Next to the players themselves, a good public address announcer is often the most valuable person at a sporting event. In order to help pave the way for the next generation of men, women, boys and girls who can tell the crowd who scored, what the call was, and just as importantly, where to find the condiments, there'll be a clinic this coming weekend.

The National Association of Sports Public Address Announcers (NASPAA) will sponsor a clinic for aspiring basketball public address announcers this Saturday at 10 a.m. at Kenwood High, 501 Stemmers Run Road in Essex.

The session, which is scheduled to run for about three hours, will be conducted by Mac Barrett, the PA announcer for University of Maryland basketball games, and is open to anyone who wants to learn to announce high school games.

Matthew Bunch, a 2005 Kenwood graduate, was named the NASPAA's High School Announcer of the Year that year.