Bart Castle

Bart enters his 15th year with Champion Sports Radio. With Champion Sports Radio, he has broadcast football, basketball, baseball, soccer and wrestling. Bart was also the play-by-play voice of the Euless/Colleyville Lone Stars in the Texas Collegiate League. While working in the TCL Bart was part of the Champion Sports Radio team that broadcast the TCL Championship series, which featured, San Francisco Giant, Brandon Belt – then of the league champion Coppell Copperheads – as the series MVP. In addition to his work with Champion Sports Radio, he was part of a three-person broadcast crew for the webcast of the USATF’s Youth Division’s Outdoor Junior Olympics and National Championships, which each featured over 5000 of the nation’s finest young track and field athletes from around the nation. Those broadcasts included working with a over dozen US Olympic Champions who had represented the USA from 1976-2012. Besides working with USATF, beginning with work as a Public Address assistant at the 2005, NCAA, Division II Outdoor Championships, Bart continues to do Public Address work in high school and college Track and Field.

Bart has been for 10 years the PA voice of the UTA Mavericks, TCU, TCU Horned Frogs, Baylor Bears, and together with partner Don Garrett, the Texas Tech Red Raiders. That work has included Big 12 Outoor and Indoor Championships, as well as Outdoor Championships for the Sun Belt and Southland Conferences and Indoor and Outdoor Championships for the nation’s largest DII conference the Lone Star Conference. Bart worked for several seasons as a stronger for both the Dallas Morning News and the Fort Worth Star Telegram. In addition to his print, broadcast and public address work, Bart officiated high school basketball for 17 seasons out of the Fort Worth Chapter of TASO. For 13 of the 16 seasons Bart received playoff assignments at least 3 rounds deep in the playoffs (up through 5A both boys and girls), including the TAPPS 1 and 2A state championships one season. Besides his work on the court, he served as Vice President of the Chapter.

A graduate for both Abilene Christian and Texas Tech, he enjoys any sporting event with his wife Linda and kids, Ashton, Alexys and Andrew. All five love the NHL and cheering for the Chicago Blackhawks.