duncan phillips
If I wasn’t working for Team Hodges, my day job would be: Teaching high school English. I’ve always enjoyed working with kids, especially if it involves correcting the grammar of the text message generation. Getting them to read a book or two wouldn’t hurt either.
Proudest professional achievement: Landing a prestigious internship with The Hodges Partnership while I was a senior at the University of Richmond. Why? Well, I suppose because it led to this job a year later.
Proudest personal achievement: I got to dress up as the mascot Raymond during my internship with the Tampa Bay Rays. I consider it a proud personal achievement because I made it through a half hour of interacting with kids without passing out from heat exhaustion. That suit was brutally hot.
I consider the day a success if: My “red-flagged” emails are in the single digits.
Outside of the office, you’ll probably find me: Trying to find somebody to throw the lacrosse ball with or perhaps taking in an athletic event at the University of Richmond. Go Spiders!
My first job was: Teaching sailing at a summer camp in Raymond, Maine.
Coke or Pepsi: Coke. But in Ohio we just call it pop.
During his school years in Toledo, Duncan earned All-State honors for lacrosse — then spent many summers teaching sailing at a summer camp in Maine. Today, his sports alliances start with his alma mater, the University of Richmond Spiders. With degrees in English and journalism, Duncan continued the sports traditions with a postgraduate internship at the Tampa Bay Rays before joining the baseball-loving Hodges Partnership. Duncan’s parents, who have raised four kids, still live in Ohio.