BRIDGEPORT, Pa. — The CWPA Remote interview series continues as former University of Michigan Assistant Director of Athletics Communications, Harvard University Water Polo Operations Assistant and The Full-On Sports Hub (FOSH) co-creator Ryan Sosin talks with Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) Director of Communications Ed Haas.
A four-time CWPA Western Division Sports Information Director (SID) of the Year with honors in 2008, 2009, 2010 (co-recipient with former Indiana University SID Doak Henry) and 2011, he served as the primary contact for the Wolverines’ women’s water polo, women’s soccer, men’s and women’s swimming and baseball teams during his tenure in Ann Arbor. In his four-year tenure as an Assistant Director of Media Relations at Michigan, the water polo team won the CWPA Eastern Championship three times (2008, 2009, 2011) and the men’s swimming and diving team won the Big Ten Championship in 2010-11. A 2007 Michigan alum and Bloomfield Hills, Mich., native , he helped his alma mater host the 2011 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Women’s Water Polo Championship prior to departing for graduate school.
The recipient of a Master of Business Administration from Boston University in 2013, Sosin returned to the sport of water polo as the inaugural Operations Manager for the Harvard men’s and women’s programs from January 2013-to-April 2014.
He has remained in the Boston market and has prior experience in development, business and technology with StubHub, Hudl, Sideline Swap, the National Broadcasting Company’s NBC Digital News division and most recently as a Senior Product Manager with Rightpoint.
However, his most influential contribution to the sport of water polo was the creation of The Full-On Sports Hub which ushered in a new era for water polo sports information for the 2014 NCAA men’s season with the launch of The FOSH for Water Polo. The leader in the field of web-based statistics for water polo, The FOSH for Water Polo provides a platform for inputting game events as they happen and publishing them in real-time via its FOSH Live feature. The platform also allows school’s to provide online box scores, individual and team statistical reports, and on-demand national, conference and tournament leaderboards.
Sosin and David Danese, a three-year letterwinner as a member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) men’s soccer team, conceived of the platform as classmates at the Boston University Graduate School of Management.
Drawing on his experience from covering other sports, Sosin devised of a platform that would provide an intuitive method of collecting and tracking statistics for collegiate water polo, and thus address the sport’s need for a state-of-the-art method for recording and disseminating game data. Their efforts gave rise to a preliminary version of The FOSH, with a notable new feature – the ability to stream live game statistics to internet users, so that fans could follow the action in real-time.
Fans of the sport relished the opportunity to follow NCAA action live online from locations across the globe, with viewers checking in from Hungary, Brazil, Japan, Canada and New Zealand, in addition to the United States. Because of it’s Web-based design, The FOSH allowed fans to follow the action from their desktop to their mobile phones and tablets without missing a play.
More information on the product is available at https://www.thefosh.net.
