From Side-Line Reporting to Play-By-Play Announcing, Our Sports Experts Give You an Inside Track to the Scores, Highlights, Big Plays, Bringing You Closer to the Game!
   | Brad Adam has been with ROOT SPORTS since June 2000 and in his current role provides the sights and sounds before and after every Mariners game as the Host of Mariners Pregame and Mariners Postgame. Not one to rest in the offseason, however, he is also a consistent presence on the network in the winter by handling play-by-play duties for high school and college football as well as college basketball telecasts. In 2018, Brad won an Emmy for is work as a sports anchor. Adam comes to the Northwest from familiar positions across the country. He began his career in Grand Junction, Colorado with KJCT-TV in 1994, then moved on to Charleston, South Carolina with WCIV-TV in 1995 and to Portland, Oregon with KATU-TV in 1997. During his stint in South Carolina, Adam received the Associated Press Award in 1996 for best sports story. The award-winning piece highlighted Dale Earnhardt at the Daytona 500. Raised in Southern California, Adam received a scholarship to Cal Lutheran University, where he played Division II basketball. After two years at Cal Lutheran, he then transferred to San Diego State and graduated in 1993 with a bachelor's degree in telecommunications and film. An avid golfer, Adam also enjoys snow skiing and sky diving. He's a proud husband to Heidi and father to their three daughters Halle, Haiden and Hutton (and he's forever getting the H's mixed up). |
   | Angie Mentink worked her way up from an intern to an Emmy award winning reporter and anchor at ROOT SPORTS. She is now one of the featured personalities on live events and team programs throughout the year. Her favorite assignment is getting inside the game with athletes for her Tricks of the Trade segments. Angie began her broadcasting career with the network as the Mariners beat reporter also providing color commentary for the network's softball telecasts. Her transition to sports television followed an accomplished athletic career as an All-American softball player in college and professionally with the Colorado Silver Bullets baseball team. Angie’s collegiate career first began at Central Arizona College where she was a two-time All-American and won two NJCAA National Championships. When the University of Washington added the sport of softball, she was a member of the inaugural team. Her single season records for batting average (.472) and stolen bases (59) as well as her career batting average (.429) record still stand today. Angie was the first Husky softball player to earn All-Pac 10 and All-American honors while topping the Pac 10 conference in hits, runs and stolen bases and then became the first softball player inducted into the Husky Hall of Fame. A childhood dream came true when Mentink joined a select few women to play professional baseball. As a member of the Colorado Silver Bullets, the first women's professional baseball team since 1954, Mentink toured the country taking on men's semi-pro teams in major league parks like the Kingdome, Shea Stadium and Coors Field. Pioneering what women can accomplish in sports is nothing new to Mentink who was the first female to play and letter in football as a linebacker and wingback at Taft High School in Woodland Hills, California. Angie is teaching her sons Jaxen and Chase to throw like Mommy and shoot like Daddy. Her husband Jarrett Mentink is a former Assistant Basketball Coach for Seattle Pacific University, where he remains a professor and writes children's books benefiting regional charities. |
   | A member of the ROOT SPORTS team since 2006, Jen Mueller is an Emmy-award winning producer and sports broadcaster. Jen specializes in creating Mariners content and dodging Gatorade baths during post-game interviews. Throughout her 25-year career she has been on the sidelines of NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, WNBA and college football and basketball games. Jen was honored for her work in the industry in 2022, as the recipient of the Keith Jackson Media Excellence Award presented by the Seattle Sports Commission. Her sideline responsibilities include the Seattle Seahawks radio broadcast. She’s been a part of the team broadcast since 2009. You can hear her every Sunday during football season providing stories from the sidelines and conducting postgame interviews from inside the locker room. In addition to her work on the sidelines, Jen is established as a business communication expert and the founder of Talk Sporty to Me. She delivers keynote presentations that motivate and inspire. Jen works with companies that want to level up their communication skills and provides actionable conversation strategies