Carter Blackburn (born 1979) is an American sportscaster. He currently works for ESPN and ESPNU as a play-by-play announcer on various telecasts.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life and education 1.2 Professional career 1.3 Personal life 2 External links

[edit] Biography

Blackburn made his national broadcast television debut on CBS Sports with a Big 10 women's basketball game between Penn State and Michigan State in January, 2008. He later called a pair of 2008 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament games, working the afternoon session at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California. He reprised that role in 2009. His partner was Jay Bilas.

[edit] Early life and education

Blackburn was born in Dallas, Texas, and grew up in Kerrville, in the Texas Hill Country near San Antonio. Blackburn began his broadcasting career at KERV/KRVL radio during his sophomore year at Tivy High School. By his junior year in high school, he was sports director for the radio station, doing morning drive-time reports on area high school sports and Texas college and pro teams as well as providing play-by-play for radio and TV for football, basketball, softball, and baseball.

He then graduated from Syracuse University in 2001 with a degree in broadcast journalism (S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications) and political science.

[edit] Professional career

He worked for International Sports Properties (ISP) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Fox Sports Net South from 2001 to 2003; among his assignments were games in the current NBA Development League. He joined CBS College Sports (then known as CSTV) in 2003 when the channel launched. In September 2009 he began broadcasting for ESPN and ESPNU.

According to an article in the Long Beach Press-Telegram (see below), Blackburn is the second-youngest announcer of an NCAA Tournament game, at least in CBS's run as the telecaster. Jim Nantz was the only one younger (26 years old in 1985).

[edit] Personal life

Blackburn lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, the former Karen Hubbert, who is a 2004 graduate of Texas Tech University.

[edit] External links

• Official bio
• Article on his NCAA tourney debut

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