PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Rowan University students are getting a rare opportunity to run the broadcast booth for a professional sports team. For them, it's the stuff that dreams are made of.
Students from Rowan's Sports Communication and Media school will be doing radio play by play, color analysis and all the radio broadcast production for the upcoming Delaware Blue Coats season, which is the G League affiliate of the 76ers.
Veteran sports broadcaster Neil Hartman is the director of the program at Rowan and says his students will soon audition for jobs.
"Do play by play via a taped video. They'll have about a ten minute video that they'll look at and do play by play while they are being judged in the audition by Tom McGinnis, radio voice of the Sixers (and) Dei Lynam, color analyst for the television road case for the Blue Coats."
They can also shadow professionals to learn about other aspects of sports management including public relations, game day operations and marketing.
Hartman says he's unaware of any other program in the country where students are getting the chance to do play by play for a professional team.