2012 Women's Basketball Highlight reel produced by JDM

It is with special pride and thanks to Head AU Women's Basketball Coach, Sue Ramsey and her 2012 D2 National Runner-up women's basketball team that JDM proudly shares these video highlights from this year's historic season. A season for the ages that began with a loss to Minnesota State Mankato in their very first game, a string of 33 straight victories including a GLIAC tournament win, a Regional tournament win and a National Championship run.

During this history making season, JDM produced a regular season game for Sports Time Ohio in January and the Regional Final game hosted in Kates Gymnasium that aired on our newly launched Armstrong TV channel, AU-TV20. In addition to producing those multi-camera games, JDM student Dan Shade shot highlights at all of the regular season and playoff home games and made the trip to San Antonio to shoot highlights at the Elite Eight, Final Four and National Championship games.

For our newly launched media department, these were unexpected, unique and extremely valuable learning environments for our media students and for that we're especially grateful to Coach Ramsey and her team. It was indeed a run for the history books and we're proud to have been a small part of it.

Roll the highlights!

AU hoops on STO

Ashland University's men's and women's basketball games versus Saginaw Valley State — games that the Eagles swept — will air on Sports Time Ohio today. The men's game airs at noon, and the women follow at 2 p.m.

Journalism and Digital Media students handled most of the work during the game, running cameras and working in the truck with director John Skrada, our esteemed operations manager. AU radio/tv alumni Ken Dworznik and Ted Klopp called the games.

The Eagle women have now won 15 games in a row and are 9-0 in GLIAC play (15-1 overall), while the men have won six in a row and are tied for the sixth best conference record at 5-4 (10-6 overall).

2011 AU Football Preview Show...Preview!!

JDM just completed post-production on the 2011 AU Football Preview Show. Hosted by AU alum Matt Brubaker and featuring an AU football cast of thousands, the episode will air on STO Wednesday, August 24th in primetime at 8pm.

For those who can't wait, here's a preview of the opening and first segment. Go Eagles!

Rebroadcast Times announced for AU TV Games on STO!

Game on! Thursday's AU Men's & Women's hoops games being produced by JDM students on STO will rebroadcast at the following times:

Men's Game:
Feb. 11th: 1am, 7am, 6pm

Women's Game:
Feb. 11th: 4pm
Feb. 12th: 12:30am

Catch the latest AU News & Sports Highlights!

Eagle News Update Headlines:

New building purchased.
Careerfest.
Art Exhibit.



Eagle Sports Update Highlights:

Eagles beat Wayne St.
Wrestling News.

JDM Produces Ashland Hoops for STO!

JDM students have once again partnered with Sports Time Ohio to produce Ashland Men's and Women's basketball shows.

Two games were produced Jan. 27th against Wayne St., and two more are planned Feb. 10th against GVSU!

Photos by Brian Wells, The Collegian

Directed by AU Alum, and Director of Baseball Operations for the Cleveland Indians, Pat Murray (Class of '74, R/TV & Theatre), this year's broadcasts were fronted by Senior Sport Communication major, Matt Brubaker and another R/TV alum, Ken Dworznik.

Nine other JDM students manned the technical positions alongside Brubaker and Dworznik to produce the two broadcasts.

For Freshman Grayson Murray, a broadcast communication major who ran a camera for the show, what all goes in to a sports broadcast is impressive, "I was very surprised with how much work it takes to put together a successful broadcast.  The opportunity showed me how good the AU Broadcast Communication program is and how much knowledge the staff has of television."

For Junior Tim Hawk, the taped-delay format of the STO broadcast experience meant he could watch his work. "It's definitely something that I'm looking forward to doing again!  One of the greatest parts about working an STO basketball game is a few hours after the game you could sit down, watch the game, and say "Hey, that's my shot! I did something that's on TV!"


"This is an extremely valuable and authentic 'application step' in the learning process for our students," said Interim JDM department chair, Tim McCarty, "It's this kind of  'real world' experience that makes Ashland's JDM a unique program at the small college level."

Look for the schedule of  rebroadcast times for the Feb. 10th games right here on A Blog Converged.