Carlos Garcia and Juan Mendez are both from Miami-Dade County, Florida, but they didn't meet until their freshman year at Penn State's University Park campus. Listen to them talk about how that first meeting, their love of sports and the shared pride in their heritage spurred a couple historic firsts for the Bellisario College, Penn State and the Big Ten.
On Oct. 8, 2023, Bellisario College students Carlos Garcia and Juan Mendez announced the Penn State women’s soccer match versus Ohio State in Spanish. It was the first time a university hosted a Spanish-language play-by-play broadcast on Big Ten Plus. In this episode, hear about the origin story of this historic broadcast, how Carlos and Juan prepared, and the feeling of triumph at the final whistle.