CollegiateCamo Pro-Staff

CollegiateCamo has numerous people on campuses throughout the country who are not only passionate about hunting and the great outdoors, but also love their favorite college sports teams. These CollegiateCamo Pro-Staff team members represent both CollegiateCamo and the university they are most proud of, and help tell the CollegiateCamo story. CollegiateCamo loves our dedicated Pro-Staffers, and are proud to sponsor hunts in their areas, take them with us to the best outdoor shows in the country, and put faces to the CollegiateCamo name.

Would you like to become a Pro-Staff team member for CollegiateCamo and express your love for college athletics and passion for the great outdoors? If you truly care about hunting, fishing, the outdoors and your favorite college sports team, apply now to be a CollegiateCamo Pro-Staffer.

Expectations:

• Be a face of the CollegiateCamo brand on college campuses and nationwide in a courteous and professional manner
• Represent CollegiateCamo at local club and chapter events and banquets
• Tailgate college football games and represent CollegiateCamo
• Optional: Sell items and receive commission for all sales
• Attend local CollegiateCamo functions
• Blog on a regularly assigned schedule

Benefits:

• Free CollegiateCamo merchandise
• Sponsorship for approved outdoor and college sports events
• Working with a great team who are equally passionate about college sports and the outdoors
• Photo and biography featured on the CollegiateCamo website
• Ability to be an integral part of the growth of the company

CollegiateCamo Pro-Staff Bios

Matt Aarstad – Favorite College Team: University of Iowa Hawkeyes

Matthew Aarstad grew up in northeastern South Dakota. He grew up hunting ducks, deer and pheasants with his family from a very young age. After relocating to the southern portion of South Dakota he developed a new love affair with turkey hunting. [...]

Donny Bartow – Favorite College Team: University of Georgia Bulldogs

Donny Bartow is the biggest outdoors freak you’ll meet in the southern United States. Whether he is cheering and hollering for his favorite college sports team, the University of Georgia Bulldogs, or if he is flinging a 6-inch junebug-colored lizard into a fallen tree, or sitting in a deer stand waiting patiently for a trophy deer to walk by and catch his arrow, you can bet that he is in the great outdoors. Bartow especially loves to pursue the whitetails of the Midwest.[...]

Jason Christensen – Favorite College Team: University of Nebraska Cornhuskers

Jason spends much of his free time hunting, fishing, and scouting for wild game. He started hunting with his dad and friends at the age of 6 by hunting pheasants, ducks, geese, turkey, deer and coyotes along the North Platte River and the Nebraska Sand Hills. Jason attended the University of Nebraska, where he studied Ag-Business. While attending, he coached the university's baseball youth team camps. During the hunting seasons, Jason guides hunters for deer, pheasant, coyote and waterfowl.[...]

Tom Cormany – Favorite College Team: University of North Carolina Tarheels

Tom Cormany is 44 years old and lives in Prince George, Virginia. Tom is employed by the Upper Brandon Plantation as a grounds keeper during the summer. During the fall and winter, Tom can be found chasing Ducks, Geese, Rockfish, Doves and training his chocolate lab "Tar", while guiding for waterfowl on the James River.[...]

Parker Dunlap – Favorite College Team: University of Arkansas Razorbacks

Parker Dunlap grew up in Jonesboro, Arkansas. He got his first addiction to waterfowl hunting in high school when friends invited him to go duck hunting. His passion is still waterfowl hunting, but he finds other ways to stay occupied in the outdoors in the off-season. Deer hunting, catfishing, frog gigging, turkey hunting and fly fishing with his uncles keeps him busy. [...]

Garrett Grant – Favorite College Team: Central Washington University WIldcats

Garrett Grant grew up in Central Washington with a family that introduced him to and supported his passion for the great outdoors from a very young age. Being taught about the many aspects of the outdoors from childhood influenced Garrett to become an educator.[...]

Tim Haw – Favorite College Team: Northern Iowa University Panthers

Tim Haw grew up in Northeast Iowa. He has been shooting since he was old enough to pull the trigger. Once able, he began participating in shooting sports through the local 4-H programs and Boy Scouts of America. As his interests in hunting and shooting sports grew he joined the University of Northern Iowa Trap and Skeet team first thing when he went to college. [...]

