The first of up to 18 Ball State Sports Link productions this semester airs Sunday as Ball State gymnastics welcomes Eastern Michigan and Illinois State to Worthen Arena.  The meet is scheduled for 1 p.m. on ESPN 3.

Senior Aaron Hepp is the executive producer, while junior J.C. Obringer will direct.

Senior Tyler Bradfield, who ranked No. 2 in the nation in the 2015 Jim Nantz Award for outstanding collegiate broadcasters, will handle the play-by-play.

Bradfield will be joined by former Ball State gymnast Brooklyn Schumacher and digital sports production freshman Morgan Landes.

ESPN3 is ESPN’s live multi-screen sports network, a destination that delivers thousands of exclusive sports events annually.

It is accessible online at WatchESPN.com, on smartphones and tablets via the WatchESPN app and streamed on televisions through Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick, Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.

The network is currently available to more than 99 million homes at no additional cost to fans that receive their high-speed Internet connection or video subscription from an affiliated service provider.

The network is also available at no cost to approximately 21 million U.S. college students and U.S.-based military personnel via computers, smartphones and tablets connected to on-campus educational and on-base broadband and Wi-Fi networks.

Sunday’s meet is the first of up to 18, full student-productions which will air on ESPN 3 between now and April.  The tentative schedule is below.