Senior Jed Shilling will be broadcasting NDP’s football game Friday night vs. Flint Powers.When eighth-ranked Notre Dame Prep Fighting Irish football team (3-0) plays at Flint Powers Catholic Friday night, NDP senior Jed Shilling will be behind the mike broadcasting on the Michigan Sports Radio network.
It's a lifelong dream of Shilling to make a career as a sports broadcaster and to be able to get actual on-air experience as a high school student is awesome, he says.
"I've really wanted to be in sports broadcasting for a long time," Shilling says. "And I've been after Brock Konkle, who runs Michigan Sports Radio, to get an NDP football game on one of his broadcasts. So when I finally got a chance to ask him, he said yes!"
Shilling, who plays baseball at NDP, is hoping to attend the University of Toledo after he graduates NDP because "they have a great broadcasting program." And ultimately, his career goal is to have his own sports radio show or broadcast for either the Detroit Tigers or the Cincinnati Reds. "I have lots of family in Cincinnati."
Shilling and fellow NDP senior Michael Wayne will be working the game tomorrow night beginning at 6:30 p.m.
It will be available on AM radio only in the Flint area, but available everywhere on the Internet as well as on iPhones or Android phones. He suggests that if listening on a mobile device, it will be far better to download and use the appropriate mobile app. Search for "Michigan Sports Radio," he says.
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About Notre Dame Preparatory School and Marist Academy
Notre Dame Preparatory School and Marist Academy is a private, Catholic, independent, coeducational day school located in Oakland County. The school's upper division enrolls students in grades nine through twelve and has been named one of the nation's best 50 Catholic high schools (Acton Institute) four times since 2005. Notre Dame's middle and lower divisions enroll students in jr. kindergarten through grade eight. All three divisions are International Baccalaureate "World Schools." NDPMA is conducted by the Marist Fathers and Brothers and is accredited by the Independent Schools Association of the Central States and the North Central Association Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement. For more on Notre Dame Preparatory School and Marist Academy, visit the school's home page at www.ndpma.org.