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Sports broadcaster and Comms Alumnus Todd Harris Featured by BYU Alumni Association

National sports broadcaster Todd A. Harris didn’t particularly enjoy taking exams in BYU’s testing center, but says, “I had a great time learning to snowboard on the slope just outside the Grant Building, which houses the testing center.”
What he could not have predicted was that within a few years he would be commenting on snowboarding events for ESPN. Now with NBC Sports and the NBS Sports, Harris was a play-by-play announcer for all snowboarding events at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

Harris came to BYU fully expecting to study biology as a pre-med major, but his discomfort with blood—particularly the idea of making an incision­—prompted a change. He had been a standout athlete and the newspaper sports editor at his high school in Portland, Ore., so he happily traded a scalpel for a microphone.

It was a good decision. He has covered everything from the World’s Strongest Man competitions to ball and stick sports, major cycling and sailing events, and the Olympics.

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