Katie Giusto assists with the day-to-day administration of recruiting student-athletes and the operations of the football program. She joined the Mountaineer football staff as the on-campus recruiting coordinator in April 2019, added the additional responsibility of assistant director of football operations in March 2020 and become associate director in July 2021.
She helps coordinate in-person recruiting visits, assists in the maintenance of scholarship offers, recruiting targets and commitments and updates the staff on recruiting matters, eligibility and admission status of prospective student-athletes.
She serves as a liaison with the University admissions office and the athletics compliance office and manages planning for on-campus official and unofficial recruiting visits by prospective student-athletes. She assists with securing and maintaining transcripts of prospective student-athletes, analyzes transcripts to ensure prospects meet entrance requirements and assists with maintaining and securing prospects’ NCAA eligibility center records.
Giusto assists with the organization and assemblage of coaching recruiting checklists, calendars, internet research, recruiting boards, prospects and coaches telephone directories and updates databases and prospective student-athlete video libraries.
She assists the football coaching staff and video coordinators in assembling and cataloging video for potential student-athletes and maintain and manage correspondence with prospects during contact periods.
Giusto came to West Virginia in 2019 after a year serving as the events assistant with the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl. She managed volunteer sign-up and assisted with the recruitment, training and organization of 250 volunteers for the Kickoff Game prior to the season and 600 volunteers for the Peach Bowl.
Giusto served as the primary contact for event sponsors and vendors for activation logistics, coordinated board of director meeting logistics and travel schedules and worked with the title sponsor to organize sponsor fulfillment for the Kickoff Game. She also organized sponsor fulfillment for the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl.
She planned activities and organized volunteers for the Children’s Holiday Party, and organized team hospital visits, arranging volunteers and coordinated with the hospital staff for each hospital visit. She also assisted in the organization of the assistant coaches’ dinner and the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl Parade.
Prior to her tenure with the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl, Giusto spent a year as a graduate intern in football operations at Virginia, assisting with the supervision of summer camps, organizing registration, scheduling staff and managing payroll. She assisted with team travel, helping organize rooming lists, meal planning, bus itineraries, staff tickets and ticket distribution.
She also assisted with event planning and added administrative support for UVA’s NFL Pro Day, managed the Alumni and Military Flag Bearer game day program and helped coordinate the alumni mentoring program.
Giusto also served as a student worker in the football recruiting office at Virginia for two years, assisting with day-to-day operations. She helped with on-campus official and unofficial visits and assisted with creating prospect recruiting files, organizing the video library and managing the social media accounts for the recruiting office.
She earned two degrees from Virginia, a bachelor’s degree in media studies and American studies in 2017 and a master’s degree in higher education with a concentration in intercollegiate athletics administration in 2018.
