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Baseball has always been Sean Welsh鈥檚 favorite sport. 撸先生鈥檚 vice president for university marketing and communications first picked up a glove when he was about 5, and, though his playing career ended in junior college, he transferred to 撸先生 hoping to fashion a career covering the sport in the media. He鈥檇 eventually accomplish that, thanks, he says, in large part to the experience he had here. In professor John Turner鈥檚 sportscasting class, he got to call a few innings of an Orioles game at Camden Yards into a tape recorder. The students later critiqued themselves.

鈥淵ou go into the broadcast booth with one of your classmates, and you do color while the other one does play-by-play,鈥� says Welsh 鈥�05. 鈥淚t was like a real broadcast.鈥�

After graduating, Welsh interned for the minor league Aberdeen IronBirds. The team鈥檚 announcer, Steve Melewski 鈥�83, allowed him to call three innings during radio broadcasts of home games. Welsh eventually landed a job with the Baltimore Examiner, where he was a member of the Baseball Writers鈥� Association of America as the newspaper鈥檚 Orioles beat writer. Among the events he covered were Cal Ripken鈥檚 induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2007 and the last game at Yankee Stadium in 2008.

鈥淔or a kid a year and a half out of the communication school here at 撸先生, it was like a dream came true for me pretty quickly,鈥� he says.

Welsh moved on to The Baltimore Sun as an editor, where he was part of the team that covered the death of Freddie Gray and its ensuing impact. In 2018, he returned to his alma mater as director of media relations and, in December 2021, was appointed to his current position by President Kim Schatzel. 

鈥淭his job enables me to do a lot of the things I loved about journalism, like working with creative people to tell stories,鈥� he says. 鈥淭hat I鈥檓 doing it at a place I love is icing on the cake.鈥