Will Pantages - Senior Associate AD, Communications & Content (FB) - Staff Directory

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Will Pantages

Title:
Senior Associate AD, Communications & Content (FB)
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Phone:
336-758-2347

Will Pantages was named Associate Athletic Director for Athletic Communications on Nov. 13, 2019. Pantages was recently promoted to Senior Associate AD, Communications & Content on July 1, 2022. He is now responsible for leading all aspects of athletic communications strategy, including digital, social, and traditional media relations for the Demon Deacons and he oversees all creative services including video services, graphic design and photography. He is a member of Wake Forest Athletics Senior Leadership Team.

Pantages joined Wake Forest after serving as a member of the athletic communications office at the University of Florida since 2014. He was the primary day-to-day media contact for the Gators' football program since 2016, working directly with UF's assistant coaches, student-athletes and assisting in requests for current coach Dan Mullen and former head coaches Jim McElwain and Randy Shannon. In addition, he supervised three content creators, served as the social media manager for all @GatorsFB accounts (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook), managed the department's overall and football-only content calendars and assisted in staff organization and hiring with his superiors.

Before assuming his management and football duties at Florida, Pantages had previously served as the principal contact for women's softball (2015-16) and men's and women's swimming and diving (2014-15). Pantages' work included a variety of tasks as the Gators softball team won an NCAA national championship in 2015.

Pantages began his Florida tenure in 2014. Prior to Florida, he worked in 2013-14 at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, serving in a variety of informational roles. His experience there included assignments in football and men's basketball, interacting with former SMU coaches June Jones and Larry Brown.

Pantages is a native of Akron, Ohio, and completed his undergraduate degree in communications and economics from Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, Ohio. While there, he played baseball as a catcher during his freshman season and then pitched for the Yellow Jackets in 2011, '12 and '13 while also working year-around in the sports information department. He married his wife, Gabby, on Dec. 11, 2020.