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SEVEN CONSECUTIVE <strong>WNBA</strong> PLAYOFF APPEARANCES<br />
CHRIS DENARI<br />
RADIO AND TELEVISION PLAY-BY-PLAY<br />
FEVER BROADCASTERS<br />
Chris Denari enters his 13th season<br />
as the Fever’s radio and television playby-play<br />
announcer after being named<br />
the Voice of the Fever on April 28, 2000.<br />
He has called the action in virtually every<br />
game in Fever history.<br />
Involved in broadcasting sports in<br />
Indianapolis for 28 years, Denari was<br />
named the Indiana Sportswriters and<br />
Sportscasters Association 2004<br />
Broadcaster of the Year.<br />
Denari also serves as the television play-by-play announcer for<br />
the NBA’s Indiana Pacers, which he has done for the past six<br />
seasons. He most recently was the Sports Director at WXIN-TV<br />
Fox 59 in Indianapolis. With his move to Pacers’ TV, he ended his<br />
17-year association as the radio play-by-play voice of Butler<br />
University basketball. He called five of Butler’s recent NCAA<br />
Tournament appearances, including the Bulldogs’ first trip to the<br />
Sweet Sixteen in 2003.<br />
He is a member of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Radio<br />
Network and has also been a member of the Indianapolis Colts<br />
Radio Network. He also previously worked for Pacers’ TV as a<br />
locker room reporter and was the television play-by-play voice for<br />
the Indiana High School Athletic Association’s state championship<br />
events.<br />
A 1979 graduate of Westfield (Ind.) High School, he played<br />
basketball for his father, Bob. He graduated from Wabash College<br />
in 1983, and was a member of the Little Giants’ 1982 NCAA<br />
Division III National Championship basketball team.<br />
Denari also serves on the board of directors for Special<br />
Olympics Indiana and as a spokesman for the Hamilton County<br />
Humane Society. He was recently named to the inaugural class of<br />
the Westfield High School Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame.<br />
Denari and his wife, Terry, live in Carmel, Ind., with their sons<br />
Evan, Wilson and Max.<br />
DEBBIE ANTONELLI<br />
TELEVISION ANALYST<br />
Debbie Antonelli is in her 11th<br />
season with the Fever broadcast team<br />
after spending four seasons as a<br />
Charlotte Sting broadcaster. She joins<br />
play-by-play announcer Chris Denari as<br />
the color analyst for each of the team's<br />
local television broadcasts.<br />
Antonelli worked as an NBA analyst<br />
for select Charlotte Bobcats games last<br />
season, and she formerly covered<br />
<strong>WNBA</strong> games for three seasons on the Oxygen Network.<br />
Antonelli's television resume includes: lead television analyst<br />
for the Atlantic Coast Conference, Big XII Conference,<br />
Southeastern Conference and CBS College Sports’ coverage of<br />
women's basketball. Beginning in 2007-08, she teamed with the<br />
Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) and broadcast<br />
partner Beth Mowins to produce a 30-minute weekly podcast<br />
called “Shootaround with Beth and Debbie,” dedicated to women’s<br />
college basketball.<br />
Antonelli has worked NCAA tournament games for ESPN and<br />
has worked as the radio analyst for the national syndication of the<br />
CBS/NCAA Radio Network for the past 16 NCAA Women's Final<br />
Fours. She worked as a sideline reporter for CBS Sports during<br />
the 2000 Men's NCAA Tournament, and for the past 10 years, she<br />
has been a part of CBS Sports’ women’s basketball tripleheader<br />
coverage each January.<br />
Before joining the broadcast team in Charlotte, Antonelli served<br />
as a FOX Sports Net national television analyst during the<br />
American Basketball League's first three seasons and was the<br />
analyst for the ABL’s Columbus Quest regional television package.<br />
Prior to her broadcasting career, Antonelli spent four years as<br />
the Director of Marketing for the University of Kentucky, and four<br />
more in a similar capacity at Ohio State University. She spent five<br />
years as the television analyst for the Ohio State women's<br />
basketball team and prior to that, she spent three years as the TV<br />
analyst for the Dayton Flyers men's basketball team.<br />
Antonelli was a three-year starter at guard for North Carolina<br />
State where she helped guide the Wolfpack to four NCAA<br />
tournament appearances and two Sweet 16 appearances. The<br />
Cary, N.C., native graduated with a double major in business<br />
management and economics. She went on to earn her master's<br />
degree in sports administration from Ohio University, where she<br />
also served as the graduate assistant women's basketball coach.<br />
Antonelli, her husband, Frank and their three sons, Joey,<br />
Frankie and Patrick reside in Mt. Pleasant, S.C.<br />
KEVIN LEE<br />
RADIO PLAY-BY-PLAY<br />
Kevin Lee is in his 13th season<br />
covering the Fever and his 17th season<br />
as the host of the Pacers radio network<br />
where he handles pregame, halftime and<br />
postgame shows.<br />
In addition to handling radio play-byplay<br />
duties during all Fever TV games,<br />
he is the sideline reporter for the<br />
Indianapolis Colts radio network, and a<br />
pit reporter for the Indianapolis Motor<br />
Speedway Radio Network and Versus, covering the IndyCar<br />
Series and Indy Lights. Lee also hosts a weekly racing show on<br />
1070 The Fan.<br />
Lee has called play-by-play for the Indiana High School Athletic<br />
Association Radio Network and has served as a television and<br />
radio announcer for Ball State University sports.<br />
Lee, a graduate of Indianapolis’ Ben Davis High School and<br />
Ball State University, lives with his wife Stacey, and their children<br />
Jackson and Savannah, in Avon.<br />
<strong>WNBA</strong> LiveAccess webcasts <strong>com</strong>plement TV coverage to provide viewing for every Fever game.<br />
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