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The Voice of the Colonials, the 2023-24 campaign marks Shovlin's 37th as the radio play-by-play announcer for both the football and men's basketball programs at RMU. He called his 1,000th RMU men's basketball game Dec. 9, 2020, at West Virginia and has missed just a handful of RMU football games in the history of the program since it was introduced in 1994. Shovlin has called each of RMU's last six trips to the NCAA Tournament (1989, 1991, 1992, 2009, 2010, 2015) as well as RMU's trips to the NIT (2008, 2013, 2014) and the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament (2012, 2019). In 2010, he called RMU's inaugural trip to the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) playoffs at North Dakota State. In 1998, Shovlin was honored with an Achievement in Radio (A.I.R.) Award with former football partner Jeff Waller for their call of RMU's victory over Georgetown in the 1997 ECAC Classic, and in 2008 he earned his third A.I.R. award with partner Jim Duzyk for their call of RMU's men's basketball victory at Boston College during the 2007-08 season. A native of Midland, Pa., Shovlin, the first inductee ever to be active at RMU at the time of enshrinement, was inducted into the Beaver County Sports Hall of Fame in April of 2006.