OUR TEAM
We are pleased to bring you some of the best radio personalities who are teamed up
with exciting new up-and-coming sports announcers in central Indiana.
Jerry Collins is the President of Indiana SRN and brings a great love of business management and technical expertise in softwares to produce everything behind the scenes such as office administration, website development, and technical connectivity to enable the descriptions and images of our announcers to reach our listeners/viewers. Jerry was biten by the broadcasting bug while serving in the US Army and volunteering at the local Air Force AFRTS station in Udorn, Thailand.
Jerry and Keith Meyers joined as partners in 2013 and enjoy the abilities God has given them to be able to produce a labor of love in producing more than 350 contests each school year that put a lot of kids “on the air.”
Keith Meyers is the Vice President of Operations of Indiana Sports Radio Network and has been an athletic director and coach for 20 years at local Christian schools. He is the founder of the Indiana Christian State Tournament and just finished as the Central Indiana Athletic Conference chairman. Keith’s vision for Indiana SRN is to bring quality sports events as well as family friendly programming to the internet air waves. Keith has been happily married to Debbie for 11 years and has five grown children and eight grandchildren.
Previously, Keith was the Morning Host and Station Manager of 91.3 THE WALK, Founded the Horizon Christian Sports Network, began the Indiana Christian State Tournament, is a former AD at Eastlawn Christian, North Eastwood Christian, and Horizon Christian Schools. Keith officiated college and high school football and basketball for many years.
Charles “C J” Benberry graduated from the University of Indianapolis three years ago and currently works for Fox 59/CBS4 as a production assistant. He has been a sports broadcaster since 2009 when he first started as a junior at Cathedral High School and has been involved with radio since high school and television since his junior year of college. Chrles hopes to one day be the play-by-play announcer for the Indiana Pacers or the Indianapolis Colts. You can follow him on social media: @swaggberry23
Trevor Brooks is 2010 graduate of Fishers High School and a former student of SRN’s Shawn Crull and played offensive line for the football team. Trevor is currently finishing a Sports Management degree at IUPUI that includes Business and Sports Marketing minors. He currently works for an event management company handling housing for travel sports tournaments all around the country that includes a summertime job around the 4th of July every year of setting off fireworks shows for Geist Reservoir and the city of Zionsville. Trevor is entering into his second year of coaching the football program at Holy Spirit at Geist that won the CYO city championship for 2015.
Trevor is a diehard Cubs, Panthers, and Indiana Basketball fan. This will be his third year with Indiana SRN after doing statistics for all Westfield football games two years ago as well as all of the Indiana state football championship games.
Craig Collins began his sports broadcasting career in the fall of 2005 as the public address announcer for basketball, softball, and baseball at Cowan High School. Upon graduation Craig enrolled at Ball State and joined the campus
radio station and hosted auto-racing shows and broadcast BSU football contests while filming and editing packages that aired on NewsLink, Ball State’s student-run TV newscasts. Craig also interned at 1070 The Fan, ESPN Radio in Indianapolis and collected stats for 1070’s high school football broadcasts. After graduating, Craig broadcast for the Class A affiliate of the Cleveland Indians and later was on the Video Production Crew for the Indianapolis Indians.
Along with working for Indiana SRN, Collins is currently a producer for Indiana Sports Talk and the American Standard Football Review hosted by Bob Lovell. Collins also operates the board for local shows and ESPN national broadcasts. Craig is excited to join the Indiana SRN team and is looking forward to a fun and successful 2019-2020 school year.
Shawn Crull has been with the team for nearly 11 years and was the Sports Director at 91.3 The Walk. He teaches business classes at Fishers High School with Sports Marketing as his favorite class. He believes his passion for sports come through on his broadcasts and is thankful for the day he met Keith Meyers at the grocery store.
Getting into broadcast sports radio is a dream come true for Shawn, who hopes that it may evolve into a full-time job sometime in the future. Shawn is married to Rebecca and has two sons, Brandon and Alex.
Bill Ludlow has worked for HCSNradio.com and 91.3 the walk for the past 11 years. He has spent more than 20 years as a firefighter for the City Of Lawrence before retiring in 2009. Bill also works for Lawrence Township Schools as a security guard.
