Olivia Vea is in her fourth season as the video coordinator for Cougar football and second on Head Coach Jake Dickert’s staff. Vea was named to the position in February 2020.
Vea coordinates all videotaping for WSU Football, focusing on gameday, practices and workouts. She also produces highlight packages, specialty projects for the football staff as well as handles all video needs throughout the recruiting process.
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Vea arrived a WSU after spending the previous 10 years at the University of Hawai’i, where she worked on Coach Rolovich’s staff from 2016-19. In 2019, she was named the Collegiate Sports Video Association's Mountain West Video Coordinator of the Year.
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She began at Hawai’i as a student manager in 2010 under head coach Greg McMackin and after two years, assumed a graduate assistant position on Norm Chow’s staff. In 2015, she was promoted to video specialist, where she produced highlight videos and managed practices and game-day production and took over as video coordinator the following season.Â
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She graduated from UH-Manoa in 2011 with a bachelor's degree in creative media. She is a 2007 graduate of Kaimuki High School in O'ahu, where she got her start in athletics and media production.
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