The 2025 season will mark the fifth season for Chase Bitowf as WKU Football's Video Coordinator.
In his role at WKU, Bitowf oversees the day-to-day technology aspects of the football program. His duties include supervising a staff of 8-10 students, providing tech support for players and coaches, coordinating the filming of practices and games for coaches' analysis and directing the production of motivational and highlight films.
In his time on The Hill, Bitowf has been a part of four consecutive bowl games, winning three, and two CUSA Championship game appearances. Additionally, he is a WKU alum, having completed his Masters Degree in Sports Administration in fall of 2023.
Bitowf was named the 2024-25 CUSA Video Coordinator of the Year by the Collegiate Sports Video Association.
Prior to his arrival at WKU, Bitowf spent three seasons as the Director of Football Video at South Alabama.
In his role with the Jaguars, Bitowf was responsible for coordinating the filming and breakdown of practices and games for coaches’ analysis, directing the production of motivational, promotional, and recruiting highlights, and overseeing the exchange of video with opponents. While at USA, he was named 2020 Sun Belt Conference Video Coordinator of the Year by the Colligate Sports Video Association. Additionally, he guided his department to two CSVA Savvy Award nominations, first in 2018 for Highlight of the Year, and again in 2019 for Short Social of the Year. He also served as the Sun Belt Representative to the CSVA’s Board of Directors.
Bitowf came to USA after three seasons as the football video coordinator at Southern Mississippi, where he oversaw technology for the football program. In March 2017 he was named the Conference-USA Video Coordinator of the Year by the Collegiate Sports Video Association, an honor that put him in contention for the organization’s Bob Matey National Video Coordinator of the Year Award. During his time in Hattiesburg, the Golden Eagles advanced to the 2015 Conference USA Championship Game while playing in three bowls highlighted by a victory in the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl to cap the 2016 campaign.
In his lone season as a video assistant at Mississippi State, Bitowf edited practice film, recorded video during games to be used in highlight pieces, created films for recruiting purposes and aided both coaches and student-athletes with their technological needs, as the Bulldogs achieved the school’s first-ever number one ranking en route to a berth in the 2015 Capital One Orange Bowl.
Bitowf graduated from West Alabama in 2011 with a degree in physical education. A linebacker on the football team, he made the Gulf South Conference Academic Honor Roll in 2008 before serving as student video coordinator for the program during the 2010 season. After graduation, Bitowf was a video assistant for the Cincinnati Bengals for two years before returning to UWA as football video coordinator in 2013, where he was part of a staff that helped lead the Tigers to a Gulf South title.
A member of the Collegiate Sports Video Association, Bitowf received the organization’s Billy Vizzini Scholarship in 2014.
He and his wife, Kayleigh, married in July 2021.
