PROFILE

NICK VLIETSTRA

Hometown: Kalamazoo, MI
Skills: Play-by-Play
To reach Nick, call STAA at (949) 215-6713



Resume

Occupation

Sports Broadcasting/Public Relations

Work Experience

Evansville Otters
•    Dates: June-September 2008
•    Job Title: Broadcasting and Media Relations Internship
•    Duties: Served as the number two broadcaster doing play-by-play for the middle innings of all home games, doing color
     commentating for the rest of the game, pre-game interviews and writing game stories. Served as the studio host for all road
     games, which included doing score updates, and cutting highlights during the game.

University of Notre Dame
•    Dates: March-April 2008
•    Job Title: Fill-in Baseball Play-By-Play Broadcaster

Spring Arbor University Radio
•    Dates: 2004-2007
•    Job Title: Sports Director(2006-2007)/Play-By-Play Announcer, Color Announcer, Sports Reporter
•    Duties: Served as Sports Director in which I was director of a weekly one hour sports talk show, "Cougar Talk". The show mainly
     covered the past few weeks in Spring Arbor Athletics but expanded to cover general sports as well. The show was composed of
     open and close talk segments with two feature interviews in the middle. I also served as a Play-By-Play and Color
     voice for Spring Arbor Basketball and Baseball. Job included covering various collegiate athletics with responsibilities for creating
     weekly reports for Cougar Talk.

Education

Spring Arbor University
•    Dates: 2004-2007
•    Degree: Communications - Radio Broadcasting & Advertising/PR

List of Accomplishments
•    2007 Michigan Association of Broadcasters (MAB) - First Place College Sports Play-By-Play
•    2004-2005 Staff Participant/Cougar Talk recipient of Communicator Award. (MAB Award of distinction)

Skills
•    Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
•    Adobe Audition (audio recording)
•    Scott Studios (voice work)
•    Final Cut Pro (video editing)


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