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About AreaSports.net
About Us
AreaSports.net was established over 20 years ago in 2005 as the first broadcasting entity in southern Illinois to offer VIDEO STREAMING of Grade School and High School Sports events. The website and related platforms under the AreaSports umbrella were founded by Randy Olson, who began his sports broadcasting career 47 years ago in 1978 at WNOI Radio in Flora. Randy later worked in Burlington, Iowa at KBUR-KGRS and at a variety of radio stations in southern Illinois..
Randy was the co-founder of Christian Radio WVYN 90.9 The Vine in 2009 at Wayne City, Illinois. He was also selected as the Spring Training Correspondent for the St Louis Cardinals by KMOX Radio, the flagship station of the Cardinals, in 2016 where he did interviews with Cardinals players and others in the organization during Spring Training in Jupiter, Florida, in 2016. Rather than focusing on one team or school, AreaSports.net broadcasts games and provides media coverage from throughout the "Area" and Randy is often joined in the broadcast booth by long-time basketball official, Ron Stanart.
The platforms operated by AreaSports.net on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, are among the most popular and widely accessed sports platforms in the region, and include daily sports scoreboards, exclusive interviews, interesting stories, video highlights, spotlight on student-athlete achievements and more.
Randy is also a monthly feature writer for Jim Muir's Southern Illinois Sports Connection Magazine, where you can read a story written each month about an area coach or athlete, who Randy has sat down and interviewed in preparation for the written article.