2025 Axthelm Memorial Lecture with Lisa Byington of the Milwaukee Bucks

Welcome to the 2025 Axthelm Memorial Lecture featuring Lisa Byington of the Milwaukee Bucks! Join us for an exciting in-person event at the Eisenberg Reading Room, Sensenbrenner Hall. Lisa will share her insights and experiences in the world of sports journalism. Don't miss this unique opportunity to learn from a trailblazer in the industry. Reserve your spot now!

Lisa Byington is in for her fourth season as the television play-by-play voice for the Bucks. The first female full-time television play-by-play announcer for a major men’s professional sports team, Byington was hired by the team in September 2021 after serving in both play-by-play and reporter roles for basketball, football and soccer telecasts on FOX Sports, FS1, Big Ten Network, CBS, Turner Sports, Pac-12 Network, ESPN and the SEC Network over the past decade.

A trail blazer in the industry, Byington became the first female play-by-play voice to work the NCAA men’s basketball tournament in March 2021. She returned to the NCAA men’s basketball tournament in 2022, 2023 and 2024, calling the first and second rounds for CBS and Turner Sports. She also served as the play-by-play announcer for the WNBA’s Chicago Sky from 2021-24. Byington worked the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo for NBC Sports as a men’s and women’s soccer play-by-play announcer and also did play-by-play for the Women’s World Cup on FOX in 2019. From 2017-19, Byington worked as a sideline reporter for the NCAA men’s basketball tournament on CBS and Turner Sports.

Host or Publisher Diederich College of Communication