Patrick Kinas
Director of Broadcasting
mudcatslive@aol.com

Patrick Kinas returns for his 10th season behind the mic for the Mudcats, anchoring all 140 broadcasts. Kinas, a 16-year professional baseball veteran, began his career in 1993 with the Clinton (Iowa) LumberKings of the Midwest League (MWL). From there, he continued his career in the MWL with the Kane County (IL) Cougars in 1997, before joining the Mudcats just prior to the 1999 season.

This March, Kinas completed his seventh full season as the voice of the North Carolina State University Wolfpack woman's basketball program in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) on the Wolfpack Radio Network, including a majority of games heard nationally on XM Satellite Radio. Kinas also broadcasted select games from the 2005 Men's ACC Tournament on the statewide Wolfpack Radio Network, along with selected webcasts of ACC Women's Tournament on ACC Select games in Greensboro, NC. Additionally, Kinas has work on the television side for Comcast Sports South (CSS) for select Southern League telecasts. Prior to his time with NC State, Kinas had a two-year stint as the football and men's basketball voice for the Elon Phoenix, a Division I member of the Southern Conference.

In October 2001, as a part of a fundraiser entitled "Mudcats for America", Kinas broke the Guinness Book of World Records mark for marathon bowling, rolling for 34 hours and 23 minutes consecutively, while the Mudcats raised $5,015 for the September 11th Fund. The Mudcats welcomed dignitaries, celebrities, sponsors and hundreds of the team's fans to this event held at Buffalo Lanes in Cary, NC, to support the families victimized by the terrorists in New York and Washington, DC.

Kinas received his M.A. in Radio/TV/Film from Northwestern (IL) University in 1994, two years after completing his undergraduate degree in Business and Communication at Millikin (IL) University in 1992. While at Millikin, he served as the radio voice of the Millikin Big Blue football and basketball teams. Kinas, an all-conference tennis player while at MU, still holds the all-time school record for singles, double and career victories. State-ranked as a junior player, Kinas won the Raleigh City Open in 2002.