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Joseph "Joe" Cristy is an American public address announcer and higher education professional based in High Point, North Carolina. He has called NCAA Division I volleyball, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's lacrosse, and baseball games for sixteen years at his alma mater, High Point University, a member of the Big South Conference. He serves in a full-time capacity at HPU as Director of Undergraduate Recruitment and Athletics Liaison in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions.

He has also called Wake Forest University Demon Deacons volleyball, UNC Greensboro Spartans volleyball, UNC Chapel Hill Tar Heels men's soccer, the Big South Conference Volleyball Championships (four times), the Big South Conference Women's Basketball Championships (four times), the Big South Conference Men's Basketball Championships (four times), and the Progressive Legends Classic men's basketball tournament at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY (2017). He will continue to call tournaments, such as the Legends Classic, run by Gazelle Group out of Princeton, NJ, for the next two years.

Joe formerly worked at High Point University as Sports Information Director from 2000-2001 and, in the summer of 2001, served as pitching coach of the St. Cloud Riverbats (now Rox) of the Northwoods League, a collegiate summer baseball league housing collegiate eligible professional prospects.

He grew up in Dundalk, MD and graduated from Baltimore's Archbishop Curley High School in 1994. He then attended High Point University where he played baseball from 1994-1998, graduating with a degree in Sport Management with a concentration in Business.

He was an extra in the crowd during filming of the major motion picture Major League 2 (1994), as it was filmed in Baltimore, MD.

Joe has also coached youth soccer, baseball and has helped with local United Way campaigns and other service projects in the city of High Point, NC.