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UMW alumnus Tad Dickman, who earned a degree in business administration in 2012, is senior director of communications for the PGA TOUR and chair of the Olympic Golf Communications and Content Committee. Along with other Mary Washington alumni, he’s working behind the scenes to make the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris shine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As the 2024 Summer Olympics continue to play out in Paris, University of Mary Washington graduates are playing their own roles in the games.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Rings genuinely mean something to me, so for my life and career to intersect with this project, the experience has been very fulfilling,\u201d said Tad Dickman, a UMW alumnus who earned a degree in business administration in 2012 and leads communications for Olympic Golf. \u201cAfter all the time and energy expended, to finally be here in Paris at the Olympics and see the hard work pay off, it has been special.\u201d<\/p>\n

Evan Stiles, who earned a degree in geography in 1991, has spent more than a decade training multiple gold medal-winner Torri Huske as head coach of the Arlington Aquatic Club. And recent UMW grad Hadley Mantia \u201924, who majored in French and international business, is using her fluency \u2013 and all of her flair \u2013 to welcome spectators from across the globe to the Summer Games as a host for a major Olympics sponsor.<\/p>\n

Here are their stories.<\/p>\n

A Stroke of Gold \u2013 Evan Stiles \u201991<\/strong><\/p>\n

Evan Stiles\u2019 was a kid when his family moved to Washington, D.C., and a neighborhood with a pool. Problem was, Stiles didn\u2019t know how to swim. So he signed up for lessons at 6 and joined the swim team at 7. By 11, he was swimming year-round.<\/p>\n

\u201cI found success in it,\u201d said Stiles, who earned a degree in geography from Mary Washington in 1991. \u201cYou gravitate toward what you\u2019re good at.\u201d<\/p>\n

And coaches help make other people good at things, too. Stiles, a swim coach for 30-plus years, proved that to be true when Torri Huske \u2013 an athlete he\u2019s worked with for more than a decade \u2013 took triple gold medals, as well as two silvers, at the Summer Olympics in Paris.<\/p>\n

When Stiles came to Mary Washington in the late 1980s, he brought his competitive side, setting 11 team records in swimming alone, including one that still stands among the University\u2019s top 10. But he also played tennis, water polo \u2013 yes, there was a team for a short time \u2013 and baseball, pitching the school\u2019s first-ever winning game.<\/p>\n

\"Torri <\/a>
Torri Huske poses with her coach, Mary Washington alumnus Evan Stiles ’91 after winning silver in Tokyo in 2021. This year, she captured three gold medals and two silvers. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Swimmer <\/a>
Swimmer Torri Huske poses with her coach, Mary Washington alumnus Evan Stiles ’91 at a homecoming party following the Tokyo Olympics, where Huske won a silver medal in 2021. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Swimmer <\/a>
Swimmer Torri Huske smiles after winning gold in Paris at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Huske, whose coach is Mary Washington alumnus Evan Stiles ’91, took three gold medals and two silvers home from Paris. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Evan <\/a>
Evan Stiles (second from left) poses with fellow Mary Washington swim team captains. Stiles, who earned a degree in geography from Mary Washington in 1991, has coached Olympic gold-medalist swimmer Torri Huske for more than a decade. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Evan <\/a>
Evan Stiles ’91 (front center, white shirt), longtime coach of Olympic gold medalist Torri Huske, catches a Mary Washington swim meet along with a group of alumni. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

When he wasn\u2019t on the field, on the court or in the pool, he was playing jokes and having fun with his Madison Hall roommate, Declan Leonard \u201991. \u201cI enjoyed every minute I had at Mary Washington,\u201d Stiles said.<\/p>\n

