Road to the Hall: Bernie Sandalow
 
LOS ANGELES – LMU Athletics Hall-of-Famer Bernie Sandalow passed away overnight, the athletic department learned on Thursday, April 2, 2020.
 
From 1977-2017, Sandalow served as the LMU men's basketball public address announcer and "The Voice of the Lions," before stepping down from the position. Sandalow also worked LMU baseball games for 22 seasons.
 
An LMU graduate from the class of 1978, Sandalow finishes his tenure as the dean of college basketball announcers in the West Coast Conference, and closes a run amongst the longest-tenured announcers for a single NCAA Division I basketball program in the United States.
 
Sandalow has been on the microphone for some of the most exciting moments in LMU sports history, including the 1990 men's basketball run to the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament under legendary coach Paul Westhead, and LMU's three consecutive West Coast Conference baseball championships (1998-2000). He has announced numerous conference championship tournaments hosted by LMU in both basketball and baseball. He has also announced a variety of basketball events held at LMU and elsewhere, including the Special Olympics World Games 2015 Los Angeles and the California State Community College championship tournament. Altogether, Sandalow has announced more than 1,000 games and other events throughout his career.
 
In addition to LMU, local venues at which Sandalow has announced include the Rose Bowl, Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, Long Beach Arena, the Galen Center at USC, and the Matadome at Cal State Northridge. In 1984, he served as an assistant Venue Press Chief during the Games of the XXIII Olympiad in Los Angeles.
 
Inducted into the LMU Athletics Hall of Fame in 2009, Sandalow was also a member of the National Association of Sports Public Address Announcers.
 
As more information comes, this article will be updated.
 

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