Mike Hammett has been the "Voice of the Warhawks" since the fall of 2022 and has broadcast ULM athletic events since the fall of 2018. Hammett is the radio play-by-play voice for ULM football, men’s basketball and baseball. He also hosts the hour-long coaches’ radio show, “HawkTalk,” during football, basketball and baseball seasons while also producing the “Warhawk Authority” podcast.
A native of Marysville, Kansas, Hammett arrived in Monroe in 2018 as the play-by-play voice for ULM women’s basketball and baseball. He called four seasons of Warhawk women’s basketball before taking over the radio broadcast seat for football and men’s basketball ahead of the 2022-23 season, while retaining his role with ULM baseball. He also has provided play-by-play for ESPN+ broadcasts of ULM football, volleyball, soccer, men’s and women’s basketball and baseball.
While at ULM, Hammett worked in the athletics communications office for six years, spending five seasons as the Associate Director of Athletics Communications, and at one time was the primary media contact for 14 different sports while also handling his broadcast duties.
Prior to coming to the bayou, Hammett spent two years as a Sports Director with Wright Broadcasting Systems in Weatherford, Oklahoma, which included play-by-play roles with Southwestern Oklahoma State University football and basketball and Weatherford High School football and baseball. While with SWOSU, he called an NCAA Tournament appearance by the Bulldog women’s basketball team, which took on his alma mater, Fort Hays State, in the NCAA Division II Tournament. He also produced daily sports and newscasts, coordinated broadcasting crews for four high schools and was an account executive.
Hammett spent five years as the Sports Director for Alpha Media in Salina, Kansas, overseeing sports broadcasts and programming on six stations across central Kansas. He was the play-by-play voice for Kansas Wesleyan University football and basketball and Salina Central and Salina South High School football and basketball. He hosted a nightly one-hour sports talk show, “In The Zone,” on KSAL-AM, and produced daily sportscasts. While in Salina, he also provided play-by-play for Kansas State University baseball on a fill-in basis.
His full-time broadcasting career started in Hays, Kansas, after graduating from Fort Hays State University in 2008. Hammett worked three years for Eagle Radio in Hays and was the play-by-play voice for Thomas More Prep-Marian High School football, basketball, baseball and softball and the Hays Larks summer collegiate baseball team. He also provided daily news and sportscasts on the five-station cluster.
Hammett got his start in broadcasting while in college at FHSU, commuting three hours each way to his hometown of Marysville to work for KNDY radio. After spending one season as a color analyst for Marysville High School football, he took the play-by-play chair for the first time for Marysville American Legion baseball in the summer of 2005 and was the play-by-play voice for MHS football for three seasons.
Hammett and his wife, Desi, have three children: CJ, Emma and Ollie.
