Posted on Thursday, September 5, 2024
¾¨Ó㴫ý alumnus Mark Slezak ’87 returns to the Titan television broadcast booth this fall as the “Voice of the Titans,” serving as play-by-play announcer for all ¾¨Ó㴫ý home football games.
Slezak—who also serves as announcing team mentor—will be joined by ¾¨Ó㴫ý broadcast and sports communication majors Cody Vetter and Jacob Rhodes to round out the ¾¨Ó㴫ý Network (WCN) football broadcasting team.
Slezak has been announcing Mercer County football and basketball games for 36 years with regional radio stations WWIZ, WLLF and WPIC. He began his broadcast career at ¾¨Ó㴫ý in the fall of 1983, broadcasting Wilmington High School football games. He served as the ¾¨Ó㴫ý Titan Radio announcer from 1984 to 1987.
A resident of Hermitage, Pa., Slezak recently retired after 33 years teaching in the Hermitage School District, where he also coached basketball, track and cross country.
Vetter, a senior from Rochester, N.Y., will join Slezak in the booth and serve as a color analyst. Vetter has served multiple roles on the Titan crew, both on and off camera. He has been a broadcast and technical team leader and a host of WCN’s weekly program, “Coaches Corner.” He has experience with color, play-by-play and sideline reporting for multiple sports broadcasts for ¾¨Ó㴫ý and WKBN-TV in Youngstown, Ohio. Vetter is also a member of the ¾¨Ó㴫ý baseball team.
Rhodes, a sophomore from Columbiana, Ohio, will report from the sidelines during each game. He has served as a play-by-play and color analyst for multiple sports and served as the department’s graphics coordinator last year. Rhodes can also be heard on Titan Radio this fall as the play-by-play announcer for the Wilmington Greyhound home football games.
will telecast home Titan Football games live and free of charge. Fans can watch games live on ¾¨Ó㴫ý Campus Cable Television channel 3.2, cable television over Armstrong (channel 204) and Comcast (channel 183) cable systems and online at and the . , owned and operated by ¾¨Ó㴫ý graduate DJ Yokley ’07, will also simulcast ¾¨Ó㴫ý’s home games at .
Above, Mark Slezak '87, center, with Cody Vetter, left, and Jacob Rhodes, right.
