For Immediate Release

April 29, 2011

Courtesy of the Saint Rose sports information department

Albany, N.Y. – The College of Saint Rose baseball team was the subject of media inquiries by future local journalists who are members of the Watervliet Video Club. The aspiring journalists spent time prior to a recent practice speaking with head coachCasey O'Connor and several players on various topics related to Saint Rose baseball.

Their interviews will eventually run on Channel 17, Watervliet's public access channel.

Charlie Patricelli, the Director of the Watervliet Housing Authority, is in charge of the club and accompanied the group to Bob Bellizzi Field at the Plumeri Sports Complex.

Members of the club, which consists of middle and high school students, were well prepared and did their homework prior to coming to practice. In fact, the entire project was handled by the students who also broadcasts Watervliet High School athletic events on a tape-delayed basis and furthermore broadcasts a live Little League "Game of the Week" each Friday night during the spring and summer.

The club also previously interviewed the Albany Devils, the AHL affiliate of the New Jersey Devils, in addition to the Siena College men's and women's basketball teams, and the Rensselaer hockey teams this past winter.

The club is partnered with the Watervliet Library. It helps keeps a group of youths off the streets and shows them how to be responsible members of the community. It also affords them career experience that they may be able to use later in their lives.

The event also provided another example of how Saint Rose student-athletes embody a major prong of the College's mission statement to engage with the school's urban environment and thus help foster a sense of motivated and caring citizenship.