Mark Masters (right) served in a variety of roles for SSN Canada during the national championship including as play-by-play voice, in-studio host, cameraman and sideline reporter.What a tremendous tournament. There's so much to write it's hard to know where to start. But here goes:
- Webcasting is such a great tool for universities to use in promoting their athletes and events. During the four-day tournament every official from every university I ran into said something along the lines of, "We need to do more of this in the future." I certainly hope this results in more university sport webcasting (especially for every national championship) in the year to come.
- Keeping that in mind the University of Ottawa deserves tremendous credit for making the webcasting happen this weekend and also putting on a tremendous show. John Bower and the entire uOttawa staff did a great job making sure the championship ran smoothly.
- The great thing about university athletes is accessibility. I think what really made our coverage work was the unbelievable access we were given to players, coaches and officials. In the professional sports world you get about a minute with the top stars, but at the university level in Canada you get to really talk to the people.
- Some of my favourite moments during the competition included interviewing fans and friends of the players. There is so much more to a national championship than just the games. A national championship brings together an entire community and that's what we tried to show on the webcast all week long.
- As for my thoughts on the final outcome. Alberta was a game team, they had experience and focus and a quiet confidence that was quite impressive. McGill had the talent necessary but this was always going to be the Pandas tournament.
Thanks to everyone who tuned in throughout the championship in greater-than-expected numbers. I certainly hope you enjoyed watching the tournament as much as we enjoyed putting the coverage together.
- Mark
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