David Portney

Raised in the swamps of Jersey. Current: Marketing Manager at Stiles Associates | Previous: @CharlesAris • @AVCAVolleyball • @Milb • @Giants via @IthacaCollege

[David Portney @DavidAPortney]

Find someone you think is undeserving of your compassion, and give it to them because I guarantee they are the ones who need it most. - @cpicciolini

[David Portney @DavidAPortney]

One of the smartest and kindest you’ll ever know. Plus, he invented tinted windows!

[AVCA @AVCAVolleyball]

Happy 95th birthday, Sandy Vong!
Among his accomplishments, Sandy:
>>was the first WVB coach at Michigan (1973) while also working as an engineer at Ford Motors
>>advised both the US & China Women’s National Teams
>>was inducted into the AVCA Hall of Fame in 2014
#WeAreAVCA

[David Portney @DavidAPortney]

ESPN averaged a record-breaking 1.08 million viewers for last night’s #NCAAwvb Semis!

This is up from last year’s audience of a little over 700K. @AVCAVolleyball

[NCAA Women's Volleyball @NCAAVolleyball]

Smashing records! 📈

Tonight's attendance of 19,598 is the largest crowd to ever attend an indoor NCAA Volleyball match!

#NCAAWVB

[David Portney @DavidAPortney]

"The argument of athletic administrators that decisions to cut [men's] programs were based on the need to comply with Title IX was not supported by the data and contradicted the prevailing view that men’s sports were cut to fund women’s sports to comply with Title IX."

[AVCA @AVCAVolleyball]

Check out the latest issue of “The BIC,” featuring:
>>New DIII program announced
>>U.S. MVB qualifies for 2024 Olympics
>>Oregon adds boys volleyball as emerging sport
>>and more!
New issue: https://t.co/spQhuKX0uk
#NCAAMVB #NAIAMVB #WeAreAVCA

[David Portney @DavidAPortney]

So freaking cool.

[Front Office Sports @FOS]

92,003 fans for a college volleyball match in Lincoln, Nebraska.

A WORLD RECORD crowd for any women's sporting event 🏟️

[David Portney @DavidAPortney]

@Leadchamp Sorry, I think you have the wrong guy.

[David Portney @DavidAPortney]

@BryanDRoth Plus the broadcasters versions of “oh!” at the moment of contact. Seems unique to Ohtani.

[David Portney @DavidAPortney]

@AVCAVolleyball We'll see how this impacts attendance. The #AVCAConvention crowd brings in about 10% of the ticket sales, so I wonder how many of the convention attendees will stick around an extra day.

My guess is not many.

[David Portney @DavidAPortney]

@dwaltersvball For sure. Volleyball's best bet is a five-setter to get as much of the post-1pm NFL game viewing audience as possible. A sweep would be a bummer.

[David Portney @DavidAPortney]

This is probably the single-most significant event in DI women's volleyball since the launch of conference networks in the 2010s.

I'll be super interested in seeing a potential ratings spike in the third-plus sets as 1pm NFL games conclude.

[AVCA @AVCAVolleyball]

🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨
The NCAA announced that the final of the 2023 Division I Women’s Volleyball Championship has been moved from Saturday night to Sunday, Dec. 17 at 3 p.m. (Eastern) because the match will be shown on ABC.
AVCA Release: https://t.co/EpWlrxLNG4

[David Portney @DavidAPortney]

End of an era.

[Josh Carpenter @JoshACarpenter]

Sad news: After this week, ShowbuzzDaily effectively will cease operations

[David Portney @DavidAPortney]

@kassieepstein No prob. If you can, I'd recommend paying the extra $500 for the all-access pass bc of the workshops. Those are deep dives into a given topic that'll probably yield more ideas than other sessions. However, the Marketer pass is still worth it if you can't get as much funding.

[David Portney @DavidAPortney]

There's only one Kathy; there's no replacing her.

I have no doubt Jaime will continue building on the foundation Kathy and the previous EDs built over the last 40-plus years!

[AVCA @AVCAVolleyball]

Dr. Jaime Gordon will be AVCA’s new executive director after 20 years at Morehead State as a coach & AD. “I am grateful for the trust placed in me to lead an association that has profoundly influenced me and thousands of coaches for the past four decades.”
https://t.co/aT8LcaqOqO

[David Portney @DavidAPortney]

#NCAAVB Championship TV ratings:

2022: 786K (Texas vs Louisville)
2021: 1.19 mil (Wisc. vs Nebraska)
2020: 696K (Kentucky vs Texas: April 2021)
2019: 533K (Stanford vs Wisconsin)
2018: 938K (Stanford vs Nebraska)
2017: 1 mil (Nebraska vs Florida)
2016: 576K (Stanford vs Texas)

[ESPN PR @ESPNPR]

Thursday's @NCAAVolleyball National Semifinals on ESPN averaged 712K viewers

🏐2nd most-viewed women's college volleyball semifinals ever on ESPN Platforms
🏐@USDVolleyball vs. @TexasVolleyball averaged 736K viewers
🏐@Pitt_VB vs. @LouisvilleVB averaged 692K

#NCAAWVB

[David Portney @DavidAPortney]

From 2004 to 2018, literally every @AVCAVolleyball POY award went to a Big Ten or Pac-12 program. Since then, they garnered just one of the last four:

2022: @loganeggleston_ -- Big 12
2021: @mplilley03 (spring) -- SEC
@dana_rettke (fall) -- Big Ten
2019: @yossiana22 -- Big 12

[David Portney @DavidAPortney]

First player in program history to win it!

[AVCA @AVCAVolleyball]

Logan Eggleston of @texasvolleyball is the 2022 AVCA Division I National Player of the Year. The senior put together a well-rounded 2022 season, and she has the Longhorns back in the national final for the ninth time in school history.
Full release: https://t.co/P8CmBgyGNp

[David Portney @DavidAPortney]

Never in doubt.

[San Diego Volleyball @USDVolleyball]

There’s no one more deserving than Coach Petrie.

After leading San Diego volleyball to its most successful season ever, she’s your AVCA National Coach of the YEAR!

🗞: https://t.co/Uvwb352lZf

@AVCAVolleyball | #GoToreros

[David Portney @DavidAPortney]

@SixRotations How much do you weigh experience vs. first-timers in the #NCAAVB Semis?

[David Portney @DavidAPortney]

Regional final volleyball > any other volleyball