BATON ROUGE – LSU volleyball coach Fran Flory will move into a RV camper starting on Aug. 2 in an effort to grow the team’s following on Twitter. Fans can help free Flory by following @lsuvolleyball on the social media site.
Once @lsuvolleyball reaches 500 followers, in a week, Flory will be able to go home. The account currently has 319 followers as of 9 a.m. CT on Saturday. The count will begin on August 2 and will hopefully reach over 800 followers.
Fans following @lsuvolleyball will have an opportunity to win exciting prizes and are encouraged to visit the reigning SEC and AVCA South Coach of the Year in her RV camper on campus, which will be located in front of Tiger Stadium on the West Side Parking Lot.
Flory will be visited by members of the LSU Athletics family throughout the week. Along with Tweets, video and written blogs from Flory chronicling her experience will be posted on www.LSUsports.net/volleyball during the week.
“We’re always excited to find ways to give the fans an inside look at our program,” Flory said. “Our Twitter account does that from the in-match updates to team news to information on promotions when you come see us play at the Maravich Center. I need 500 fans to sign-up on @lsuvolleyball next week, the earlier we reach 500 followers the earlier I can go back home.”
Under Flory, LSU is one of only 20 programs to appear in each of the last five NCAA Tournaments. The Tigers open the 2010 season with Pacific, Siena and Texas A&M on August 27-28 as part of the Texas A&M Invitational.
Season tickets for the defending SEC champions are on-sale now starting at $40 for adults and $25 for youth ages 3-12. LSU has four matches scheduled against 2009 NCAA Tournament teams highlighted by Sweet 16 participants Florida and Kentucky at the Maravich Center.
Twitter is a free service that lets users keep in touch with people through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?
Setting up text updates through Twitter is easy using the following steps:
- Under “Settings,” click on the tab for “Devices.”
- Enter your cell number using a “+” before the country code, which is the number 1 for the United States. The cell number entered should be in the format +15552223333.
- Check the box that says, “It’s okay for Twitter to send txt messages to my phone,” before clicking the “Save” button.
- Return to your homepage and access the list of Twitter users you are following.
- Under LSUVolleyball, set Device Updates to “On.”
The accounts accessed from www.LSUsports.net/connect are the only social media entities that are officially sanctioned by the LSU Athletics Department.