{"id":4126,"date":"2020-04-03T16:03:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T20:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/?p=4126"},"modified":"2020-04-03T16:03:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T20:03:06","slug":"sophomore-leaps-ahead-of-the-curve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/?p=4126","title":{"rendered":"Sophomore Leaps Ahead of the Curve"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This article originally appeared in The Fordham Ram in November 2018.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jackson Heil, FCRH \u201921, came to the university to get involved with broadcasting and, more specifically, the school\u2019s radio station, WFUV. He has accomplished that mission in 14 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen I came to check out Fordham, I really enjoyed the campus and I loved the radio station, which was the biggest attraction for me, along with meeting the great Bob Ahrens,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ahrens is the longtime former sports director and current executive producer of the station\u2019s sports department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sophomore from Long Island is well ahead of things at WFUV. In just his second year, he is one of the station\u2019s most active broadcasters. He has called softball, baseball and women\u2019s and men\u2019s soccer games for the station; he will also add football and women\u2019s basketball to his portfolio in the next couple of weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is not just an on-air talent for WFUV, either; he has served as both an on-site and in-studio producer for multiple games and other broadcasts, including New York\u2019s longest-running sports call-in show, \u201cOne on One,\u201d on Saturday afternoons. But, in addition to all this, the man is still, somehow, doing much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heil has always been a die-hard New York Rangers fan and his interest in the team led him to write for several websites in high school.
He eventually got in contact with the New York Rangers Public Relations department. After a tour of the team\u2019s offices in the summer of 2017, he told the team\u2019s staff that he would love to apply for an internship with the organization if one became available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right before the season started, Heil walked into way more than he expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey said they didn\u2019t have anything open at the time, but then a few months later, they reached out right before the season started and told me they had an opening on their game night staff,\u201d he said. \u201cI was stoked, and I\u2019ve been there ever since.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said the biggest challenge in this job was to putting his life-long fandom aside as he believes the opportunity to learn what it means to be a professional was invaluable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of his favorite parts of the experience has been his interaction with some of the NHL\u2019s best broadcasters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBeing able to see the ins-and-outs of how professional broadcasts work and interacting with guys who I look up to, such as (Rangers broadcaster) Sam Rosen, Doc Emrick and (Vegas Golden Knights TV voice and Fordham graduate) Dan D\u2019Uva, has been really enlightening.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heil is also extremely involved in the Fordham chapter of the Society of Baseball Research\u2014SABR, for short \u2014 and it does exactly what it sounds like it does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His interest in advanced baseball analytics started in his senior year of high school (according to him, out of \u201csheer boredom\u201d), and once he found out Fordham had a SABR club he could not resist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI decided to just go explore Fangraphs to see what some of this stuff is all about,\u201d he said. \u201cI began reading up on the likes of wRC+, WAR, FIP, etc. and it was like a light bulb turned on in my head.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After getting \u201chooked\u201d on SABR and going to college, he\u2019s participated in Diamond Dollars, a competition in which different schools try to solve a statistical, baseball-orientated case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But for as much fun as he\u2019s had with baseball statistics and the Rangers, he still came to Fordham for one reason and one reason only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI came to this school because of the history of WFUV and the incredible broadcasters the station has produced, such as Vin Scully, Mike Breen, Michael Kay and countless others,\u201d he said. \u201cI hope my time here can aid me in getting to that level some day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sophomore with a dream has been operating well ahead of most of his peers and we will see where his time at WFUV takes him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This article originally appeared in The Fordham Ram in November 2018. Jackson Heil, FCRH \u201921, came to the university to get involved with broadcasting and, more specifically, the school\u2019s radio station, WFUV. He has accomplished that mission in 14 months. \u201cWhen I came to check out Fordham, I really enjoyed the campus and I loved … <\/p>\n

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