About Donal Ware

Donal Ware, a native of Silver Spring, MD is one of the new and fresh faces and voices as well as a young innovator in the Black college sports industry. His broadcast career has now spanned 10 years. Upon graduation from Morgan State University in 1998 with a degree in Telecommunications with a concentration in Broadcast Journalism, Ware accepted the position of sports information director at North Carolina A&T State University. After two years at A&T, Ware accepted a position at North Carolina State University as assistant media relations director, becoming perhaps the first African-American media relations assistant director at an ACC school. From there, Ware moved on to become the assistant athletic director for sports information/marketing at Shaw University.

Radio has always been Ware’s love. Ware started out as an analyst during Morgan State football and basketball games in 1997. In 1998, Ware became the halftime host during the football broadcasts, giving updates on scores from around the country, analysis of the game, and putting together student-athlete halftime features. After a twoyear hiatus from radio, Ware began doing play-by-play and color commentary for North Carolina A&T basketball games. In 2001, he called the first and only baseball game broadcasted in A&T history. During the 2003-04 basketball season, he hosted and produced the CIAA Report for Sports Radio 850 theBuzz in Raleigh, one of the top sports radio stations in the region. Ware was also the executive producer and exclusive radio broadcaster during the 2004 Black College All-Star game in Atlanta. In 2004, Ware formed the Shaw Bear Sports Radio Network, a network of 11 stations which aired all of Shaw University’s football games. He also served as the play-by-play voice of the network until 2007. In 2005, Ware formed his own company, DWCommunications. That same year he served as the play-by-play voice for the Aggie-Eagle Classic, after serving as the color analyst the previous year.

Known in some circles as the John Madden of Black college football for his voice work in the Black college video game BCFx, during the 2007 CIAA Tournament Ware received the honor of being named CIAA Broadcaster of the Year, as voted for by the CIAA Sports Information Directors Association. Most recently he was the play-by-play announcer for the semi-finals and finals of the CIAA Tournament for WRJD-AM 1410 in Durham, NC.

In 2007, Ware served as the play-by-play voice for North Carolina Central football games.

E-mail Donal at: dware1[at]boxtorow.com