Chris Ball, a veteran video coordinator who has served multiple athletics programs, joined the Georgia Southern Football staff in 2013. The native of St. Marys, West Virginia, directs all coaches film from practices and games as well as film exchange with Eagle opponents. He manages and troubleshoots technology for the program utilizing the XOS software system.
With the assistance of a number of students and a graduate assistant, Ball uses up to six cameras at practice and games to provide footage for daily review and highlight videos. He maintains the program’s recent film archives and a 50 terabytes of storage to make clips available to the staff on demand.
Ball spent three years at Georgia State, starting as the first football video coordinator for the Panther program. He organized all video efforts for Georgia State in its inaugural competition year and handled equipment purchases and maintenance while hiring and overseeing a student staff of four.
Prior to his time in Atlanta, Ball was the Football Video Coordinators at Yale, Furman and Eastern Michigan. He started his career in video at West Virginia University as a student assistant for two years and was hired as a video assistant for the Mountaineers in 2007.
Ball and his wife Linnea reside in Statesboro.
