Dallas Renzi joined the Lees-McRae staff as the Director of Sports Broadcasting in the Summer of 2026.

Renzi comes to Lees-McRae after spending the last two years at Lenoir-Rhyne University as an athletic communications graduate assistant. Dallas was the main play-by-play broadcaster for the majority of all Lenoir-Rhyne athletics and broadcasted over 300 home sporting events during his time in Hickory. He also interviewed student athletes and coaches on his weekly "Bear Talk" show to discuss the upcoming home events at LR and provide content on social media. Furthermore, Renzi created game notes for pamphlets for all home baseball, basketball, football, and softball games. Dallas received a Master's in Business Administration in the Spring of 2026. 

Prior to moving to North Carolina, Renzi graduated from the University of Mobile with a Bachelor's in Broadcast/Journalism in the Spring of 2024. Dallas was a work-study for the athletic communications department at UM where he specialized in producing home athletic broadcast events for all sports. During his senior year, he did play-by-play for all sporting events and occasionally worked on public address announcing and live stats. He also worked for Jockive Sports as a play-by-play announcer from 2021-2024 where he broadcasted multiple conference tournaments with the ACCC.

He also graduated with an Associates in Liberal Arts from Coastal Alabama Community College in Bay Minette, AL where he was a baseball manager. During his time with Coastal South, Dallas not only announced their home games, but he also ran Coastal's social media updating fans on schedule changes, final scores, and game-day graphics from 2021-2022. Over 800 followers followed the Sun Chiefs baseball social media pages during Dallas' time at Coastal.  

Renzi has years of experience in announcing sports such as volleyball, baseball, softball, football, lacrosse, basketball, and soccer. He started broadcasting in 2017 with the Spanish Fort High School baseball team where he called over 80 home/away Toros baseball games. He has always wanted to work and be involved in sports especially calling events from a young age. 

Dallas is from Daphne, Alabama and graduated from Spanish Fort High School in 2020. He is the son of John Renzi and Heather Renzi, and has one brother, Drew.