One of the biggest benefits to going to a division II school, is the opportunities available. Now they might not be opportunities offered, but they are opportunities that you create for yourself. I see a lot of students here at my school wait around for opportunities to present to themselves instead of going out and making opportunities themselves.

For IUP Football, me and one other student have come together to revamp everything. By teaching ourselves how to use after effects, we have begun making smooth moving graphics to revamp the entire football broadcast here at IUP. It’s nothing anybody told us to do, it’s something we wanted to do. We have dedicated our entire summer to making graphics that will help make our broadcasts here at IUP look more professional.

I think a lot of the time how great it would be to have more students as passionate as we are to make a change in our broadcast. It’s hard when you only work with one maybe two other people to put together graphics, video packages, and commercial transitions. It’s not easy, but it has greatly enhanced my understanding of how a broadcast is run. These days its hard for myself to even watch a game without criticizing it or gathering ideas from it to help us here at IUP.

There are so many schools that could completely revamp their broadcast if they just started putting time into it. All it takes is a driving passion to want to work in this industry, and anything can be possible. So don’t wait for opportunities to just show up. Search for them and then do everything you can to gain experience for yourself. I can’t wait for the day to show people the enhancement of our broadcasts here at IUP based on the effort I put into it. Someday, you could do the same as well at your university.

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