Dave Armstrong (sportscaster)
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Dave Armstrong is an American television sports announcer for professional and college sports. He spent nine years as the play-by-play announcer for two Major League Baseball
teams (Kansas City Royals
and Colorado Rockies
), in the NFL
he has worked with both the Seattle Seahawks
and the Kansas City Chiefs
broadcasting regular and pre-season games and also announced several games for the NBA’s
Denver Nuggets
. He broadcasts Big 12
college basketball games for ESPN Regional Television and has been calling games in this conference since 1988. His signature “Wow!” is known as the exclamation mark on exceptional plays.
Armstrong graduated with a B.A. in Broadcasting from John Brown University
and began his career working in radio
and television
in the Midwest. He served as the Program Director for KKOY (AM)
/FM
in Chanute, KS
before moving to KAYS-TV in Hays, KS
then on to KSNW
-TV in Wichita
as the Sports Director. During his time with KSNW-TV, he began doing play-by-play for professional soccer and many collegiate sports. In 1988, Armstrong’s sports broadcasting career took off when he joined Raycom Sports
to do play-by-play for Big 8 (now the Big 12) college basketball
. He eventually added nearly every college sport to his list of professional credits: Football
, Baseball
, Wrestling
, Volleyball
, Tennis
and Track and Field. Armstrong also calls the televised games on the Jayhawk Network for the Kansas Jayhawks
(1993–present). He has done play-by-play for ESPN
, Prime Network
and Fox Sports calling games in the Big 12, the Big East
, the Big 10 and the Atlantic Coast Conference
.
His professional sports credentials include three seasons as the television voice of Major League Baseball’s Kansas City Royals (1993–1995) followed by six seasons with the Colorado Rockies (1996–2001). Rounding out his experience in professional sports, he has done play-by-play in the NFL (Seattle Seahawks in 1992 and the Kansas City Chiefs in 2009) as well as in the NBA, filling in during the 1996 - 2001 seasons with the Denver Nuggets. Armstrong is a member of the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association
.
In addition to his sports announcing work, Armstrong is also an author
and speaker
. His book, “Driving From Here to Wow: Looking at Life Through the Windshield” (2008), is an inspirational and humorous account of many of his life experiences – both personal and professional. Armstrong also frequently emcees for corporate and charitable events throughout the country, speaks at youth sports camps, does commercial voice work for documentaries and provides the voice for promotional videos developed for corporation
s and trade association
s.
Kansas City Royals All-Time Broadcasters http://sandiego.padres.mlb.com/kc/history/broadcasters.jsp
Colorado Rockies 1996 Season 1996 Colorado Rockies season
Colorado Rockies 1997 Season 1997 Colorado Rockies season
Colorado Rockies 1998 Season 1998 Colorado Rockies season
Colorado Rockies 1999 Season 1999 Colorado Rockies season
Colorado Rockies 2000 Season 2000 Colorado Rockies season
Colorado Rockies 2001 Season 2001 Colorado Rockies season
Lowe's Senior Class Award Article http://www.seniorclassaward.com/columns/bio/20
Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...
teams (Kansas City Royals
Kansas City Royals
The Kansas City Royals are a Major League Baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Royals are a member of the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From 1973 to the present, the Royals have played in Kauffman Stadium...
and Colorado Rockies
Colorado Rockies
The Colorado Rockies are a Major League Baseball team based in Denver, Colorado. Established in 1991, they started play in 1993 and are in the West Division of the National League. The team is named after the Rocky Mountains...
), in the NFL
National Football League
The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...
he has worked with both the Seattle Seahawks
Seattle Seahawks
The Seattle Seahawks are a professional American football team based in Seattle, Washington. They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The team joined the NFL in 1976 as an expansion team...
and the Kansas City Chiefs
Kansas City Chiefs
The Kansas City Chiefs are a professional American football team based in Kansas City, Missouri. They are a member of the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League . Originally named the Dallas Texans, the club was founded by Lamar Hunt in 1960 as a...
broadcasting regular and pre-season games and also announced several games for the NBA’s
National Basketball Association
The National Basketball Association is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America. It consists of thirty franchised member clubs, of which twenty-nine are located in the United States and one in Canada...
