Best of CYS: Courtney Lyle

Create Your Shot

Chris Horwedel

Sports, Underdog Sports, The Underdog, Basketball, Nba, -- None --, Create Your Shot

4.9 • 939 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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This week the guys are joined by Courtney Lyle, an absolute rising star in the play-by-play industry. Courtney can be heard on ESPN, The SEC Network and Friday Night Stripes where she does play-by-play for football, basketball, volleyball, baseball and softball. Courtney joins the guys for an awesome talk about her work experience, her lack of sleep, the best restaurants in Knoxville and what it's like covering college football in a rabid football town! This weeks coach speak features Butch Jones and the city review is Knoxville, TN. Courtney can be found on Twitter @Sportney_Lyle :29 Smallz and Tyler Introduction 5:26 Smallz makes his return to coaching! 15:27 Courtney Lyle joins CYS 19:00 How Courtney decided she wanted to get into sports broadcasting 25:32 Internships and jobs that Courtney did to gain experience 28:42 Courtney's first full time job in Macon, GA 36:33 Covering big time college football at Tennessee and Butch Jones stories 45:38 Friday Night Stripes and how Courtney has carved out a niche in high school football 48:05 Overcoming challenges as a woman in media 58:40 Coach Speak Ã¢ Butch Jones 1:02:48 City Review Ã¢ Knoxville, TN 1:07:00 Ten Touches 1:12:24 Parting Shots

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0:00.0	The following podcast is part of the underdog sports
0:07.9	podcasting network for a full list of our shows as well as breaking sports news and engaging feature stories.
0:15.3	Visit us at www. The Underdog Sports.com. of Create Your Shot. I am Tyler Lori, and I'm joined as always by my co-host,
0:34.2	Chris Smalls, Angelos.
0:36.4	And this week Smalls, we had on a guest who worked,
0:40.4	works, sorry, works, harder than anyone I've ever spoken to.
0:45.0	Like, I mean, Courtney Lyle, SEC Network, ESPN, Friday Night Stripes,
0:51.0	find her on any number of basketball broadcast, volleyball, softball, baseball.
0:58.0	But Smalls, this was the first time I'd ever listened to an episode and I'm like, I'm never going to make it because I don't work as hard as the person we're talking to.
1:04.4	It's unbelievable. It's just one of those things and I think all of my fellow
1:09.8	underachievers out there go through the same thing. We kind of look at our age and look at what
1:15.8	we're doing in life and our accomplishments. And then we see that pro athlete or in this case Courtney Lyle the same age as me completely
1:27.0	dominating.
1:28.0	She's SEC network.
1:31.1	She's on Twitter getting 2 million people to view. She's going here. She's at a
1:35.0	hotel there. Oh no problem. I'll do 44 games in a week. That's what she's doing.
1:40.0	I'm over here like, should I eat, order Burger King tonight or go a little healthier and get
1:45.2	salad works. That's about the tough decision. So Courtney's just killing it and it was awesome.
1:50.5	It's amazing. So one of the youngest play-by-play
1:54.3	announcers does a wide variety of games and just a really fun person to have
1:58.2	on especially like small said because of how young she was and it definitely the
2:02.1	type of person that makes you kind of look in the mirror and be like man
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