Bio

Harrison Watt begins his sixth year as Ferris State's Athletics Communications Associate in 2022-23. In his role, Watt also serves as the play-by-play voice for the Bulldogs' NCAA Division I hockey program. 

At Ferris State, Watt helped create the Creative Team Internship and has overseen the growth of the Creative Team Internships that have produced multiple award winning videogrpahers that have moved on to work in the Big Ten, Big 12, the Professional Crossfit Stage, NFL Network and more.

Entering the 2022-23 season, Watt has appeared on 243 Bulldog Hockey broadcasts dating back to October of 2014, and is at 194 career games called as the play-by-play voice of Ferris State Hockey.

During the 2016-17 academic year, Watt served in an interim role as the Bulldogs' hockey voice while also assuming additional athletics communications responsibilities following the departure of former Athletics Communications Associate Jared Shafran to the East Coast Hockey League in October. He was selected from a pool of more than 70 applicants for the position.

While at FSU, Watt has served as the Bulldogs' play-by-play voice for hockey and assisted in various facets such as social media, gameday operations, video production and more on the athletics communications staff. He spent two seasons as FSU's hockey color commentator and has also worked previously as an athletics communications intern for Ferris State Athletics.

Before joining FSU Athletics, Watt served as the editor of the school's student newspaper, the FSU Torch, after originally starting his collegiate journalism carer as a sports reporter and the Bulldogs' hockey beat reporter for the publication. In addition, he's also served as a contributing writer for Ferris State Athletics' official website, FerrisStateBulldogs.com.

A Birmingham (Mich.) native, Watt has won several awards during his multimedia career to date, including the Ferris State Torch's 2013 Joseph B. Tierney Award as Outstanding Freshman Journalist and two place awards in the Michigan Collegiate Press Association's annual statewide competition. He also earned honors in sports feature from the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association.

As part of his role at Ferris State, Watt plays a key role in developing video and multimedia content along with social media messaging for all 17 of Ferris State's athletic programs. He also helps oversee video board production and operation while assisting in media relations, marketing and promotional functions in addition to broadcast and communications initiatives.

Meanwhile, as the play-by-play voice of Ferris State Hockey, Watt calls the action for flagship radio station Sunny 97.3 FM along with FSU's live audio and video streaming package on the Bulldog Sports Network and CCHA TV. He also serves on the department's external operations team to help promote and market all 17 Bulldog programs.

Watt was married this past summer. He and his wife Kacie and dog Murphy live in Grand Rapids.