Quint Elroy Kessenich ( ; born November 22, 1967) is an American
sportscaster for
ABC
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and
ESPN
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television covering lacrosse, basketball, football, hockey, wrestling and
horse racing
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since 1993. He is a former All-American
lacrosse
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goalkeeper. He attended the
Johns Hopkins University
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from 1987 to 1990, where he was a two-time winner of the
Ensign C. Markland Kelly Jr. Award as the nation's best goalie. Kessenich played one year of professional lacrosse with the
Baltimore Thunder
The Baltimore Thunder were a member of the National Lacrosse League from 1987 until 1999. They were based in Baltimore, Maryland, and won the first Eagle Pro Box Lacrosse League (later the National Lacrosse League) championship in 1987. After th ...
in 1999, and played at the amateur level for the storied
Mount Washington Lacrosse Club
The Mount Washington Lacrosse Club is an amateur field lacrosse club based in Baltimore, Maryland. As one of the most successful and well-known lacrosse clubs in history, at one point it dominated the sport at both the collegiate and club level. Th ...
. He got his writing debut with a horse racing newspaper called The Saratoga Special, writing for brothers Joe and Sean Clancy in the famed horse racing town of Saratoga Springs. He is also a regular contributor to the lacrosse magazine,
Inside Lacrosse
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. He was a color commentator with
Joe Beninati
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or
Scott Garceau for Chesapeake Bayhawks games on
NBC Sports Washington
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and
ESPN3
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.
Kessenich attended
Lynbrook High School
Lynbrook High School (also referred to as Lynbrook or LHS) is a co-educational, public, four-year high school located in the West San Jose neighborhood of San Jose, California. It was founded in 1965 and graduated its first class in 1968.
Lynbr ...
in
Lynbrook, New York
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, where he starred in
soccer
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,
wrestling
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(winning two county championships) and lacrosse.
On November 29, 2013, Kessenich made national headlines when he interviewed an indignant
Bo Pelini
Mark Anthony "Bo" Pelini (born December 13, 1967) is a former American football coach and former player. He was most recently the defensive coordinator for the Louisiana State University Tigers football team. He is the younger brother of forme ...
at halftime of the
Iowa-Nebraska football game telecast on ABC in which the Nebraska coach responded to the reporter's inquiry on a pair of Cornhusker turnovers with "What do you think? What kind of question is that?" The incident came one week after
Michigan State Spartans football
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coach
Mark Dantonio
Mark Justin Dantonio (born March 9, 1956) is a former American football coach and player. He most recently served as the head football coach at Michigan State University, a position he had held from 2007 to 2019, presiding over one of the most ...
snapped at Kessenich during the halftime interview.
[Seth Rosenthal]
Bo Pelini shuts down a Quint Kessenich halftime question
''SB Nation'', November 29, 2013, retrieved November 29, 2013.
References
1967 births
Living people
American horse racing announcers
American lacrosse players
American sportswriters
American television sports announcers
College hockey announcers in the United States
College basketball announcers in the United States
College football announcers
Johns Hopkins Blue Jays men's lacrosse players
Lacrosse announcers
Mount Washington Lacrosse Club players
Lynbrook Senior High School alumni
National Lacrosse League announcers
Major League Lacrosse announcers
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