In 2021-22, Mike Allegre is in his 29th season as the broadcast "Voice of the Bearcats" for Willamette football and basketball.

Allegre started his broadcasting career while attending Central Washington University (1980-83). He worked as a television and radio news/sports reporter/anchor at stations in Bend (1983-86). In Salem and Keizer he helped renew local radio coverage of high school and college sports (1986-88). He finished his full-time broadcast career in 1989 at KGW radio in Portland but continued as a seasonal sportscaster.

During his career, Allegre has broadcast more than 1,200 high school and college games, many high school state championship tournaments, and hundreds of WU contests, including the historic 1997 NAIA Division II Football Championship game where the Bearcats finished as the national runners-up. He also was behind the microphone when three WU female kickers scored during games in 1997 (the first in college football history) and 2017-19. He's also announced games at the NAIA national men's and women's basketball tournaments, ​as well as games for Western Baptist College, the Oregon School Activities Association (OSAA), and contests at the Little League Softball World Series.

Mike Allegre calls a basketball game

In 1989 he became the first announcer to broadcast sports for Salem’s new Capitol Community Television (CCTV). Allegre has been recognized for his work by the Associated Press, OSAA, Salem Sports & Breakfast Club, and Willamette University Athletics.

A Hood River, Oregon native, Allegre worked more than 20 years as a government and military public information officer. He fully retired in 2021 from work at Oregon's Veterans homes. While in the military, he served four years in U.S. Air Force law enforcement (1976-80). In 2007, he retired as a major from the Oregon Air National Guard after honorably serving as a public affairs officer for 21 years.

Allegre and his wife Suzanne have five children and seven grandchildren.