Matt Lepay
Matt Lepay, also known as The Voice of the Badgers, is an American sportscaster. Since 1988 Lepay has been the radio voice for the Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team, and since 1994, the voice of the Wisconsin Badgers football team.[1]
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Early life
Lepay is a native of Vandalia, Ohio and graduated from Ohio State University.[2]
Career
Radio
Lepay came to Madison, Wisconsin in 1988 and began calling games for the Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team that same year. In 1994, following a brief period as sports director for WTSO Radio in Madison, he began working for WIBA handling Wisconsin Badgers football broadcasts as well.[3] Lepay is currently employed by the university through their rights deal with the national college sports broadcasting outfit Learfield Sports.[4]
Television
Lepay also hosts the weekly Badger Sports Report, an all-sport Badger athletics/coach's show which airs on Fox Sports Wisconsin and statewide on local stations, including WISC-TV.[5]
Milwaukee Brewers
In January 2014 it was announced that Lepay would handling play-by-play for the Milwaukee Brewers television broadcasts on Fox Sports Wisconsin, as a substitute for Brian Anderson for approximately 35 games when Anderson handles national assignments for Turner Sports, including NBA playoff coverage and baseball coverage for TBS.[6][7]
Awards and honors
Lepay is a seven-time winner of the Wisconsin Sportscaster of the Year Award.[8]
in May of 2012, Lepay was inducted into The Madison Hall of Fame Club.[9]
Personal
Lepay lives in Cross Plains, Wisconsin with his wife Linda.[10]
References
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- Year of birth missing (living people)
- Living people
- American sports announcers
- Major League Baseball announcers
- Milwaukee Brewers broadcasters
- Ohio State University alumni
- Sportspeople from Dayton, Ohio
- Sportspeople from Madison, Wisconsin
- College basketball announcers in the United States
- College football announcers
- Wisconsin Badgers football announcers
