John Tuite

John Tuite (born, 1957, in Hartford, Connecticut) is a Connecticut sports broadcaster. He is known as “the Voice of UConn Soccer,” he has been the play-by-play announcer for the University of Connecticut’s men's soccer team on WHUS (FM) 91.7 (www.whus.org) since 1982. He also broadcasts select UConn baseball, women's soccer, and women's basketball games. He also does PA duty for all UConn men's basketball, women's basketball and football games. Additionally, he is heard regularly on WILI where he provides daily news updates as "Newsman John", every weekday morning on the Pete Nichol's Morning Show on WILI FM, and also broadcasts the "Vinyl Frontier" on WILI AM every weekday at 11 a.m.

Tuite is heard nationally on whus.org, and has served as the WHUS Sports Director on numerous occasions. For more than twenty years, Tuite has been broadcasting soccer, but more recently he has broadcast games on COX Sports TV, including not only soccer, but field hockey as well.

He has been named Connecticut Sportscaster of the Year by the New England Associated Press. The Storrs, Conn., native has been honored on several occasions by the Connecticut Associated Press for outstanding sports play-by-play. In 1993, Tuite received the New England Collegiate Soccer Association "Media Award". He also was honored by the Associated Press for his broadcast of the 1984 NCAA National Tournament regional match between UConn and Harvard and is a past recipient of the UConn Friends of Soccer "Recognition Award".

In 2003, Tuite and colleague Wayne Norman broadcast a Boston Red Sox game from Fenway Park on WILI 1400AM.

Tuite is a graduate of E.O. Smith High School located Storrs, CT. He went on to graduate from Morehead State University in Morehead, Ky.

He currently resides in Storrs, Connecticut.