WDBJ7 Sports activities Director Travis Wells leaving to take Virginia Tech job

BLACKSBURG, Va. (WDBJ/Virginia Tech Launch) – Travis Wells, WDBJ7 Sports activities Director since 2008, has been named assistant athletics director for strategic communications at Virginia Tech, in response to Director of Athletics Whit Babcock.

Wells will function the first communications contact for Virginia Tech Soccer, amongst different duties.

“Travis shall be an important addition to our crew,” Babcock stated. “He has a wealth of data and experiences from almost three many years in native media that can serve our division properly. Travis has an array of expertise that can make him a beneficial asset to Virginia Tech. I’m extraordinarily grateful for the effort and time our search committee dedicated to figuring out Travis. I sit up for welcoming him and his household to Blacksburg.”

Wells’ profession contains stops at TV stations in Charlottesville, Bristol and Roanoke’s WDBJ, the place he started as an intern in 1995. Throughout his time at WDBJ, Wells helped produce Virginia Tech Sports activities In the present day for 10 years, along side LEARFIELD, the college’s media rights companion. Wells spearheaded the station’s protection of ACC soccer and basketball, and anchored WDBJ’s highschool soccer program – Friday Soccer Further – for almost 15 years.

Wells was was named Virginia Sportscaster of the 12 months in 2015 and 2016 by the Nationwide Sports activities Media Affiliation.

“I’m honored to hitch the Virginia Tech athletics division, and I’m wanting ahead to being part of the Virginia Tech neighborhood,” Wells stated. “I’ve a deep understanding of and appreciation for the wealthy historical past and custom of Virginia Tech Athletics. The college’s sturdy educational repute, together with its document of sustained athletic success, had been among the many many elements that made this chance interesting to me.”

Travis’s final day at WDBJ7 is August 19.

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