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Travis Collins
  • Television/Radio
  • Class of 2015
  • Groton, NY

Travis Collins Earns Olympic Internship with NBC Sports

2014 Jan 13

Travis Collins has been selected by NBC Sports to assist with the network's coverage of the XXII Olympic Winter Games, being held Feb. 6-23 in Sochi, Russia. Collins is a junior majoring in television-radio in the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College.

A total of 34 students from the Park School will be serving essential behind-the-scenes roles at the world's biggest athletic event. Ithaca joins Syracuse University and Bradley University as the only institutions nationwide with which NBC Sports partners to recruit interns for its Olympics coverage.

For a photo of Collins, visit www.flickr.com/photos/69539023@N07/11823139816/.

"The fact that NBC has recruited our students for every Olympics since 2006 is yet another affirmation of the quality of their educational experience and how well it prepares them for the professional world," said Diane Gayeski, dean of the Park School. "In fact, this has been a banner year for us -- from being ranked among the nation's top 25 film schools by the 'Hollywood Reporter' and top 20 journalism programs by 'NewsPro' magazine, to WICB-FM being named the best college radio station by Princeton Review and 'The Ithacan' earning the Columbia Scholastic Press Association's top award for integrated print and online publications. We take pride in having these 34 students put their knowledge into action working side-by-side with the top sports journalists, producers and technicians in the world."

25 of the students will serve their intern assignments in or around Sochi, a resort city located on the Black Sea. The remaining nine will be based at the NBC Sports broadcast and production facility in Stamford, Connecticut. Intern duties will range from handling specific events -- including ice hockey, figure skating and freestyle skiing -- to working in the International Broadcast Center or what's known as the Highlights Factory, which the network developed to package and distribute coverage through multiple media platforms.

"I'm excited to work with and learn from the NBC professionals. It's going to be a great experience to see one of the biggest sporting events in the world and how everyone comes together to compete for the gold," Collins said.

Ithaca College students have previously interned at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino.

For more information, contact Melissa Gattine, marketing communications manager in the Park School, at (607) 274-1023 or mgattine@ithaca.edu.