TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Jeff Culhane has been employed as Director of Broadcasting for LEARFIELD’s Seminole Sports Properties and can function the voice for Florida State soccer and males’s basketball.
Culhane brings 20 years of multimedia expertise to the Seminoles, together with roles constructing radio affiliate networks along with broadcasting duties for Nebraska, West Virginia and North Dakota State. He has intensive expertise rising radio networks by way of including new associates and producing authentic content material, together with day by day reveals, weekly options and podcasts that spotlight student-athletes and coaches in every program.
“Jeff Culhane is an thrilling rent for our division and followers,” FSU Vice President and Director of Athletics Michael Alford mentioned. “He is a gifted, skilled play-by-play voice who has known as many postseason video games throughout a number of sports activities whereas additionally creating content material for the packages he has labored with and their affiliate radio networks. This place attracted nationwide curiosity, and Jeff’s distinctive talents continued to rise to the highest. I stay up for how Jeff will assist inform the tales of our student-athletes, coaches and division by way of this expanded position.”
For the previous six years, Culhane has been the voice of North Dakota State soccer, males’s basketball and baseball. In his position at NDSU, Culhane was the play-by-play announcer for 4 FCS National Championship Games, two males’s basketball NCAA Tournament appearances and one NCAA Baseball Regional look. He additionally coordinated affiliate relations for the Bison Radio Network whereas creating a sports activities radio station in Fargo and internet hosting a day by day present on the community.
“It is actually an honor to be named play-by-play voice for the Florida State Seminoles,” Culhane mentioned. “To comply with within the footsteps of a legend like Gene Deckerhoff is a chance and a problem I’ll look to reside as much as each single day. My household and I can’t wait to get to Tallahassee and immerse ourselves in all of the traditions of Florida State. Go Noles!”
Culhane dealt with play-by-play duties for West Virginia ladies’s basketball and baseball from 2013-16 whereas additionally internet hosting the Mountaineer Tailgate Show and fifth Quarter Show for soccer in addition to the Mountaineer Insider Podcast, a weekly characteristic for WVU’s official athletics web site. At Nebraska from 2007-13, he produced and served because the studio host for soccer, males’s basketball and baseball broadcasts. In addition, he hosted Sports Nightly and The Nebraska High School Scoreboard Show.
“We’re excited to welcome Jeff into the passionate Nole Family,” mentioned Caleb Swann, common supervisor of Seminole Sports Properties, FSU Athletics’ multimedia rightsholder. “His intensive data associated to school radio networks coupled along with his expertise within the Big Ten, Big 12 and calling a number of Bison soccer championships, can be a helpful asset to Florida State.”
Prior to his time at Nebraska, Culhane was the play-by-play voice for South Dakota ladies’s basketball and held a number of broadcasting roles all through the state from 2001-2007.
Culhane will start his new position July 1 and can name his first FSU contest Aug. 27 in soccer’s season opener in opposition to Duquesne.
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