001The Exit High School class of 2025 takes their seats for what will be the final day as students. For many, this is a time of change, a transfer of responsibilities and drive. Whether it's to head off to college, explore the world, or as is the case for one particular graduate, pursue a career in something they discovered a love for thanks to one chance given to him. Meet Kyle Vvenzio. [Music] All right, let's do this. All right, folks. Welcome back to Blue Hawk Media. It has been a while to say the least. I mean, we've had cancellations, rain delays. We had an awards ceremony and then I got real sick. But we're finally here with Bishop Girtton facing off against the Blue Hawks. The Blue Hawks have had a four game slide recently. I believe it
002is. Started with Pinkerton. So now we are 13 and five. I mean five game slide. And Bishop Gon is 11 and seven coming into this. So we'll see how it goes here. You got your starting lineup for for some just another student roaming the halls of EHS. But for others he is the voice they hear at every exit Blue Hawks baseball game. That one same location there. Little bit of a iffy call I'd say on one of those runs, but what can I do? I'm the broadcaster. Let's pitch to him. It's gonna be another walk. It's going to load the bases once more. I do up Geger. He had a single last time he was up. I'm Eric Chalis. I uh am the cable coordinator for Bluehawk Media for Exit High School. I was looking
003when I started a couple years ago, I was looking for commentators for pretty much any of the sports teams. Um, mostly I was just looking for staff at that point. Put an email out to the staff. Somehow it became a all school announcement and Kyle reached out to me and said he was interested in calling baseball. So, took a chance, figured, you know, see where this goes. And, uh, turned out to be the best thing. I overheard it on the announcements uh, and they said they needed teachers to do it. and I said, "I'm going to do that anyway." So, I reached out and he said, "Sure." I've been the lead broadcaster for I want to say three years now. Sophomore year I started this. So, I've been working on that and been calling games
004for all that time. Hockey, baseball, and softball mostly. When I first met Kyle, he was really shy, really quiet. Um, you know, kind of new to calling games that wasn't sure how to do it. You know, how to tell the story because being a broadcaster, especially um for baseball, you have to be able to tell a story. Then it was just play by play. Here's the ball. It's in the strike zone or it misses. That's all I did there. And then junior year we took it to an ELO and I really focused on refining skills and figuring out what works, what doesn't. I went and shadowed Bob Litman at uh Manchester for the Fisher Cats and he gave me the best piece of advice and that's steal others ideas and make them your own. So
005that's what I've kind of done. I've taken strategies from Will Fleming and Joe Castigle and I've kind of turned them my own that way. Really brought him out of his elements and are brought him out and made him a better broadcaster and and working over it for the past three years. He's come a long way in the past three years. Kyle's aspirations were not so much of a fluke, but a product of his environment. Growing up alongside now exit Bluehawks junior second baseman, John Becker. The two grew up loving baseball together. Uh me and Kyle have been friends for a long time. Basically since birth. Um my parents worked together. We've been friends since as long as I can remember. I love just having him there and if I'm having a rough game, I can
006look over and he's always smiling and stuff. So, it's really good. Now, as Kyle attends his final days in Exit High with plans of a career driven by reaching out to his school's sports station. I'm kind of nervous actually. You know, it's the next big step in my life. So, in college, I'm going to I'm going to try and get into something with it. Uh my college has a radio station and they do this already. So, I'm going to go ask if I can join that maybe. With Kyle leaving, a vacuum has appeared in Blue Hawk Media Sports. I have had a eighth grader reach out to me um already that is interested in kind of filling his shoes. So hopefully he can step up. Granted, they're big because Kyle's been the inaugural student to
007call any game here. You know, he's the anybody that comes in behind him is going to be a big shoe to fill, but Kyle Kyle's really stepped up and you know, I know there's going to be kids down the road that are going to, you know, step up as well and do just as good as Kyle. I mean, I just wish him luck. you know, it it it was fun to see him, you know, decide just based on, you know, deciding to do broadcasting for for Bluehawk Media and calling baseball games to turn it into a career and really follow his passion. So, I'm excited to see where he goes and I hope to see him on ESPN or Nessen, you know, calling a Red Sox game, you know, and to be able to say,
008"Hey, that kid went to Exit High School and he started his career calling calling baseball games for Exit." So, I hope to see him. From a risktaken sophomore year to a career laid out in front of him, Kyle, degree in hand, can turn his tassel and celebrate the years ahead in what is assuredly a great career in sports broadcasting. Do what you love. You know, it's what you want to do with your life. I think that life should be enjoyed and not boring. [Music]