Quint Elroy Kessenich ( ; born November 22, 1967) is an American sportscaster for

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and

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television covering lacrosse, basketball, football, hockey, wrestling and

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since 1993.

Career

Kessenich is a former All-American

lacrosse Lacrosse is a contact team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game w ...

goalkeeper. He attended

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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

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in 1999, and played at the amateur level for the storied Mount Washington Lacrosse Club. 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

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. He is also a regular contributor to the lacrosse magazine, ''

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''. He was a color commentator with Joe Beninati or Scott Garceau for

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games on

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and

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. Kessenich attended Lynbrook High School in

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, where he starred in

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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 LSU Tigers football, Louisiana State University Tigers football team. He is the youn ...

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

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coach

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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 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 People from Long Island Lacrosse players from New York (state) {{US-lacrosse-bio-stub