Can a week at Sports Broadcasting Camp lead to career opportunities? Here are some camp alumni stories. You make the call…
Steve Rudenstein-“Rudy”:Rudy started as a high school intern with Scholastic Play-by-Play in 2001 and parlayed that into an internship with the Trenton Thunder. He is now the Thunder’s director of communications and the play-by-play announcer for the Rider College men’s basketball Broncos.
Lee Elias:Lee attended our first camp at Bryn Mawr College in 2002. He later served as a camera man for the camps and now is a full-time producer at A and E Network.
Nick McCay and Derrick Diesner-Nick and Derrick are sophomores at Western Illinois College and spent summers with us at the Chicago and Boston camps in 2005 and 2006. They are now the television and radio play by play announcers for their school’s football and basketball games.
Brian Seltzer-Brian came to camp in 2002 and 2003 as a student at Cheltenham High School in Philadelphia. He now has a fulltime job at 950-AM WPEN all sports radio. He is the Eagles beat reporter and also is the play-by-play announcer for the University of Pennsylvania men’s basketball on radio.
Landon Sears-Not yet 20 years old, Landon Sears has held three minor league baseball jobs including play by play for the Camden Riversharks and his current job as the AA voice of the Chicago White Sox. While in high school, Sears started the Lower Merion television station and was the on-air voice for 3 dozen games and the schools’ banquet year in review tape.
Aaron Brown- Aaron Brown is a senior journalism student at Penn State. As a member of Penn State’s Center for Sports Journalism, Aaron will be covering Penn State athletics as a reporter. A camper in 2002 and 2003, Aaron joined the Scholastic Play by Play Network as in intern in 2004. Since then, he has worked at Philadelphia camps with us each year. Aaron recently completed a Public Relations internship with the Philadelphia Flyers, dealing a lot with players, coaches, and the media. Aaron also worked on air as broadcasting intern for Radio Disney Philadelphia. He will continue his skills that he developed from both Penn State and the Sports Broadcasting Camps as he starts his career in May 2008.
Nathan Sandals- Nate has been a student or a counselor for the sports broadcasting camps for the past 3 years. He also worked for SPBP Network in the summer of 2006 with Annual High School Awards Show. He also helped broadcast Camden Riversharks baseball over the internet. Nate is currently a sophomore at the University of Michigan where he majors in journalism. As a freshman, Nate covered the Michigan softball team through out the NCAA Tournament.
Alex Reemer-He made national headlines on The Today Show and Jay Leno and the Tonight Show for his blog picked up by the Boston Globe when he was just 12 years old.
Brady Mchale- Brady has been a fixture in the Philadelphia sports broadcasting camp for the past 3 years. His outgoing personality has been a welcoming addition to all the Philadelphia camps. Brady is already in pursuit of his dream by participating in many activities at his Middle School as well as his on air tapes during the sports broadcasting camps.
Courtney Cronin "I finally felt like there is a place where kids my age can come and share their passion for broadcasting. I enjoyed sharpening my skills over the summer and definitely had one of the greatest experiences of my life."
A senior at Glenbrook South High School in Glenview Illinois, Courtney is the sports director for her school's award winning radio station, WGBK 88.5 FM. She also hosts a quarterly sports program, Titan Sports, for her high school's cable television. Throughout her years in radio broadcasting, Courtney has been a John Drury High School Radio Award winner and has received other awards for her work in play-by-play broadcasting and daily sports talk programs. Courtney is going to be studying broadcast journalism when she enters college next fall.
Right now, radio is taking over a lot of what I'm doing. We do every home and away game for football and this year, I'm making sure we get soccer, volleyball, and other lesser known sports on the air during the fall season. I'm also doing this pretty cool thing through a program called the Palestra.com. They want a package about once-twice a week on a features story from my high school so they have me going out to film and produce packages that will be aired online. Check it out sometime when you get a chance. www.palestra.com and click on "The High School Palestra.” As for radio, besides our local frequency, we stream live over the internet 24/7 and on game days.
I recently hosted my weekday radio show, Gridiron Sports, and we had a guy from the local paper come onto it and write an article about everything that went on and about the radio program at Glenbrook South. I thought you'd like to see the article so here's the link to it.
http://www.pioneerlocal.com/glenview/schools/608357,gv-radio-101107-s1.article
Scott Braun- Scott attended the sports broadcasting camps for 2 years in 2005 (Baltimore) and 2006 (North Jersey). Due to his experience and leadership qualities, Scott was a counselor at the North Jersey session last summer. He worked with the kids on play-by-play work, as well as writing stories for anchoring. Scott recently worked as a sports producer/editor/anchor for News Channel 12 in New York.
Sam Rubin- Sam is working at a sports talk show from his local station. He is also taking a class at school that teaches TV communications.
