GLVC Releases Schedule, Fan-Friendly Website for “Football Kickoff”

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana (July 20, 2012)  – The Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) has released the schedule along with a fan-friendly website for the inaugural GLVC Football Kickoff event, which will take place in St. Louis, Mo., on Friday, July 27. The website, found on the front page of glvcsports.com, combines several social and traditional media platforms to allow both the conference’s media and fan base to interact with the nine GLVC football head coaches and nine student-athletes that will be at the Millennium Student Center on the campus of the University of Missouri-St. Louis from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. CT.

Each head coach and student-athlete will rotate through a number of 10-minute stations designed to promote GLVC football on various platforms, including a live stream video press conference, an interactive Cover It Live interview with media and fans, engaging video interviews that will be uploaded to the GLVC’s official YouTube page, an Instagram photo shoot, and responses to questions submitted by fans through the GLVC Facebook page (Great Lakes Valley Conference) and Twitter account (@GLVCsports).

In addition, the inaugural GLVC Preseason Poll will be released via Twitter over the course of the first 90 minutes of the event.

Fans are encouraged to log on to the GLVC Football Kickoff website and begin submitting questions via Facebook and Twitter for each team’s head coach and player representative, which was announced Thursday. Attending the event on behalf of Urbana University is Head Coach David Taynor and junior quarterback D.J. Mendenhall.  Throughout the week, the conference will be using the Twitter hashtag #GLVCkickoff to promote the event, and GLVC followers are encouraged to do the same.

Each coach and student-athlete will take part in several interview sessions. When they reach the live video stream station, the team representatives will spend 10 minutes previewing the upcoming season while coverage of the press conference will be streamed live through the GLVC Football Kickoff website for all fans to watch free of charge.

Teams will also take part in a Cover It Live chat, which is embedded on the event website. While at this station, each coach and player will interact in real-time with the league’s media members and fans, who are encouraged to submit questions and well wishes for their favorite team.

Fans will also have a chance to get to know the conference coaches and players on a personal level as GLVCsports.com will go “First & Goal” with each team in a video clip that will uploaded to the league’s YouTube page (TheGLVC).

Sure to be a popular hit is the GLVC Instagram station, where coaches and players will pose for multiple pictures that will be instantly uploaded to the GLVC Football Kickoff website as well as GLVC Instagram account (glvcsports). Fans can immediately post those pictures to Facebook and Twitter accounts and share them with all of their friends.

A photo gallery featuring the day’s activities, as well as group pictures of the head coaches and student-athletes in attendance, will also be available on GLVCsports.com following the event.

Media members interested in attending the GLVC Football Kickoff 2012 can apply for credentials by contacting GLVC Assistant Commissioner Jeff Smith at jeff@glvc-sports.org.

The schedule featuring all the day’s social media stations can be found below:

KEY: CSU-Central State, UINDY-Indianapolis, KWC-Kentucky Wesleyan, MCK-McKendree, MS&T-Missouri S&T, QU-Quincy, SJC-Saint Joseph's, UU-Urbana, WJC-William Jewell, GLVC-Commissioner Jim Naumovich/Supervisor of Football Officials Mike McCann.