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For the last 2 years I have been a sports anchor and reporter for SUN News; broadcast in St. George, Utah.  As the sports anchor for SUN News I was responsible for shooting, editing and writing daily packages as well a regular special interest stories. 

Also, for the last 3 years I have done play-by-play for local high school football and boy’s basketball games on CEC TV-22 in Southern Utah simulcast on 1450 KZNU Fox New Radio.  

During the last 2 years I have also done live color analysis for all Dixie State football games as well as women and men’s basketball games broadcast throughout the state of Utah and surrounding region on KCSG.  Those games included pre and post game stand-ups as well as half time shows and interviews.

This past year I have been regularly co-hosting a sports oriented radio show on 1450 AM KZNU Fox News Radio in St. George, Utah.  

In addition to my experience in covering sports in Southern Utah, I have been the head weather anchor for the last 2 years for SUN News, as well as the student broadcast director for Dixie State College in charge of all content produced and equipment used.

Below is one of my favorite news/sports packages, click on it to play.  Thanks for visiting.

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Here's a news package I was able to put together with Adam Metcalf when Utah Jazz player Jeremy Evans visited the St. George City Recreation Center. This is by far my favorite package that I have had to opportunity to do.

Here are some still shots taken while we were filming.

 Getting ready to toss the ally-oop to Jeremy.  Funny note...Jeremy told me he can't spin the ball on his finger!  When I asked him why, in disbelief, he said he just never could.

 Jeremy catching and dunking it.  It only took us 7 tries before we got this one.

87-YEAR-OLD SHOWS NO SIGNS OF SLOWING DOWN AT SENIOR GAMES

Profile of an 87-year-old racquet ball player in the World Huntsman Senior Games.  Needless to say it was a great interview.

Racquetball is one of the more popular events at the World Huntsman Senior Games, and just like the games themselves, athletes come from across the nation and around the globe to the St. George Recreation Center to play the sport. However, very few of those racquetball athletes stand out like this one.


Ghandi once said, “There is more to life than just increasing its speed.” Well, if Ghandi would have known Bill Gencarella from San Clemente, California, he might have thought differently.


“When I first started out I had tremendous speed, they clocked me at 80 to 90 miles an hour. Therefore life was beautiful, but then, as I got older... like right now I doubt if I’m doing 30,” Gencarella said.


Life has been beautiful for the 87-year-old Gencarella, picking up the sport as a young boy and playing throughout his life-- a life filled by raising a family, a career as a research chemist, and finally a successful business man. After all of that Gencarella still plays the sport he loves, despite age or injury.


“I tore both my shoulders, I cannot hit anything shoulder high nor over my head and they know it, the rascals,” he said.


Neither his age nor the injuries keep him from playing against the competition here at the Senior Games to the delight of spectators.


“I think he is amazing, he’s awesome. I don’t plan to live that long and he’s out here playing racquetball competitively, it’s really cool,” said spectator Janiel Anderson.


Gencarella, who still plays multiple times a day, was so anxious to warm up for his next match, he kindly cut our interview short as a nearby court opened up.


 “...There’s an empty court, let me go play a little, let me practice a little bit okay, will ya? Will that be okay? Let me practice,” said Gencarella.


Clearly Bill Gencarella’s approach to life has not slowed down and it appears he has no intentions of letting it slow him down.  

OLYMPIC GREAT INSPIRES SENIOR GAMES ATHLETES

Former Olympic Gymnast Shannon Miller was the keynote speaker for the World Huntsman Senior Games Opening Ceremony.

Each year hundreds of athletes from across the country and around the globe travel to St. George for the Huntsman World Senior Games. Each athlete arrives with a desire to compete in events they love, and they play in those respective events with an unbridled passion of competitive spirit and sportsmanship.

This year's opening ceremony featured keynote speaker and former Olympic gymnast Shannon Miller. Miller attests to how important passion is in the field or on the court, but especially when it comes to the game of life.

