Mark Brochin was recognized with a Virgil Sweet Award from the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association in 2025. Brochin is a retired sportscaster from southwest Indiana, working in the field from 1971 to 2021. He moved to Washington, Indiana, in 1982, covering games and doing local sports updates for 39 years. He worked mainly for The Original Company, where he produced and delivered 10 sportscasts each day on three Original Company stations.

Throughout his career Brochin was a play-by-play announcer for more than 2,000 contests, including boys' basketball, girls' basketball, football, baseball, softball, wrestling and swimming. He also provided color commentary for an additional 500 contests and was a part of boys' basketball and girls' basketball State Finals broadcasts in 26 different years. He also did spot reporting for golf, cross country, volleyball and tennis and wrote a weekly sports column for the Tri County News for several years.

Brochin was a recipient of the IHSAA Distinguished Media Service Award in 2011-12. He counts that as one of the greatest professional honors he has received. (April 2025)