COM Students’ Film Snags Them TV Jobs, Cash
Team members Christina Beiene (COM’17) (from left), Brittney Badduke (COM’17), and Kaley Roberts (COM’17) will be NESN’s newest interns come fall. Photo by Jackie Riccardi
A trio of College of Communication students won first place in NESN’s new reality show, NESN Next Producer, with their film On the Mic: The Connor Lenahan Story. Not only did the win net them a cash prize of $20,000, but internships with the cable sports network.
“I was in shock, just really happy,” says Christina Beiene (COM’17), who was among the 10 finalists, with teammates Brittney Badduke (COM’17) and Kaley Roberts (COM’17), appearing on the seven-episode series. “I didn’t think all of this would happen from a contest we decided to do for fun a year ago.”
Lenahan (COM’17), who is familiar to Terrier fans as the announcer at men’s and women’s basketball games, has a rare and incurable congenital bone disease called osteogenesis imperfecta that causes weak bones that break easily, forcing him to spend most of his time in a wheelchair to safeguard against falling and injury.
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