 “Number one, you have to have the passion, you have to enjoy what you do. Certainly set goals for yourself, I’m a big proponent of setting those long-term goals; that’s great you want to compete in the Olympic games. What are the short term goals that you have to look at, write down and achieve every single day in order to get to that goal,” said Miller.

Miller has competed with passion while achieving her goals and becoming the most decorated American Gymnast, male or female in U.S. gymnastics history. One of her most memorable performances came in the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. It was at that time she earned the gold medal for her nearly perfect performance on the balance beam.

She also helped the “Magnificent Seven” to the U.S. Women’s first ever gymnastics team gold. However, more memorable to Miller are not the medals won, but the relationships forged and maintained throughout her illustrious career.

 “Once athletics and sports gets in your blood it never leaves, and I think that’s what all of us, all of the athletes that are competing here today and this week. That’s what we can identify with, the friendships that we form, the travel we get to do. 22 different countries are being represented here, all 50 states. So, I think it’s just tremendous to have that support amongst athletes, but also to reap the physical and health benefits of continuing to stay physically active and be such great role models for future generations,” said Miller.

Being physically active and healthy took on new meaning in Miller’s life this year. In January she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, and while going through full rounds of chemotherapy and losing her hair, doctors discovered and removed a baseball size tumor from her ovary.

 Now, cancer free and on her way to full recovery, she travels the country sharing the message of good health and believes it is as important as ever for both her and the athletes at this year’s senior games.

“It’s such a great thing to be able to continue to get that message out with all of us. Make your health a priority, put that first in what you do, because if we’re not healthy we can’t take care of everyone else,” Miller said

DEFENDING MARATHON WINNER SETS SIGHTS ON BIGGER GOALS

Story on last years St. George Marathon winner, Aaron Metler and why he is not defending his title in this years race.  

Early Saturday morning, over 7,600 hundred runners descended on southern Utah for the 35th Annual St. George Marathon.  This year's race would be a little different though, being run without last year's hometown winner, Aaron Metler.  Instead of defending his title, Metler has bigger plans and bigger goals to achieve.

“The Olympic trials are something that has been a goal for me. This is really the last chance to qualify for the trials in January, and so I'm going to do the Chicago Marathon this year and give it a shot to qualify for the trials (qualifier),” said Metler.

Since the annual race began in Utah's Dixie in 1977, it has been run 35 times, but has never been won by a local Washington County resident.  The highest place for a marathon finisher from Washington County was 2^nd place in 2008.

Metler changed that last year, not only winning the race with an impressive time of 2:22:08, but also doing so as a debut runner in his first marathon ever.  While he did not participate in this year's marathon as a runner, he was involved with the organization of the event as an employee of the city of St. George--an organization which recently was recognized for their efforts in planning, coordinating, and executing the marathon by a national running publication.

“The St.George Marathon was voted the best organized in Runners World last year, and it's for a reason. The staff that we have here is incredible and the work they put in to put on this event is exceptional,” Metler said.

Runner's World and Metler aren't the only ones praising the annual race in Utah's Dixie. This year's version of the race brought in a record number of participants along with supportive family and friends from across the nation.

Metler, meanwhile, says he'll be pounding the pavement next year in the St. George Marathon.

 “I will be back next year for sure, and hopefully every year after that. I won't be able to defend this year, gotta give some else a chance,” Metler said.

UTAH JAZZ PLAYER JEREMY EVANS VISITS ST. GEORGE

Here's a news package I was able to put together with Adam Metcalf when Utah Jazz player Jeremy Evans visited the St. George City Recreation Center.

Here are some still shots we took. 

 Getting ready to toss the ally-oop to Jeremy.
Funny note...Jeremy told me he can't spin the ball on his finger!  When I asked him why, in disbelief, he said he just never could.

 Jeremy catching and dunking it.  It only took us 7 tries before we got the "one".