User:Bholden

Ben Holden - Sportscaster

Ben Holden is a american sportscaster. He was born november 3, 1970 in Lansing,Michigan. He currently lives in South Lyon, Michigan with his wife Mary and 7 year old son Luke. In the last year he has done work for Comcast Local in Detroit, CSTV/CBS College Sports Network,ESPNU. For the last 4 years he's worked as a play-by-play announcer in hockey, college football, Arena Football, men's and women's basketball, baseball, softball, lacrosse, men's and women's soccer, MISL Soccer, volleyball and wrestling. For the last 2 years he has worked as play-by-play announcer for ESPNU for the NCAA Hockey Midwest Regionals. In April of 2008 he worked as the show reporter for the Hobey Baker Award show on ESPNU, the Hobey Baker Award is given each year to the nation's top college hockey player. In March of 2008 he did play-by-play for the NCAA Women's Hockey National Championship in Duluth, Minnesota for CSTV. In June of 2008 he worked Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Finals as the rinkside reporter for the NHL International Broadcast.

He started his career as a news writer at WDIV in Detroit, Michigan from 1994-1996. In 1997 he worked at UPN-50 in Detroit for 1 year before moving on to WILX-TV (NBC) in his hometown of Lansing, Michigan where he spent over 6 years as a sports anchor and reporter before moving on to Comcast Local in Detroit. In June of 2008 he won a Michigan NATAS Emmy Award for sports play by play during the 2007 calendar year.

In the summer months he hosts and produces "Behind The Story" for Comcast Television in Detroit where former and current athletes, coaches and sports figures are interviewed in depth.