AggieJohn
09-01-2005, 08:24 AM
Former Texas A&M football player and former sideline radio reporter Chris Valletta will be a contestant on Donald Trump’s original series The Apprentice 4 which will premier on Sept. 22 on NBC, the network said Wednesday.
Valletta, originally from Plano, Texas, lettered for A&M from 1997-2000. After a collegiate career that saw him play in every game, Valletta, 27, played in the NFL for New Orleans, Tennessee, and Tampa Bay.
He spent the last two football seasons serving as the radio sideline reporter for the Texas A&M Sports Network.
Trump hand-picked the cast of 18 young entrepreneurs for the next installment of the successful series.
"For the first time, I hand-picked an Apprentice cast and I'm thrilled with the results," Executive Producer Trump said in an NBC Universal news release. "This is the best reality show cast I've ever encountered. They have it all: beauty, brains, and big bucks."
Valletta earned a B.S. in speech communications and rhetoric with a minor in political science from A&M.
He currently works in advertising sales as an executive at KRLD News Radio 1080-AM in Dallas, where he was recently named "salesperson of the year," for generating over $1,500,000 in new revenue and breaking the company's 79-year record for first year sales.
During this time, he started a company called Big Tree Investments LLC., a transactional real estate company that uses land trusts to acquire and wholesale properties.
In 2004, Valletta and his wife Lacie founded C&L, Inc., which operates their 100-acre tree farm in East Texas, where they raise and harvest pine trees for long-term investment growth. He and his wife enjoy traveling and spending time on their ranch.
For more information on The Apprentice 4, go to nbc.com.
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Valletta, originally from Plano, Texas, lettered for A&M from 1997-2000. After a collegiate career that saw him play in every game, Valletta, 27, played in the NFL for New Orleans, Tennessee, and Tampa Bay.
He spent the last two football seasons serving as the radio sideline reporter for the Texas A&M Sports Network.
Trump hand-picked the cast of 18 young entrepreneurs for the next installment of the successful series.
"For the first time, I hand-picked an Apprentice cast and I'm thrilled with the results," Executive Producer Trump said in an NBC Universal news release. "This is the best reality show cast I've ever encountered. They have it all: beauty, brains, and big bucks."
Valletta earned a B.S. in speech communications and rhetoric with a minor in political science from A&M.
He currently works in advertising sales as an executive at KRLD News Radio 1080-AM in Dallas, where he was recently named "salesperson of the year," for generating over $1,500,000 in new revenue and breaking the company's 79-year record for first year sales.
During this time, he started a company called Big Tree Investments LLC., a transactional real estate company that uses land trusts to acquire and wholesale properties.
In 2004, Valletta and his wife Lacie founded C&L, Inc., which operates their 100-acre tree farm in East Texas, where they raise and harvest pine trees for long-term investment growth. He and his wife enjoy traveling and spending time on their ranch.
For more information on The Apprentice 4, go to nbc.com.
http://aggieathletics.com/images/headlines/full/valletta-apprentice.jpg