COLUMBIA, S.C. — Nick Harvey attended a South Carolina Stingrays game before he was even born.
On Jan. 15, 2002 his parents Laurie and Richard Harvey watched the Stingrays defeat the Charlotte Checkers, 5-3, at North Charleston Coliseum. Less than 12 hours later, Nick was born in his family’s hometown of Walterboro, South Carolina, about an hour away from the stadium.
Today, Harvey is in his first year at the University of South Carolina and has his dream internship: He’s the color commentator for his beloved Rays, a passion he inherited not just from his parents, but a man he never met: His uncle, also named Nick Harvey, a longtime sports talk show host on the ESPN radio affiliate in Charleston, and a Stingrays season ticket holder.