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Equipment staff in the ACC

ACC athletic departments list 117 equipment staff positions across 18 of the 18 covered schools as of 3 Nov 2026 — 2% of the conference's 6,086 tracked positions, an average of 6.5 per department that has the function. Duke University has the most (9). In the last 90 days Whistle detected 1 hire, 1 departure and 1 title change in these roles.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Source: the official athletics staff directories of the 18 covered ACC schools, re-read on a rolling schedule; roles classified from published titles; changes from successive reads.

Equipment in the ACC at a glance

Conference: ACC — NCAA Division I
Schools covered: 18
Schools with equipment staff: 18 (100%)
Equipment positions: 117 (2% of 6,086 tracked positions)
Average per department with the function: 6.5
Changes, last 90 days: 1 hires · 1 departures · 1 title changes

How many equipment staff does each ACC school have?

One row per covered department. "Positions" counts current (non-departed) staff whose classified role or published title places them in equipment; changes are non-baseline hires, departures and title changes in those positions over the last 90 days, with same-day directory re-reads excluded.

School	Division	Equipment positions	All tracked positions	Hires (90d)	Departures (90d)	Title changes (90d)
Duke University	Division I	9	380	0	0	1
University of Louisville	Division I	9	349	1	0	0
North Carolina State University	Division I	8	341	0	0	0
Stanford University	Division I	8	404	0	0	0
Boston College	Division I	7	288	0	1	0
Southern Methodist University	Division I	7	251	0	0	0
Syracuse University	Division I	7	265	0	0	0
University of Miami	Division I	7	299	0	0	0
University of Virginia	Division I	7	328	0	0	0
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	Division I	7	377	0	0	0
University of California, Berkeley	Division I	6	399	0	0	0
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Division I	6	444	0	0	0
Wake Forest University	Division I	6	291	0	0	0
Clemson University	Division I	5	392	0	0	0
Florida State University	Division I	5	361	0	0	0
Georgia Institute of Technology	Division I	5	259	0	0	0
University of Pittsburgh	Division I	5	296	0	0	0
University of Notre Dame	Division I	3	362	0	0	0

Who sells to equipment staff?

Equipment is the buying group for apparel and footwear brands, protective equipment, laundry and inventory systems, team-store and licensing vendors. Typical titles in this group: Director of Equipment Operations; Equipment Manager, Football; Assistant Equipment Manager. Whistle customers filter these positions by conference, school, state and sport, see each person's name, title and contact details where the directory publishes them, and get an alert when one of the positions changes hands.

Other staff functions in the ACC

Ticketing in the ACC — 134 positions at 18 schools
Marketing & fan experience in the ACC — 125 positions at 18 schools
Communications & media relations in the ACC — 191 positions at 18 schools
Compliance in the ACC — 71 positions at 18 schools
Development & fundraising in the ACC — 229 positions at 18 schools
Facilities & event operations in the ACC — 278 positions at 18 schools
Video & analytics in the ACC — 196 positions at 18 schools
Strength & conditioning in the ACC — 211 positions at 18 schools
Athletic training & sports medicine in the ACC — 446 positions at 18 schools
NIL & brand in the ACC — 33 positions at 14 schools

Equipment in other conferences

Equipment in the Big Ten — 18 schools
Equipment in the SEC — 16 schools
Equipment in the Big 12 — 15 schools
Equipment in the AAC — 13 schools
Equipment in the Big Sky — 13 schools
Equipment in the CAA — 13 schools
Equipment in the MAC — 13 schools
Equipment in the Sun Belt — 13 schools
Equipment in the Atlantic 10 — 11 schools
Equipment in the Patriot League — 10 schools
Equipment in the Pennsylvania State Athletic — 10 schools
Equipment in the Southland — 10 schools

Method

Positions are counted from each person's published job title, classified into Whistle's role vocabulary (shared/staff-roles.ts); this group is the "equipment" role.

Change counts compare successive reads of each school's official directory; a school's first extraction and any day on which 25% or more of a roster appears or disappears at once (a re-read, not turnover) are excluded. This page is published when at least 3 covered ACC schools have the function and they list at least 10 positions between them; smaller combinations are kept out of search indexes.

Frequently asked questions

How many equipment staff work in the ACC?

117 current positions across 18 covered ACC athletic departments as of 3 Nov 2026; Duke University lists the most (9).

Which ACC school has the largest equipment staff?

Duke University, with 9 equipment staff positions out of 380 tracked positions.

How much turnover is there in ACC equipment roles?

3 changes in the last 90 days: 1 hire, 1 departure, 1 title change, after excluding first reads and same-day re-reads.

Where does this staff data come from?

From the staff directories athletic departments publish on their official websites, read automatically on a rolling schedule (NCAA Division I roughly weekly, Division II and III every three to four weeks). Whistle never publishes names, emails or phone numbers on public pages; staff can remove their details at any time at gowhistle.io/remove-my-info.

Selling to equipment staff in the ACC? Whistle lists every one of these 117 positions with name and title, emails and phones where the directory publishes them, and an alert when one changes. Or buy the conference as a one-time dataset.