If you're reading this, then odds are good you've heard Cody Chrusciel's voice.
Probably more than once.
Cody,
in his two years at Princeton, has been the broadcaster for Princeton
football and men's lacrosse on the radio and then basically every other
sport that Princeton has on the Ivy League Network. Whenever someone is
needed to fill in, on jumps Cody.
When TigerBlog
interviewed Cody for his position in multimedia, he came away impressed
with his experience, ability and references. And voice. Definitely his
voice.
TigerBlog has done a lot of radio and public
address. He uses different voices for both, and neither is exactly his
every day speaking voice, if that makes sense.
TB was
talking the other day to Tom McCarthy, the former Princeton announcer
and now the TV voice of the Philadelphia Phillies, as well as the NFL
and NCAA basketball. Tom's regular speaking voice isn't exactly his
broadcasting voice.
Cody, though, talks like a
broadcaster at all times. It's unique. It's like TB or McCarthy are
imitating broadcasters or anything. It's most about elongating how you
speak or the cadence of your voice that changes a bit.
Not with Cody. He's always the same.
And
so there was Cody, Friday night, as he prepared to marry longtime
girlfriend Justine Nothstein, who is now Justine Chruschiel. When it
comes time to exchange vows, your average groom speaks with a soft, low,
serious voice.
When it was Cody's turn, he used the
same Cody voice that you hear all the time. He might as well have said
"Holuba on the tackle, and I do" or "I do. For goprincetontigers.com,
this is Cody Chrusciel."
It was very charming.
TigerBlog wishes Cody and Justine nothing but the best. They had a very nice wedding. TB was happy to be a small part of it.
Of
course, Cody scheduled his wedding for the same exact moment as the
first athletic event of the 2017-18 season, the women's soccer team's
3-0 win over Monmouth Friday night. The guest list - for the wedding,
not the game - included John Bullis, Princeton's other multimedia
person.
This led to the obvious question of "how is the
women's soccer game going to be videostreamed?" You know, if Cody was
getting married and Bullis was there to be part of it, who would be
doing the streaming for the Ivy League Network.
By the way, for 2017-18, it's now the Ivy League Network, not the Ivy League Digital Network.
Most
broadcasts are set up well in advance and can then be trouble-shot
remotely should something come up. And that's exactly what happened
Friday night.
The wedding was supposed to start at 6:30
but began a bit late. The game was at 7. Bullis was monitoring the ILN
feed and found that there was a small problem. It wasn't working.
In
fact, Bullis was trying to solve the problem from his phone as the
wedding processional made its way down the aisle. TigerBlog suggested
that Bullis simply grab Cody as he came by and ask him if he had any
ideas. Knowing Cody like TB does, he would have simply paused, fixed it
and then gotten married.
In the end, Bullis was able to
solve it (something about finding the compatible cord) just around the
time the officiant was comparing true love and dog ownership. It had
something to do with Cody and Justine's dog, who was represented there
by a cardboard cutout. It was cute.
Oh, and in addition
to fixing the ILN issue from about 30 miles away, Bullis also turned
out to be quite the entertaining dancer. He's pretty good at it, and he
has a certain degree of, let's call it, flair on the floor.
The
Office of Athletic Communications has seven people on staff. Cody,
Bullis, TigerBlog and four others who cover sports and write the stories
that you read on goprincetontigers.com.
As Cody was
getting married, there were six of them there, with the seventh - Andrew
Borders - having to cover the women's soccer game. During the wedding
ceremony itself, there was back and forth about making sure a
videostream was working.
That's how it is in the athletic communications world.
Princeton is lucky. It has a really good group of people who are dedicated to what they do.
So congratulations to Cody and Justine. They had a really nice wedding Friday night, on a really nice night.
All that's left is to have a great life together.
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
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