Denver Nuggets
Denver Nuggets
The Denver Nuggets are a professional basketball team based in Denver, Colorado. They play in the National Basketball Association . They were founded as the Denver Rockets in 1967 as a charter franchise of the American Basketball Association, and became one of that league's more successful teams...
. He broadcasts Big 12
Big 12 Conference
The Big 12 Conference is a college athletic conference of ten schools located in the Central United States, with its headquarters located in Las Colinas, a community in the Dallas, Texas suburb of Irving...
college basketball games for ESPN Regional Television and has been calling games in this conference since 1988. His signature “Wow!” is known as the exclamation mark on exceptional plays.
Armstrong graduated with a B.A. in Broadcasting from John Brown University
John Brown University
The main campus in Northwest Arkansas has been the site of the university since it was founded in 1919. JBU has 2,183 students as of the 2011-2012 school year, 1,279 of which are traditional undergraduates. Of these, 878 live on campus. The Graduate School has 468 students...
and began his career working in radio
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
and television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
in the Midwest. He served as the Program Director for KKOY (AM)
KKOY (AM)
KKOY is a radio station broadcasting a News Talk Information format. Licensed to Chanute, Kansas, USA, it serves the Pittsburg area. The station is owned by Southeast Kansas Broadcasting Company, Inc. and is operated by Andrew Wachter through 2011, under terms of a Time Brokerage agreement,...
/FM
KKOY-FM
KKOY-FM is a radio station broadcasting a CHR format, with a very heavy Rhythmic-lean. Licensed to Chanute, Kansas, USA, the station serves the Southeast Kansas area. The station is currently owned by MyTown Media, LLC.-History:...
in Chanute, KS
Chanute, Kansas
Chanute is a city in Neosho County, Kansas, United States. Founded on January 1, 1873, it was named after railroad engineer and aviation pioneer Octave Chanute. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 9,119...
before moving to KAYS-TV in Hays, KS
Hays, Kansas
Hays is a city in and the county seat of Ellis County, Kansas, United States. The largest city in northwestern Kansas, it is the economic and cultural center of the region. It is also a college town, home to Fort Hays State University...
then on to KSNW
KSNW
KSNW, digital channel 45 , is a NBC affiliate television station based in Wichita, Kansas. It is owned by the New Vision Television group. KSNW is also the flagship station of the Kansas State Network , a chain of NBC affiliates serving the western three-fourths of the state. KSNW's transmitter is...
-TV in Wichita
Wichita, Kansas
Wichita is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas.As of the 2010 census, the city population was 382,368. Located in south-central Kansas on the Arkansas River, Wichita is the county seat of Sedgwick County and the principal city of the Wichita metropolitan area...
as the Sports Director. During his time with KSNW-TV, he began doing play-by-play for professional soccer and many collegiate sports. In 1988, Armstrong’s sports broadcasting career took off when he joined Raycom Sports
Raycom Sports
Raycom Sports is an American syndicator of sports television programs. It is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and owned and operated by Raycom Media.-Founding:...
to do play-by-play for Big 8 (now the Big 12) college basketball
College basketball
College basketball most often refers to the USA basketball competitive governance structure established by the National Collegiate Athletic Association . Basketball in the NCAA is divided into three divisions: Division I, Division II and Division III....
. He eventually added nearly every college sport to his list of professional credits: Football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
, Baseball
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
, Wrestling
Wrestling
Wrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...
, Volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
, Tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
and Track and Field. Armstrong also calls the televised games on the Jayhawk Network for the Kansas Jayhawks
Kansas Jayhawks
The sports teams at the University of Kansas are known as the Jayhawks. They are one of three schools in the state of Kansas that participate in NCAA Division I. The Jayhawks are also a member of the Big 12 Conference...
(1993–present). He has done play-by-play for ESPN
ESPN
Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, commonly known as ESPN, is an American global cable television network focusing on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming....
