Hello I'm Ryan Christoffersen and I am a Play-By-Play Broadcaster with experience in other areas of sports media as well. As a Play-By-Play Broadcaster I have worked on basketball, baseball, volleyball, and hockey events. Ever since the 2017-2018 sports season I have served as the primary Play-By-Play Broadcaster for Illinois Tech Men's and Women's basketball, as well as baseball and both Men's and Women's volleyball. During this same time I have been the primary radio voice of University of Chicago Men's and Women's basketball, as well as the primary voice for Women's Volleyball and sharing the baseball Play-By-Play role. In December 2018, I served as the primary voice for the Hinsdale South Holiday Classic, a prestigious basketball tournament featuring some of the best high school programs in the state of Illinois.

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As for non Play-By-Play work, well I have done a little bit of everything. While admittedly being rather new to the sports media game, since 2016 I have packed a lot of experience into that time. Starting from the beginning, I worked two seasons with and for the Beloit Snappers, a Minor League baseball affiliate of the Oakland Athletics. I took on a variety of different roles during that time, working as an Official Scorer/Scoreboard Operator, a Stat Stringer working with MiLB Advanced Media, and as a PITCHf/x Operator working in conjunction with the team and Sportvision. I also covered the team as the team correspondent for the Oakland Athletics prospect website Athletics Farm. In that role I was able to write a recurring column named "Snappy Thoughts", write features, conduct coach and player interviews, and take photos and pictures from the stadium to be shared on social media.

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I took the next step in my sports media career when I enrolled at the Illinois Media School. My audio and video editing were finely honed, and I was able to learn how to host, produce, and run a board for a radio show on the school's internet sports station, chicagolandsportsradio.com. I hosted a number of different shows, both general sports show and sports specific shows, while also expanding to a show revolving more around entertainment and pop culture. With these shows I was also the person booking guests and going out to different locations to interview athletes, writers, musicians, actors, and comedians in person.

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Last but not least are some of the other great projects I have worked on. I co-hosted a low-budget streaming sports show, aptly named "The Sports Show" in the fall of 2018 that helped teach me more about a video production and how to structure and show. I also co-hosted a baseball podcast named "The Mendoza Line". My co-host is a Chicago-trained Comedian and we mixed in a lot of comedy with interesting baseball analysis and some fake interviews meant to be humorous as well. This taught me a lot about how podcasts work nowadays and how to structure a podcast.

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That is most of what I have done these last few years! I have always had the passion to work in the sports field, but I did not always have the confidence and resources to properly pursue what I have always wanted to do. Now I absolutely believe I have the confidence, determination, the work ethic, and the talent to make a career in the sports media field.