Mitchell Widmeier

Experience
Sports Director

• Host and produce a solo daily sports talk show with a focus on Minnesota professional sports teams, college teams and local high school teams.
• Provide play-by-play for prep football, basketball, baseball, softball, hockey and soccer games.
• Write stories for our website while covering the Twins, Timberwolves, Wild and Golden Gophers
• Complete the editing of daily logs and scheduling of automated sports broadcasts.
• Host a weekly coaches show and talk with prep coaches from the area
• Anchor our daily sports updates

Play-by-Play Announcer

• Called games on the radio for Bettendorf High School, Pleasant Valley, North Scott and many other prep teams as the lead announcer for football and basketball games.

Play-by-Play Announcer / Sports talk Host

• Called St. Ambrose University basketball, football and baseball games on KALA 88.5 and 106.1 FM as well as television games on SAUTV and Mediacom. Also hosted a sports talk show three days a week on the 106.1 FM dial revolving around local college and professional teams.

Education

St. Ambrose University (Davenport, IA) August 2011 – May 2015
Graduated cum laude with a Bachelor’s Degree in Radio/Television Production and a minor in Organizational Leadership.

Other

• Current host of “Outside The Tundra: The Packers Podcast” on iTunes
• Hosted a weekly coaches show on Mediacom Cable during the football and basketball season
• Did the play-by-play for the 2014 Iowa Class 4a state basketball tournament which included the state championship in Des Moines

Awards

• 2015 Eric Sevareid Award Winner (Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association)
  First Place Best Sports Talk Program (small market, Midwest)
  First Place Best Play-by-Play (small market, Midwest)

References

Dallon Christensen – QCSportsNet Producer and Announcer

David Baker – KALA Radio 88.5/106.1 FM Operations Manager