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For this episode, we have 3 guests, all of whom are big sports fans. They also are all Sophomores at Marist College. First off, Jack Devin and Max Racicot are both members of the club baseball team. Dylan Supino however is part of the event staff for Marist sporting events. Jack and Max are both from Connecticut however Max is from Woodstock and Jack is from Brookfield. On the other hand, Dylan is...

Brian Ramos is from Ramsey, NJ. Brian is a business minor with a major in Communication with a concentration in sports communication. Brian has been part of the Marist circle for a semester earlier on in his college experience. Brian started being part of MCTV this year. Brian has been with Marist stat which started last year and has been with it for all 2 years. Brian was also a student team mana...

Andrew Hard is from Putnam Valley, NY. Andrew is a communication major with a double concentration in sports communication and Journalism as well as a Business minor. Andrew is the managing editor of the center field, and co-host of The Relay Throw podcast. Andrew is also a production crew member of the Red Fox Report (Marist halftime show) and a senior officer of the peers influence peers partner...

Ricardo Martinez-Paz is from Princeton, NJ. Ricardo is currently a senior studying sports communication. Ricardo goes to Marist college where he is the deputy editor-in-chief of Center Field. Ricardo is a multimedia student assistant at the RedFox Network/ESPN3/ESPN+ where he started in December of 2021 after being an intern from October 2021-December 2021. Ricardo was also an intern at Hudson Val...

Paige Messier is from East Providence, RI, Paige is currently in her Junior Year however, Paige is graduating this spring. Paige goes to the University of Rhode Island Studying Sports Media and communication. Paige has been an intern with WPRI-12, and WJAR-10. Paige is also an intern for URI athletics and the A-10. Paige was part of the five-cent cigar the first two years of college.

Zach Letson is going to be graduating from Syracuse this coming semester in the class of 2023. Zach is currently part of the Newhouse School where he is studying broadcast digital journalism. Zach is originally from Miami, FL. Zach has been part of doing games for ACC Network as part of the opportunities at Syracuse. Zach mainly has been with Citrus TV as well as the main student radio station WAE...

Hunter and Jamison Embury are both twin brothers from Yorktown, NY. They are both currently attending Marist college for their 5th year where they play lacrosse. Both of the Embury twins studied Business and finance and now are going for their MBA in financial management.

Matt Spirio is from Long Island, NY. Matt is currently a Senior at Marist College where he is currently studying Sports Communication and Journalism with a double minor in Mathematics and Data Analytics. Matt is the co-director of MCTV’s show Halftime on the Hudson as well as the director/producer for the RedFox report which is the Marist Halftime show. Matt was a game operations intern at FanDuel...

Jacob Irons is from Plainfield, CT. Jacob is currently a sophomore at the University of Notre Dame where he is studying film/TV/Theatre to become a sports broadcaster. As the play-by-play announcer, Jacob was the broadcaster for the Mystic Schooners this past summer. Jacob is currently the sports director of Notre Dame TV as well as the broadcaster for Notre Dame athletics which are aired on ESPN...

Braydon Downs is originally from Syracuse, NY. Braydon has been involved in North Road comm as an account representative. Braydon also was an anchor for his high school’s news. Braydon was also a social media manager for his high school’s lacrosse team. Braydon is part of the Rugby team at Marist and is part of the Marist class of 2025. Braydon is currently studying sports communication.

Robert DeFelice is originally from New Hampshire. Rob is part of the graduating class at Marist in 2023. Rob was a media intern for the Massachusetts Pirates from January 2021- May 2021. Rob has also been the football operations manager for all 4 years of school. Rob has been the host of Halftime on the Hudson for MCTV as well as now this year he is part of the RedFox report as a Sports Anchor. Ro...

Trevor Rohrbacher is from Clinton, CT. Trevor has been a huge Rams fan and has stood by them after moving to Los Angles awhile back. Trevor has been at Marist while continuing his education by attending the University of Connecticut. Trevor was part of the golf team in High School.

Molly White is from South Kingstown and graduated from La Salle in 2020. Molly now is at Penn state as part of the class of 2024. Molly interned with Ocean State Waves in the summer of 2022. Molly is an intern for the Penn State football team and is a part of the psucommradio.

Connor Kurpat graduated from Marist College last year in 2022. Connor now works at MLB Network as a Freelance broadcast Associate. Connor has been a contributor to FanSided since April 2021. Connor was part of centerfield which created the magazine. Connor also was the director of the sports shoot Halftime on the Hudson which is part of MCTV. Connor is originally from Lakewood, NJ

Christina Layden is currently on the Marist soccer team as part of the class of 2025. Christina is from Union, NJ where she played a Union Catholic high school. Christina was a Union county conference’s first team selection in 2019 and 2020. Christina also played with FC Copa Academy and earned a spoon in New Jersey’s Olympic Development program. In 2017 she made the ODP east regional team and was...

Jimmy Tsiantoulas is from Rockland, Massachusetts. Jimmy is currently studying sports communication and Journalism at Marist College as part of the class of 2025. Jimmy is a statistical analyst and public address announcer for Marist sports. Jimmy is also part of the center field and MCTV. Jimmy played football in high school as well as being part of the newspaper.

Dugan Lloyd goes to Penn State hoping to be in the sports business. This past summer Dugan was the play-by-play broadcaster for the North Shore Navigators. At school, Dugan is currently involved in the psusportsnight. Dugan also is part of the take cave podcast, the comm radio station. Dugan’s expected graduation is in 2023.

Zac Zyons went to school at South Kingstown High School. He mainly participated on the baseball team. Zac was the starting shortstop from his freshman year. Zac now is at Bryant University playing baseball. In Zac’s freshman year he did not play as was recovering from an injury. Zac is expected to graduate in 2025 at Bryant. Over the summer Zac played in the FCBL for the Norwich Sea Unicorns. In t...

Nick Vajtay is a current student at Marist College who is part of the class of 2023. Nick is in a lot of programs at Marist such as MCTV where he has mainly been on camera, been a writer for center field and is a treasurer for Maristat. Nick also has been a camera operator for the Redfox network and was a production intern with SportsGrid. Nick had been a radio show host on WIOX and has his own po...

Trey Young is from South Kingstown where I grew up. He was part of the basketball, baseball and football teams in high school. He went to Western New England for college where as a freshman he continued to play baseball and football but this year he only plays baseball. Trey graduated SKHS in 2021 and is expected to graduate Western New England in 2025.

Andre Cutler is from Mamaroneck, NY and went to Mamaroneck High School. Andre is currently part of the class of 2025 at Marist College where he is part of the defense. Andre was the captain of Met Oval MLS next academy U-19 team. He started 17/18 games he played as a Freshman at Marist. He started as a defensive center mid and center back for Met Oval which he played at Marist as well.

Zak went to New Paltz high school where he was in the National Honors Society and was on the Baseball team. He is going to be part of Marist College class of 2023 with being able to graduate in 3 years. He was part of his high schools Television station. He had an internship with Hudson Valley Sports Report in early 2021. He also is part of MCTV and has been a Center Field writer. Lastly he is wit...

Adam Bernstein is currently at the University of Rhode Island where he is studying Sports Media in the Harrington School. He has called some sports events for URI and has a podcast with Montaner Fresilli called the Rhody Rumble. Adam worked with MSG this summer for his internship. Adam is from Merrick, NY.

Miles Kauderer plays DE for Marist College. Miles is from NJ. Miles has made huge contributions to the Marist Football team over the last couple of seasons.

Jalen Terrell goes to school at Limestone in South Carolina as does my other quest Issac Crisp. Jalen plays Linebacker. Isaac plays DB.