University of Minnesota Athletics
Gopher Digital Productions Live Team Receives B1G+ Award
6/26/2025 10:06:00 AM | Athletics, Gopher Digital
Minnesota was honored for Best Game Coverage – Spring
The Gopher Digital Productions Live Team was recently honored with a B1G+ Award.
In the third annual B1G+ Awards, the live team received the award for Best Game Coverage – Spring for its softball submission of Minnesota's April 12 game against Oregon.
Associate broadcast engineer Greg Spaeth was the engineer in charge of the game with the support of broadcast engineer Jake Davis.
Senior Sam Konstan handled play-by-play duties and was joined by analyst and Minnesota softball alum Erika Smyth.
Ten other Gopher Digital Productions staff members assisted with the award-winning production, and they were: Olivia Miller, Joe Krattley, Emma Lee, Dylan Peterson, Derek Johnson, Ben Keller, Isabelle Primeau, Malik Mitchell, Phoenix Ferrari and Caden Malek.
Gopher Digital Productions was formed in 2012 and is the video production arm of the University of Minnesota athletics department. It works with all 22 Golden Gopher sports in the areas of live broadcast and on-demand video.
In the third annual B1G+ Awards, the live team received the award for Best Game Coverage – Spring for its softball submission of Minnesota's April 12 game against Oregon.
Claire Nelson, under the leadership of senior producer and operations lead Callie Jones, was the broadcast producer for the game.🏆Best Game Coverage - Spring
— B1G+ (@BigTenPlus) June 25, 2025
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Associate broadcast engineer Greg Spaeth was the engineer in charge of the game with the support of broadcast engineer Jake Davis.
Senior Sam Konstan handled play-by-play duties and was joined by analyst and Minnesota softball alum Erika Smyth.
Ten other Gopher Digital Productions staff members assisted with the award-winning production, and they were: Olivia Miller, Joe Krattley, Emma Lee, Dylan Peterson, Derek Johnson, Ben Keller, Isabelle Primeau, Malik Mitchell, Phoenix Ferrari and Caden Malek.
Gopher Digital Productions was formed in 2012 and is the video production arm of the University of Minnesota athletics department. It works with all 22 Golden Gopher sports in the areas of live broadcast and on-demand video.
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