Rylan Kobre was named the Manager, PR & Broadcasting in March 2024 and serves as the primary play-by-play broadcaster for the Express.
Kobre joined the organization in May 2022 as Manager, PR & Communications before taking on the play-by-play role. Prior to joining the Express, he served as the Director of Athletic Communications and Broadcasting for Trinity Christian College in Chicago, Illinois, where he also spent time broadcasting for Saint Xavier University and Loyola University Chicago.
Kobre’s time as a play-by-play broadcaster in professional baseball includes stops at the Augusta GreenJackets in 2019 and 2021 and the Boise Hawks in 2018. He initially got his start in 2017 as the broadcaster for the Kenosha Kingfish of the Northwoods League.
In 2018, Kobre graduated from Boise State University with a bachelor’s in Communications & Media Studies and earned his master’s in Journalism from Northwestern University in 2021.
He was born and raised in Santa Rosa, California located an hour north of San Francisco. When he’s not at Dell Diamond, he enjoys playing golf, strolling around Austin, watching the Golden State Warriors or cheering on Boise State athletics.
Walk-up song: Baba O’ Riley – The Who
