VERNE LUNDQUIST
(CBS Sports Play-By-Play Broadcaster)
Returned to CBS Sports in 1998 after having previously worked for CBS Television Network (1982-95). Lundquist lead play-by-play announcer, with analyst Todd Blackledge, for Networks' coverage of college football. He serves as play-by-play announcer for CBS's coverage of NCAA Basketball, including the Men's NCAA Basketball Championship.
Lundquist worked with Terry Bradshaw and Dan Fouts, and occasionally with lead analyst John Madden, on Network's NFL broadcasts. He is lead play-by-play announcer for CBS's coverage of figure skating including the 1992, 1994 and 1998 Olympic Winter Games…extensive involvement in network's previous coverage of the NBA. Lundquist provides commentary for the Mastersâ, the PGA Championship among other PGA TOUR events. He is a regular member of CBS's golf announce team form 1983-1995. Lundquist has broadcast 20 different sports for CBS, including track and field, swimming and diving, boxing, volleyball, gymnastics, soccer, weightlifting, free-style skiing, archery, horse racing and horse jumping.
Lundquist spent eight years at ABC Sports and three years as play-by-play announcer for TNT's NFL, NBA, golf and figure skating coverage (1995-97). He is well known in Texas as long-time radio voice of Dallas Cowboys (1972-84). He was sports director at WFAA-TV Dallas for 16 years and won seven consecutive Texas Sportscaster of the Year Awards (1977-83). Lundquist began his career at KTBC-TV in Austin at station owned by President and Mrs. Lyndon Johnson and has played himself in three movies.
Verne Lundquist was born July 17, 1940, in Duluth, Minn. He grew up in Everett, Washington and Austin, Texas and received a B.A. degree in sociology from Texas Lutheran College in 1962. Lundquist received that school's Distinguished Alumnus Award. He lives in Steamboat Springs, Colo., with wife, Nancy. Lundquist serves on Board of Directors of summer chamber music festival, Stings in the Mountains.