Frontier Communications signs on as official sponsor for West Virginia Mountaineers
Participating in this sponsorship deal:
About Sponsor:
Frontier Communications Corporation is a telephone company in the United States, which was previously mainly serving rural areas and smaller communities but now also serves several large metropolitan markets. It was known as Citizens Utilities Company until May 2000 and Citizens Communications Company until July 31, 2008.
About Property:
The West Virginia Mountaineers are the athletic teams of West Virginia University. The school is a member of National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I and the Big East Conference. On July 1, 2012 the Mountaineers will switch conferences, moving from the Big East to the Big 12, becoming the conference's easternmost team, and first in the Eastern Time Zone. The school's mascot is known as the Mountaineer. The two major sports at the university are football and basketball , although many of the other sports have large followings as well. The West Virginia University athletic program also has the honor of being the only school in the nation in 2007 to win a BCS game, a NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament game, and a NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament game.