UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- For the second consecutive year a student from the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism will cover the BCS National Championship Game as part of an agreement between the BCS and the Curley Center.

Jon Blauvelt, a senior broadcast journalism and political science major from Murrysville, Pa., will be on site in South Florida beginning Jan. 3 for the college football national championship game between Alabama and Notre Dame on Jan. 7. He will write stories about the game -- and all that surrounds it -- throughout the week.

His work will be featured on the BCS website and on a Curley Center site dedicated exclusively to Blauvelt's work.

Blauvelt is an avid sports fan who said he is "constantly moved by the role that sports plays in the lives of people across the globe."

Blauvelt, who is also completing a minor in Spanish, works as a sports reporter for Penn State Network TV and as the executive producer of "Penn State Sports Night." He's also actively involved with ComRadio, the Internet-based radio station housed in the College of Communications, and works for ESPN Radio 1450 in State College. In addition, Blauvelt works for the Penn State Center for Sustainability as a public relations and social media intern.

"I have worked extremely hard to make an opportunity like this become a reality," Blauvelt said. "To be cliche, getting the opportunity to cover the national championship and network with highly respected professionals in the business is a complete honor and dream come true."

He added that he is happy and thankful for the opportunity and is "so excited for what is to come in the next few weeks."

After his freshman year at Penn State, Blauvelt completed an internship with Clear Channel Radio in Pittsburgh. He worked with 105.9 The X and 970 ESPN as a production assistant. In addition, he covered the Pittsburgh Pirates and contributed content from the clubhouse and post-game news conferences to both stations.

Blauvelt attended Franklin Regional High School and was involved with the school's media department beginning in his sophomore year. He created, implemented and produced a sports segment for the school's news show called "Friday Sports Report," which aired live Friday mornings. During his senior year, Blauvelt worked as a high school sideline reporter for WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh, covering high school football and contributing content to the WTAE's highschoolplaybook.com page.

The John Curley Center for Sports Journalism, housed in the College of Communications at Penn State, explores issues and trends in sports journalism through instruction, outreach, programming and research. It was established as the first center of its kind in U.S. higher education in 2003.

The center was named in 2006 for John Curley, the first editor of USA Today and the former president, CEO and chairman of the Gannett Co. Curley was a founding co-director of the center who taught at Penn State in the Department of Journalism after his retirement from the newspaper industry.