Hokie ClubDanielle Bartelstein is in her fourth season as the senior director of football operations for football head coach Justin Fuente. She oversees the daily administrative and operational duties within Virginia Tech’s football program, the handling of team travel, and other assorted responsibilities. She is one of three females working in such a role among Power 5 schools and one of just six in the FBS.
The Chicago native came to Tech after working for a year as a senior advisor for Hance Scarborough, LLP, a prestigious law firm in Austin, Texas, where she assisted in the overall management for the former U.S. Congressman and Chancellor Emeritus at Texas Tech University. Bartelstein served as the director of football relations at Texas Tech from 2013-15. She was responsible for the day-to-day recruiting operations. This included coordinating all official and unofficial visits, developing seasonal recruiting campaigns, as well as evaluating and organizing all off-campus recruiting activities.
Bartelstein worked at TCU as the assistant director of football operations (2010-12) under head coach Gary Patterson. While at TCU, she worked with Fuente, who served as the quarterbacks coach and co-offensive coordinator at the time. Her first stop in college football occurred at Stanford, where she worked as a volunteer for then-head coach Jim Harbaugh. She helped with summer camps and game-day logistics.
Her grandfather, Steve Reid, was an All-America lineman at Northwestern during the 1930s and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1985. When she went to Illinois, where she received her undergraduate degree, she volunteered to help with the football program - her first step toward a career in the sport.