Courtesy The Fort Scott Tribune

(July 15, 2010) Matt Newbery, a veteran of nearly 20 years in collegiate sports, has been hired by KSEK Radio (99.1 FM) as the lead broadcaster for its upcoming coverage of Fort Scott Community College athletics.

Newbery will handle the play-by-play duties for all FSCC game broadcasts, a schedule which is slated to include all of the Greyhounds' football games as well as home games for both the men's and women's basketball teams and selected games in baseball and softball.

He also will host weekly coaches shows for both football and basketball, while coordinating content for The Ticket's web page dedicated to FSCC athletics -- www.991espnfortscott.com. Newbery also will assist other production efforts and events for the station.

"Matt is a nice addition to The Ticket sports team -- I'm excited to work along side of someone with Matt's experience and knowledge of local sports," KSEK General Manager Mike Snow said. "He will come right in and hit the ground running."

Newbery was previously the assistant commissioner for media relations for the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association, an NCAA Division II conference based in the Kansas City area. He handled the media relations, publicity and statistics for the MIAA over a 15-year span (1994-2009).

During his tenure, he created the conference's initial presence on the world wide web and established a conference-wide computerized statistics program. He also coordinated the production of weekly radio segments for football available for use by the broadcasters of MIAA schools in 1998, as well as a weekly podcast in conjunction with Kansas City's WHB-AM starting in 2008.

Newbery also helped the MIAA establish it's neutral-site postseason basketball tournament in Kansas City (starting in 2003), as well as the MIAA TitleFest -- which had championship events for golf, tennis and baseball joining the basketball and softball tournaments in the Kansas City metropolitan area beginning in 2009.

He was honored with six "Best in the Nation" awards from the College Sports Information Directors of America for MIAA publications -- the last for the 2009 Basketball Tournament program -- and earned a total of 16 publication awards while with the league.

Newbery was at Pittsburg State University, his alma mater, from 1990-94 as assistant sports information and marketing director. He coordinated publications for the office in his final two years -- winning three "Best in the Nation" citations from CoSIDA -- and also spent a season as a volunteer assistant softball coach for the Gorillas.

He also served as the assistant sports editor for the Pittsburg Morning Sun from 1988-89, after two years as a part-time correspondent for the newspaper.

Newbery's radio resume includes five years (1983-87) as a part-time announcer at several Pittsburg-area radio outlets, including a stint as the studio engineer for the Pittsburg State football broadcasts by KSSC-FM in 1985 and 1986.

He also did high school basketball play-by-play for KWXD-FM in Pittsburg in 1994, and called play-by-play as part of the first group of PSU students to produce tape-delayed football cablecasts for the school in 1989 -- the forerunner of what is now CAPS, Pitt State's student television outlet.

Newbery earned a bachelor's degree in communication (broadcasting emphasis) from PSU in 1990, and is a 1985 graduate of Pittsburg High School.

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