245 sailing races over 4 days (not a typo).

When our coaches left my office a few months ago, pitching us this idea for the broadcast, we turned to each other and said 'Yeah, we're never going to be able to do that!'

Amazing work by the entire team getting this off the ground!

When your basketball control room is also your sailing control room (and your swimming & diving control room, and lacrosse control room, and volleyball control room, and ski control room, and cross country control room, etc.)

And we’re live with day 4 of ⛵️!

Labor of love doesn’t mean you shouldn’t get paid.

Labor of love doesn’t mean you shouldn’t get time off.

Labor of love doesn’t mean you shouldn’t know your worth.

Labor of love doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be treated with respect and kindness.

Not done yet.
Luckily today, we only have:

⚾️ game

🤽‍♀️ 🤽‍♀️ games

⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️ ⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️ races

That’s a wrap from ⛵️ day 2!

Such a big undertaking, but such a satisfying accomplishment.

Coming up - day 3! (…and day 4)

Harvard quad box!

Any day with drone(s) is a good day. 🚁 🚁

🍕 time!

………………..🚨 ON AIR 🚨……………………
Sailing ⛵️ Lacrosse 🥍
Water Polo 🤽‍♀️ Baseball ⚾️

This is it. The date we’ve had circled on our calendars for months!

⛵️ /⚾️/🥍/🤽‍♀️ live overlap, all out of our control rooms.

Maxing out our staffing, gear, bandwidth and 🍕 budget.

That’s a wrap from day 1 of Sailing National Championship broadcast.

Outstanding work by the crew! From director to graphics to cam ops to drones to commentators to sideline to creative videographer to photographer to writer to social media!

Now let’s to it again tomorrow!

✔️ Program monitor
✔️ Multiview monitor
✔️ ISO monitor
✔️ Telestrator
✔️ PTZ cam
✔️ Ring light
✔️ PxP Dante IFB station
✔️ Color Dante IFB station
✔️ Green screen
✔️ Live stats computers
✔️ Going on hour 3 of 7 (in day 1 of 4)…

Each boat having a different color than its school color, and different than any other board from the same school, but sometimes identical to colors of boats from other schools???

No worries! Superstar graphics op Olivia Cooke’s got it!

New found appreciation for our telestrator. Such a great storytelling tool for this kind of broadcast.

Our first ever NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP broadcast of college sailing.

🚁 🚁 TWO drones
🎥 Dock cam
📸 Launch cam
🎤 On-site sideline
✍️ Telestrator
🎧 🎧 Two commentators
📊 Two gfx channels
🎙️🎙️ Two fx mic channels

Show me another production team that takes on broadcasting the multi-day sunrise to sunset national sailing championship, on the same weekend they’re already broadcasting 3-day water polo championships, two lacrosse games, three baseball games. Go ahead. I’ll wait.

Serious control room pre-game prep!