Sports Broadcasting Club Reaching New Heights

By: Paige Fitzpatrick

Beginning as a one-man job on the College’s radio station just a few years ago, Stonehill’s sports broadcasting club is being taken to the next level.

Noah Powell ’20 said that his journey in sports broadcasting began his sophomore year when he worked as a commentator for a few Stonehill basketball games.

“At that point that was all we had and the program itself was very sporadic,” Powell said. “Collectively, there were probably only three games worked, and that was the only sport covered.”

After Powell completed a sports broadcasting internship during the spring semester of his junior year, he wanted to take Stonehill’s sports broadcasting program to new heights.

Powell built a small team with Desmond Bernal ’21, Joe Spadorcia ’23, and Chris Cassidy ’23 to grow the club and expand broadcasting to cover home football games.

“We had a solid rotation of broadcast teams and collectively built on our previous week each week. For example, halftime interviews, intro and outro music, and just a more professional and better broadcast,” Powell said.

Just as Powell got the ball rolling to continue their work and cover more athletics during his last semester, his sports broadcasting journey at Stonehill came to an abrupt end when the pandemic hit, and all sports games were forced to take a hiatus.

Since the NE10 has come back in full swing after being on pause due to the pandemic, the sports broadcasting club has kept busy.

Juniors Luke Fumiatti and Joe Spadorcia serve as co-presidents for Stonehill’s sports broadcasting club, and Chris Cassidy serves as the head journalist and podcaster. While the three began their sports broadcasting journey at Stonehill during their freshman year, the club was halted by the pandemic and is finally beginning to pick up steam now more than ever.

Now, with sports teams’ schedules back to normal, the club covers nearly any Skyhawk sports events they can attend.

“Football and basketball are a priority because they are so popular, but there are no exceptions to what we cover, it just depends on everyone’s schedule,” Fumiatti said.

Bernal, a Stonehill alum and original member of Powell’s first small broadcasting team, is impressed with the work that has recently been done by the club.

“It is amazing to see the work being put in to expand the sports broadcasting at the school,” Bernal said. “The creativity and passion they show with this program is amazing and I am excited to see the many things they will continue to accomplish in the future.”

The team has been covering more sports on campus and plans to continue into the winter and spring seasons. They also feature some new segments like “Chris at the Tailgate” as well as write and shoot feature stories on athletes of the Stonehill community.

“Being able to learn from Noah and Des really boosted my confidence in this field and I thank them so much for it,” Cassidy said.

Fumiatti said he hopes that in the future the club will be able to cover every single sport on campus and he dreams that it will grow into more of a media company than a club, noting that there is a spot for everyone, and he is always looking for more people to join.

If you are interested in keeping up with the Sports Broadcasting club, follow them on Instagram, @hillflyover and on Twitter, @HillFlyover.