Mark Thomas and Family

We are very excited to have a successful and sports-based journalist in our ranks.  Mark Thomas is that person for DBAM.  A University of Maryland graduate in Journalism with a minor in Kinesiology gives Mark a unique perspective on what we do and a great way to articulate it.

Mark has experience as a sports producer for the Washington affiliate of Fox News and he also was a Washington Post High School Sports Show supervising producer, writer, and reporter.  He was also a co-host high school sports reporter for WTEM, 980 AM.  Mark was also the producer, writer, and videographer of the ‘Under the Shell’ TV shell in the early 2000s and he was also the producer, writer, reporter, and videographer of the US Men’s National Soccer Team, All-Access from 2004-2006.

In addition to his extensive experience with sports from the journalistic side, he also won the 1998 National Edward R. Murrow Award for Sports/Investigative Reporting on a story about Autograph and Memorabilia Fraud.

Mark has also won the prestigious Washington DC/Baltimore Emmy award in 2002 for Sports Programming for a Sports Segment.

Mark has lived so many aspects of the sports world, from the biggest sporting event on the planet to local playing fields and gyms. He was embedded within the U.S. Men’s National Soccer team at the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, he’s husband to a national championship winning women’s basketball coach (Brenda Frese, Maryland) and he’s been an involved dad, coaching his sons on youth soccer and basketball teams. His journey has granted him access to elite coaches, athletes, and trainers. From grassroots to the game’s grandest stage, Mark has seen it all.

Before becoming a husband and dad, Mark worked in sports TV in the Washington D.C. area, where he produced nightly sportscasts and covered local teams like the Washington Redskins, Wizards, Capitals, D.C. United and Baltimore Orioles. Mark also won awards for his years producing, writing, and reporting the Washington Post High School Sports TV Show, where he witnessed future superstars like Kevin Durant, Carmelo Anthony and many others in their youth stage of development.

Mark’s contribution to DBAM will be multifaceted.  His interest and experience in sports at all levels and incredible successful journalistic approach will better enable the DBAM team to not only build original and needed content/material, but also develop the best way to get such information to the public.  We are extremely excited that Mark is a part of DBAM.