February 4, 2026
Growing up the child of two seasoned sports journalists, it’s only fitting that Arden would be picking up tips and tricks from her parents as she follows in their footsteps to pursue sports media at the College of Journalism and Mass Communications.
When she saw a last-minute opportunity to call the Las Vegas Bowl for the 90.3 KRNU student radio station, Arden ended up asking for more from her parents than just advice.
“I was going to be in Phoenix already for a tournament,” says Arden, a student athlete on Husker Women's Golf team and regular KRNU broadcaster, “so I texted my professor, Bill Doleman, just to ask what the odds were that I could go down and call game for KRNU since I was so close.”
Her professor ran with the idea, working with CoJMC staff to get KRNU accredited and send Arden off with the right gear. When Arden was unable to find another student to call the game, she turned to the next available sports journalist for a broadcast partner: her dad.
“We’ve always talked about calling a game together — it’s kind of been a big dream of ours forever, but we never really saw how we could make it happen.”
The radio voice for the Utah Jazz, Arden’s father David worked the bowl game — and his Husker football homework — into his tight professional schedule.
“He thinks very highly of all my peers that I usually call games with and sees the amount of work they put in, so he didn't want to let any of them down,” Arden says. “He and I both very much viewed it as a professional job.”
A professional job required a professional spotter (someone who supports the on-air broadcasters), so the pair naturally brought in Arden’s mom to fill the role. A veteran of the Seattle professional sports beat before retiring when Arden was young, her mother Akemi Louchheim has been a continued influence on her development as a journalist.
"Watching old videos of my mom and talking with her helps me a lot," Arden says. "Sideline hits, where you only have 30 seconds to give your story, are the thing I'm most nervous about. She's been great at giving me different cues to help my personality come through, like telling me to pretend I'm telling the story to her. Picturing my mom behind the camera has been a really cool trick I've used."
In the booth with both her parents in Las Vegas, the insights kept coming.
“It was so amazing because they could give me feedback in real time during breaks. I’ve listened to my dad on the radio my whole life, but actually broadcasting with him was such a cool learning experience.”
While it was all business on the air, it was another thing when the game clock hit zero.
“We’re both big saps — the second the game ended we both took off our headsets and started crying.”
Arden Louchheim is a junior sports media & communication major from Park City, Utah.