Jeremy Otto
Episode 233
17 JULY 2023
He serves as the radio voice of Michigan State softball and #2 for volleyball, plus fill-in for the University of Toledo, as well as various championships for the Michigan High School Athletic Association. His past roles have included being the lead voice of the United Shore Professional Baseball League, DePaul University softball, and various other free-lance opportunities. During college he interned in the radio booth with Major League Baseball’s Detroit Tigers, after which he landed the job as the TV broadcaster for Detroit Mercy. He is also entering his tenth year as the voice for Salem Media Group Detroit’s Catholic Football League on their news talk station, the Patriot. He had even been “recruited” and given an athletic scholarship to start a broadcasting program at Marygrove College.
Notable guest quotes:
“My Catholic schooling definitely was at the heart of my faith formation. I started at St. Joan of Arc in St. Clair Shores from kindergarten all the way to eighth grade, moved on to U of D Jesuit High School in Detroit… and then I started at Marygrove College… and then I transferred midway to Madonna University.”
“My grandma had a very key place… I thank her to this day for allowing me to be in a position to go to Catholic school.”
“Everything happens for a reason, right? God kind of places you in the right situation, ya’ know, has those heavenly and maybe on earth guardian angels to help you through.”
“Every Sunday (Detroit Tigers) home game… they would have a little Catholic Mass just in the… interview room… Sometimes there would be athletes in there, there was members of the GM’s staff as well, and the front office had the chance to go down and receive the Eucharist and kind of celebrate Mass in an unfamiliar setting.”
“There’s definitely a faith life around campus as well, which is kind of cool to see, and, ya’ know, hear players tie into it as well.”
“Just like a lot of minor league baseball teams, they would have a specific night… And one of their promotions each year that I was there was Catholic Night… But that was kind of neat to integrate that into broadcasts.”
“They had a priest, I believe each time, say a prayer and then they would have a representative, I believe from the Archdiocese of Detroit, who threw out a first pitch, so that was kind of cool.”
“I do a lot of travel in the Big Ten here lately as well so we’re staying in cities that usually have walkable churches, so that’s nice and going to some of the bigger cities and seeing the cathedrals.”
