By: Holly Malkowski
The Bill Schwanke Award is named after longtime Montana Grizzlies Radio voice. It is presented each year to the top play-by-play radio broadcaster in FCS football. Here is this year’s winner.
Bob Black - Richmond
The “Voice of the Spiders,” Black has been with the Richmond Spiders since 1983. He hosts a daily radio show called “The Sports Huddle” on ESPN Richmond and is the Director of Broadcast & News Content at the university. Black does play-by-play for basketball and football along with hosting a weekly radio show with the head coach of each. He is a four-time Virginia Sportscaster of the Year Award Winner and spent 11 years as the play-by-play voice for the Richmond Braves, a Triple-A baseball team that operated in Virginia until 2008. Black graduated from Syracuse University in 1981 and was recognized for forty years of service with Richmond in 2023.
Past winners include:
Gary Rima - University of Northern Iowa
Tyler Merriam - South Dakota State University
Rodger Wyland - UAlbany
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