Matt Tedino Profile

Matt Tedino is a senior at St. John’s University with dreams of being a high school sports reporter. His dream is in his grasp, as he currently interns at The Daily News. He covers weekly games of football and soccer and loves that they’re almost always outdoors, which he sees as an added benefit of a great opportunity. He is also an avid sports fan when he doesn’t have to write game stories as well, and admits that his favorite NBA team is the Boston Celtics and his favorite player is Paul Pierce. The Celtics isn’t the only connection Matt hopes to have with the city of Boston though.

The 21 year old grew up in Bergenfield, New Jersey and loves the town he’s from but is unsure whether he wants to live there as a young adult. “I don’t know where I want to live permanently, but I definitely want to live in Boston for a few years, especially in the city, its gotta be the city because I just love being there, I like the vibe and staying there for a few years would be great.”

He’s got another place he hopes live for a few years before he settles down, which is California. “I’d like to live in San Fran for a few years, you can’t beat the weather and I love the community aspect of it,” he said.

Even though he wants to live somewhere other than his hometown New Jersey, he can’t deny the influence it has had on him, and credits his father for it. “My father went to St. John’s too, he majored in Pharmacy and I can’t remember what year he graduated, even though he’s mentioned it several times,” said Tedino as he laughed.

However he does vividly remember the first time he father mentioned that he was an alumni of St John’s and he knew right then that that’s where he wanted to go, however his subject of study wouldn’t be chosen until much later.

It wasn’t until senior year of high school when he decided that he wanted to be a journalist. He explains that he didn’t choose it because it was the only subject he wasn’t lacking  it, but as the only one he didn’t have to try, instead it just came to him. “I was good at most subjects because I studied them, writing was different, because it just worked,” said Tedino.

Aside from sports, his favorite hobby is listening to music. After claiming that he “dabbles in the rap game,” he named his favorite rapper of the moment, the Brooklyn native known as Joey Bada$$. His favorite thing about the up and coming rapper is that he brings back the old hip-hop sound, and recommends that an skeptic should listen to the mix tape titled “1991” and dare say different.

As of late, Matt hasn’t been listening to much rap/hip-hop, instead he’s been getting into a lot of house music, namely Morgan Page an electro house DJ based in LA.

After explaining why he likes house music and hip-hop he admits that its not is favorite thing to blast through his headphones. That special privilege is reserved for the smooth sounds of the saxophone of course.

There is no word on whether or not this may lead to a career change, though.