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At the Mars vs. Valley football game in 2010, Mars student Alex Klukaszewski joined me in the telecast of the game.  Alex did an excellent job of color commentary and play-by-play as well.
Good luck to Alex.
At Valley games, Audio-Video Class students sometimes join me for play-by-play and/or color commentary. Valley High School junior Jeff Shutak (left) and senior Brian Hetrick are pictured.
A relaxing moment during a recent game.
I was priveleged to do the play-by-play of the first game ever at the new St. Joe's Gymnasium in Natrona Heights, Pa.  (12/16/08)
The addition to this well-respected Catholic School is currently a work-in-progress and will greatly benefit its students in other sports as well as basketball.
The construction of this $3.5 million facility was through public funding without cost to any taxpayer.  Previously, St. Joe's had to rent a nearby facility for its indoor functions.  
With this new facility, "Nomads No More".

(photo:  Jason Heffran)
Valley High School graduate Jeremy Smith, now a sophomore at St. Vincent College, joins me for color commentary at a recent St. Joe's boys game over the Christmas break.  Jeremy is a former Valley High School Audio/Video Club member.

Jeremy has worked behind the scenes in college radio & television, and was a natural for his assignment that evening.

Photo:  Jason Heffran
The first announcing volunteer from St. Joseph's High School was sophomore Nick Farrell.

Farrell aspires to get behind the mike some day to become a sports broadcaster.
Nick is shown here at a recent Lady Spartans game at the St. Joe's gym, supplying the game's color commentary.

Photo:  Dennis Woytek
Often times, grandson Justin Fleck volunteers to keep statistics for the telecasts produced for Comcast Cablevision.
Justin is an excellent math student and aspires to some day become a play-by-play sports announcer.
Camera person is Dr. Dennis Woytek, Assistant Professor Multimedia Technology at Duquesne University.

Photo:  Jason Heffran
It always helps to have a little class in the press box.

At a Valley High School boys basketball game in January 2011, Valley student Mary Bertocki volunteered to present statistics at half-time.

Just in case you were wondering, it's the same Mary Bertocki who was the school's place-kicker on the football team.

Photo:  Dante Cicconi