He was headed toward a graduate degree in urban planning when then-Mary Washington swim coach Paul Richards mentioned a master\u2019s program in coaching. It would change Stiles\u2019 course. \u201cI wanted to coach so I could impact other people\u2019s lives the way he\u2019d impacted mine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Soon after he finished the coaching program, he was hired by the Arlington Aquatic Club, climbing to the post of head coach in 2005. That\u2019s where he met and started training an 11-year-old Torri Huske. \u201cTeeny-tiny Torri dove in and I was like, \u2018Oh, my God, this girl\u2019s pretty fast,\u201d Stiles said.<\/p>\n

He\u2019d train her alongside her male counterparts to crank up the challenge. And by the time the two set their sights on the Olympics, Huske was breaking world records and winning international titles. In the previous Summer Games in Tokyo, held in 2021 due to the worldwide pandemic, she and her teammates won silver in the 4×100-meter medley relay. But in the 100-meter butterfly, Huske missed a podium spot by one one-hundredth of one single second \u2013 an outcome she and Stiles define as \u201cdevastating.\u201d<\/p>\n

This year, they shared their \u201credemption story,\u201d with Huske taking the gold in that event and two others and also winning two silver medals.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s one thing to say you\u2019ve coached someone to go to the Olympics; it\u2019s a whole other thing to say they won gold,\u201d Stiles said. \u201cIt makes you think, \u2018I did a pretty good job with this kid.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Teed Up About Olympic Golf \u2013 Tad Dickman \u201912<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tad Dickman had a big idea to run by his new bosses at the PGA TOUR.<\/p>\n

Now senior director of communications with the organization that coordinates professional golf tours in North America, he wanted to drum up some love for the game, featured in the Olympics only three times in more than a century. In April 2022, he went to bosses with the pitch to lead communications effort for the International Golf Federation, highlighted by golf\u2019s inclusion in the Olympics.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo years later, here I am writing from Paris,\u201d Dickman, also head of communications and media for the International Golf Federation, said in an email to his alma mater. \u201cThis has been the most fun \u2013 and the most challenging \u2013 project I\u2019ve ever worked on in my career.\u201d<\/p>\n

With a green light for his plan, Dickman set out building a team \u2013 more than 30 professionals across the industry \u2013 called the Olympic Golf Communications and Content Committee, with a mission to set the sport of golf up for success this summer in France. And it worked.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve definitely had a few \u2018pinch-me\u2019 moments \u2026 where you just have to pause and appreciate what\u2019s happening,\u201d he said. Like when American Scottie Scheffler brought home the gold.<\/p>\n

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Tad Dickman ’12 (far left), who majored in business administration at UMW, poses with his Olympic Golf Communications and Content Committee teammates. The group is working to put a spotlight on professional golf and its presence at the Olympics. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Tad <\/a>
Tad Dickman ’12 (third from right) and his Olympic Golf Communications and Content Committee teammates and champion swimmer and 23-time Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Scottie <\/a>
Scottie Scheffler of Team United States won the gold medal in golf during the Summer Olympics in Paris. Also pictured are silver medalist Tommy Fleetwood of Team Great Britain and bronze medalist Hideki Matsuyama of Team Japan. As senior director of communications for PGA TOUR and chair of the newly formed Olympic Golf Communications and Content Committee, UMW grad Tad Dickman is working to highlight the game of golf, especially in the Olympics. Photo by Andrew Redington\/Getty Images. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Dickman <\/a>
Dickman poses near the Eiffel Tower on the night of the opening ceremony for the Summer Olympics in Paris. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Golf <\/a>
Golf gold medalist Scottie Scheffler of Team USA plays a shot from the first hole tee as fans look on during the final round of the Olympic men\u2019s golf competition on day nine of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Le Golf National on August 4, 2024 in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France. Photo by Keyur Khamar\/PGA TOUR via Getty Images. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

Dickman, who grew up in Springfield, Virginia, majored in business administration at Mary Washington, where he played basketball and served as captain. An internship with Basketball Australia and the National Basketball League in Sydney the summer before graduation showed him what working in sports might be like.<\/p>\n

\u201cI came back motivated and focused on my [future] profession,\u201d said Dickman, who\u2019s also held communications roles in soccer and football, working for D.C. United, the New York Giants and the Jacksonville Jaguars.<\/p>\n

