Twin Tiers Overtime - Episode 52 Garrette Briggs

Posted: Jul 27, 2023 / 06:40 PM EDT

Updated: Jul 27, 2023 / 06:41 PM EDT

ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM) – Twin Tiers Overtime is back with a brand new episode!

Join hosts Nick Ketter and Kyle Nuss as they welcome guest Garrette Briggs. Briggs is a Horseheads native and lacrosse standout. Briggs earned a Section IV Title with the Blue Raiders, notched All-American status at Alfred University, and has now found success in Australia.

The Horseheads grad earned two MVP trophies in two years, since moving to Australia, as well as a Senior Men’s National Championship. In 2022, Briggs won the O.C Isaachsen Trophy with the North Eagles Lacrosse Club. This season, Briggs dominated in the face-off circle to help Team South Australia win their first Lacrosse Australia Senior Men’s National Championship in 14 years. For his effort on the field, the Saxons standout earned the 2023 Don Hobbs Trophy, as the best and fairest player in the tournament.

18 Sports has a deeper look at the success Briggs has had in Australia in a recent feature package.

Tiers Overtime is a Two-Time NYSBA award winning, bi-weekly sports talk show dedicated to the Twin Tiers only on mytwintiers.com/sports. You can watch past episodes on our Twin Tiers Overtime page: https://www.mytwintiers.com/twin-tiers-overtime/

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Twin Tiers Overtime is the new sports show serving the Elmira-Corning regional area hosted by WETM’s own Kyle Nuss and Nick Ketter. Overtime highlights the local/regional sports scene with discussions and interviews with athletes, coaches, and more.

Kyle Nuss

Born and raised in Elmira, NY, Kyle developed a passion for sports at a young age from reading the local sports sections, watching as much ESPN as humanly possible, and following his favorite teams the Yankees, NY Rangers, and NY Jets. Kyle went on to form his own sports website Twin Tiers Sports where he covered local sports and worked as a beat writer covering the Elmira Jackals for The Sin Bin.net. Kyle also interned with the Elmira Pioneers for two seasons and WETM-TV in the Sports department before joining the WETM-TV production department in October of 2018.

Nick Ketter

Nick is a Horseheads High School alumni, a former sports intern at WETM-TV, and a current newscast director at WETM-TV. He attended Corning Community College and is a proud graduate of SUNY Oswego. At Oswego, he covered several of the school’s teams through the broadcasting club WTOP-10. Nick was on the broadcast team for the award-winning NCAA D-III Basketball Tournament broadcasts and an award-winning Oswego vs. Plattsburgh “Whiteout Game” broadcast. Nick also held the Sports Package Coordinator position at WTOP-10 allowing him to further cover the teams. Nick gained on-air experience as a sports anchor. Nick’s love of sports goes back to his youth when he was a multi-sport athlete in several leagues in Basketball, Baseball, Hockey, Track, and Football.

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