CAA Welcomes Griffin Della Penna And Amanda Poole To Conference Staff
Rob Washburn
RICHMOND, Va. (March 26, 2025) – CAA Commissioner Joe D’Antonio has announced the hiring of
Griffin Della Penna and
Amanda Poole as Directors of Creative Content and Reporter.
In their new roles, Della Penna and Poole will provide coverage from conference championships, develop video content that promotes student-athletes and coaches from around the CAA as well as assisting with social media initiatives and graphic design projects.
Della Penna comes to the CAA after receiving his master's degree from Syracuse University from the prestigious S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. During his time at Syracuse, Della Penna was featured in over 30 telecasts on ACC Network as a play-by-play commentator and studio host, covering basketball, lacrosse, softball, hockey, and volleyball. He previously received his undergraduate degree from Canisius University where he served as the school's multimedia reporter and was featured in over 100 ESPN+ broadcasts during his senior year in 2023. Della Penna returned to his alma mater to kick-off the 2024-25 academic year as the play-by-play voice for six different sports and was as a sideline reporter for men's and women's basketball before being named the Golden Griffins radio voice midway through the season.
To complete his degree at Syracuse, Della Penna worked for WPRI-TV in Providence, R.I as reporter for the New England Patriots during training camp in 2024. He also has broadcast experience with professional organizations like the Rochester Americans (American Hockey League) and Rochester Knighthawks (National Lacrosse League) as well as collegiately with the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.
Della Penna earned his undergraduate degree in Journalism and Strategic Communications from Canisius before securing a master's degree in Broadcast & Digital Journalism at Syracuse.
Poole joins the CAA following a three-year stint as a sports reporter at WACH FOX 57 in Columbia, S.C., where she helped cover the University of South Carolina, Clemson University, the Carolina Panthers and Charlotte FC in addition to serving as a sideline reporter for live high school football games. She helped chronicle the Gamecocks’ two national championship runs in women’s basketball as well as covering the Gator Bowl and the Cheez-It Bowl.
Poole also has extensive freelance broadcast experience. She was the primary analyst this season for Coastal Carolina women’s basketball on ESPN+, worked on digital broadcasts of South Carolina men’s and women’s basketball on the SEC Network and called volleyball and basketball games involving Duke, Wake Forest and NC State on the ACC Digital Network.
Poole earned her undergraduate degree in journalism from Michigan State University, where she worked as reporter for The State News and Impact89fm.