Adekale Ande

Adekale Ande joined the Chadwick School as Visual Content & Social Media Manager in September of 2026.

Ande previously served as Assistant Director of Sport Communications at Pacific Lutheran University overseeing all aspect of digital strategy and visual communication for all 19 varsity sports. In 11 months, Ande helped increase PLU's social media presence by over 600 followers and garnered over 5 millions views. Ande also earned three awards in the 2026 College Sports Communicators (CSC) Creative and Digital Design Contest in the "Best of Division III" Award Category. This included earning honors in individual awards, milestones, and record graphics, posters, and gameday graphics.

Prior to PLU, Ande served as Sports Information Manager at The Lovett School in Atlanta, overseeing all aspects of the school's athletic communication strategy. While there, Ande won 11 awards in the 2024 CSC Creative and Digital Design contest in the "Best of High School" Award Category. That included earning honors for posters, short-from videos/reels, long-form video recap, non-gameday graphics, hype pregame video/reel and signing day package.

Before Lovett, Ande was a graduate assistant for two years at Division II Lenoir-Rhyne University. While there, he helped the communication staff win the South Atlantic Conference Media Relations Staff of the Year during the 2020-2021 academic year.

And was the play-by-play announcer for the Atlanta Hustle of the Ultimate Frisbee Association for five seasons. He was twice earned Top 10 play-by-play call of the year by Sportscaster Talent Agency of a America and had one call appear on ESPN Sportcenter's Top 10 plays.

He additionally was a marketing intern for the National Junior College Athletic Association and worked as a student at Berry, calling over 100 Viking games over his four years on campus.