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15 June 2018 Benson 18 Joins SportsCenter
Following an internship last springcovering local sports with ESPN Ithaca, Mac Benson 18 is back with the national network full-time as a production assistant at SportsCenter in New York.
Benson, who majored in writing and rhetoric with a concentration in journalism and minored in philosophy, is learning the ropes of the sports newsroom, which is literally a dream come true, he says. When I was a kid, I would watch ESPN on Saturday mornings instead of cartoons. Ive loved watching sports my whole life. There is not a moment here that I take for granted.
A member of the Hobart golf team, Benson developed his background in sports journalism as a student, both with ESPN in Ithaca, as well as an intern with Cornell Universitys mens hockey team. Meanwhile, as a student, he served as vice president, president and coach of the Hobart club hockey team, volunteered as a firefighter in Geneva and worked as a resident assistant and a tour guide for the HWS Office of Admissions.
The ESPN Ithaca internship experience was crucial, he says, because its a competitive market. But during his four years at HWS, Benson worked extremely hard to build a network that could get me a foot in the door.