For the remaining pair, I was color analyst for one game and sideline reporter for the other.
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The following summer, Seven Mountains Media hired me as an on-air personality for their classic hits station, Passport Radio PA (WCPA) 98.5 FM and 900 AM, and was elected as play-by-play commentator for Bigfoot Country Radio (WIFT-FM) in DuBois for their broadcasts of DuBois high school football.
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In December 2019, I was hired by Renda Broadcasting in Indiana as a part-time board operator and news anchor. This experience taught me how to structure a 20-minute newscast for Saturday mornings and it also gave me experience working with MediaTouch automation systems as well as XP, a system for coordinating remote broadcasts.
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Fast forward to August 2020, I was selected to be the play-by-play analyst for Indiana High School's 2020 football season by Mark Bertig, General Manager of Renda Broadcasting in Indiana, PA., due to my experience as a football broadcaster with WIUP, IUP-TV and Seven Mountains Media.
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During my time as an on-air personality and officer at WIUP-FM, a 1,600-watt licensed radio station owned by Indiana University of Pennsylvania, I received several awards during my tenure including “Best Afternoon Show” in 2019, “Best Specialty Show” in 2018 and “Best Freshman DJ” during my first year in 2018.
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I was appointed as the Director of Sports Broadcasting in August 2019 to help rebrand WIUP’s sports broadcasting scene. Prior to my appointment, we had only five sports broadcasts the previous year. During my time, we tripled that number in less than six months.
While I was offered an internship engineering radio broadcasts for the Altoona Curve during the summer of 2020, it was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Fortunately, I completed an internship through The Swoop, a program organized by IUP's Department of Communications Media, where I produced programs for IUP-TV and assisted in the production of podcasts and audio theater productions.
In my final semester at IUP, I was appointed to call play-by-play for Renda Broadcasting's coverage of Indiana high school football by Mark Bertig and Todd Marino. I was also referred by Stephanie Keppich to Saint Francis University to call play-by-play for their women's basketball and softball teams, as well as their men's volleyball team.
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I graduated from IUP in December 2020 with Magna Cum Laude honors and a bachelor's degree.
Since finding my path as a radio personality and sports commentator, I was presented with many rare opportunities to utilize my skills on the air.
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One accomplishment was being selected by Dr. B. Gail Wilson, IUP’s Department of Communications Media chair, to call play-by-play for the 2019 NCAA Division II Atlantic Regional playoffs for IUP-TV Sports’ livestreams. The tournament spanned two days in March 2019, and during that time, I called play-by-play for six of the eight games.
