Alumni/ae Fellow Justin Kutcher '98

On Friday, April 24, Hopkins welcomed Justin Kutcher ’98 back to campus as an Alumni/ae Fellow. Justin spoke to the Hopkins community about his journey to becoming a sports broadcaster and play-by-play announcer, a journey that began here at Hopkins. While in the Junior School, Justin submitted a sports review to the Razor, and though that review wasn’t published, he became a sports writer for the school paper by the end of his Hopkins career. Justin told the students that he always knew he loved talking about sports and wanted to find a way to make his passion a career. He never turned down an opportunity to gain experience, whether working at his college TV and radio stations, doing research for other announcers or being flexible enough to drop everything to cover for a peer announcer at the last minute. There were years when Justin made barely enough money to pay rent and buy groceries, but he was committed to follow his dream. His hard work paid off and he now works for FOX Sports, and has had the opportunity to call games across the country for his favorite teams and work with some of his idols. 

Following assembly, Justin met with students and faculty in the Weissman Room where he fielded questions about his career, gender issues in sports, challenges he has faced and much more.
 

Please see the attached video to watch Justin’s assembly address.

Please see Justin’s biography below:

JUSTIN KUTCHER ’98 is currently a host and play-by-play announcer for FOX Sports, calling college football primarily. Before joining FOX, he spent three years broadcasting for ESPN, working as a play-by-play announcer for football, basketball, baseball, softball, volleyball, hockey and soccer. 

During his time at ESPN, Justin called everything from high school football and basketball to the NCAA Big East Basketball Tournament and NBA regular season games. He has also been one of the primary voices for ESPN’s college baseball coverage, broadcasting both the Regionals and Super Regionals, as well as the softball Super Regionals for the last three years. In addition, he has been the voice of the Under Armour High School All-America Football Game for two years, as well as the voice for the NCAA Men’s Volleyball National Championships.

Justin is a graduate of Boston University’s College of Communications, where he was the Sports Director of the student-run radio station, WTBU, for two years. Justin’s breakthrough television appearance came at the age of 12, when he was a contestant on the PBS game show Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?