Lisa Byington (born May 18, 1976) is a play-by-play announcer, studio host, and feature producer/reporter. She has broadcast games for

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, Big Ten Network,

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, Pac-12 Network,

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. 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. Byington announced the

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for Fox and the

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as a play-by-play announcer for men's and women's soccer. Byington has also worked as a sideline reporter for the

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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. 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

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. Byington also handles play-by-play work for the WNBA’s

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. Byington, a native of

Portage, Michigan Portage is a city in Kalamazoo County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 46,292 in the 2010 census. It is the smaller of the two main cities included in the Kalamazoo-Portage Metropolitan Statistical Area, which has a populati ...

, was a two-sport athlete at

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, playing four years of basketball and two years of soccer. Both teams made the NCAA Tournament.

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