One of these coaches was Bill Doba, the pinnacle soccer coach of the Cougars at the moment. Washington State was coming off three-straight, 10-win seasons and at some point Tust confirmed up a pupil reporter and what he shortly realized was a closed apply.
When Tust and a fellow pupil reporter have been noticed by Doba, slightly than have them go away apply, the coach bent the foundations and allowed them to remain. He additionally frolicked speaking to the aspiring broadcasters and Tust was hooked.
In the summer time previous to his last semester at Washington State, Tust had summer time internship at FOX Sports Northwest (now ROOT Sports). On the primary day of his internship, he was assigned to interview reigning NFL MVP Shaun Alexander on the Seattle Seahawks’ minicamp.
“That was every day at FOX Sports Northwest,” Tust mentioned. “I fell even more in love with the idea of wanting to be a sports broadcaster.”
Tust is fast to credit score these round a him who took time to spend money on his dream.
“I had tremendous mentors, whether it be on camera people Angie Mentink, Brad Adam, Cara Capuano or on the production side Ayden Martin, Ross Miller, Pike Parker,” Tust recalled. “They were just awesome people I learned so much from.”
A fall 2006 graduate of Washington State, Tust was on observe to change into a producer at FOX Sports Northwest when he obtained a telephone name from Matt Loveless at KLEW TV in Lewiston, Idaho. The telephone name got here with a job provide to be the sports activities director on the station.
“I figured if I ever wanted to take a shot at being an on-air personality, this was my chance,” Tust mentioned. “So, I moved to Lewiston, Idaho to make $9 an hour.”
Working at KLEW gave Tust a chance to be his personal digicam man, editor whereas delivering a nightly sports activities report back to the group.
“I wanted to bring the big market standard I learned in Seattle to Lewiston and I think I did that to some extent,” Tust mentioned.
A 12 months a half later, Tust utilized for a place at KTVB and didn’t get it. Then, in July 2011, a sport anchor/reporter place got here open at KTVB and this time he was employed.