CSU alum becomes Voice of the Rockies
Reed Saunders' voice booms over Coors Field
Anica Wong
Issue date: 4/24/07 Section: News
It's still hard for Reed Saunders to believe. Of 261 applicants, the 2003 CSU graduate was picked to be the new "Voice of the Rockies."
"I was a giggly mess," Saunders said of the moment he learned he had been chosen.
But before he landed his new Colorado Rockies job with radio station KOA (850 AM), he scraped and clawed for work.
Saunders, 25, wanted to be a sports columnist and tried that out while working for The Collegian. He also interned with the athletics media relations at CSU.
"He was close to the department and got to know the coaches and staff of volleyball," said volleyball Head Coach Tom Hilbert.
Saunders was recruited to announce CSU softball games in the spring of 2000. And soon after, he announced CSU volleyball games.
"It was so much fun," Saunders said. "I thought 'maybe I can make something of it.'"
Saunders announced volleyball games for three years.
He graduated with a journalism degree in 2003 and began his "real life" out of college.
But real life still had announcing in it.
Soon after graduating, the Colorado Eagles hockey team employed Saunders to be its public address announcer, a job Saunders still holds.
"(The best part is) feeling like I'm a part of a team and a community, hearing the crowd get so loud after a goal and when I'm in the middle of my goal call," Saunders said. "It still gets me going."
When Saunders heard that Alan Roach, the voice of the Rockies for the 14 years that the team has been in existence, and a very big influence in Saunders' life, was going to be stepping down, a door seemed to open.
Saunders, along with 260 other applicants, decided to send in a demo CD. He was one of 20 called back to do a live audition.
The pressure and stakes were high the night Saunders had to audition in front of family, friends, fans and judges at the Sports Column in downtown Denver.
The first task facing Saunders was to tell the audience about himself in 30 seconds.
"I was a giggly mess," Saunders said of the moment he learned he had been chosen.
But before he landed his new Colorado Rockies job with radio station KOA (850 AM), he scraped and clawed for work.
Saunders, 25, wanted to be a sports columnist and tried that out while working for The Collegian. He also interned with the athletics media relations at CSU.
"He was close to the department and got to know the coaches and staff of volleyball," said volleyball Head Coach Tom Hilbert.
Saunders was recruited to announce CSU softball games in the spring of 2000. And soon after, he announced CSU volleyball games.
"It was so much fun," Saunders said. "I thought 'maybe I can make something of it.'"
Saunders announced volleyball games for three years.
He graduated with a journalism degree in 2003 and began his "real life" out of college.
But real life still had announcing in it.
Soon after graduating, the Colorado Eagles hockey team employed Saunders to be its public address announcer, a job Saunders still holds.
"(The best part is) feeling like I'm a part of a team and a community, hearing the crowd get so loud after a goal and when I'm in the middle of my goal call," Saunders said. "It still gets me going."
When Saunders heard that Alan Roach, the voice of the Rockies for the 14 years that the team has been in existence, and a very big influence in Saunders' life, was going to be stepping down, a door seemed to open.
Saunders, along with 260 other applicants, decided to send in a demo CD. He was one of 20 called back to do a live audition.
The pressure and stakes were high the night Saunders had to audition in front of family, friends, fans and judges at the Sports Column in downtown Denver.
The first task facing Saunders was to tell the audience about himself in 30 seconds.
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