Mid Valley Reporter

Lucero Brings Excitement as a Play-by-Play Announcer for Willamette Webcasts

 Jef Lucero has put together a lengthy career of providing public address announcing, radio announcing, and webcast announcing for athletic events in a variety of sports and at various levels of high school, college, and professional competition. His announcing has gained him a solid reputation as an announcer in the Pacific Northwest. Now, Lucero is the primary webcast announcer for football and basketball at Willamette University. He follows in the footsteps of Mike Allegre, who retired from announcing Willamette athletic events this past spring after 29 football seasons and 23 basketball seasons.

Lucero began his Willamette announcing career this fall during webcasts of Willamette's home football games. More recently, he has been the play-by-play voice of the Bearcats during webcasts of home basketball games at Cone Field House.

Start of Lucero's Broadcasting Career

His involvement on radio began as far back as 1995-98, when he volunteered at KAOS radio (89.3 FM) at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. He was known for hosting "Sessions" throughout that time period, as well as "The Evergreen Sports Report" in 1996-97. He was the lead sports reporter at KAOS in 1997-98.

By 2000, Lucero was broadcasting with Pioneer Radio and Sports. He was the color analyst for Evergreen men's and women's basketball, and he hosted a weekly "Northwest Conference Spotlight Show." He was at Pioneer Radio and Sports until 2002. He began public address announcing for girls' softball games at Tenino High School in Washington in 2005 and 2006, and announced Centralia College baseball and softball games on KCED Radio (91.3 FM) in 2006. He provided public address announcing at Black Hills High School in Washington in 2007 and 2008.

His efforts returned to the college level in 2009, when he became the public address announcer for several sports at the University of Puget Sound and was the play-by-play announcer at the annual Puget Sound/Pacific Lutheran University baseball game at Cheney Stadium.

Additional Experience as an Announcer

Lucero added Saint Martin's University (Washington) to his list in 2012, when he started serving as the public address announcer for softball, baseball, and soccer before becoming the Saints' broadcast announcer for the men's and women's basketball teams in 2016. He was a public address announcer at Seattle University in 2014 and returned as a public address announcer at Evergreen in 2015. Through his ties with Seattle University he announced the Western Athletic Conference softball tournaments in 2014 and 2016 as well as the 2014 WAC men's soccer tournament. Lucero provided the announcing at the University of Washington softball games in 2022 and also occasionally announced men's soccer and women's soccer for the Huskies. He has announced basketball games at Oregon State University when available this season.

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