Seven Matches To Be Televised At 2006 MWC Volleyball Championship

The mtn. will televise the quarterfinals and semifinals, while CSTV will show the championship match.

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Nov. 20, 2006

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - For the seventh straight year, the Mountain West Volleyball Championship will be televised, with the mtn. - MountainWest Sports Network and College Sports Television providing the coverage. All four of Thursday's quarterfinal matches and Friday's first semifinal contest will be shown live on the mtn., with the second semifinal to be shown via same day tape delay at 9:30 p.m. (PT) on the mtn. For the third straight season, the MWC Tournament championship match will be broadcast live nationally on College Sports Television (CSTV). The 2006 MWC Volleyball Championship will be held Nov. 22-25 at Cox Pavilion on the campus of UNLV.

To supplement CSTV's national coverage, the championship contest will also be streamed live as part of the CSTV All-Access package, available on the CSTV (www.cstv.com) and MWC (www.themwc.com) Web sites.

AIR TIME (All Pacific Time):
Thursday, Nov. 24 - (the mtn.)
Match #1 - #3 Colorado State vs. #6 TCU, 11 a.m.
Match #2 - #2 BYU vs. #7 SDSU, 40 minutes after end of Match #1
Match #3 - #4 UNLV vs. #5 Wyoming, 4 p.m.
Match #4 - #1 Utah vs. Winner of #8 UNM/#9 AFA, 40 minutes after end of Match #3

Friday, Nov. 25 - (the mtn.)
Match #5 - Winners of Match No. 1 and Match No. 2, 1:30 p.m.
Match #6 - Winners of Match No. 3 and Match No. 4, 4 p.m.*

Saturday, Nov. 26 - (CSTV)
Match #7 - Championship Match, 8 p.m.

*Shown via same delay tape delay at 9:30 p.m. PT.

Anne Marie Anderson will call the play-by-play and Amy Gant will be the color analyst. Anderson began working for SportsChannel in New York as a college student, and following graduation, she joined ESPN's coverage team. For the next 16 years, she covered events such as the Super Bowl, heavyweight title fights, golf's majors, NCAA Final Fours, NBA and MLB playoffs, and six Olympics, at times doing double duty as both producer and on-camera talent. She won three National Emmy Awards during her time at ESPN. In 2005, she began calling volleyball for CSTV, while covering football, volleyball, track and field and soccer for ESPN.

Gant, a 1998 graduate of BYU, brings an extensive volleyball background to television. She was a three-time All-American for the Cougars and played for the U.S. National Team from January 1998 to September 1999. An NCAA Woman of the Year top 10 finalist, Gant was the color analyst for the 2000-05 Mountain West Conference Volleyball Championships.

Today's television announcement reflects the new partnership between CSTV Networks and Comcast for ownership and distribution of the mtn. - MountainWest Sports Network. The mtn. is the first 24-hour sports network devoted exclusively to a single conference. The mtn. will not only broadcast live games, but will air a variety of studio shows, including pre and post-game shows which break down MWC games, preview big games on the horizon and feature extensive game highlights.

Please check the MWC website (www.TheMWC.com) for future announcements.