based on her locker room experiences and interviewing skills. You could say it’s an outside the box approach. Jen would call it thinking outside the box scores and she’s outlined her approach in the three books she’s published. In 2022 Jen combined her love of sports, TV and cooking in creating, “I Cook, You Measure” a show that’s part cooking instruction, part entertainment and all about connecting over food and wine. For every episode of the show a donation is made to nonprofits working to end food insecurity in our communities. To date, Jen has raised over $50,000 to combat hunger in the Pacific Northwest and regularly volunteers at the Issaquah Food Bank. And none of this was on her radar when she graduated from Southern Methodist University in 2000 with degrees in Broadcast Journalism and Public Policy. |
   | Aaron Goldsmith became part of the Mariners broadcast team in 2013 when he joined lead announcer Rick Rizzs, calling most spring training and regular season games for the Mariners Radio Network. Aaron also does play-by-play on ROOT SPORTS for a schedule of games, and is actively involved in non-game related broadcasting, including the Mariners Hot Stove League Show, Cactus League Report and Saturday Mariners Magazine. Aaron can also be seen on Saturday national telecasts for FOX and FS1 for several games. A St. Louis, Missouri native, Aaron graduated from Principia College in Elsah, IL, with a BA in history. After college he attended the Broadcast Center in St. Louis, earning a certificate in Radio Broadcasting and Production. He spent the 2012 season as the lead announcer for the AAA Pawtucket Red Sox, calling all 144 PawSox games on the club’s 14-station network, as well as handling 10 telecasts. Aaron was the co-host of the weekly PawSox Insider radio show and was the author of the highly-regarded MLB.com blog, 45 Miles from Fenway. Prior to joining Pawtucket, Aaron spent the 2010 and 2011 seasons as the radio broadcaster for the Frisco RoughRiders, the Double-A affiliate of the Texas Rangers. He also served as the team’s Manager of Broadcasting/Media Development. In 2009, Aaron was the broadcaster/studio host for the Portland Sea Dogs, the Red Sox AA affiliate in the Eastern League. Aaron began his broadcast career in 2007 with the Gateway Grizzlies in the independent Frontier League and called the Bourne Braves games in the Cape Cod Baseball League in 2008. Aaron lives in Seattle, with his wife Heather and son, Jackson. |
   | Ryan Rowland-Smith is a former Major League pitcher and now is an on-air analyst on the Mariners Pre and Postgame shows, the MLB Network, in the booth for the Seattle Mariners, and the host of your Mariners weekly show, The Top Step. Ryan was born and raised in Newcastle, Australia, and carved out 17 years of professional baseball. The Aussie burst into the Major Leagues, making his debut with the Seattle Mariners in 2007 and famously struck out the first hitter he faced, Hall of Famer Ken Griffey Jr. In addition to his four seasons in Seattle, Ryan had stops with the Astros, Cubs, Red Sox & the Diamondbacks. He represented Australia in the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, winning a silver medal. Ryan was also a part of the team in three World Baseball Classics from 2013 to 2023, two as a player and one as a broadcaster. Ryan was the first Major League Pitcher to compete in American Ninja Warrior in Seattle in 2019. "One of the most intimidating and nerve-racking experiences I've ever had. These challenges are ones I never want to shy away from." From signing as a long shot out of Australia and working his way to the Major Leagues to being the first and only Australian full-time analyst on the MLB network, Ryan brings a unique perspective to the game and journey like no other. He has always been involved in the community, hosting the Mariners Care Cystic Fibrosis Foundation golf tournament and was nominated for the Roberto Clemente award in 2010. |
   | Dave Valle is a 13-year Major League veteran who played with the Seattle Mariners, Boston Red Sox, Milwaukee Brewers and the Texas Ranges from 1984-1996. The former catcher went into the broadcast booth starting in 1997 with the Mariners and has been a part of their radio and TV broadcasts ever since. Dave joined the ROOT SPORTS team in 2010. He has also been a part of MLB Network's Baseball Tonight Show since its inception in 2009. In 1995, Dave started a non-profit foundation called Esperanza International that serves the poor in the Dominican Republic and Haiti through microfinance, healthcare and educational opportunities. Since its creation, Esperanza International has dispersed over 200,000 loans with a 98% repayment rate and has partnered with over 200 schools in need of assistance. |