, Prime Network
Prime Network
The Prime Network was a group of regional sports networks owned by Liberty Media that served several regionalized areas that was in operation between 1983 and late-1997. While Liberty owned many of these stations, some were affiliates and owned by other companies...
and Fox Sports calling games in the Big 12, the Big East
Big East Conference
The Big East Conference is a collegiate athletics conference consisting of sixteen universities in the eastern half of the United States. The conference's 17 members participate in 24 NCAA sports...
, the Big 10 and the Atlantic Coast Conference
Atlantic Coast Conference
The Atlantic Coast Conference is a collegiate athletic league in the United States. Founded in 1953 in Greensboro, North Carolina, the ACC sanctions competition in twenty-five sports in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association for its twelve member universities...
.
His professional sports credentials include three seasons as the television voice of Major League Baseball’s Kansas City Royals (1993–1995) followed by six seasons with the Colorado Rockies (1996–2001). Rounding out his experience in professional sports, he has done play-by-play in the NFL (Seattle Seahawks in 1992 and the Kansas City Chiefs in 2009) as well as in the NBA, filling in during the 1996 - 2001 seasons with the Denver Nuggets. Armstrong is a member of the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association
National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association
The National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association, or NSSA, is an organization of sports media members in the United States. It constitutes the American chapter of the International Sports Press Association ....
.
In addition to his sports announcing work, Armstrong is also an author
Author
An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...
and speaker
Public speaking
Public speaking is the process of speaking to a group of people in a structured, deliberate manner intended to inform, influence, or entertain the listeners...
. His book, “Driving From Here to Wow: Looking at Life Through the Windshield” (2008), is an inspirational and humorous account of many of his life experiences – both personal and professional. Armstrong also frequently emcees for corporate and charitable events throughout the country, speaks at youth sports camps, does commercial voice work for documentaries and provides the voice for promotional videos developed for corporation
Corporation
A corporation is created under the laws of a state as a separate legal entity that has privileges and liabilities that are distinct from those of its members. There are many different forms of corporations, most of which are used to conduct business. Early corporations were established by charter...
s and trade association
Trade association
A trade association, also known as an industry trade group, business association or sector association, is an organization founded and funded by businesses that operate in a specific industry...
s.
External links
Kansas City Royals All-Time Broadcasters http://sandiego.padres.mlb.com/kc/history/broadcasters.jsp
Colorado Rockies 1996 Season 1996 Colorado Rockies season
1996 Colorado Rockies season
The Colorado Rockies' 1996 season was the 4th for the Rockies. They tried to win the National League West. Don Baylor was their manager. They played home games at Coors Field...
Colorado Rockies 1997 Season 1997 Colorado Rockies season
1997 Colorado Rockies season
The Colorado Rockies' 1997 season was the 5th for the Rockies. They tried to win the National League West. Don Baylor was their manager. They played home games at Coors Field. They finished with a record of 83-79, third in the NL West.-Offseason:...
Colorado Rockies 1998 Season 1998 Colorado Rockies season
1998 Colorado Rockies season
The Colorado Rockies' 1998 season was the 6th for the Rockies. They tried to win the National League West. Don Baylor was their manager, although he was fired after the season. They played home games at Coors Field...
Colorado Rockies 1999 Season 1999 Colorado Rockies season
1999 Colorado Rockies season
The Colorado Rockies' 1999 season was the seventh overall for the team. Jim Leyland debuted as the Rockies' new manager, although, he resigned following the end of the season. Colorado finished with a record of 72-90, last in the National League West....
Colorado Rockies 2000 Season 2000 Colorado Rockies season
2000 Colorado Rockies season
The Colorado Rockies' 2000 season was the 8th for the Rockies. They tried to win the National League West. Buddy Bell was their manager. They played home games at Coors Field...
Colorado Rockies 2001 Season 2001 Colorado Rockies season
2001 Colorado Rockies season
The Colorado Rockies' 2001 season was the 9th for the Rockies. They tried to win the National League West. Buddy Bell was their manager. They played home games at Coors Field...
Lowe's Senior Class Award Article http://www.seniorclassaward.com/columns/bio/20