It had been over a decade since Steve Guasch last delivered Spanish play-by-play for a football team – the 2014 Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks.
When UI Athletics Department officials gave him a call about broadcasting its football games in Spanish last year, he knew right away it was an opportunity he couldn’t pass up.
“It’s an opportunity to bring us closer to our Latino community,” Guasch said.
Guasch, Spanish broadcaster for the Seattle Mariners, is back behind the mic for another season of Spanish-language Vandal football broadcasts on La Poderosa 100.7 FM, a Spanish station under Radio Rancho Media that reaches 52% of Idaho’s Hispanic population.
He will once again team up with former Vandal kicker/punter Ricardo Chavez.
Guasch was part of last year’s debut, when the univer