Nick Badders is in his 4th season as the team's play-by-play broadcaster for all home and road games after joining the Storm Chasers in January 2023. The 2026 season marks Nick's 10th season on the air in professional baseball, his 7th in affiliated Minor League Baseball and 6th in the Kansas City Royals organization. Prior to coming to Omaha, Nick spent the 2021 and 2022 seasons as the radio broadcaster for the Northwest Arkansas Naturals, Kansas City's Double-A affiliate.

In March 2025, he was the recipient of the Kansas City Royals' 2024 Matt Minker Award, which annually recognizes an outstanding Royals minor league affiliate employee. Nick has also called games for the Kansas City Royals as a fill-in broadcaster for the Royals Radio Network, in September 2023 and August 2025.

He has held similar roles with the Melbourne Aces (Australian Baseball League) from 2019 to 2021, the Elizabethton Twins (Advanced Rookie, Minnesota Twins) in 2019 and Sonoma Stompers (independent Pacific Association) in 2018. In addition to his work on the air in Minor League Baseball, the Livermore, California native has called games for the Arkansas Razorbacks on SEC Network + and the Razorback Sports Network from Learfield as well as for the Creighton Bluejays on the BIG EAST Digital Network.

Nick began his broadcasting career at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, where he called a variety of Sun Devil events for the Pac-12 Networks digital platform and Blaze Radio ASU, the student radio station, until he graduated in May of 2020. He helped launch coverage of ASU's women's club ice hockey team, calling play-by-play and organizing broadcast crews, also coordinating content production.

When not calling games at Arizona State, he was a student photographer and shot nearly every sport on campus - from football to basketball, baseball, gymnastics and everything in between. He was recognized as the Cronkite School's 2019 Greg Crowder Memorial Photojournalism Award winner, awarded annually to the to the school's best student photojournalist each year.

An Omaha resident now, you can follow Nick on X @BaddersUp, Instagram @BadderUpSports, or Tiktok @BadderUp and reach him via e-mail at NicholasB@OmahaStormChasers.com.