Lee Tolliver

Outdoors writer

Office phone: 757-222-5844

Lee Tolliver is the outdoors writer for The Virginian-Pilot. He also spends a good bit of his time helping with high school sports coverage, with field hockey and gymnastics his main beats. Lee also helps out with football coverage and other aspects of The Pilot’s high school coverage as needed. He has covered high school sports in South Hampton Roads since 1976.

Lee started with The Virginian-Pilot in 1976, just a few months after graduating from Kellam High School in Virginia Beach. He wrote for The Beacon as a high school correspondent. A former sports editor for The Beacon, Lee attended ODU for two years. While at The Beacon, he was twice named the national adult softball writer of the year by the National Softball Writer’s Association.

An avid angler and part-time hunter, Lee lived in Virginia Beach for 46 years. He now makes northeast North Carolina his home.

His wife, Ellen, is vice president at a Norfolk-based Community Bank. The couple likes to travel to the Caribbean and have no children. They have one dog, Dunkin, a cairn terrier.