Tommy Castronovo had a taste of the big-time, and found it addictive.

The St. Francis product from Geneva is now a junior communications student at Hope College in Michigan with an interest in sports broadcasting. That interest was amplified in resounding fashion last week, when Castronovo had the chance to broadcast from the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament in New York for an audio stream on the tournament’s website.

Castronovo called the experience a “once-in-a-lifetime thing,” though deep down, he hopes that’s not the case. His enthusiasm for meeting that challenge has been rekindled.