Mariah Alipate, of the Women’s Basketball team, provides color commentary during the Men’s Basketball game. Photo courtesy of Elaina Mihalik
In addition to two key Huskies basketball games being played, St. Cloud State mass communication majors Paige Jaeger and Maya Brown coordinated the first all-female broadcast team for any Huskies sporting event in UTVS history.
“I’ve been employed in TV production since I was 15 years old,” Jaeger said regarding her motivation for forming the crew. “I’ve either been the only or one of a few women on a crew, and I wanted to show female representation in a male dominated field.”
Twenty-six women worked together to present UTVS’s first all-female broadcast.
Photo courtesy of Greg Spaeth
Jaeger and Brown had two weeks to organize the squad.
“It was the biggest team collaborative effort I’ve ever been a part of,” Jaeger recounted. “It was extra cool to know you were doing it with women in sports who may not have had that exact opportunity in the past.”
UTVS is a student-run media group on campus. Their goal is to generate high quality educational, informational and entertaining programing. Jaeger and Brown’s crew did just that, as they produced and broadcast both the Huskies men’s and women’s NSIC basketball games.
The crew included 26 women ranging from first years at the university to seniors. Jaeger and Brown hope UTVS will continue the tradition and put together all-female production crews.
“To be able to say we did this, with the crew that we had and the time we had, it’s certainly something I’ll never forget,” Brown said.
“The world is changing,” echoed Jaeger. “There are more women in sports than there’s ever been, and there is this awesome, unspoken female empowerment growing in sports. It’s a family, and all women should be able to do what they love.”
See the full story by Kelsey Whaley originally published at SCSUHuskies.com.
