Football
Sep 27 (Sat)
8:15 PM
- Title:
- Recruiting Assistant
- Email:
- tessa.akers@colorado.edu
Tessa Akers is in her first year on the University of Colorado staff as a football recruiting assistant, joining the staff on February 11, 2019.
Akers, 25, came to Colorado from her alma mater, Georgia Southern, where she had worked since January 2018 as an administrative and recruiting assistant in the football office, providing administrative and secretarial support to head coach Chad Lunsford. She had spent the previous five months (during the 2017 season) as an intern in GSU’s Football Alumni Association, where one of her main responsibilities was developing and overseeing the renewal membership drive.
She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Sports Management in 2017 from Georgia Southern, where as an undergraduate she worked as a student assistant in the football office as well as a recruiting intern in the Eagles’ football operations department.
Akers was born in Charleston S.C., and graduated from its Wando High School, where she lettered in basketball. She spent two summers as the activity coordinator at the Point Pleasant Resort on the island of St. Thomas.