Sara Gladney -Was the subject of a camp feature on NBC NIGHTLY NEWS
Josiah Schlatter - Josiah has worked for SPBP Network for 2 years. He helped broadcast Widener Football games over the internet and was hired as the public address announcer for Archbishop Carroll High School Basketball. Josiah is planning to attend Temple University, majoring in Broadcast Journalism.
Joshua Campbell - “On September 22, I started working for ESPNU here in Charlotte as a logger! I’m very excited to have this great job and I could not have done it without the knowledge and experience I received at the Sports Broadcasting Camps.”
Victor Brady - Victor has been a constant in the sports broadcasting camps over the past 5 years. He has attended camps in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, and Boston. Victor currently is working with a radio station in New Rochelle, NY, WVOX, to put high school hockey, basketball, and baseball games on the radio.
Patrick Stein - Both before and after the 2007 camp, Patrick has been doing play-by-play for his schools TV station for a year and a half and is still going. With games ranging from football to basketball to volleyball, the action never stops.
Steven Haderer – Steven has attended the sports broadcasting camps for the last 2 years. This past fall Steven decided to put all of the camp's learning into action by commentating his high school soccer games over the loudspeakers at their stadium. It has been a tremendous experience.
Stanley Kay - “I am doing an internship at ESPN Radio 760 in West Palm Beach, Florida. I was originally supposed to work only 2 weeks because I am still 14 (15 this October) but they thought I was doing a good job and let me stay on for the whole summer. In fact, they let me stay on longer as I am working Friday Nights taking in calls from various high school football games in South Florida. In those calls, I get the score, a big highlight, and a notable player's statistics. I then relay this to someone who is on site at the broadcast of the game of the week.”
John Thomas – “I was able to do play-by-play for my middle school football games over the internet. This would not have been possible if not for the Sports Broadcasting Camps.”
Caleb Seltzer - A 2 summer camper in Boston, Caleb has since found quite a few niches to fill in the world of broadcasting, including: SRW Pro Wrestling ring announcer, PA Announcer for the Boston Swamp Rats of the Pro Inline Hockey Association; and, as staff for New England Championship Wrestling (#1 wrestling promoter in New England). He's currently attending school in Easton, MA with another former camper, Jake Marcous (Boston '05). See below for Caleb in action:
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Brian Ziegler - Majoring in sports communications at Temple University. Attended the Philadelphia camps in 2002, 2003, and 2004.
Halle Anoff- Was named an anchor at Hofstra University’s TV station.
Natalie Herman- Anchoring as a freshman at Kutztown State U.
Steve DeWitt- Steve attended each sports broadcasting camp in Cherry Hill, NJ. As the camp moved to Villanova, Steve became a counselor and was instrumental in the way the kids conducted themselves on and off the camera. Over the last couple of years, Steve worked as a color commentator for Widener Football and Camden Riversharks Baseball. He also worked for SPBP Network working the Scholastic Play-by-Play Classics last season.
Chris DelSordo-Chris has worked for 2 years with SPBP Network. He has written articles for the SPBP Network Program book, done play by play for the Lower Merion TV Network, color commentate Widener Football games, helped produce commercials and work in different capacities at the Play-by-Play Classics
Erick Bamberger-Eric has worked for 2 years with SPBP Network. He also was a color commentator for Widener Football in 2007 and has done numerous work as a public address announcer for Scholastic Play-by-Play Classics.
Daniel Radov Just 13 years old Daniel has attended the sports broadcasting camps for the past 4 years. His knowledge and passion for sports is remarkable for a kid his age. As Daniel gets older and develops more hands on experience in the broadcasting field, this teenager will certainly make a name for himself in this business.
Ari Masseferi "I am currently working at Sharon Community Television (Sharon, MA). I have done countless play-by-play baseball games, a number of football games, been a cameraman for a fewshows, and I am starting my own show, a sports interview show."
Audrey Snyder- Audrey worked her first year with SPBP Network. She is a dedicated worker and is one of the finest students that have attended the sports broadcasting camp. Audrey wrote a season preview article for the upcoming high school girl’s basketball season. This article will be featured in the 2007-08 SPBP Network Program books. She also helped produce different commercials for the SPBPN Network.
Jeff Herman - Jeff is a four year veteran of the Scholastic Play-by-Play Broadcasting Camps in South Jersey/Philadelphia from 2004-2007. In 2006 and 2007, he broadcasted football, basketball, field hockey, and soccer games for his high school, Eastern Regional High School in Voorhees, NJ, on ETV Channel 19. He is currently a freshman and Broadcast Journalism major at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY. He will eventually be working at WRHU-FM 88.7, the number one non-commercial radio station on Long Island.
