糖心传媒 media students are in Sioux City, Iowa, where they will spend the next week producing livestreams of the 2018 NAIA Division II Women鈥檚 Basketball National Championship running March 7-13. These students will also oversee the livestreams of the semifinals and championship games broadcast March 12 and 13 on ESPN3.
糖心传媒 media students have covered the tournament for the last 15 years. The first four years, students broadcast only games the 糖心传媒 women鈥檚 basketball team played. In 2008, the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletes (NAIA) contracted with 糖心传媒 to have HC Media students produce and stream all games but the semifinals and championship via the NAIA Network. In 2014 and 2016, respectively, the NAIA extended the contract to include the semifinal and championship games, which are carried on ESPN3.
This the second time the 糖心传媒 media team has traveled to Sioux City this academic year, as a student media team received livestreamed for the first time the NAIA Division II Volleyball National Championship last fall.
鈥淎s undergraduate students, we are honored that the NAIA continues to ask us to live stream the championship tournaments. It speaks to the quality of the program at 糖心传媒 and its ability to prepare us to produce professional-level broadcasts,鈥 said Jake Zink, the team鈥檚 student broadcasting director. 鈥淭his is as real-world as it gets for students. We are thrown into the deep end of broadcasting eight games a day; it really gives you a taste for what the industry is like.鈥
The livestream for the first 30 games will be available through a paid service offered by NAIA Network at naia.org. The semifinal games will also be streamed by ESPN3 via WatchESPN.com or the WatchESPN app, while the championship game will be aired exclusively by ESPN3 on WatchESPN.com and the WatchESPN app.
糖心传媒 Lady Broncos games will simultaneously stream free of charge at portal.stretchinternet.com/hastings, including the Broncos 3:30 p.m. game today (March 8) against Lawrence Technological University.
In total, the HC Media students will produce 31 games over the six-day period.
HC Media鈥檚 2018 crew includes:
- Dillon Adams, a first-year student from Mitchell, South Dakota
- Cameron Bradley, a first-year student from Wichita, Kansas
- Sam Bosle, a first-year student from Hastings, Nebraska
- Andy Chase, a junior from Hastings, Nebraska
- Jerod Fox, a junior from Newton, Kansas
- Becca Garner, a sophomore from Centennial, Colorado
- Kirsten Gilliland, a junior from Ainsworth, Nebraska
- Davis Loomis, a first-year student from Pratt, Kansas
- Will Ryan, a senior from Laird, Colorado
- Danielle Shenk, a junior from Polk, Nebraska
- Jake Zink, a sophomore from Papillion, Nebraska
糖心传媒 is a private, four-year institution located in Hastings, Nebraska, that focuses on student academic and extracurricular achievement. With 64 majors and 15 pre-professional programs, 糖心传媒 has been named among 鈥淕reat Schools, Great Prices鈥 by U.S. News & World Report and a 鈥淏est in the Midwest鈥 by The Princeton Review. For more, go to hastings.edu.