Mike Irvine – Favorite College Team: University of Illinois FIghting Illini

Mike Irvine was born into hunting. At 11 months old he sat in a duck blind for the first time, at 10 he shot he first drake mallard, and the obsession only grow. He was born and raised in the river bottoms of Quincy, Illinois, where waterfowl and big bucks were plentiful. For Mike, days in the field weren’t just a welcome treat, but an everyday part of life. [...]

Kurt Kruger – Favorite College Team: University of Iowa Hawkeyes

Kurt Kruger was brought up in Northwest Iowa, where he grew up fishing the Iowa Great Lakes, running a trap line with his dad, and hunting the creek bottoms for pheasant, deer, turkey, and his personal favorite - waterfowl. After high school he moved to Iowa City, where he attends the University of Iowa. [...]

Ryan Mason – Favorite College Team: University of Missouri Tigers

Ryan was born in Beverly Hills, California but moved to St. Louis, Missouri when he was 5. No one in his family had ever hunted or shot guns before he took an interest. When he was about 10 his dad bought him a BB gun and he's been addicted to shooting ever since. In high school school he was heavily involved in sports, being on the football team and captain of the wrestling team, but still found time to go fishing and hunting outside of school. [...]

Grant Moore – Favorite College Team: Texas A&M University Aggies

Grant grew up farming on the Red River in North Texas and has been chasing ducks with his dad ever since he could barely hold a shotgun. With a goal of working one day working for Texas Parks and Wildlife, Grant attended Texas A & M University in College Station with a major in Wildlife and Fisheries Science. [...]

Jimmy Moslak – Favorite College Team: Penn State University Nittany Lions

Jimmy was born and raised in a small town in central Pennsylvania. He specializes in bass fishing and whitetail hunting. You can also find him on the streams chasing monster steelhead and trout. He is currently pursuing his Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from Slippery Rock University and completed four years at the Pennsylvania State University where he studied Kinesiology. [...]

Cory Niccum – Favorite College Team: University of Kansas Jayhawks

Cory Niccum began waterfowl hunting at the young age of eight with his father in California. By 1994, Cory moved to eastern Kansas, where he truly fell in love with waterfowl hunting. Cory found himself hunting ducks and geese as often as possible, especially with having so many other waterfowling friends nearby. [...]

Jody Niccum – Favorite College Team: University of Arkansas Razorbacks

Jody Niccum really needs no introduction. A master at both duck- and goose-calling contests, Jody has won more titles in his first 21 years then most will accomplish in a lifetime, including the big World Championship win in Stuttgart, Arkansas for the title of 2007 World Champion Duck Caller. His big win made him the second youngest to ever win the World Duck Calling Championship. [...]

Chris Niemeyer – Favorite College Team: University of Central Missouri Mules

I was born into a hunting and fishing family. By the time I was old enough to walk my grandfather had a fishing pole in my hands. I got my first BB gun at the age of 9 and I have been hooked ever since. [...]

Dillon Noland – Favorite College Team: Oklahoma State University Cowboys

Dillon Noland has been passionate about the great outdoors since he was a little boy. He began duck and goose hunting with his father at age nine. He was born and raised in Oklahoma, so he is a devout Oklahoma State Cowboys fan. [...]

Clay O'Rourke – Favorite College Team: University of Michigan Wolverines

Born and raised in Southwest Michigan, Clay O’Rourke was introduced at the age of 12 to the excitement of hunting and chasing Michigan's local Giant Canadians. At 17, he was blessed to fulfill one of his dreams and started guiding waterfowl hunts for a local outfitter. Now, 13 years later, Clay has traveled all over the country and hunted Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas, North and South Dakota, Arizona and Ontario, Canada. [...]

Ronnie Phillips – Favorite College Team: Kansas State University Wildcats

Ronnie has been hunting since he was a young child thanks to the influence of his Grandfather, the late David Curtis Carter. Mr. Carter made a name for himself outside of Sumter, SC as owner of Carter Shooting Preserve and 6-time Champion of the Sumter Country Bird Dog of the Year (Roscoe, Bett & Maude). [...]

Laura Rice – Favorite College Team: Kansas State University Wildcats

Laura became involved in the outdoors at the collegiate level during her freshman year of college through friends at Kansas State. Obviously purple for K-State is her favorite color, but she says she looks best in camo.[...]

