Mike Parker Named Oregon Sportscaster of the Year
March 1, 2000
Corvallis, Ore. - Mike Parker, currently in his first year as the radio play-by-play voice of the Oregon State Beavers, has been named Sportscaster of the Year in the State of Oregon for 1999, according to the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association.
The NSSA is located in Salisbury, North Carolina. The NSSA picks a top sportscaster and a sportswriter from each state, plus a national winner in each category, each year since the organization's inception in 1959.
For Parker, it is his first award. Parker replaced Darrell Aune as Oregon State's radio play-by-play voice with the start of the 1999 football season. He is currently calling the action for the Beavers' men's basketball program and he will broadcast OSU baseball this spring.
Aune was the NSSA's selection for top broadcaster in 1998, plus he had also won the award 11 times previously.
Scott Lynn, currently OSU's play-by-play voice for television, has been a seven-time winner of the NSSA Sportscaster of the Year award.
