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The NCAA News -- January 4, 1999

CBS's Joyce to serve as emcee for NCAA honors dinner

CBS sports reporter Andrea Joyce will serve as master of ceremonies for the 1999 NCAA honors dinner January 10 in San Antonio.

Joyce is a reporter for the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship, the U.S. Open Tennis Championships, CBS's coverage of college football and numerous sports specials. She also cohosted the network's weekend daytime coverage of the 1992, 1994 and 1998 Winter Olympic Games.

The University of Michigan graduate also has hosted CBS's sports anthology show entitled "At the Half." She also hosted other CBS broadcasts, including early-round coverage of the 1991 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship; "College Football Today;" the NCAA Women's Final Four and title-game broadcasts (1991-94); the Heisman Trophy Award show (1990); and NBA playoff games (1990).

Before joining CBS Sports, Joyce hosted MSG SportsBreak on the Madison Square Garden Network in 1988. As a reporter for ESPN that same year, she also covered the Olympic Summer Games in Seoul, South Korea; the NFL draft; and the French Open Tennis Championships.

In 1987, Joyce was the weekend sports anchor for WFAA-TV in Dallas, where she received the Texas Association of Broadcasters Award for Sports Special of the Year. She also has worked as a news anchor and field reporter for KMGH-TV, Denver; WDIV-TV, Detroit; KTVH-TV, Wichita, Kansas; and KKTV, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

A Detroit native, she received her speech/communications degree from Michigan in 1976.