He switched to golf in 2020, when he took the job with PGA TOUR, \u201cwhere I knew I would be challenged and pushed every single day,\u201d said Dickman, whose team tells the stories of golf\u2019s coolest stars and hottest moments. Chairing the Olympic Golf Communications & Content Committee, he\u2019s built connections with Olympic Golf athletes and the media who cover them. See their work at @OlympicGolf<\/a> and IGFgolf.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

His wife, Spencer, and 15-month-old daughter, Brooklyn, spent the first 10 days with him in Paris, adding to the support he\u2019s felt from friends and colleagues for his big idea, he said in his email. The International Golf Federation hopes to add a mixed-team event \u2013 one man and one woman from top-qualifying countries \u2013 at the 2028 Games in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs I sit and type all of this, I\u2019m overcome with a little emotion,\u201d Dickman said. \u201cWorking at the Olympic Golf competitions has been a full-circle experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bonjour<\/em><\/strong>, Welcome to Paris! \u2013 Hadley Mantia \u201924<\/strong><\/p>\n

If Hadley Mantia\u2019s fascination with France led her to\u00a0 Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, no wonder it also landed her a job in hospitality with a top sponsor of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.<\/p>\n

\u201cI kind of just applied [for the job] not knowing what I was getting into,\u201d said Mantia, who came to UMW from Massachusetts. \u201cA lot of times we\u2019re the first face of the Olympics these people see. It\u2019s about upholding the grand representation of what the games are.\u201d<\/p>\n

A bus host for Olympics sponsor Allianz, a German financial services company, she\u2019s a guide for spectators arriving in Paris from all over the world. And her duties \u2013 doled out on the daily \u2013 are a constant surprise. One day she might escort Polish stakeholders to take in some rugby; the next she could accompany a group from China to watch judo. \u201cIt can be challenging,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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Recent UMW graduate Hadley Mantia ’24 shows off the uniform she wears to greet spectators flying to Paris from all over the world. Mantia works in hospitality for major Olympics sponsor Allianz. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Hadley <\/a>
Hadley Mantia ’24 poses during training with fellow Allianz bus hosts at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Hadley <\/a>
Hadley Mantia ’24 (front) snaps a selfie near the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Mantia, who majored in international business and French at UMW, is using her fluency to meet and greet Olympics spectators from around the world as a bus host for sponsor Allianz. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Photo <\/a>
Photo of Eiffel Tower in Paris, courtesy of Hadley Mantia ’24 <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

Hard work is nothing new for Mantia, who graduated from UMW in May with majors in international business and French after only three years. A resident assistant and technician at Dodd Auditorium, she joined the UMW Performing Arts Company and \u2013 surprendre<\/em>! \u2013 helped rejuvenate the French club. Last summer she interned in marketing in Aix-en-Provence, France.<\/p>\n

Enchanted by conversations between her grandmother and her great aunt, both Francophones, she caught the bug early on. \u201cWhen the two of them would speak French, I just thought it was the coolest thing on the planet,\u201d said Mantia, who chose an Eiffel Tower backpack for school year after year.<\/p>\n

So, when it came time for college, she was drawn to a unique opportunity at UMW \u2013 a business French course covering accounting and marketing, vocabulary and culture, all with a focus on France. \u201cIt\u2019s little things that are so different but so important.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mock interviews practiced in class, Mantia said, helped her win her current role with the Olympics in Paris. She\u2019s staying with friend and former Mary Washington Visiting Language Coordinator Margaux Piasecki \u2013 with whom she instantly connected at UMW \u2013 and having the time of her life.<\/p>\n

Watching Olympic fencing is the summer highlight so far, said Mantia, who hopes eventually to own an apartment in France. First, she\u2019ll need to finish her work at the 2024 Games.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s because of Mary Washington,\u201d she said, \u201cthat I somehow ended up on this path.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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