The return of Transatlantic Storytelling is officially underway as 16 Ball State students have been selected to participate in the second iteration of the award-winning project with Cardiff Met University in Cardiff, Wales.
The highlight of the project will be a 12-day cultural immersion trip to Wales in late February and early March 2024. While on the ground, students will collaborate with their peers in the Cardiff Met Sport Broadcast course to produce feature stories, live sporting events, studio shows and podcasts.
Prior to the trip, students will research and collaborate with Cardiff Met students to develop stories to film during the immersion. This continues an on-going exchange of pedagogy, global sports production trends and virtual guest lectures and student connections.
2024 Ball State Team
Jack Ashby
Josh Brunette
Cameron Clift
Daulton Cox
Jackson DiVincenzo
Adam Duwel
Tristan Fluhr
Rachel Henderson
Jordan Klimes
Tyler Klimes
Griffin Leonard
Dominick Liacone
Nate Locker
Charlie Maurer
Andrew Willett
Claire Witte
In 2019, Ball State University and Cardiff Metropolitan University agreed to a five-year understanding which recognizes the mutual benefits of an educational partnership, which in part will lead to collaboration, opportunities, and faculty/student engagement.
In Spring of 2020, 12 students and 3 faculty members from the award-winning Ball State Sports Link program travelled to Cardiff, Wales as part of a cultural immersion. These students and faculty part in an immersive learning, global storytelling project to identify, develop and produce documentary stories on Welsh athletes.
While on the ground in Cardiff, for 12 days in late February to March, students worked together to capture footage, scenes, and interviews with the athletes. Upon return to the United States, students produced a 76-minute documentary, which premiered in June 2020.
The documentary aired on Ball State PBS, Comcast Indiana, ISC Sports Network in the United States. In the United Kingdom, the documentary premiered on FreeSports TV in over 18 million homes. Since premiering, Transatlantic Storytelling has garnered national and international awards, including a MUSE Creative and Design Platinum Award, a Silver Winner Telly Award, a Communicator Award, and a College Sports Media Award for Outstanding Program Series.