AppleSox Announce 2021 Broadcast Team

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The Wenatchee AppleSox will have two broadcasters for a season for the first time this summer.

Joel Norman returns for his third season as the “Voice of the AppleSox” and will be joined by Reily Chestnut this summer.

Chestnut is a 2019 graduate of Texas State University and worked as a morning show host and high school football and basketball play-by-play broadcaster for Hub City Radio in Aberdeen, South Dakota, after graduation. His most recent broadcasting work was calling Canyon High School football in New Braunfells, Texas, this past fall.

He was the sports director at Texas State’s radio station, KTSW-FM, in college and broadcast Bobcat baseball, softball, volleyball, soccer and basketball for the station while also hosting a show and a couple podcasts. In 2019 he was the TIPA Award Winner for “Best Live Sports Audio” after doing play-by-play of Texas State Volleyball’s first NCAA tournament win.

Norman graduated from West Virginia University in 2018 and called AppleSox games solo in 2018 and 2019. He left the team in March 2020 after being hired by the Fredericksburg Nationals (Low-A, Washington Nationals), but never started his job after COVID-19 cancelled the 2020 MiLB season and the team opted not to keep the position in budget cuts for the 2021 season.

Norman returned to Wenatchee this spring and broadcast Brewster High School football games on KOZI-FM Radio Lake Chelan for the third straight season. Last spring, he called Brewster basketball games, including their 2020 State Championship victory. He broadcast Wenatchee and Eastmont High School baseball games in 2019 for the NCWLIFE Channel. Norman wrote a book on the AppleSox in 2019 titled One Inning At A Time; 20 Years of Wenatchee AppleSox Baseball.

The 21st season in AppleSox history begins on June 1 against the Northwest Star Academy. Sunny FM will broadcast all 58 games for the seventh straight season AppleSox games can be heard all season long online at kcsyfm.com as well as on the radio at the following signals…

  • Wenatchee: 93.9 FM

  • East Wenatchee/Rock Island: 98.1 FM

  • Lake Chelan Valley: 95.3 FM

  • Brewster/Pateros: 101.3 FM

  • Okanogan Valley: 101.9 FM

  • Omak/Tonasket/Oroville: 97.7 FM

  • Methow Valley: 106.3 FM

For any media information, please email applesoxmedia@gmail.com

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