Donnie Rogers – Favorite College Team: University of Iowa Hawkeyes

Donnie is married with one son, Gavin, and a daughter, Mia. He was born and raised in Northern Indiana, a small town community called Rochester. While growing up his time outside was spent in sports, outdoors, hunting and fishing. [...]

Jeremy Rogers – Favorite College Team: Wichita State University Wushock

Jeremy Rogers was born and raised in Wichita, KS. He grew up fishing and camping with his dad and uncles. He fell in love with fishing at an early age and competed and won several Junior BASS tournaments. Jeremy went off to play baseball at Sterling College in Sterling, KS. One of his teammates invited him to go pheasant hunting and that’s where Jeremy found his true passion for the outdoors. [...]

Neal Rohrbach – Favorite College Team: University of Missouri Tigers

To call Neal an outdoor enthusiast would be an understatement. He grew up hunting and fishing on the family farm in Clarksburg, Missouri and had a fishing pole in his hands as soon as he could walk. Born and raised a Missouri Tiger fan, he now lives in Valdosta, Georgia, with his wife Sara. Neal is currently the Outdoor Channel Outfitters President of Marketing and Sales. [...]

Jeremy Romain – Favorite College Team: Kansas State University Wildcats

Jeremy grew up in eastern Kansas, where with the help of his father he developed a true love for waterfowl hunting. Upon graduating high school Jeremy headed west to attend Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. The abundance of waterfowl hunting opportunities in the area only fueled his passion for the great outdoors. It was during his time as a KSU Wildcat that Jeremy dove [...]

Jenny Romanin – Favorite College Team: Colorado State University Rams

Jenny Romanin was born and raised on a small ranch in Colorado. It was there that she was taught respect for the land and all creatures that inhabit it. She lives every day to its fullest and remembers to “laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.” Growing up an active 4-H member, she soon realized her true love - the great outdoors! [...]

Brad Tansey – Favorite College Team: Kent State University

Brad grew up in South Amherst, Ohio where his father shared his passion of hunting from a young age. Brad started hunting when he was 10 years old and harvested his first deer at 14. When he's not studying to be a outdoor writer at Kent State University, Brad loves chasing whitetail bucks and trying to outsmart longbeards [...]

Tanner Thorfinnson – Favorite College Team: University of Wyoming

Though Tanner was continuously active in athletic competition (baseball, football, hockey and soccer) before his high school graduation and a soccer scholarship for his first two years of college, he was able to participate in some hunting activities when spare time was available. At the age of 10 he took his first shot at a mallard with a Daisy Red Rider. [...]

Matt Truesdale – Favorite College Team: Penn State University Nittany Lions

Born and raised a stone’s throw away from the Pennsylvania State University in the small town of Bellefonte, Matt Truesdale was born with the heart of a Nittany Lion and outdoorsman. Matt was first exposed to the great outdoors by his father during fishing trips as a youngster, and became hooked.[...]

Mark VanHouten – Favorite College Team: University of Nebraska Cornhuskers

Mark grew up in the Sandhills of Nebraska, where you worked hard during the week so the weekends could be enjoyed; hunting or fishing and cheering on Nebraska Football! He is an avid outdoorsman and is passionate to get youth involved in outdoor activities- primarily hunting and fishing. [...]

Nick Wellman – Favorite College Team: Michigan State University Spartans

Nick is 17 years old and lives in Hopkins, Michigan, where he attends Hopkins High School. He plays football, baseball and basketball. He spends the majority of his fall chasing ducks and geese or bow hunting whitetails. He also likes to hunt turkeys in the spring. [...]

Dave West – Favorite College Team: University of Mississippi “Ole Miss” Rebels

Born in raised in Kansas City, Dave West began hunting with his father and grandfather at a very young age. He would chase anything that flew, swam or ran. He began waterfowling in northwest Missouri at a duck club near Swan Lake and Mountain Grove Refuges, and after his first duck and goose he was hooked. [...]

Paige Woodruff – Favorite College Team: Northern Iowa University Panthers

Paige has been a fisherwoman all her life, but is a newcomer to the hunting world. Her brother took her goose hunting two years ago for the first time, and she has been hooked ever since. She branched out a lot this year and shot her first deer and pheasant. [...]