SPOKANE – "Voice of the Eagles" sportscaster and Waitsburg High School alum Larry Weir was named Washington Sportscaster of the Year . . . again. Weir won the award for the first time last year, and follows in the footsteps of his longtime role model, Bob Robertson, as a repeat recipient.

The 1979 WHS graduate is the son of Carol Weir and the late Bob Weir. He has been calling play-by-play football for the Eastern Washington University Eagles since 1991 and began calling basketball in 1993.

In a quarter-century of broadcasting EWU football, Weir has called all but one of the team's 297 football games. And he missed that one because he was broadcasting EWU basketball games from Alaska.

Weir also hosts weekly football and men's basketball coaches radio shows, produces the "Eagle Minute" and other advertising, does podcasts with EWU staff and coaches, and provides oversight for all live and pre-produced broadcast content. He also serves as master of ceremonies at many EWU events.

Weir told The Times that from around seven-years-old, he enjoyed listening to Washington State University games with his dad, called by Bob Robertson. Weir said he learned and hones his play-by-play broadcasting skills by listening to Robertson.

Weir is one of only three broadcasters from eastern Washington to have won the award, including Frank Herron (1959), and Bud Nameck (1994, 2008), both of Spokane. Twelve-time award winner and former WSU broadcaster Bob Robertson is from Seattle.

When Weir won the award last year, he told the Times he was pleased to receive the award his longtime role model, Robertson, had won so many times. "The NSSA award is voted on by media members from within the state, so it's an award voted on by peers, which makes it a little more special in my eyes," he said.