Short’s Travel Management Proclaims New Partnership with Wake Forest Athletics

Short’s Travel Management is proud to announce a brand new partnership with Wake Forest Athletics to supervise and handle journey for all its packages. This collaboration will leverage Short’s Designated Agent Model to supply high-touch, skilled service throughout each mode of athletic journey.

Through this partnership, Short’s will handle all facets of staff and recruiting journey logistics—together with group and particular person business air journey, constitution airplane providers, lodge lodging, rental automotive preparations for each staff and recruiting functions, and constitution bus providers (together with fly/drives). This complete strategy is designed to streamline journey coordination and make sure the highest stage of service and adaptability for Wake Forest coaches, employees, and student-athletes.

“We’re proud to partner with Wake Forest and support their programs with our offsite Designated Agent Model,” stated David LeCompte, CEO of Short’s Travel Management. “This mannequin offers Wake Forest entry to devoted, skilled journey help while not having somebody bodily onsite—permitting for each flexibility and consistency in service.”

“At Wake Forest, we strive to provide a World Class Student-Athlete Experience for our student-athletes in every facet of their journey—including how they travel,” stated John Currie, Vice President and Director of Athletics. “Short’s Travel Management brings unmatched expertise and service in athletic travel, and we’re excited to partner with a team that understands the unique needs and demands of collegiate sports. This partnership will enhance the efficiency of our operations and allow our coaches and student-athletes to stay focused on competing at the highest level.”

About Short’s Travel Management

Short’s Travel Management is a family-owned and majority woman-owned personal company, led by CEO David LeCompte. In 2020, Short’s strategically pivoted to completely serve athletics, solidifying its place because the quickest rising supplier for athletic groups.

With a shopper portfolio that 100% sports activities centered, Short’s helps over 16,000 video games, meets, and tournaments yearly, aiding extra than 200 athletic departments with their common season journey, in addition to completely managing championship journey for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 

The Short’s logistics staff orchestrates extra air charters, business air, floor transportation, and group lodge lodging than some other supplier within the collegiate staff house. Comprised of former collegiate athletes, coaches, enterprise operations and logistics employees, pilots, lodge leaders, gate brokers, and dispatchers, Short’s understands firsthand the calls for of this sector and the crucial significance of groups arriving on time.

About Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University is thought for its distinctive mixture of world-class lecturers, unequalled campus expertise, intimate studying surroundings and Power 4 athletics in a top-growing metro market. A Charter member of the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Demon Deacons have gained 59 convention titles and are one in all 9 ACC colleges to win 11 or extra nationwide championships. Additionally, with 1.7 million folks inside 30 miles of campus, Wake Forest anchors the Winston-Salem and Triad market, which ranks as ESPN’s seventh-best nationally from a viewership perspective.

Wake Forest’s complete excellence contains its extremely regarded college of medication, enterprise college, regulation college and an progressive division of engineering. Additionally, Wake Forest has campuses throughout Winston-Salem, Charlotte and Washington, DC – offering many educational choices to college students from throughout the nation and around the globe.