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Lisa Byington

Milwaukee Bucks Play-by-Play Announcer

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Lisa Byington is the television play-by-play voice for the Milwaukee Bucks and the first female full-time television play-by-play announcer for a major men’s professional sports team. Byington was hired by the Bucks in September 2021 after serving in both play-by-play and reporter roles for basketball,... More

Lisa Byington is the television play-by-play voice for the Milwaukee Bucks and the first female full-time television play-by-play announcer for a major men’s professional sports team. Byington was hired by the Bucks in September 2021 after serving in both play-by-play and reporter roles for basketball, football and soccer telecasts on FOX Sports, FS1, Big Ten Network, CBS, Turner Sports, Pac-12 Network, ESPN and the SEC Network over the past decade.

A trailblazer in the industry, Byington, in March 2021, became the first female play-by-play voice to work the NCAA men’s basketball tournament as she called first round games for CBS and Turner Sports. She returned to the NCAA men’s basketball tournament in 2022, 2023 and 2024, calling the first and second rounds for CBS and Turner Sports. She has also served as the play-by-play announcer for the WNBA’s Chicago Sky from 2013-24.

Byington also worked the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo for NBC Sports as a men’s and women’s soccer play-by-play announcer, in addition to doing play-by-play for the Women’s World Cup on FOX in 2019.

In 2017, Byington became the first female play-by-play voice for a college football game on the Big Ten Network. The Big Ten Conference and Big Ten Network created the Lisa Byington Award in 2022, which is presented annually to the most outstanding female broadcaster in the Big Ten Network StudentU program.

A basketball and soccer player at Northwestern University, Byington, a Portage, Michigan native, began her broadcasting career with two local television stations in Michigan before moving to FOX Sports and the Big Ten Network.

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