Lily.

Descents

Lily Peters

Sports social media · Houston, Texas

I run social for the Houston Texans. Before that, five opportunities in Pittsburgh: the Pirates, the Steelers, the Penguins, Pitt athletics and the ACC, a newsroom internship and a student paper. Every one left a sticker on this board.

  • Social Media Coordinator, Houston Texans
  • Eight roles across six Pittsburgh organisations

Take a tour of the mountain with me.

Descent '26 · Double black diamond

Social Media Coordinator

Houston Texans · Houston, Texas

Oct 2025 to present

Day to day on the Texans' ancillary accounts (TORO, the Cheerleaders, Texans Youth Football, the Texas Bowl, LSSE) and a hand in the main one.

  • LSSE Instagram: engagement +112% YoY, followers +1,294% YoY
  • Texas Bowl Instagram: engagement +237% YoY, followers +125% YoY
  • Cheerleaders: IG video views +137% (5.2M to 12.3M), Twitter video views +120%
  • TORO kept pace with the league's best, ahead of up to 19 NFL clubs
  • Led the Girls Flag Football social campaign across Texas

The summit. Double black, no ropes, and the biggest numbers on the board.

Descent '25 · Black diamond

Social Media Intern

Pittsburgh Pirates · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Feb 2025 to Sep 2025

Planned and produced content for the Pirates and every account around them, home and away, all season.

  • Content for Pirates, Pirate Parrot, Young Bucs and Bucs Community
  • Live capture, highlight edits and custom graphics on game days, home and away
  • Weekly and monthly performance reporting feeding content strategy
  • Influencer outreach and campaign integration across channels

A full season, home and away. Six months of finding a new line every day.

Descent '25 · Blue square

Game Day Public Relations Assistant

Pittsburgh Steelers · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Sep 2023 to Sep 2025

Two seasons of game days: the pressers, the locker room, and the transcripts behind every postgame report.

  • Captured and catalogued player and coach interviews from pressers and the locker room
  • Transcripts that fed postgame reports and press releases
  • Compiled the draft book through the NFL Draft for media relations

Two seasons of game days. The draft book was the black diamond.

Descent '25 · Blue square

Pitt Athletics Social Media Intern

University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Sep 2023 to Sep 2025

Football, basketball, baseball and volleyball, with real-time coverage whenever Pitt was playing.

  • Posts across football, basketball, baseball and volleyball
  • Analytics and performance insights for monthly reporting
  • Real-time content at games, practices and media availability
  • Covered the Backyard Brawl, the NCAA Volleyball Final Four and ACC basketball

Six sports, one calendar, no off day. The busiest lift on the mountain.

Descent '25 · Blue square

Production Assistant at Pitt Studios

Atlantic Coast Conference · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Nov 2023 to Aug 2025

Technical director on live ESPN+ broadcasts out of Pitt Studios, running the switcher and the graphics.

  • Operated the switcher as technical director on live ESPN+ broadcasts
  • Ran graphics: lower thirds, replay identifiers and promotional visuals
  • Held every show to network standard, live and without a second take

Cutting live on ESPN+. There are no second takes at forty miles an hour.

Descent '25 · Green circle

Media Relations Intern

Pittsburgh Penguins · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Jan 2025 to May 2025

Press line cards, in-game notes for every home game, and a hand in the postgame room.

  • Designed press line cards in InDesign
  • Wrote in-game notes for every home game at PPG Paints Arena
  • Supported the communications team through postgame press conferences

The indoor season. Fast ice, quick turnaround, no weather delays.

Descent '25 · Green circle

Sports Staff Writer

The Pitt News · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Sep 2023 to Apr 2025

A weekly column on Pitt athletics, and all the reporting and stat work that went into it.

  • Wrote a weekly column on Pitt athletics
  • Interviewed athletes and coaches and analysed teams and storylines
  • Covered live events and researched the stats behind the reporting

Where the writing got sharp. Everything since started here.

Descent '24 · Green circle

Sports Intern

WFMZ-TV · Allentown, Pennsylvania

Apr 2024 to Aug 2024

Scripting the nightly sportscast, cutting highlights, and putting the graphics on air.

  • Wrote scripts for nightly sportscasts: recaps, features and high school coverage
  • Edited highlight reels in Quantel
  • Designed on-screen graphics and lower thirds to brand standard
  • Shot live footage at local games for the nightly segments

First time behind the desk. Learned to write to pictures.

Fully stickered→

Nine stickers, one board

Pittsburgh to Houston

And a season pass in between

Scroll back up and the stickers peel off again one at a time. The real numbers behind the work are below, along with the snow report for the mountains I actually ride and the gear I ride them on.

The workSnow report

0 of 8 stickers earned

The work

Every post I am credited on is tracked on Gondola, which counts the numbers for me. These are the totals.

71credited posts
10.0Mviews
510Klikes

Thumbnails are posts I worked on for the teams above. The full, attributed portfolio lives at gondola.cc/lilypeters2026.

Season passes

School, and the club that made the riding better.

The pack

Packed for every trip, and worn in by now.

The timeline

  • Social media115 days

    12.3M Instagram video views in a single season

    Instagram, TikTok, X and Facebook across team, ancillary and athlete accounts.

  • Social media marketing110 days

    LSSE followers +1,294% year over year

    Campaigns, launches and growth plans for accounts that have to post every day.

  • Social media measurement106 days

    Weekly and monthly reporting across six accounts

    Weekly and monthly reporting, and the read on what to do differently next.

  • Analytics103 days

    Monthly performance reviews that steered content strategy

    Engagement, follower and video-view trend lines across a whole season.

On the ground

  • Live broadcast96 days

    Technical director on live ESPN+ broadcasts

    Technical director on live ESPN+ games, plus graphics and the scoreboard bug.

  • Public relations94 days

    Locker room and press conference coverage, two NFL seasons

    Press conferences, locker room interviews, transcription and postgame notes.

  • Strategic communications98 days

    Led the Girls Flag Football campaign across Texas

    Joining up creative, partnerships and community teams around one story.

The tools

  • Adobe Creative Suite91 days

    InDesign press cards, graphics to network standard

    InDesign for press cards, plus photo and video work on a deadline.

  • Communication108 days

    Interviews, transcripts and press releases

    Writing scripts, columns, captions and the copy that has to land in one line.

Après

Always happy to talk sports social, or to talk snow.

The fastest way to reach me is LinkedIn.

Weather

Live conditions on the Easton slopes, straight from the forecast model. Last stop on the gondola. Updated October 7.

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Blue Mountain

Palmerton, PA

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Vertical
1,082 ft
Acres
171

Pennsylvania's highest vertical at 1,082 ft, with 40 trails on 171 acres, long steep fall-line runs, seven terrain parks and 100% night skiing.

7 terrain parks · night skiing · Ikon

Laurel Highlands

Champion, PA

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4 day
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Vertical
750 ft
Acres
285

Pennsylvania's biggest full-service resort: 33 trails and 285 acres off a 2,994 ft summit, seven terrain parks, and nearly all of the mountain lit for night riding.

7 terrain parks · night skiing · Epic

Poconos

Tannersville, PA

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4 day
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Vertical
800 ft
Acres
166

The biggest resort in the Poconos, 39 trails on 166 acres, three terrain parks, the largest snow-tubing park in the country and every trail lit at night.

3 terrain parks · night skiing · Ikon

Recent winters at Seven Springs

Total snowfall recorded Nov 1 to Mar 31. Real numbers from the historical archive, not a vibe.

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