Spartan Web Radio

Spartan Web Radio (SWR) is an internet-based broadcasting venue for the TWU Spartans, the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) league team of Trinity Western University, located in Langley, British Columbia, Canada.

Founded in 2004, SWR broadcasts virtually all men's and women's basketball men's volleyball home games and selected road and playoffs games, providing its staff with significant on-air broadcast experience and its listeners with worldwide coverage of the Spartans.

Professional Interaction

*SWR personnel have been interviewed on the Spirit of Sport radio show on the former MOJO Radio AM 730 (now Continuous Drive Time Traffic AM 730) hosted by Jim Mullin and Howard Tsumura
*SWR personnel were invited as guest colour commentators and statisticians for a Live Event Broadcast on the former MOJO Radio AM 730
*The professional quality of SWR's broadcasts was noticed by CITR-FM, the University of British Columbia campus radio station, who asked to patch into SWR playoffs broadcasts, allowing SWR to be heard across the lower mainland on FM radio

Website

*SWR is recognized as the best university sports broadcasting website in North America. The SWR website features in-depth game and broadcast previews, broadcast archives, broadcaster biographies, up-to-date standings during the season, and a high level of listener interaction.

Organizational Structure

Spartan Web Radio is supervised by the TWU Sports Information Department, but all on-air and production personnel are students, most of whom are studying communications and are interested in pursuing sports broadcasting as a career. Spartan Web Radio is structured to enable a senior broadcast team to mentor a team of junior broadcasters.

2006/2007 Broadcast Team

TWU Spartan Women's Basketball broadcast team
*Jon Adams - Colour Commentator
*David Azuma - Play-by-play Host

TWU Spartan Women's Volleyball broadcast team
*David Azuma - Play-by-play Host
*Leigh Boyle - Colour Commentator
*Kelcey Brade - Fill-in Play-by-play Host

TWU Spartan Men's Basketball broadcast team
*Kelcey Brade - Play-by-play Host
*Jon Adams - Colour Commentator
*Tyler Coston - Colour Commentator
*Jay Duke - Colour Commentator

TWU Spartan Men's Volleyball broadcast team
*Jeff Kilpatrick - Play-by-play Host
*Jaben Schalk - Colour Commentator
*Kelcey Brade - Fill-in Play-by-play Host

Spartan Web Radio Production Team
*Jon Adams - Women's Volleyball
*David Azuma - Men's Basketball and Men's Volleyball
*Kelcey Brade - Women's Basketball and Men's Volleyball
*Simon Moore - Assistant Producer

2005/2006 Broadcast Team

TWU Spartan Women's broadcast team
*Jon Adams - Colour Commentator
*David Azuma - Play-by-play Host

TWU Spartan Men's broadcast team
*Kelcey Brade - Play-by-play Host
*Tyler Coston - Colour Commentator
*Logan Kitteringham - Colour Commentator

Spartan Web Radio Production Team
*Kelcey Brade - Women's Basketball
*Simon Moore - Women's, Men's Basketball; Volleyball

2004/2005 Broadcast Team

TWU Spartan Men's broadcast team
*Kelcey Brade - Play-by-play Host
*James Rowley - Colour Commentator
*Simon Moore - Producer

Guest Broadcasters

Guest broadcasters have included:
*The Province newspaper columnist and MOJO Radio AM 730 host Howard Tsumura
*TWU Sports Information Director Scott Stewart
*Experienced broadcaster Jeff Kilpatrick
*Former McMaster University volleyball athlete Kerry Maclean
*Former TWU basketball athlete Logan Kitteringham
*Former TWU and University of Alberta basketball athlete and current TWU Women's Basketball Team assistant coach Tyler Coston.

History

In 2004, the TWU Sports Information Department posted a notice for TWU Communication students who were interested in helping originate a broadcast venue for the TWU Spartans. That call was answered by TWU Communications student Kelcey Brade (TWU alumnus, 2006) and Biology student Simon Moore (TWU alumnus, 2005), who submitted a demo tape and were subsequently offered the position. The first broadcast was during the Red Robin Basketball Tournament on December 28, 2004, as the Trinity Western Spartans came up short in a 61-54 loss to the University of Laval Rouge et Or. That broadcast was followed by several Spartans regular season men's basketball teams for the remainder of the 2004-2005 season, including the first-ever Spartan Web Radio broadcast of a women's basketball game on February 11, 2005 against the University of Alberta Pandas.

The second year of Spartan Web Radio, in 2005-2006, saw Spartan Web Radio grow to unexpected heights. The founding members developed a sponsorship brochure and obtained corporate support of Spartan Web Radio, and hired a junior broadcast team to regularly broadcast women's basketball games. Spartan Web Radio branched out to its first road broadcast from Simon Fraser University on January 27, 2006, and subsequently its first playoffs broadcast from the University of Victoria on February 17, 2006.

Also during the 2005-2006 season, Spartan Web Radio forged relationships with CITR-FM, the University of British Columbia campus radio station, who carried the SWR feed during a number of playoffs broadcasts, and MOJO Radio AM 730, who featured Spartan Web Radio personnel as guest colour commentators and statisticians during a live event broadcast. As well, Spartan Web Radio broadcasted TWU's games from the 2006 Canadian Interuniversity Sport Volleyball Nationals from McMaster University.

External links

* [http://www.spartanwebradio.ca SpartanWebRadio.ca main web site]
* [http://www.gospartans.ca GoSpartans.ca TWU Spartans web site]
* [http://www.twu.ca Trinity Western University main web site]