Speaking/Events
- January 2013 – Football Federation of Australia: MLS Case Study in Social Media (via Conference Call)
- December 2012 – All Facebook Marketing Conference: How Professional Sports are Monetizing through Facebook, Panelist (New York, NY)
- October 2012 – MLS Business Summit: Five Trends in Social Media, MLS Director of Social Media (Columbus, OH)
- August 2012 – FIFA Football Development: Women’s Football Com-Unity Seminar, FIFA Instructor, Communications and Marketing (St. Kitts and Nevis, Caribbean)
- August 2012 – FIFA Football Development: Women’s Football Com-Unity Seminar, FIFA Instructor, Communications and Marketing (St. Lucia, Caribbean)
- March 2012 – NFL Digital: Social Media Panel (Austin, TX)
- January 2012 – NSCAA Convention: Five Secrets of Successful Soccer Websites (Kansas City, Mo.)
- October 2011 – FIFA Football Development: Women’s Football Com-Unity Seminar, FIFA Instructor, Communications and Marketing (Tanzania, Africa)
- October 2011 – Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment: Panel Speaker, Social Media (Toronto, Canada)
- September 2011 – FIFA Football Development: Women’s Football Com-Unity Seminar, FIFA Instructor, Communications (Kingston, Jamaica)
- July 2011 – FIFA Women’s World Cup Symposium: Panel Speaker, Social Media (Frankfurt, Germany)
- June 2011 – University of San Francisco Masters in Sports Business: Guest Speaker (San Francisco, CA)
- January 2011 – NSCAA Convention: Social Media for Coaches (Baltimore, MD)
- April 2010 – Women Talk Sports Podcast: The State of Women’s Professional Soccer
- March 2010 – Football Partnerships Podcast: Episode 69
- November 2009 – Tweet! Blowing the Whistle on Social Media: Panel Speaker, WPS Social Media (New York, NY)
Press
- March 2012 – Mobile Sports Report: MLS embracing Social Media
- September 2011 – Jamaica Observer: FIFA Women’s Symposium launched
- September 2011 – Jamaica Observer: JFF turns focus on women’s football, with FIFA’s help
- July 2011 – FIFA.com: Symposium wraps up with push for extra growth
- April 2011 – RSL Soapbox: Major League Soccer shows their support for Real Salt Lake via #MLS4RSL
- June 2010 – Football Marketing: A Women Social League in a Digital World
- April 2010 – The Wall Street Journal : Sports Section on April 8, 2010, “Women’s Soccer, A Twitter Goldmine”
- April 2010 – The New York Times: Is WPS the iLeague?
- April 2010 – Bleacher Report: WPS To Fans: Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?
- April 2010 – Goal.com: WPS dominates MLS in online media strategy
- March 2010 – PR News Wire: Women’s Professional Soccer Launches 2010 Ad Campaign
- December 2009 – USA Today Snapshots®: Stat of the day in the December 3, 2009, sports section. WPS is fifth among sports leagues for Twitter followers behind the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL
- November 2009 – The Equalizer: Social media a focus for WPS plans
- October 2009 – Curve Magazine: Women’s Soccer: The Next Generation
- September 2009 – Pitch Invasion: Grading WPS in Year One
- July 2009 – The Ocean Agency: Sports and Social Media, Building a Community
- June 2009 – SI.com: Twitter craze is rapidly changing the face of sports
- March 2009 – Sports Business Journal: WPS will let players tweet from sidelines
- March 2009 – The Wall Street Journal: Tackle, Trap and Twitter
- March 2009 – USA Today: Shaq posts to Twitter feed during halftime of game
- March 2009 – WishTV.com: The sports world is all a-’Twitter’
- March 2009 – Finding Dulcinea: Can Twitter Help Women’s Professional Soccer Find Fans?
- March 2009 – NECN Video: Athletes who use Twitter, and a league that encourages it
- March 2009 – NBC Sports: Women’s soccer league wants in-game ‘tweets’, New league’s decision stands in sharp contrast to the NBA
- March 2009 – Pitch Invasion: @RedStarsCEO How long til you tweet this?
- August 2008 – The Offside: Someone paid attention in class when they rattled on about this “New Media”
- July 2008 – Big Apple Soccer: From Coaching to Marketing, Ex-NYU women’s coach joins WPS team
- January 12, 2005 – The Villager: They Got Game: Girls Soccer in the City is Growing
- October 14, 2005 – The Villager : As coach, former goalie’s patient approach catches on
- August 2003 – NCAA record: New York University selects Amanda Vandervort as head coach
Writing
- August 2012 – FIFA.com: St. Kitts and Nevis embracing feminine future
- August 2012 – FIFA.com: Women’s game given Com-Unity lift in St. Lucia
- October 2011 – FIFA.com: Tanzania commits to developing women’s football
- September 2011 – FIFA.com: Jamaica commits to developing women’s football
- July 2011 – MLSsoccer.com: MLS Fans Tailgate Recipes
- July 2011 – MLSsoccer.com: Canada Day and 4th of July Twitter Giveaway
- June 2011 – MLSsoccer.com: Ibarra wins Father’s Day Twitter contest
- June 2011 – MLSsoccer.com: Happy Father’s Day, MLS fans
- June 2011 – MLSsoccer.com: Fishkin, Youtz share Father’s Day stories
- June 2011 – MLSsoccer.com: MLS announces Twitter Fan Pic winner
- February 201 – NSCAA blog: NSCAA Premier Diploma – A coach’s perspective
- August 2010 – NSCAA Blog: How Social Media Can Affect College Recruiting
- May 2005 – Soccer Journal: Letting Assistants Lead
Hi, my name is Amanda Vandervort. This is my personal blog where I discuss digital and social media strategies in soccer. Opinions are my own. 




