Layne Weitzel
Layne Weitzel
Title: Sports Information Coordinator (VB, WBB, MXC, WXC, T&F)
Phone: 931-372-6139
Email: lweitzel@tntech.edu

Layne Weitzel begins her first year at Tennessee Tech in July 2017 as a sports information coordinator. She will handle communications efforts for the Golden Eagle women’s basketball, volleyball, cross country and women’s track & field teams.

Weitzel comes to Tech after a yearlong communications internship at the University of Florida in 2016-17, serving as the primary media contact for swimming & diving and assisting with football and men’s basketball. For swimming & diving, she chronicled a season during which the Gator men won a fifth-straight Southeastern Conference championship, finished third at the NCAA Championships and captured four individual national titles.

Weitzel worked alongside a number of accomplished Gator student-athletes and coaches, including Gregg Troy, longtime Florida head coach and six-time Olympic coach, and Caeleb Dressel, two-time Olympic gold medalist and six-time NCAA champion, as well as others across the Florida program. She also helped publicize the 15 current and former Gator swimmers at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, some of which were multi-time U.S. Olympians, including Ryan Lochte, Conor Dwyer and Elizabeth Beisel.

Prior to her internship with the Gators, Weitzel served as a communications student volunteer for two years, assisting with all sports at Florida and various NCAA postseason events. She also previously interned in the communications department at the Florida High School Athletic Association and covered the men’s golf beat for The Independent Florida Alligator, UF’s student newspaper.

Weitzel has grown up around high-level athletics, competing as an all-area athlete in Gainesville, Florida, in soccer and lacrosse and also running cross country. Her father, Brad Weitzel, is entering his 11th season as an assistant coach for the 2017 national champion Florida baseball program. The elder Weitzel, who played infield for the Georgia Bulldogs in the early ‘80s, worked as a Florida area scout for the Minnesota Twins for 16 years prior to arriving at UF and also made coaching stops at the University of North Florida, Palm Beach State College, the New York-Penn League and the Twins’ instructional leagues. Layne’s twin brother, Lucas, is currently the strength & conditioning coordinator for the Helena Brewers, the Milwaukee Brewers' rookie affiliate in Helena, Montana, and received his master's degree in human performance from the University of Florida in December 2017. He also holds the National Federation of State High School Associations hit-by-pitch record (71), which he set while playing baseball at Oak Hall School.

A Florida native, Weitzel graduated cum laude from the University of Florida in April 2016 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. She is working on becoming a “double Gator,” pursuing a social media graduate certificate from UF’s College of Journalism and Communications.