Bill Schoening

Bill Schoening is an American sportscaster who was the radio play-by-play voice of the San Antonio Spurs from 2001 through 2025. Schoening announced his retirement from the Spurs at the end of the 2024-2025 season, after calling 2,280 consecutive games over the course of 24 seasons. Prior to his work with the Spurs, Schoening broadcast for the Texas Longhorns for 12 years, calling football, basketball, and baseball games.

Schoening is a four-time winner of the Associated Press "Top Texas Play-by-Play Award," and also won the 2014 Texas Sportscaster of the Year Award from the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association. In August 2022, he was announced as an inductee into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame.

In addition to his work with the Longhorns and Spurs, Schoening has also broadcast National Football League, Major League Baseball, and arena football games. and has also published a book entitled "Stories, Sports, and Songs: Tales and Tunes by a Play by Play Lifer."

Early life

Schoening grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and decided at an early age that he wanted to be a broadcaster. One of his early influences was By Saam, who was broadcasting games for the Philadelphia Phillies when Schoening was growing up. Schoening attended West Catholic High School and one year at Temple University, before transferring to the American Academy of Broadcasting in Philadelphia. After graduating from the six-month program, he got his first job in radio in Illinois. He stayed in Huntsville for six years, from 1983 to 1989. Schoening also did play-by-play for Longhorn baseball for all 12 years he was in Austin. He sometimes had co-hosts for these shows, including Jeff Ward and Craig Way. One of these talk shows titled "Sportsday," which Schoening co-hosted with Ward, won a 1996 "Best of Austin" award from the Austin Chronicle for "Best Talk Radio Show."

San Antonio Spurs

In September 2001, Schoening was hired as the radio voice of the San Antonio Spurs. Because of the timing of the hire so close to college football season, Schoening called games for both the Spurs and Longhorn football during the fall of 2001.

Personal

Schoening lives in Austin with his wife, Gerry. They have two sons: and Karl, a sports broadcaster who has called a wide variety of sporting events, including the Austin Spurs, the University of Texas at San Antonio, and high school football.