Daniel Gillman is a play-by-play sports broadcaster, working at Cal Poly as the voice of multiple sports, including volleyball and women’s basketball. In addition, he is broadcasting all home Texas Tech softball games on ESPN+. He is a 2017 graduate from the University of Florida, born and raised in Weston, FL. Daniel worked for two years as a play-by-play broadcaster for the Gators IMG Sports Network in Gainesville, Florida.
In March 2019 he made his national TV debut on CBS Sports Network, as play-by-play for the 2019 NJCAA D1 Women’s Basketball Championship with analyst Sheryl Swoopes. Then in 2023, Daniel broadcasted the Big 12 Soccer Championships and the Southland Volleyball Tournament.
For two years in Indiana, Daniel hosted a nationally syndicated podcast talking Big Ten sports for the local ESPN affiliate “101.7 The Hammer” and produced the afternoon sports talk show. In addition, he was the voice of Purdue volleyball for Learfield IMG.
He broadcasted Florida Gators lacrosse, volleyball, soccer and softball while in Gainesville. For The Prep Zone, he was the lead play-by-play broadcaster for high school football, basketball, volleyball and baseball all over north Florida. Major broadcast highlights included the NCAA Tournament for volleyball, soccer, lacrosse, and the Women’s College World Series for softball, including the longest game in WCWS history. While freelancing, Daniel broadcasted the NAIA national championship for men’s soccer and the 2019 NCCAA Men’s & Women’s basketball championship.
In high school, he interned for 560 WQAM, a sports radio station in Miami, FL and covered the Miami Hurricanes basketball team throughout their ACC Championship run in Greensboro, NC and their NCAA Tournament run in Washington D.C.
Sports has been a passion of his since childhood and has now become his profession. During the summers before he graduated, Daniel interned with Fox Sports Florida, FOX-WSVN 7 Sports in Miami, and was the play-by-play voice for the South Florida Collegiate Baseball League in Boca Raton, FL.
Here is his resume.