UNLV Athletics Hall Of Fame
One of the longest serving game announcers in all of sports, Distinguished Contributor Dick Calvert worked his first UNLV sporting event 47 years ago. Since then, the legendary "Voice of the Rebels" has worked more than 4,000 UNLV contests and events in his nearly five decades on the microphone as game announcer, emcee, host and radio and TV play-by-play man. A veteran of the U.S. Army, the UCLA alumnus played minor league baseball before becoming a scout in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization. He and his wife, Anne, moved to Las Vegas in 1970 and Calvert has had the unique opportunity of working for every UNLV athletics director in history. One of the founding members of the UNLV Athletics Hall of Fame, he was inducted into the Southern Nevada Sports Hall of Fame in 2010. Calvert annually works more than 125 local events on and off campus but is one of the University's most recognized traditions at Thomas & Mack Center and Sam Boyd Stadium. He has called games for UNLV football, men's and women's basketball, baseball, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's golf, men's and women's tennis, outdoor track & field, volleyball and men's and women's swimming & diving. He has also served as the game announcer for the Mountain West Conference, Pac-12 Conference, West Coast Conference and Western Athletic Conference basketball tournaments, every Las Vegas Bowl for a quarter century, the NBA Vegas Summer League, the FIBA Americas tournament, the USA Basketball Senior Men's National Team and the Las Vegas 51s AAA Professional Baseball Club. The Las Vegas resident retired from broadcasting and the UNLV Athletics Department in 2001 after serving as the director of broadcasting, director of athletic marketing for Olympic sports and director of athletic facilities/operations
