He has won 3 consecutive Washington Sportscaster of the Year awards (2018-20) from the National Sports Media Association. He has one son, Nick, two grandsons, Jaxon and Braedon, and one granddaughter, Ryan.ĭAVE SIMS is in his 16th season with the Mariners broadcast team. In 2021, Toys for Kids donated toys for more than 16,000 homeless and hospitalized children and presented eight $5,000 Dave Henderson college scholarship awards. Throughout the year, Rick also heads Toys For Kids, a non-profit he co-founded in 1995.
He also spent three seasons calling the play-by-play with Bob Rathbun on radio for the Detroit Tigers from 1992-94. In 2000, Rick was named the Chicago-area sportscaster of the year by the Chicago Pitch and Hit Club. Rick was originally hired to broadcast Mariners games in 1983 and spent nine seasons with the club. He was named the Ohio "Sportscaster of the Year" in 1981 by the Ohio Sportscasters Association.
He became the sports director at WBNS radio in Columbus, Ohio in 1981, where he called Ohio State football and Triple-A baseball for two seasons. From 1975-80, he handled double-A baseball play-by-play duties for Alexandria, Amarillo and Memphis. Rick is a 1975 graduate of Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. Rick received the 2017 Keith Jackson Award from the Seattle Sports Commission for excellence in communicating the sports stories of our state.
Rick has been a part of the Mariners broadcast team continuously since 1995, following an original nine-year stint with the club from 1983-1991. In 2020, his 35 seasons with the Mariners surpassed Dave Niehaus as the longest-tenured broadcaster in club history. RICK RIZZS, the Mariners primary voice on radio, is in his 37th season with the broadcast team in 2022.
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