STAFF EQUIPMENT STAFF
ROGER FRAZIER Equipment Manager
30th Season At Tennessee Tennessee ‘82 • Equipment Manager Roger Frazier is responsible for all football equipment issue and maintenance, in addition to handling the purchasing and inventory control of all football game and practice gear • He also serves as president of the SEC Equipment Managers Association and assists in new product development with adidas • The UT graduate began his career in 1978 as student manager before being named equipment manager in spring 1983
• The equipment room was renamed the Roger Frazier and Max Parrott Football Equipment Room, given in their honor by Gordon, Melissa and Hannah Summerfield, in January 2003 • Frazier graduated from Bradley Central High School in Cleveland and played football. He and his wife, Donna, have two children, Brandon and Barrett
MAX PARROTT
Assistant Equipment Manager
28th Season At Tennessee Tennessee ‘84 • Parrott begins his 28th season this year as assistant equipment manager under the direction of Roger Frazier • He began his association with the Volunteers football program as a student assistant in 1980 before coming back in 1985 to take on the equipment room duty on a full-time basis. He was promoted to his current position in 1987 • The equipment room was renamed the Roger Frazier
and Max Parrott Football Equipment Room, given in their honor by Gordon, Melissa and Hannah Summerfield, in January 2003 • Parrott graduated from Soddy-Daisy High School and received his UT bachelor’s degree in Arts and Sciences in 1984. He is married to the former Paige Davis of Lenoir City. They enjoy boating on Norris Lake as well as camping and snow skiing
ALLEN SITZLER
Assistant Equipment Manager
SIXTH Season At Tennessee Tennessee ‘00 • Allen Sitzler, better known as ‘Hawk’, joined Roger Frazier’s staff as full-time assistant equipment manager in September 2007 • The Cleveland native’s responsibility includes managing the daily operation of the equipment room, from practice to scheduling, supervision of the student managers as well as ordering and maintaining the team’s adidas gear and football equipment • Sitzler graduated from Cleveland High School and then Cleveland State Community College, playing base-
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ball and basketball at both stops, before arriving at UT. He earned his undergraduate degree in communications, with a minor in sport management, and then completed his master’s in sport administration • During those years, Sitzler served as a student manager from 1996-2000, including the last two years as head student manager, before climbing aboard Frazier’s staff in a part-time role