Mic’d Coach | Live-Game Immersion
During a live basketball game, I mic’d the coach with my audio equipment and built the edit around authentic, real-time coaching communication.
I build athletics communications systems that connect storytelling, game-day production, student creators and operational workflows.
Case study
The CFCA Athletics Communications System
Across two school years at Central Florida Christian Academy, I contributed to and later led athletics-media and game-day workflows spanning boys basketball, football, girls basketball, volleyball and school events.
Central Florida Christian Academy · Ocoee, FL
- 2024–2025
- Athletics Media Contributor
- 2025–2026
- Media Production Teacher
- 2025–2026
- Athletics Media & Game-Day Production Lead
Operating pillars
Editorial & Publishing
Account voice, photography, graphics, captions, recaps and final scores.Game-Day Production
Live capture under game conditions.Athletics Operations
The platforms and data behind the published work.Student Creator Leadership
Students carrying real athletics-media assignments.
Athletics Editorial Storytelling
Different formats serving different moments: results, postseason anticipation and athlete recognition.
Region semifinal result
Final score 69–58 with the next round carried in the same asset, for the 2026 Class 1A postseason.
Postseason preview
Designed treatment of an external Class 1A semifinals preview. The third-party editorial source is credited on the asset.
Player recognition
Published for @CFCAFOOTBALL, pairing action photography with month statistics and an athlete quote.
Retrospective portfolio concept
Alexander Dipaolo | Next-Chapter Editorial Concept
Built from my CFCA source photography to illustrate a next-chapter Army West Point treatment.
Created after the fact for portfolio demonstration, not presented as the original published CFCA announcement.
Social-First Video & Athlete Voice
Two vertical pieces: one built on live coaching audio, one on athlete personality.
Who Gets the Hangriest? | Player Engagement
I created a player-driven football concept around one prompt, using a candy-bar microphone prop to draw out teammate nominations, reactions and personality.
Athletics Operations
Content starts with accurate information.
Behind the visible communications work I supported the operational systems it depends on.
- MaxPreps
Roster and statistics workflow support
- GoFan
Ticketing support
- Livestream
Game-day operation
- Schedule data
Source for publishing calendars
My role supported the broader process rather than sole account administration.
Cross-sport application
CFCA Girls Volleyball | On-Campus Game-Day Promotion
The same system carried into another sport and another channel: opening-night creative developed for CFCA’s hallway display monitors, extending athletics promotion beyond social publishing and into the school environment.
The hallway display integrates the team handle and QR code with the game information.
- 01 Source
Official schedule dataset
16 matches with date, home/away, opponent, time, city and a special-event flag. Source CSV - 02 Plan
Communication calendar
The same 16 matches rebuilt as a planning layout, with home, away and Senior Night as distinct visual states. - 03 Display
Hallway display creative
The opening-night asset above, built at 1920×1080 for the campus monitors.
View schedule source data
| Date | H/A | Opponent | Time | City |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8/20 | HOME | Mater Brighton | 6:00 PM | Kissimmee |
| 8/24 | AWAY | Wildwood | 6:30 PM | Wildwood |
| 8/25 | AWAY | City of Life | 6:00 PM | Kissimmee |
| 8/31 | HOME | Pineapple Cove | 7:00 PM | W. Melbourne |
| 9/01 | AWAY | Faith Christian | 6:00 PM | Orlando |
| 9/08 | HOME | Circle Christian | 6:30 PM | Winter Park |
| 9/10 | HOME | Orlando Science | 5:00 PM | Orlando |
| 9/14 | AWAY | Oasis Christian | 6:00 PM | Winter Haven |
| 9/15 | AWAY | Circle Christian | 6:30 PM | Winter Park |
| 9/21 | AWAY | Legacy Charter | 6:00 PM | Orlando |
| 9/22 | HOME | Mater Brighton | 6:00 PM | Kissimmee |
| 9/24 | HOME | Wildwood | 6:30 PM | Wildwood |
| 9/28 | HOME | City of Life | 6:00 PM | Kissimmee |
| 10/05 | HOME | Orlando Science | 5:00 PM | Orlando |
| 10/06 | AWAY | Pineapple Cove | 6:30 PM | W. Melbourne |
| 10/08 | HOME | Oasis Christian | 6:00 PM | Winter Haven |
Game-Day & Live Production
Sony body with on-camera monitor and shotgun microphone, worked handheld at courtside and on sticks in larger venues.
