RADIO/PLAY-BY-PLAY EXPERIENCE
BRADENTON MARAUDERS BASEBALL CLUB Bradenton, FL May 2010 - Present
Class A-Advanced Affiliate (Pittsburgh Pirates)
- Coordinator of Communications/Radio Broadcaster
- Lead broadcaster for all 140 Florida State League games
- In charge of all communication efforts including writing of press releases, updating of website, creation of game notes, updating of roster and securing and maintain a relationship with a radio affiliate
- Assisted in communications efforts for Major League Spring Training
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA Tampa, FL August 2009 - June 2010
Member of Division I Big East Conference
- BullsVision Creative and Multimedia Coordinator
- Provided play-by-play for Division I Women's Basketball, Baseball, Women's Soccer, Men's Soccer and Volleyball
- Provided play-by-play for the BIG EAST Women's Basketball Tournament on Sirius and XM Satellite Radio
- Served as TV-sideline reporter for football game vs. Wofford
- Responsible for generating original content for athletic department website, including coach's shows, player features and interviews and daily news updates
BUFFALO BISONS BASEBALL CLUB Buffalo, NY April 2009 - August 2009
Class Triple-A Affiliate (New York Mets)
- Radio Broadcast Assistant
- Provided play-by-play for approximately 70 games throughout the season and hosted pregame show
- Created original written and video content for the team's website
- Wrote postgame news releases
SALEM AVALANCHE BASEBALL CLUB Salem, VA May 2008 - August 2008
Class A-Advanced Affiliate (Houston Astros)
- Broadcast Intern
- Provided play-by-play during middle innings of home and away games
- Prepared game notes, stat packets and postgame write-ups
ORLEANS CARDINALS BASEBALL CLUB Orleans, MA June 2007 - August 2007
- Play-by-Play Broadcaster
- Provided play-by-play coverage of the Orleans Cardinals of the Cape Cod Baseball League
- Conducted daily coach / player interviews
- Engineered broadcasts from site
- Updated team's website
CLEAR CHANNEL COMMUNICATIONS Syracuse, NY Jan 2007 - Present
- Host for Syracuse University Basketball pre- and postgame show on NewsRadio 570 WSYR
- Sports Anchor on NewsRadio570 WSYR (Current)
- News Reporter on Newsradio570 WSYR
- Producer/Host for SportsRadio620 WHEN
- Served as a fill in talk show host
- Reported on events including the PGA Tour and Big East media days
- Helped produce "Tee-Time with the Pro-Noun"
- Wrote and voiced "Tour Updates" - professional golf tour reports
- 9Pursued sponsorships and booked guests
Freelance Play-by-Play Note: Fill-in for Division-I basketball for Georgia Southern at South Florida Nov 2010; Solo voice for the BIG EAST Field Hockey Championships Nov 2010
WAER 88.3 FM SYRACUSE Syracuse, NY Fall 2005 - Spring 2009
- Sports Staff
- Provided play-by-play and features for Syracuse University Football, Men's Basketball and Men's Lacrosse
- Served as Personnel Director, critiquing the work of other staffers
- Talk Show Staff
- Produced a post-game talk show for Syracuse University sports and a weekly sports magazine show
WJPZ 89.1 FM SYRACUSE Syracuse, NY Fall 2005 - Spring 2009
- Associate Sports Director
- Produced, studio hosted, engineered and broadcasted play-by-play for Central New York High School Football; Syracuse Soldiers Football; Syracuse University Women's Basketball, Lacrosse, and Ice Hockey
- Wrote and voiced sports updates
- Executive Producer and Host of "The Batter's Box" - a weekly baseball talk show
ORANGE ALL-ACCESS Syracuse, NY Fall 2006 - Fall 2008
- Provided play-by-play for video webcasts of Syracuse University field hockey, soccer and volleyball on suathletics.com
- Broadcast the 2007 Big East Field Hockey Tournament on BigEast.tv
OTHER RELEVENT EXPERIENCE
SOMERSET PATRIOTS BASEBALL CLUB Bridgewater, NJ Summer 2006
- Ticket Sales and Press Box Intern
- Responsible for daily ticket sales, phone sales, group sales, theme night planning, game-day operations of the press box, assisting team broadcasters
PRINT WORK
- Staff Writer for the Daily Orange (Syracuse student newspaper); Contributor to Inside Lacrosse magazine;
Syracuse University Lacrosse Beat Writer for Lax.com; Contributor to SNY's Big East Sports Blog
TELEVISION WORK
- Citrus TV (Syracuse student TV station - 2006 "Best Reporter" nominee); Sports Intern at NewsChannel 9 (ABC affiliate in Syracuse); Production Intern and Color Commentator for Patriot 8 Media (Hillsborough, NJ)
EDUCATION
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
- B.S. - Broadcast Journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
RELATED SKILLS
- Avid Pro Editor, linear video editing, Adobe Audition, Quark Express, Adobe Premier Pro, Final Cut Pro
HONORS AND AWARDS
- 2008 Hearst Foundation Radio Broadcast Competition I/Features - First Place
- 2008 Syracuse Press Club - Best Sports Story (for the year 2007)
- 2008 Winner: Bayliss Foundation Radio Scholarship (1 of 12 recipients nationally)
- 2009 Sportscasters Talent Agency of America Collegiate All-American Sportscaster
REFERENCES
- Jason Benetti, Broadcaster: Syracuse Chiefs, ISP, High Point University
- Mike Hogan, Assistant Sports Information Director: University of South Florida
- Ben Wagner, Broadcaster: Buffalo Bisons
- Matt Park, Voice of the Orange: Syracuse University
- Jason Furst, Program Director: Newsradio570 WSYR
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