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Craig Choka ‘05
Craig is currently living in Raleigh, NC and is getting married to Elyse Bergamini on June 20th, 2015. Craig works for SportsMedia Technology (SMT). They specialize in virtual graphics/real time data and is most famous for providing the yellow "first down line" on football broadcasts, but their achievements are much more than that.
SMT provided the interfaced graphics of odds, ownership, jockey and trained for the Triple Crown. We take the data from the track, take it into our system, and spit it out in a way so it can be displayed within the broadcast. Every time you saw odds of any kind for the Derby/Preakness/Belmont they came from SMT. We also provided the "pointer" during the race. Only used in Belmont pointing at American Pharoah. During replays, it comes from the blimp. This is technology that literally looks like an arrow at the horse with the name at top of screen. Craig was in charge of the ticker; the "bottom line" that runs during the whole show with scrolling info for Belmont that was mostly free edits typed in. During the
race, Craig was operating the track map (top right corner) and the running order
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