Nick Vlietstra

Work Experience

Western Michigan University
•    Job Title: Studio Host
•    Dates: Sept. 2010 - Present
•    Duties: Served as the board operator and Studio Host for Western Michigan University football, basketball and hockey games.
     I ran the games from the studio and did live updates throughout the games.

El Paso Diablos
•    Job Title: Director of Broadcasting/Sales
•    Dates: Summers 2009-2010
•    Duties: Served as the main play-by-play broadcaster for the complete 96 game season. Along with broadcasting every game,
     duties also included making daily game notes, collecting statistics for media, doing pre-game interviews and writing post game
     stories. In addition, I also did sales, selling group tickets and advertising for the team.

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

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

Spring Arbor University Radio
•    Job Title: Sports Director (2006-2007)/Play-By-Play Announcer, Sports Reporter
•    Dates: 2004-2007
•    Duties: Served as Sports Director which included covering various collegiate athletics with responsibilities for
     creating weekly talk show "Cougar Talk".

Skills

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)

Education

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

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