Nick Coit celebrates 10 years with ABC 6 Sports

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) – Ten years is a long time in sports.

Players come and go. Championships are won and lost. Sports director Nick Coit has seen it all.

Coit celebrated his ten-year anniversary with the ABC 6 sports department on Tuesday.

Many athletes say that a decade of experience earns a player veteran distinction.

Covering a World Series, Stanley Cup Final, NBA Finals, four Super Bowls and countless collegiate and high school matchups, Coit has an extensive resume in the field.

Not to mention the many awards he has picked up along the way.

Coit is a four-time winner of the NSMA’s Rhode Island Sportscaster of the Year award – no other media member in the state has won the award more than once in that span.

First hired as a sports anchor back in 2014, Coit worked alongside renowned sports director Ken Bell, who won three-straight NSMA awards before retiring in 2017.

Coit won the next two years, continuing the tradition of the man who preceded him.

Current sports anchor Ian Steele has followed suit in ABC 6’s award-winning ways, picking up his own Sportscaster of the Year award in 2021.

Coit and Steele have worked alongside each other at WLNE for over half a decade.

Beloved in the community, fans, coaches and peers alike shared their congratulatory remarks as Coit passed the 10-year threshold with ABC 6.

Coit responded to each and every one, not that anyone who knows him would expect anything less.

With a freshly-minted decade of support behind him, Coit has more than earned his veteran distinction.