Everybody wasn’t always watching women’s sports…
But, we were in early
on NCAA Volleyball
with one of the
fastest-rising programs
in the country
From early 2023 through the 2025 recruiting season, my company ran all social media and creative content for SMU Volleyball, rebuilding the program's digital presence from the ground up. We took over an account with 1,487 followers and handed it off just past 30,000, and the audience has since grown past 60,000, making it one of the most followed volleyball accounts in college athletics. Our content generated tens of millions of views and engagements across in each season while becoming the second most engaged-with and followed account on campus, trailing only SMU Football. We built that brand alongside the most successful run in program history: the jump to the ACC, a sweep of No. 2 Nebraska, and a 2025 season that produced a program record 27 wins and the first Sweet Sixteen in school history. When the team started winning on a national stage, the brand was already built to meet the moment.
One Team, Every Asset
We served as SMU Volleyball's complete creative team, owning creative direction, graphic design, videography, photography, and social strategy under one vision. From game day graphics and match highlights to player features and postseason hype videos, every piece of content the program published came through our shop. We built a visual identity and voice that matched the team's rise into the ACC and made SMU content instantly recognizable. A real time content engine turned big wins into audience growth, taking the account from under 2,000 followers to one of the most followed volleyball programs in college athletics.
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We set the visual identity and storytelling direction for SMU Volleyball across every channel, giving the program a look and voice that matched its rise into the ACC. Every graphic, video, and post worked from one consistent vision, so fans recognized SMU content before they saw the logo.
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We built a recognizable photo brand that took SMU’s visual content to a new level.
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We shot and edited hype videos, player features, match highlights, and behind the scenes content that brought fans inside the program. Each piece was built for the platform it lived on, with vertical cuts designed to stop the scroll and drive shares.
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We designed the full slate of game day, promotional, and milestone graphics, from match announcements and final scores to player features and postseason creative. The system was built for speed and consistency, letting us deliver polished work in real time as results came in.
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We built and ran the content strategy that grew the account from under 2,000 followers to one of the most followed volleyball programs in college athletics. Posting cadence, platform priorities, and real time coverage were all planned to turn big wins into audience growth and keep fans engaged between matches.
Each season had its own creative direction and execution positioned to stand out on campus while existing inside the greater athletics’ brand system.
2025
In 2025, we built the foundation for the biggest season in SMU Volleyball history, then handed it off to the in-house creative team. We produced all of the preseason and recruiting content, setting the look, voice, and energy the program would carry into the year. When the season began, we passed the full creative system to the next team with the brand at its strongest, the audience on its way to 30,000, and a playbook ready to scale. What followed was a program record 27 wins and the first Sweet Sixteen in school history, and the brand we built was ready to meet it.
The BLUEPRINT
2024
2024 was the year the rest of college volleyball found out about SMU, and our content made sure they could not look away. In the program's first season in the ACC, the Mustangs swept No. 2 Nebraska, handed top ranked Pittsburgh its only regular season loss, and finished fourth in the conference. We met every one of those moments in real time, turning upsets into viral content and giving a national audience its first real look at who SMU was. By season's end, the brand had caught up to the team: bold, confident, and built for the big stage.
The BREAKOUT
2023
In 2023, we took over an account with just under 2,000 followers and started building SMU Volleyball's brand from the ground up. We established the visual identity, the voice, and the content system that would carry the program for the next three seasons. The team gave us plenty to work with, winning the American Athletic Conference title and earning a berth in the NCAA Tournament, while Sam Erger was named AAC Coach of the Year. It was the year SMU started to look like a program on the rise, and it set the stage for everything that came next.