Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – Ray Goss, who finished his 57th season as a voice of Play-By-Play Male basketball at Duquesne University in 2024-25, was elected by the National Sports Media Association (NSMA) as winner of Woody Durham 2025 Voices of University Sports Price. GOSS will be presented in the spotlight during the 65th NSMA Awards Banquet on Monday June 30, 2025 in Greensboro, NC, at the Grandover Resort.
Created in 2018, the Woody Durham Voices of University Sports The price recognizes the professional university broadcasters which correspond to the following criteria: association with its school, mandate in their school, efforts in the community, mentoring of young diffusers and character. The prize is appointed for the legendary advertiser of 40 years of play for the University of North Carolina and is sponsored by Learfield and the UNC athletics department.
The vote for the Woody Durham Voice of College Sports Award is produced by a limited group of Play-By Play advertisers member of the NSMA, including the former winners, as well as representatives of the two sponsorship organizations. GOSS is the eighth Winner of the Award, and He Joins Broadcasting Luminaries Don Fischer of Indiana (2018), Bill Hillgrove of Pittsburgh (2019), Johnny Holliday of Maryland (2020), Gene Deckerhoff of Florida State (2021), Joe Starkey of California (2022) of Georgetown (2023) and Mike Reis of Southern Illinois (2024).
The Duke’s voice called its first basketball game on March 17, 1968, when Duquesne faced Fordham in the first round of the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) in New York, NY, at the famous Madison Square Garden. He started his mandate full-time as a announcer of Radio Play-By-Play at the start of the 1968-69 season and missed two games throughout his distribution career. The first came on January 7, 1978 to Penn State, when Goss heard for a regional game position with the National Basketball Association (NBA), and the other on March 21, 2011, at Oregon, while crying his wife, Dee, died the Duquesne evening in Montana in Montana five days earlier in the basketball college (CBI).
In his first season as a Play-By-Play voice of Basketball Duquesne, GOSS qualified a 75-72 victory on n ° 8 St. John’s at College Park, in the MD., In a consolation match in the East Regional Championship of the 1969 NCAA championship. His career completed the loop in 2024, while the dukes beat the n ° 21 Byu, 71-67, in the first round of the 2024 NCAA Championship in Omaha, in Neb., At Chi Health Center while Duquesne made her first appearance in the NCAA tournament in 47 years.
The longest sequence of consecutive matches of GOSS lasted 977 games of January 9, 1978, a victory of 89-76 in Virginie-Western on March 16, 2011, when the Dukes won a triumph of 87-76 in Montana in the first round of the CBI 2011. Even with the start of the world pandemic in 2020 due to COVID-19, GOSS Duquesne so that fans of the program can continue to listen to its dissemination of the action.
Indked from 1993 to the Duquesne Athletics Hall of Fame, GOSS graduated from in 1958, where he obtained a baccalaureate in arts in radio and television journalism. He was also inducted at the Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters (PAB) Hall of Fame in 2023 alongside Edgar Snyder, Bill Hillgrove and the Miracle League of Southwestern Pennsylvania and is the authority of a 2008 book entitled “Misadventures in the Field”.
In addition to his role at Duquesne, GOSS has a large experience of sports radio with more than 3,000 events called during his career. He started in WDAD in Indiana, Pennsylvania, in 1959, and was director general of the station for 15 years until 1981, when he and Mark Harley co -founded WCCs, who used Homer City, Pennsylvania, as a base of operations. In addition, GOSS co-organized “The first Aba” championship “, alongside coach Vince Cazetta, the head coach of the Pittsburgh Pipers during the inaugural season of the American Basketball Association (ABA) in 1968-69, largely covered the University of Indiana de Pennsylvania (IUP) Sports with Jack Benedict, in Indiana, PA. Piranhas of the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) in 1994-1995.
GOSS and his late wife have seven children, 14 grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
Tickets for the 65th NSMA Awards Banquet can be Bought via the following link. In addition to goss winning the Woody Durham Voices of University Sports Prize, this year’s banquet laureates include Ian Eagle from CBS, Westwood One and TNT as 2024 National Sportscaster of the Year and Ken Rosenthal Athletics As a national sports editor of the year 2024, while the enthronement of the NSMA 2025 renown temple include Mike Tirico, Dan Shaughnessy, the late Charlie Jones and the late Wendell Smith, who began his career as a professional writer in 1937 with the Pittsburgh Courier Covering both the Grays Homestead and Pittsburgh Crawfords.
About the National Sports Media Association (NSMA)
The National Sports Media Association, Inc., is an organization 501 (C) (3) (3) for non -profit that seeks to develop educational opportunities for those who wish to pursue a career in the sports media thanks to networking, internship, mentoring and scholarship programs. The NSMA honors, also preserves and celebrates the diversified heritage of sports media in the United States. Founded in 1959 under the name of National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association in Salisbury, NC, the NSSA added its renown temple in 1962, with Grantland Rice as the first member. The organization renamed the National Sports Media Association in 2016 and moved to Winston-Salem, NC, a year later. For more information on the NSMA, please visit NationalsportsMedia.org.
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