Bill, and his wife Jackie, have been married 42 years and have three children and four grandchildren. He enjoys sports, traveling, and camping and attends Horizon Christian Fellowship. His favorite sport is football and he loves the Green Bay Packers along with being a big LA Dodger fan and a fan of the Indiana Pacers.
Jonathan Matthes, a graduate of Franciscan University of Steubenville (2012) and Zionsville (2008), first arrived at Indiana SRN late in the fall of 2017 after serving as the play-by-play announcer for Sheridan Blackhawks football. Since joining the network, he has called multiple sports and several postseason matchups, including: the 2018 4A Girls and 2A Boys Basketball State Finals, 2019 baseball semi-state, and the 2019 IHSLA State Championships. He also had the opportunity to lead Indiana SRN’s first foray into football webcasts, in 2018, calling the first webcast then becoming a regular play-by-play announcer.
Outside of high school sports, Jonathan has called games on the collegiate level at Franklin College, the University of Indianapolis, Marian University, and Indiana Wesleyan. He handled the play-by-play for the 2019 NAIA Softball World Series opening round, and the first football night game at Indiana Wesleyan’s Wildcat Stadium, a matchup broadcasted on ESPN3. He will serve as the voice of Franklin Grizzlies basketball for the 2019-20 season.
Steve McClure brings a vast amount of sports media experience to our organization. A graduate of Ball State University with a degree in Radio-TV & Journalism, Steve began his career in radio in Rushville and continued with sports broadcasting play-by-play positions with stops in Florida and Ohio before returning to his native home in Indianapolis. He has held sports information directors positions at Youngstown State University, the University of Cincinnati and Barry University in Miami, Fla.
Upon his return to Indiana, he has worked for the stats crew of the Indianapolis Colts since 1985 as press box announcer; Colts Spanish Radio Network producer; in addition to announcing basketball at the Pan American Games; the FINA World Championship; been a media volunteer of the Indianapolis Final Fours; public address announcer at the University of Indianapolis and Franklin College and is currently a sports correspondent and photographer for the Johnson County Daily Journal in Franklin. Follow Steve on Twitter: @srmcclure.
Riley Thomasson joined Indiana SRN last year as our first videographer and later started producing some of our webcasts. Through his diligence and dedication, Riley will be producing Friday night football for our second webcasting crew. Riley is a senior at Horizon Christian School and plans to enroll in a school majoring in broadcast media a year from now.
Thad Vandevender is from Jasonville, IN in Greene County where he graduated from Shakamak High School. He attended Indiana University where he studied Sport Communications- Broadcast. Thad has tried to keep involved with sports as much as possible after graduation. He works at Lids Team Sports where they focus on team jersey, apparel, and equipment sales. He also is currently on staff for the Indiana Sports Talk radio show, the most listened to sports show in the history of the state of Indiana, and he is also a part-time producer for ESPN 1070-The Fan in Indianapolis and is the founder of www.IndySportsCrew.com to give him a medium to voice his opinions on the happenings in Indiana sports. He writes blogs, produces videos, and hosts a weekly podcast “Inside the Man Room.”
Thad has volunteered at numerous sporting events in Indianapolis including the 2009 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Midwest Regional, 2011 Big Ten Men’s and Women’s Basketball tournaments, and the 2011 Horizon League Tennis Championships. Thad has also done some broadcasting with Media Five Sports Production where he helped cover Greene County and South Knox High School basketball. Thad now lives in Greenwood with his wife Jessica and son Graham. You can follow Thad on Twitter @thadvandeventer.
Brent Young is 26 years old and a recent graduate of Indiana University with a degree in Sports Communication with an emphasis on broadcasting. While at IU Brent ran a website called www.IUsportcom.com, and broadcasted different sporting events for www.IUHoosiers.com and for Big Ten Network Student U.
Brent also had his own radio show on the student radio station WIUX that aired Sunday nights called the Weekend Wrap-up. Brent loves all sports and considers himself the biggest Cincinnati Bearcats sports fan and a food/restaurant buff after spending four years working as a waiter. He is currently managing logistics for a large trucking company.
Other members of this year's broadcasting team: Otto De St Jeor, Wally Drake, Josh Ellman, Ben Herron, Chance Middleton, Grant Nelson, Cheyne Reiter, and Chris Simmons.
