The Voice of the WolfPack and CIS basketball this weekend
This weekend during the CIS basketball home openers at the Tournament Capital Centre (TCC) there will be an additional voice in the crowd. Heard loud and clear over a computer near you will be the first live play-by-play webcast of
WolfPack broadcaster Duaine Bowles.
For three years, Bowles, a former WolfPack baseball player, has been the "Voice of the WolfPack" and now that voice is moving to the internet. Recognizing that many of the student athletes at TRU are not from the Kamloops area, Bowles proposed the webcast project to allow family and friends from all over the world the chance to tune in and hear the games in action.
As the WolfPack announcer, Bowles' distinctive and rich voice has carried from one side of the building to the other. No longer on the main microphone and with a headset planted on his head, Bowles will be taking his signature drawn out Thompson Rivers University call online.
To tune in there will be a link made available to the webcast through the
www.tru.ca/athletics homepage.
"Listeners can expect to hear play-by-play mixed with analysis on my broadcasts," said Bowles who is busy writing out his pre-game and half-time scripts and double-checking the stats. He is looking forward to kicking off his broadcasts this Friday at 5:30 p.m.with a thirty minute pre-game show. Bowles will try and talk his way straight through until the end of the men's game.
The University of Alberta is in town this Friday (6:00 and 8:00 p.m.) and the University of Saskatchewan on Saturday (5:00 and 7:00 p.m.) and it is the action on the court from those games that Bowles will bring to life through the airwaves.
There are many webcasts now online from different universities in the CIS and the Thompson Rivers University WolfPack wants to make sure that a larger audience can tune into the sporting action at the TCC. Even the family and friends of visiting players will get the chance to hear the action through the webcasts.
Tune in this Friday at 5:30 p.m. to hear Bowles' first broadcast from the women's basketball home opener.
Proceeds from the women's game this Friday will be donated to the Canadian Breast Cancer Society as part of a larger CIS fundraiser with over 30 schools involved.
http://www.universitysport.ca/e/story_detail.cfm?id=9198 And today, men's basketball coach Nevin Gleddie added red shirt
Matt Perry to the roster. Perry is 6'5" and is from Smithers, B.C. He will wear #9.