Seventeen University of Colorado at Boulder School of Journalism students will get a chance to apply classroom knowledge to the world of professional sports broadcasting on Saturday, April 2.
With permission from Altitude Sports Network, students from journalism instructor Chad Wachs' sports broadcasting class will broadcast and tape the 7 p.m. Colorado Mammoth versus Anaheim Storm National Lacrosse League contest at the Pepsi Center in Denver.
Students will use the CU-Boulder Athletic Department's Buff Vision production truck to produce the live event. Five cameras will be used in the production. In addition, four students from the school's sports announcing class will be on hand to report the action.
"This is a tremendous opportunity for the students to be exposed to this kind of professional sporting event," said Wachs. "I look forward to a longer term relationship with Altitude Sports in the future."
This is not the first time his class has taped live sporting events for broadcast. They regularly tape CU women's volleyball and men's and women's basketball at the Coors Events Center on campus to air on CU-Boulder cable access channel 63. But the April 2 Colorado Mammoth game is the first time they have produced a professional sporting event.
A date for airing the Colorado-Anaheim contest has not been set.