Jay McDowell is in his third year as the Director of Video Operations at Southern Miss. He came to Hattiesburg after serving as the Director of Video Operations for five years at the University of Louisiana at Monroe.

                He is responsible for coordinating all aspects of the Golden Eagle athletic department’s video efforts. With the football program, he handles the day-to-day video operations for practice and games, maintaining the recruiting internet server, including film breakdown and exchange and the production of highlight films.

                For the athletic department, he is in charge of video board operation, creating the graphics and animations, maintenance and inventory at M.M. Roberts Stadium, Reed Green Coliseum and Pete Taylor Park. He oversees the video internet streaming of all home sporting events, all instant replay systems, the internet game video exchange dragonfly system and is the executive producer and director of Golden Eagle Vision. He also will create highlight videos for sports as needed.

                While at Louisiana-Monroe, his duties included coordinating the filming of football practice, games and special events, film exchanges and highlight films. He provided team video for the men’s and women’s basketball teams, volleyball and soccer. He also served as the director and producer of in-house live broadcasts of all home games and provided footage for playback shows.

                Prior to his tenure at Louisiana-Monroe, he served as the Assistant Director of Video Operations at The University of Colorado. McDowell also served as the Director of Video Operations at Louisiana-Monroe from 1998-2000. While there, he was awarded the Independent Video Coordinator of the Year award in 2000. He also served as Video Coordinator at McNeese State from 1996-97.

                McDowell graduated from McNeese State with a bachelor’s degree in mass communications in 1997. While at McNeese State, he was a four-year letterwinner on the football team. As a senior, he helped lead McNeese State to the NCAA I-AA playoffs and made an appearance in the national championship game. As a sophomore, the Cowboys advanced to the semifinals of the I-AA playoffs. He represented McNeese State in NCAA swimming competition for four years and was an alternate in the 100 freestyle on the US Olympic team that competed in Atlanta in 1996.

                McDowell and his wife Misty have a son, Dakota, and a daughter, Mia Isabel, who will be born in October.