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Lisa Byington | |||||||||||||||||
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![]() Byington in 2015 | |||||||||||||||||
Born | May 18, 1976 | ||||||||||||||||
Alma mater | Northwestern University | ||||||||||||||||
Sports commentary career | |||||||||||||||||
Genre | Play-by-play | ||||||||||||||||
Sport(s) | Basketball, Soccer | ||||||||||||||||
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Lisa Byington (born May 18, 1976) is a play-by-play announcer, studio host, and feature producer/reporter. She has broadcast games for Fox Sports, FS1, Big Ten Network, CBS, Turner Sports, Pac-12 Network, ESPN, and the SEC Network.
Byington has worked primarily as a play-by-play announcer and reporter on FOX Sports and Big Ten Network's coverage of college football and basketball games. In 2017, Byington became the first female play-by-play to call a college football game for the Big Ten Network.[2][3][4]
Byington announced the 2019 Women's World Cup for Fox[5] and the 2020 Olympic Games as a play-by-play announcer for men's and women's soccer.[6] Byington has also worked as a sideline reporter for the NCAA men's basketball tournament with CBS and Turner since 2017. On March 19, 2021, she became the first woman to do play-by-play in March Madness history for CBS and Turner Sports.[7]
In 2021, Byington became the first female full-time play-by-play voice for a major men's professional sports team when she became the full time play-by-play announcer of the Milwaukee Bucks.[8] Byington also handles play-by-play work for the WNBA’s Chicago Sky.
Byington, a native of Portage, Michigan,[1] was a two-sport athlete at Northwestern University, playing four years of basketball and two years of soccer.[9] Both teams made the NCAA Tournament.
Handling soccer play-by-play from NBC Sports Group's International Broadcast Center in Stamford, Conn., will be Lisa Byington, Mark Followill, Jenn Hildreth, and Derek Rae.