Trey Bender is a sportscaster for

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, and a part-time host for

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Broadcasting biography

Bender calls football, basketball, baseball, and swimming for

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, and

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. For six seasons, he called television games for the

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where he graduated.http://search.espn.go/com/trey-bender/videos/6 Bender also worked in the Chicago and Phoenix markets. He called college sports for Fox Sports Net Arizona and

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and called

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as well. For three years, Bender was the voice of the

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team and was an anchor on

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. He also is a part-time host for

.
Bender's broadcasting career started with the

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minor league baseball team in Boise in 1991. He then moved to Arizona in 1993 as the voice of the

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as a play-by-play, radio host and radio field reporter. Bender would remain with the AFL through 2002. Additional AFL broadcasts included the AFL playoffs on TNN and play-by-play broadcasts for the

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. Bender would also serve as a play-by-play broadcaster for SportsWest Productions from 1999 until the company folded after the

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entered into a new TV contract with Comcast and CBS Sports to form the Mtn. in 2006. After finishing college football broadcasts with SportsWest in 2005, Bender transitioned back to the radio and served as a play-by-play broadcaster for the Insight Bowl and select Arizona State games on

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during the 2005 and 2006 season.

Personal

Trey Bender is a graduate of the

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and is the son of

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, a veteran broadcaster who also graduated from the University of Kansas. Trey's wife,

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, like Trey and Gary, is also a sportscaster. Their daughter Landry is named after

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, who was the head coach of the

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References

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