Football
Oct 11 (Sat)
1:30 PM
- Title:
- Director of Sports Video
- Email:
- jamie.guy@colorado.edu
Jamie Guy is in his 19th year as CU’s director of football video and his 20th year overall on the Colorado staff, as he joined the department in August 2001. He was promoted to director of sports video over all sports in the fall of 2004 after working just over three years as the assistant director. He now mainly coordinates football needs but on occasion helps out with some of CU’s other varsity programs.
Guy, 46, came to CU from the Chicago Enforcers of the now-defunct XFL, where he worked the lone season of the league’s existence.
In CU’s first year in the Pac-12 Conference (2011-12), he was named the Pac-12 Video Coordinator of the Year as selected by a majority vote of his peers. He was twice selected as the video coordinator of the year in the Big 12 Conference, first in 2005-06 and again in 2009-10. The awards are coordinated and voted by members of the Collegiate Sports Video Association; members of each conference select the winner for their respective leagues, and the recipients are placed on the national ballot for the overall CSVA award, the Bob Matey National Video Coordinator of the Year.
As talented as there is in the profession, Guy has coordinated the production of several video shorts showcasing in particular, the CU football program. Along with his former assistant John Snelson, the two were been honored twice with Heartland Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATA) Emmy awards, first in 2014 for their work called “Seasons,” the story of a dream and the lifetime experience of being a Colorado Buffalo, and then again for 2015 for the series entitled, “Forward.” The duo was also nominated in 2015 for their “Forever” video, his personal favorite because of the time, execution and passion that went into creating it (an all-encompassing look at what it means to be a Colorado Buffalo, on and off the field, as well as in 2016 for “The Rise,” which documented CU’s first Pac-12 South Division title and return to the postseason. “Forever” did win the 2015 FootballScoop FBS Video of the Year honor. In 2020, another production, “The Light Shines On,” was one of five nominations for a Heartland Emmy.
Guy graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1998 with a bachelor’s degree in general studies. As a student, he worked in the Bearcats’ sports video office for four years. Prior to entering the sports video profession, he worked as an electrician’s apprentice and as a staff manager at Fitworks Fitness.
A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, he graduated from Lawrence Central High School (Indianapolis, Ind.) in 1994, where he lettered in track and football. His hobbies include collecting football memorabilia and playing the guitar. He is married to the former Kimberly Ernst. He was the recipient of the Alumni C Club’s “Honorary C” award in 2019 for his dedication to the department.
