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About Brandon
Brandon Ross is an experienced play-by-play broadcaster who has announced more than a dozen different sports on TV and radio. He is currently based in Fort Wayne, IN.
He spent four years as the lead TV play-by-play announcer for lacrosse, volleyball, and soccer on ESPN+ and the Red Fox Network at Marist University, occasionally filling in on radio broadcasts for football and basketball. He also served as a play-by-play announcer, color commentator, and sideline reporter for UConn women's hockey, volleyball, soccer, softball, and field hockey.
Brandon has also called games for the National Women's Soccer League, USL Championship, the Premier Hockey Federation, minor league baseball, and multiple other Division I schools including Notre Dame, Fairfield, Holy Cross, and Yale. Games he has called have aired on Paramount Plus, NESN, ESPN+, FloSports, UConn+, and local TV affiliates around the country.
Beyond play-by-play, Brandon worked as a Live Audio Describer for the 2024 Paris Olympics on NBC and a
part-time news anchor at WTIC Newstalk 1080 in Hartford.
Brandon graduated from Syracuse University, magna cum laude, in December 2020, earning a B.A. in Broadcast & Digital Journalism and History. He also holds a J.D., with honors, from the University of Connecticut School of Law.
Awards:
• Sports Emmys:
Outstanding Live Special – Championship Event
NBC | Peacock, Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Role: Play-by-Play
• Sportscasting Talent Agency of America (Jim Nantz Award):
Ranked #13 collegiate sportscaster in 2021
• Syracuse Press Club Awards:
2nd Place - Sports Radio Reporting
• S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications:
George Plavocos Award for Excellence in Radio
• WJPZ Radio (89.1 FM):
2021 Best in Sports Award Winner
Events Worked:
• 2021, 2022, 2024, and 2025 MAAC Men’s Lacrosse Tournament
• 2022 NWSL Challenge Cup
• 2021 + 2022 NJCAA Men’s Lacrosse National Championships
• 2021 MAAC Men’s Soccer Championship
