Feb. 3—Cary Clayborn woke up Friday morning as a finalist for a job he might as well have dreamed up overnight.
On Wednesday, the Flowery Branch resident auditioned against 11 other candidates to become the public address announcer for the Atlanta Braves. If selected, he'll soon be the next resounding voice heard by more than 41,000 fans at Truist Park when the Braves take the field Opening Day.
The road that led Clayborn, 46, to the announcers' booth at Truist Park Wednesday began in college, when he and 10 others at Georgia Southwestern State University — without any real broadcasting program at the time — pieced together an entire operation of their own.