[2][3] He continued to play ultimate frisbee at the college, club and professional levels, once making a catch that was featured on SportsCenter and later going on to coach youth teams.
After he graduated, he spent a year building houses with Habitat for Humanity before beginning to explore documentary filmmaking and radio.
[5][6] In June 2015, Avirgan joined FiveThirtyEight as host of the podcast What's the Point, about the impacts of data science on daily life.
[5] In 2017, Avirgan became senior producer and host of ESPN's 30 for 30 Podcasts, a series of audio documentaries about sports history.
[3] In 2016, while hiking Mount Roberts in Juneau, Alaska, Avirgan and his wife became stranded on steep terrain after exiting the main trail.