Hello friends,

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My name is Rich Borland. I have aspirations on becoming a well-known broadcaster over all of America. Things I enjoy the most are: baseball, broadcasting, and spending time with friends and family whenever I can. I fell in love with the sport of baseball at a very young age. It was when I stopped playing baseball at Macomb Community College about 20 minutes outside of Detroit when I fell in love with the game in a whole different aspect.

I knew from around the age of 13 I wanted to do something that involved baseball and a microphone. I took that dream and made it a reality by choosing to enroll at Central Michigan University and major in broadcasting. I took what I learned in class and used it to start my actual career. In 2015, I had my first experience as a play by play commentator calling for Mt. Pleasant High School football. Then the following year for Freeland HS football. During my entire tenure at CMU I served as a play by play broadcaster and color commentator for the Chippewa baseball team. When not calling games for the CMU baseball team, I worked on the CMU Athletics ESPN3 Team. We broadcasted everything from football to volleyball, men's and women's basketball, wrestling, and gymnastics to name a few. I mainly served as a camera man, but do have experience in replay(3play), highlights, and press conferences.

In the summer of 2016, I interned at the United Shore Professional Baseball League in Utica, MI. I called games on the YouTube channel for the league. Whenever I wasn't calling games, I would work as a part of the Marketing/Promotions team. We did anything from setting up pregame (i.e.CO2 fog machines/lucky row giftcards) to handing out programs and welcoming fans in, to running the scoreboard and live tweeting, and yes even being a unicorn, frog, or beaver mascot to entertain kids and families. I also got the opportunity to work as the Public Address Announcer in front of thousands of fans.

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From mid May until mid August of 2017, I spent my summer in Thomasville, North Carolina working with the High Point-Thomasville HiToms; a team in the Coastal Plain League which is a well-known collegiate summer league on the east coast. As the Director of Media Relations, I had a list of responsibilities day in and day out. I did anything from script writing, to visiting elementary schools with players, coming up with promotional ideas for at the game as well as in the city, and sharing them on social media for all of our fans to name a few. As the play by play broadcaster I did a little more than just call baseball games. Outside of calling each home game for the HiToms at Finch Field, I would live tweet on the teams twitter account, post pictures to the team Instagram/Facebook Pages, run the team website, update player availability daily, and write a post game story after each and every game home or away. Overall, I grew tremendously as not only a broadcaster but as a person as well.

Once I was done in North Carolina, I came back home and back to the USPBL to broadcast the final twenty games of the season including playoffs. I loved how I learned that I can work at this level of baseball day in and day out and I am thrilled to see what the next chapter entails.

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I recently just graduated from Central Michigan University in December of 2017 and now am currently the broadcaster and groupsales representative of the United Shore Professional Baseball League in Utica, MI.