Hokie ClubResponsibilities: Gavagan oversees the Marketing & Fan Development team. He is the lead marketing contact for Football and Lacrosse, and is tasked with cultivating campus and community partnerships and strategic fan engagement initiatives.
Joined VT Athletics Staff: August 2015
At Virginia Tech: Gavagan was hired as Assistant Director, Marketing & Fan
Experience in 2015 with marketing oversight of the Men’s Soccer and Baseball
programs, in addition to secondary responsibilities with Men’s Basketball and Football. In
the ensuing years, his areas of focus shifted to be the primary oversight of Men’s
Basketball and the marketing internship program, and serving as athletics contact for
the Cassell Guard and instituting the Maroon & Orange Memories program. He added
oversight of the Marketing department in 2020.
Prior to Virginia Tech: Gavagan served in the marketing department at the University of Notre Dame during the 2014-2015 athletic season as the lead marketing contact for Men’s and Women’s Soccer. Spent the 2013-2014 athletic season at Wake Forest University as a Marketing Assistant, where he oversaw marketing efforts for field hockey as well as men’s and women’s tennis.
Education: Siena College, 2010 (B.S. Marketing/Management); Canisius College, 2014 (M.S. Sport Administration).
Personal: A native of Clifton Park, N.Y., Gavagan now lives in Christiansburg.