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was off and running once he got here.”
While not in the classroom where, by
the way, he also excels (he’s a member of
the Lambda Pi Eta Honor Society, which
recognizes excellence in communications),
Mallett does paid freelance work for several
area high schools, including Lynnfield,
Newburyport, and Pingree. He also covers
several sports at Boston College, where he was
also responsible for editing teams’ social media
and producing game and year-in-review
recaps. He was recently retained to shoot the
2024 NCAA Frozen Four hockey regional
tournament that’s being hosted by UNH.
He’s been a regular fixture at Pioneers’
athletic contests for years. Mallett said
one of the highlights of his young career
was shooting the Pioneers’ boys soccer
championship game against Monomoy
last fall in Scituate. The Pioneers won
that game, securing their first-ever state
title.
Mallett admitted that he just couldn’t
help throwing objectivity to the wind.
“I’ll always be a Pioneer and that’s
why I prioritize Lynnfield when it
comes to taking assignments,” he said.
“That game was surreal. I found myself
getting distracted as a fan, to be honest.
I know you’re expected to be objective,
but it was impossible that game.”
Mallett estimates he shoots, on average,
more than a game a day. While he’s been
pressed into service in almost every sport, his
favorite sport to shoot is — you guessed
it — football.
He is currently interning as a video editor
at TorchPro, a sports-media network churning
out MLB, NBA, and NHL player videos,
“Pass the Torch” podcasts, and newsletters.
Mallett said the highlight of his experience
with TorchPro was a video he produced
for company co-founder Joe Pavelski, who
reached a Stanley Cup with the Dallas Stars
in 2020.
“He posted that on his Instagram and the
Dallas Stars Instagram, so that was really cool
to have my video on the Dallas Stars’ social
media,” Mallett said. “It was a moment when
I thought this was just really cool.”
Mallett’s resume is truly a who’s who of
the sports-media world. He worked as a
video editor intern for DraftKings’ “Name
Redacted” and “Baseball is Dead” podcasts.
He’s produced videos and social-media
content for NFL players A.J. Dillon and
Nyheim Hines. He served as a video editor
for the “Join me in Miami” blog and has done
other work as a freelance blogger under the
name BmalMedia.
He spent four months working as a video
editor for the 33rd Team, a company founded
by former NFL executive Mike Tannenbaum,
producing 45-60-second football hype,
highlight, and analysis videos.
His favorite thing about doing what he
does is seeing the feedback he gets after
posting his videos and all the interesting
people he meets along the way.
“It’s seeing the joy on their faces and
hearing the feedback that is the best part of
it for me,” Mallett said. “I get to develop real
relationships with people, which is awesome,
and through that I get to chase down great
stories and capture them on video. I’ve always
been a people person, so being able to have so
much fun doing that while making a living is
the best of everything.”
The worst part of being a videographer?
Two things — challenging weather
conditions and sleep deprivation.
Last fall, he shot an Endicott football game
in what he described as a “monsoon.”
“I was drenched even before the start of the
game,” he said. “And definitely not getting
enough sleep is hard, as I’m just trying to
get in as much as possible, especially on the
weekends because of the short turnarounds
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