NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – Old Dominion University Associate Director of Athletic Communications, Jim Heath, was named to the Apprentice School Hall of Fame, The Apprentice School announced on Thursday.
Heath joined the ODU Athletics department in the fall of 2021 and works with the men's basketball team, as well as men's and women's soccer and men's and women's tennis. He has been a part of two women's tennis championships, a women's soccer championship and a men's tennis championship since joining in 2021.
Heath started at the Apprentice School in 2000 and served as the full time Sports Information Director for 15 years. He helped establish the first athletic specific website for the school.
In 2015 Heath returned to his hometown of Hampton to work at the university. He was an assistant SID at Hampton for two seasons and was promoted to the head SID position in 2017. At Hampton he helped promote the first historically black college and university (HBCU) to sponsor Division 1 Men's Lacrosse and move to the Big South Conference from the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference.
Heath graduated from Christopher Newport University in 1992 and went on to be a graduate assistant at Old Dominion until 1993.
Jim Heath Inducted Into The Apprentice School Hall Of Fame
