Were you nervous about it at first? Or was it not too bad?
For the high schools, are they very large places or tiny? Just curious.
Heck yes, I was nervous my first time (at all levels). It started my sophmore year with the basketball teams. I just started with the starting lineups, then I eventually graduated to the full games.
My senior year of high school was awesome - the boys didn't lose a home game.
My high school is very small - I had a graduating class of 69 students.
Heck yes, I was nervous my first time (at all levels). It started my sophmore year with the basketball teams. I just started with the starting lineups, then I eventually graduated to the full games.
My senior year of high school was awesome - the boys didn't lose a home game.
My high school is very small - I had a graduating class of 69 students.
Spoil:
Giggity.
While this hardly counts, the closest I've been is I occasionally say through to PA System. "Please welcome back for the 2nd period, your MONCTON WILDCATS" and same thing for the 3rd.
I played a playoff soccer game against a school, and they had an announcer who would announce every time a team got a throw-in, free kick, corner kick, or goal kick. Annoying as hell...to anyone doing this, saying less is more
I do most of the public announcing and play-by-play for the football section of HFBoards, including the college and professional game threads. When you go there and look at the game threads you'll usually see me as the first person to post what goes on.
I'm a bit rusty with basketball play-by-play and hockey, I don't often do play by play for the forums on those sports. Just football and baseball.
Same here. I did a show with my college roommate for a year. It was a ton of fun.
We would drink during the entire show and others in our dorm would tell us that by the end of the show we were completely unintelligible. We had a small but loyal following.
Same here. I did a show with my college roommate for a year. It was a ton of fun.
We would drink during the entire show and others in our dorm would tell us that by the end of the show we were completely unintelligible. We had a small but loyal following.
Lucky, our station has a zero tolerance no-alcohol policy. Sounds like fun.
I'm sure my alma mater does now too. This was a long time ago and was a volunteer job. Funny enough, we still got fired somehow.
Yeah it's a hobby (volunteer) for me too, with the usual large amounts of red tape. Even at the college level I need to jump through hoops to get a show at a decent slot.
I work at a radio station and had a chance to do PA announcing for a SJHL hockey game over the weekend as a fill in. I declined as my buddy wanted to do it more, and has experience doing it. I do color commentary for the games, and i think i would be good at PA announcing, but doing it in a rink with a thousand ppl in it for my first time wouldve been too nerve racking.
I have a radio show for my college's radio station (though I'm alumni now). Is that close enough?
There was a radio station where I went to high school a few years back...just HOW far back would give away my true age... I did perhaps four hours doing about six different shows a day during my junior and senior years...including every character in a 15 minute daily soap opera titled As the Stomach Churns...and an advice to the lovelorn show that followed the soap opera... This was more along the lines of not enough people volunteering to do on-air work than anything else...and they wanted to keep the station on the air...
There were also ten home games for the varsity baseball team to be broadcasted...and I was suckered into those as well... I wished that someone else would have done those games...because I believe I stunk it up worse than our starting pitching that year...
The biggest surprise was that it wasn't shut down by something I might have said over the air... I KNOW that I insulted a lot of people on the air...especially the faculty...and thought that I crossed that line more than a dozen occasions...yet nobody else thought so... They closed down the station in 1998 due to budget cuts...
Yeah it's a hobby (volunteer) for me too, with the usual large amounts of red tape. Even at the college level I need to jump through hoops to get a show at a decent slot.
Enjoy it! I always wished I would've taken it a little more seriously and done more with it. It was a ton of fun.
