DeCrow, Scalzo round out Eagle Sports Network broadcast crews
JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. – Carson-Newman Associate AD for Media Relations/External Operations Adam Cavalier has announced the hiring of Rheanna DeCrow and Matt Scalzo to complete the on-air talent for Eagle Sports Network for the upcoming academic year.
JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. – Carson-Newman Associate AD for Media Relations/External Operations Adam Cavalier has announced the hiring of Rheanna DeCrow and Matt Scalzo to complete the on-air talent for Eagle Sports Network for the upcoming academic year.
"I'm grateful for Rheanna and Matt and their willingness to help tell Carson-Newman's uniquely Christian story," Cavalier said. "They are both talented, young broadcasters who will fit in well with the long history of prolific play-by-play voices who have taken up the microphone to call games for the Eagles."
DeCrow will be the sports information contact for C-N's indoor volleyball, golf and spring tennis teams; while Scalzo will manage media relations for softball, track & field and tennis in the fall as the two news graduate assistants for the athletic communications office.
Eagle fans will be able to hear both DeCrow and Scalzo on Carson-Newman Football broadcasts as pre-game, halftime and postgame show hosts. In some combination they will handle play-by-play duties for volleyball, soccer and softball, while filling in on C-N hoops and baseball broadcasts when there are conflicts.
DeCrow comes to Carson-Newman after a four-year golf career at Ithaca College. She collected her Bachelor of Science in Television and Digital Media in May, graduating with honors and minors in Journalism and Education.
A WGCA All-America Scholar, DeCrow has served as a play-by-play commentator for ESPN+ for Cornell and Binghamton University, broadcasting ice hockey, basketball, volleyball, baseball softball, field hockey and lacrosse. She did that simultaneously to operating as an on-air talent for Ithaca's television station and a sportscaster for WICB 91.7 FM. She also spent time as an on-field host and production assistant for the Binghamton Rumble Ponies – the AA affiliate for the New York Mets.
DeCrow is a two-time STAA All-American competing for the Jim Nantz Award as the nation's top collegiate sportscaster. She also has a College Broadcasters Incorporated first place award for best video sports reporting and was a recipient of a Broadcast Education Association scholarship.
Scalzo is a 2024 graduate of Penn State University, where he completed a Bachelor of Arts in Broadcast Journalism with a minor in sports studies. He has a certificate from the Curley Center for Sports Journalism.
Scalzo served as a broadcaster for ESPN+ and Big Ten+, calling Penn State volleyball, baseball and women's basketball. For the last year, Scalzo has served a play-by-play broadcaster for the Post University Eagles and Mount Saint Mary Knights. He has also broadcast selected games on the Northeast Sports Network for Connecticut College, Trinity College and Wesleyan University doing men's hockey, men's and women's squash along with men's and women's lacrosse.
He served as the Sports Director for Comm Radio at Penn State and spent the last two summers in the Cape Cod League broadcasting for the Bourne Braves and Sanford Mainers. In 2022 he was voted as the North Division All-Star Broadcaster.
