ESPN college basketball analysts Greenberg, Ellis to emcee Illinois High School Sports Awards show

USA TODAY

June 14, 2021 at 7:02 AM·3 min read

ESPN college basketball analysts LaPhonso Ellis and Seth Greenberg will handle emcee duties during the Illinois High School Sports Awards show.

Two-time ACC Coach of the Year and ESPN College Game Day analyst Seth Greenberg and ESPN analyst and former NBA player LaPhonso Ellis will emcee the Illinois High School Sports Awards, presented by the Illinois Pork Producers and INB. They join a list of newly released top athletes that will be a part of the show.

The Illinois High School Sports Awards is part of the largest high school sports recognition program in the country. Top athletes in most state-sanctioned sports will be honored during an on-demand streaming broadcast at 7 p.m. CDT Thursday, July 15 on the event website.

Greenberg is an ESPN basketball analyst, a member of the College GameDay team and a former college basketball coach. Before joining ESPN, Greenberg coached basketball for 34 years, the last 22 of which were spent as a head coach at Long Beach State, the University of South Florida and Virginia Tech. He notched four wins against No. 1 ranked teams and in his nine seasons with Virginia Tech, compiled a 170–123 record and earned ACC Coach of the Year honors twice.

In the 1992 NBA Draft Ellis was selected fifth overall by the Denver Nuggets. In his rookie season, he averaged 14.7 points, 9.1 rebounds and 1.4 blocks and was named to the 1992–93 All-Rookie First Team. He played professionally for 11 years, then became an ESPN college basketball analyst in 2009.

The Illinois High School Sports Awards is a statewide student athlete recognition program. The Illinois show will be held after the regional shows, including the Capital Region High School Sports Awards, the Central Illinois High School Sports Awards and the Rock River Valley High School Sports Awards.

The Illinois statewide show recognizes the best athletes across the entire state, meaning some of the local winners could be honored in the statewide show as well. Illinois’ Athletes of the Year and the overall male and female athletes of the year for Illinois will automatically become honorees in the inaugural USA TODAY High School Sports Awards and be among the candidates for the national awards.

Honoree selections for state sanctioned sports featured in the show will be announced on the event website at the beginning of July.

The show will be free to watch on any smart device or computer thanks to support from the Illinois Pork Producers and INB.

Celebrity announcers that will also be a part of the Illinois show include:

NBA Champion, MVP and Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2020 inductee Kevin Garnett
Three-time NFL MVP Aaron Rodgers
Two-time FIFA World Cup soccer champion Alex Morgan
Five-time swimming Olympic gold medalist Katie Ledecky
Three-time Olympic gold medalist Kerri Walsh Jennings
National Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Chipper Jones
Youngest wrestling gold medalist and World Champion Kyle Snyder
U.S. Women's Gymnastics gold and silver medalist Laurie Hernandez
Three-time Pro Bowler and two-time First-Team All-Pro outside linebacker T.J. Watt
Most successful female tennis player of the open era Martina Navratilova
Olympic gold and silver medalist and World Champion softball pitcher Jennie Finch
U.S. Women’s National Field Hockey Team midfielder Amanda Magadan
Three-time MVP, World Champion and co-founder of the Premier Lacrosse League Paul Rabil
Hockey Hall of Famer Martin St. Louis
Four-time Olympic gold medalist and eight-time World Championship gold medalist Michael Johnson
14-time National Champion Cheer Coach Monica Aldama
Olympic gold medalist and four-time World Cup Skiing Champion Lindsey Vonn
Four-time PGA Tour winner Ryan Palmer
American Ultra Marathoner Dean Karnazes

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Greenberg, Ellis join Illinois High School Sports Awards

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