Ryan Connell is in his second year at Washington and Lee, currently serving as the Athletics Broadcaster and Multimedia Creative Specialist.
Connell came to W&L from Great Falls, Montana where he served as a sports reporter with KFBB TV from June of 2021 through February 2022. With KFBB TV, he shot, edited and produced daily video content for the local news sportscasts, anchored the nightly sportscasts and wrote and produced investigative and human-interest stories about local athletes and coaches.
"I'm very excited to be joining the W&L community and helping bolster the caliber of athletic productions," said Connell. "I can't wait to work with such a great group of students, faculty, coaches and administrators and am looking forward to be back working on a college campus."
Before arriving in Montana, Connell served as a production assistant with CBS Sports HQ in Stamford, Connecticut from November 2019 through May 2021. He edited and produced video content for CBS Sports HQ, CBSSports.com, CBS Sports social media and 247Sports.
Connell graduated from Hofstra University in 2019 with a bachelor of arts in journalism with a concentration in sports media. During his time there, he provided play-by-play and color commentary for Hofstra men's and women's basketball, ice hockey, baseball, soccer, lacrosse and field hockey.
Connell also did broadcast work for the Long Island Ducks baseball team and the New York Cosmos soccer squad. During the 2017-18 season, he was the lead producer of the New York Islanders Radio Network where he managed a staff of engineers, reporters and anchors. Connell also completed internships with the New York Red Bulls in the Fall of 2018 and Sirius XM's Mad Dog Sports Radio in the Spring of 2019.
