife, Emily, our son, Brady, and our daughter, Brenna. Swimming, snorkeling, trying to play golf, spending time with family, traveling and exploring new places, anything outdoors, visiting microbreweries, watching EPL, playing soccer, home improvement and woodworking projects, anything that allows me to use my artistic/creative side.
