Western Kentucky football video coordinator Chase Bitowf has been named the 2024-25 Conference USA Video Coordinator of the Year by the Collegiate Sports Video Association, the organization announced Monday.

Bitowf was selected by his peers in CUSA to receive the Conference Video Coordinator of the Year honor.  He is now a finalist for the Bob Matey National Video Coordinator of the Year award, which will be announced at the annual CSVA banquet on May 21 in Houston.

The Bob Matey award is presented to the video coordinator who displays innovation, determination, perseverance and technical skill as portrayed by the late Bob Matey, legendary video coordinator from Texas A&M.

Bitowf is entering his fifth season as WKU’s football video coordinator in 2025. 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 at WKU, 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 maste’rs degree in sports administration in fall of 2023.

Prior to WKU, Bitowf was the video coordinator at South Alabama from 2018-2020. While at South Alabama, he was named 2020 Sun Belt Conference Video Coordinator of the Year by the Collegiate 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.

Prior to that, Bitowf spent three seasons as the football video coordinator at Southern Miss, where he oversaw technology for the football program. In March 2017, he was named Conference USA Video Coordinator of the Year. During his time in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 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 films 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.

Bitowf was a recipient of the CSVA’s Billy Vizzini Scholarship in 2014.