Courtside, live
Handheld at the baseline during play.
Working the angle
Low camera position under live game conditions.
Larger-venue setup
Pre-event setup on a fluid-head tripod under an issued media credential.
Student Creator Leadership
I trained and supervised student media crews, assigned roles and reviewed work inside authentic postgame and live-event environments.
Live experience
Postgame interview experience
A structured postgame interview environment gave student volunteers the opportunity to ask questions and participate directly in athletics coverage.
After-school athletics-media experience with students who volunteered to participate. This work preceded my later Media Production Teacher role at CFCA.
Structured postgame interview environment
Student volunteers observed and took part in a live interview setting, extending coverage into hands-on media learning.
Student interview participation
A student asked the questions on the court, inside a real game-day environment.
Postgame interview setup
Camera, audio, display and staging configured for a structured athletics interview.
Published output
Postgame interview production
A student conducted a postgame interview with the head coach.
Teach, learn, perform. The student learned the interview workflow first, then carried the live postgame assignment.
The exchange was transcribed, designed and published as a six-card sequence, with the student credited on every card.
View full published interview sequence
Live-event proof
Live-event assignment
Students were positioned with equipment for live athletics coverage. The work required preparation, role definition and supervision before the first frame was captured.
- 01
Prepare
Train the role and establish the assignment before game day. - 02
Assign
Give the student a real deliverable with defined responsibility. - 03
Execute
Work inside authentic postgame and live-event environments. - 04
Publish
Turn the assignment into usable athletics content with student credit.
High-performance context
Trusted in environments where the stakes were real.
Selected teams and programs I supported through athletics communications, media, production or related work reached regional championships, State Final Fours, an undefeated regular season and a conference championship.
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CFCA · Girls basketball
2025
Regional champion
FHSAA Class 1A, Region 2 · 21–9 final record Competitive context
State Final Four -
CFCA · Boys basketball
2026
Regional champion
FHSAA Class 1A, Region 2 · 2025 regional finalist Competitive context
State Final Four -
CFCA · Football
2025
9–0 regular season
SSAA 11-man Competitive context -
Noble Street · Baseball · IL
2026
Conference champion
9–0 in conference play Competitive context
Team achievements are shown as competitive context for environments in which I worked. Athletic outcomes belong to the teams, coaches and student-athletes and are not attributed to my communications or production work.
Performance & scale
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Windermere boys basketball · 2026
One documented coach-announcement communications output, produced through Built Not Given Youth Initiative: 35,629 views and 13,005 accounts reached in the recorded insights snapshot. Communications performance · one output35.6Kviews13Kaccounts reached
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NASA FMA Live · 2014–2017
National student-centered STEM production supported as Lead Stage Assistant / Assistant Engineer through audio, lighting, video, staging, playback, troubleshooting, rehearsals and live-show execution. Program-level reach by 2017480,000students1,200+schools48contiguous states
Background
Production Background
Built in an NBA arena, on a national tour and in professional post-production.
- 2013–2017
Orlando Magic | NBA arena production
Camera support, robotic-camera support, interview setups, A/V preparation, equipment setup, strike/reset and production-intercom communication. - 2014–2017
NASA FMA Live | National Student STEM Tour
Lead Stage Assistant / Assistant Engineer on a nationwide, school-based STEM tour supporting audio, lighting, video, staging, playback, troubleshooting, rehearsals and live shows. FMA Live served varied public, private and military-connected middle-school communities; by 2017, the overall program had reached 480,000 students at 1,200+ schools across all 48 contiguous states. The student-centered experience became an early bridge to later work teaching and supervising student creators. - 2018–present
Post-production & workflow
Localization engineering, sound editing, technical QC, cross-department quality accountability, final-deliverable approval and client delivery. - 2002–2014
Youth development
Behavior intervention, life-skills facilitation, documentation and parent/school communication built before the athletics-media work.
Independent nonprofit leadership
Built Not Given Youth Initiative
Founder & President/CEO since 2026. BNG has documented post-formation service to 56 student-athletes across 3 schools and 4 sports programs and maintains parent-consent and publication controls for youth media.