We are grateful to these former colleagues who are now furthering their broadcast careers with larger organizations.
Scott Agness, born and raised a Hoosier, is a graduate of North Central High School and Indiana University. While a student at IU, he was actively involved in broadcasts on IUHoosiers.com, the IU Radio Network, the Big Ten Network’s Student U Program, and WIUX. Agness also had a weekly radio sports talk show on WIUX. He got his start at North Central, where he called 156 games over three years, including the basketball state finals. He is just completing his first year as “the voice” of the Lady Sycamores at Indiana State Girls Basketball.
Agness is the founder and editor of VigilantSports.com, his site that covers Indiana sports. If there is a big game going on in Central Indiana, the odds are pretty good that Agness is there. He spent the last two seasons working for Pacers.com as their beat reporter, responsible for the day-to-day coverage of the team. Follow him on Twitter, @ScottAgness.
Michael Estridge is a 2010 graduate of Carmel High School and served as sports director of WHJE 91.3 his senior year. As a senior at Ball State University, Michael is studying telecommunications and journalism and is involved at the school’s radio and television station talking about Cardinal sports. Last summer he interned at 1070 the Fan ESPN radio and assisted with the three main shows on the station.
Michael recently took a great position as a sports announcer in South Dakota. Good Luck!
Jake Lenok is a graduate of Indiana University and is currently employed at ESPN. As a native New Yorker, Jake was inspired by the likes of Mike Breen, Walt “Clyde” Frazier, Gus Johnson, and Kenny Albert to pursue a career in broadcasting. He currently has three years experience working in sports broadcasting, beginning at Indiana University where Jake had his own sports radio talk show, called “The Rally Show”, and did play-by-play for the men and women’s basketball teams from 2014-2016.
Jake has been working on his own podcast entitled “The LeKnicks” where he and his brother discuss NBA related matters and their tragic loyalty to the New York Knicks.
Ryan Myrehn is a 2011 graduate of DePauw University and has been broadcasting sports professionally since June of 2012. An Indianapolis native, Ryan has worked as a broadcaster with KWIX/KRES/KIRK/KTCM radio in Moberly, Missouri and as the Sports Director of Marquette, Michigan’s ESPN Radio affiliate. With sports broadcast experience ranging from hosting a daily talk show to play-by-play for NCAA Division II Truman State University, local high schools, and the Verizon IndyCar Series, Ryan is thrilled to be back in his home state of Indiana.
Ryan currently is a motor sports journalist covering international sports car racing for Sportscar365.com and a contributor to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Radio Network. He looks forward to help Indiana SRN build its motorsports content as well as contribute to the network’s play-by-play team.
Ben Polizzi is a 2009 graduate of Roncalli High School in Indianapolis where he played football, basketball, and ran track for the Rebels. After earning All-State honors as a senior running back, Ben played wide receiver and was named to the GLIAC All-Conference Academic team each of his three years at the U of Indianapolis. In 2012, he transferred to Marian University and played on the 2012 NAIA National Championship team. Ben was also named to the MFSA All-Conference Academic team in 2013 and 2014. He graduated from Marian University in 2014 with a bachelor’s degree in communication and a minor in graphic design.
Ben now works at LIDS as a Creative Services Artist, helping to develop brand identities of high school, college, and professional franchises across the country. Ben’s lifetime organized athletic experience uniquely equips him to pursue his longtime love for sports media.
Carl Stutsman is a 29-year-old radio veteran that has worked in multiple markets across Indiana and started his career in the Michiana area. His first role out of college was with 95.3 Michiana’s News Channel (WTRC) in South Bend, where he worked his way up to Assistant Program Director. Carl also covered Notre Dame Football and other local sports for WAOR, formerly 95.7 The Fan. Most recently Carl spent time with WIBC in Indianapolis serving as an Anchor/Reporter for WIBC and Network Indiana News where he could be heard all around the state. He also co-hosted the 10 at 10 news program on WIBC.
Carl and his wife have lived in Indianapolis for three years and welcomed their first child, a girl, in July of 2016. He is your typical Chicago sports fan—live by the Blackhawks, die by the Bears, and pray for the Cubs. Also as an Elkhart, IN native he is a graduate of Concord High School, and is a Notre Dame fanatic with little hope of recovery.
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