Hector Severeyn Garcia '13 M.S. is the sports anchor for Telemundo Atlanta, a premier award-winning Spanish-language television station in Duluth, Georgia. He anchors the 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. sports segments Monday through Friday for Noticiero Telemundo Atlanta, the local newscast that recently won the coveted News Excellence, Best Newscast, and Station Excellence awards at the 2017 Southeast Emmy Gala. Hector joined Telemundo Atlanta in March 2015 becoming the first sports anchor in the station’s history.
With over 10 years of experience in broadcasting, Hector has covered many world-renowned sporting events across the globe and earned a total of six individual Emmy Awards for his work, including Sports Reporter of the Year in 2015 and Sports Anchor of the Year in 2016. His pieces have gone beyond the sidelines and scoreboard, exploring human aspects in the field like the connection between an NBA basketball star and his mother in the Emmy winning news series “Arelis Reynoso: A Mother up to the Task” as well as the dreams of a Paralympics athlete in “Dreaming on Wheels: Working on the Paralympic Dream,” a piece that garnered another Emmy Statuette in the single news category. He has also been praised for his interviewing skills, earning another Southeast Emmy for “Nuestros Bravos,” a series of five interviews with Latino players in the Atlanta Braves organization where their tough upbringing, Hispanic idiosyncrasies and path to the Major Leagues are explored.
He has covered events like the College Football Playoff, Copa America Final, Copa Oro Semifinal, NBA Playoffs, Davis Cup of tennis, and World Cup Qualifiers in Brazil, Venezuela, Paraguay, and Argentina, just to name a few. In 2017 Severeyn reached his longtime goal of covering a Super Bowl when he reported for Telemundo Atlanta during Super Bowl LI in Houston, Texas.
Before moving to Georgia, Hector served as a sports anchor for Univision Orlando in Altamonte Springs, Florida. He won the 2014 Paoli Award for Hispanic Sports Anchor of the Year thanks to his work in Central Florida.
Hector received his Master of Science degree in Global Strategic Communication from Florida Institute of Technology.
Florida Tech - M.S. in Gloabl Strategic Communication '13
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