Personal Narrative: A Career In Sports Broadcasting

As I grew older I wondered about how I could pursue a career in sports. When I was a kid I would act like I was broadcasting the game on TV. This is why I want to pursue a major in sports broadcasting. A couple summers ago I attended a sports broadcasting camp that was led by a current broadcaster for a Triple-A Baseball team. This camp helped me reaffirm my dream of becoming a sports broadcaster. Throughout the years I've looked up to famous and legendary broadcasters that are synonymous with sports. My goal is to one day be remembered among the greats of

From playing, to watching, to talking about them, sports have always been a passion of mine. Playing sports for as long as I can remember. From soccer to baseball, basketball to football. I´ve grown a deep passion for sports throughout my life. My passion has been so strong pursuing a career in this field just made good sense. I have a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and my courses based upon on sports business, journalism fundamentals, technical writing and the function that multimedia plays in sports journalism. While I attended Michigan State University I broadcasted the school's radio

Taylor Sampson interviewed Jay Welsh, current Florida Virtual School instructor in Journalism and seasoned broadcast journalist to talk to him about the career of journalism. When asked what would all aspiring journalists study and do before entering the profession he states “Number one is a great writing education. Very little is done without a script, and you are responsible for writing that script.” He also says to follow your passion “There is all types of different fields (for journalism careers). Mine was sports. For others it might be politics, fashion, wild life.” He even says every aspect of life has a journalist path. “The last thing would have to be comfortable speaking. You’re going to be in front of people. It can be a bit egotistical if you like being the center of attention; because that’s what you are.”

It was just another school night in the seventh grade. Our recreational tackle football team had a practice at 730pm until 9. It was a very swampy night and from that I felt myself very sluggish. At the time, I was a backup running back. I was always left on the sidelines facing the chills of the cold wind during games. I typically didn’t get to see much playing time on the field, but that night I got my opportunity. I was receiving kicks during a punting audition and all I was doing was catching the ball and throwing it back, nothing unique. One throw after another, my coach began to praise my arm strength. Seeing me pass the ball was a true eye-opener. That night, I went from a backup running back, to the starting quarterback of my rec

1.5 seconds. I had developed an automatic timer in my head, and when it hit 1.5 seconds, I was in trouble. It was physically and mentally agonizing playing quarterback behind an offensive line that was known as being the smallest (and worst) our state division has ever seen. On average, my offensive line would give me 1.5 seconds to throw the ball before getting sacked by opposing defensive linemen. During many plays, I failed to find an open receiver in my allotted time, so I ran for my life - trying to extend the play, avoid getting sacked, and most importantly, avoid getting hurt. I grew up playing wide receiver, but switched positions when our quarterback decided to transfer schools because he couldn’t handle the brutality he faced during

Baseball has always been one of my greatest interests. I've played baseball since I was 5 years old and have always been a leader on the field. I began a program called IAD-TLA, Institute of Athletic Development - Training Leaders through Athletics, my freshman year to further my leadership skills. This program really helped me focus on my goals and led me to extreme hard work and dedication to any goals I had, even excluding athletics. I continued working hard for the next 2 years, and became a Varsity captain by my junior year. I continued this into the summer where I led my team to an undefeated season. Two of my strongest qualities are my leadership abilities and my work ethic and both have brought me so far in athletics and life.

I like to speak in front of people whether it is a big or small crowd. I am not camera shy at all. I feel like sports broadcasting would be a great career choice for me also because I love to dress up. I have no problem wearing make up and fixing my hair to look professional on a day-to-day basis. Sports broadcasting also requires a little bit of traveling and I really enjoy traveling no matter where. This job seems to fit me really well. I would be able to get paid doing something I love.

My journalistic experience has been a learning experience that I have enjoyed. I have been in convergence media for my school for two years, and I don’t regret it at all. If it wasn’t for Ms. Roni Henderson, I would have never discovered what I want to do in life, as quickly as I did. My goals for the future, is to become a video editor for sports(ESPN) or the news. I want to gain so much knowledge that I learn how to expand what I can do to for the whole world to see. Activities I have done in high school includes: Student Government, Cat program(engineering program), Honors English (9th grade), Track, Church League Basketball two years(champions 2 years), bronze on workkeys test, convergence media award, participated in news show events,

A career in major league baseball helped set the stage for his womanizing. Being a professional athlete there is a certain level of fitness to maintain he prescribed to order. The energy he played with on the field help drives his motivation for business.

My concern is the head coach we have for U9-10 kid pitch Unfortunately, I do not know his name because he has not addressed nor communicated with the parents. On the first practice, one of the kids' father (who has coached for the YMCA) started helping with the kids and started coaching because the head coach was not there. This is fine with me. I do know that he has baseball experience. The head coach has let the "assistant coaches", pretty much take over with coaching. The concern I have is my daughter is the only girl on the team. She chose to play baseball this season because she wants the challenge and plus she wants a trophy in all sports. Mr. Osborne, you and I both know, Deziray has determination, confidence, and play just as good as

It was a warm summer morning on August 28, 1998 when my mother went into Sioux Valley hospital to give birth to a baby boy. After an agonizing 15 hours in labor, I was born. They named me Bryce meaning “Nobel One.” My full name was Bryce Jay Edberg, I got this middle name after my father, which his middle name was also Jay. Being born at exactly 4:03 a.m., with a staggering 23 inch body and weighing 10 lb 4oz the delivery was nothing less then painful.

I chose this particular activity because over the past two weeks, one of our assistant coaches has been really trying to work with us and engaging us in thinking about our teammates as a whole, rather than just ourselves. Each day, she has given us a couple quotes, and talked about leadership. She asked a rhetorical question saying, “Are you willing to go the extra mile for not only your teammates, but yourself. This to me in making me think about not only the big things that are going to happen on the court, but it’s the small things that are going to make it matter why I am performing the information she told me.

Coming to work for ESPN was an extremely new experience for me knowing that I've only had knowledge from an agency standpoint. However, working here for the past five months on the project management team and under the supervisor of Janene Monty was everything I expected and more. They've made my first 5 months so uplifting and smooth. I've had the opportunity to touch sports properties that I've never heard of and would've never, had I not come to work at ESPN.

Pursuing a degree in Communication with a concentration in Journalism is my first step into becoming an executive for my future news and entertainment firm, A. Nicole’s Network. A. Nicole’s Network will host TV dramas and international news. With this network, I hope to bring all audiences to an outlet that broadcasts unbiased news and provides quality television for the nation’s young adults and children. Growing up, I’ve always admired black faces on television, broadcasting daily global talks and executing light-hearted punchlines. What began as a past-time hobby of making and editing videos, blogging about events of my school day, and mimicking Friday night reporters, prospered into a dire passion to communicate anything and everything

A: Yes, actually. One of my dream jobs was to work in the newsroom as a reporter. I had always been fascinated with television news and reporting. Growing up, we saw newscasters like Walter Cronkite deliver the news to the whole country. It always seemed interesting working in a field where you give information that is sometimes powerful to a group of people, to keep them informed.