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Greg Wrubell
Canadian-American sports broadcaster
Greg Wrubell | |
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Greg Wrubell during postgame broadcast December | |
| Born | Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada |
| Education | BYU, B.A. Communications, |
| Occupation | Sports Broadcaster |
| Employer | BYU Athletics |
| Known&#;for | Play-by-play voice for BYU Football, Basketball, Baseball, and Women's Soccer |
| Spouse | Tauna |
| Children | Jocelyn, Caitlan, Regan and Afton |
Greg Wrubell is a sports broadcaster based out of Cedar Hills, Utah.
He is a commentator for college sports, including football, men's basketball, baseball, and women's soccer for Brigham Young University's (BYU) Sports Network and was the television voice for Utah Royals FC matches on KMYU their first season. He is also the Director of Broadcast Media at BYU.
Early life
Wrubell was born and raised in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, where he developed an early love for hockey.
He excelled at education and was allowed to skip first grade. He attended high school at Lord Beaverbrook High School.
Greg wrubell wiki fandom Greg Wrubell is a sports broadcaster based out of Cedar Hills, Utah. Wrubell was born and raised in Saskatoon , Saskatchewan , where he developed an early love for hockey. He excelled at education and was allowed to skip first grade. He attended high school at Lord Beaverbrook High School. Despite his love of sports, Wrubell found he was not a very good player.Despite his love of sports, Wrubell found he was not a very good player. Instead he attended choir, drama, and public speaking competitions.[1]
Wrubell's father, Allan, sparked his interest in sports. Allan was the local public address announcer for the Saskatoon Blades. As a result Greg decided to pursue sports broadcasting in college.
Greg wrubell wiki During that time, he has called numerous bowl games in football, multiple March Madness showdowns in basketball, as well as any number of memorable moments in the annals of BYU sports history. The news department gave Wrubell a videographer and an editor with the assignment to do a story on an unknown BYU sports team. That is exactly what he did, finding the fencing club. He also hosted a talk show and anchored for radio and TV. Throughout his career, Wrubell has been witness to many historic BYU sports moments.Greg applied to many schools and eventually chose BYU. Greg attended BYU and was quickly swept up in the school's national championship run.[1] His first exposure to football occurred on his first day of school in , when he watched BYU play at Pitt in BYU's Cougar Stadium. After seeing that action Greg knew he had found his calling and applied for a job at KBYU.
They sent him to work covering the fencing team.[2]
Broadcasting career
After serving two years as a missionary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Brazil, Wrubell returned to BYU in and met his future wife, Tauna Fehrner, and began an internship at KSL.
At the end of the summer, the two married and Wrubell parlayed his internship into weekend work where he became co-host of the KSL weekend sports talk show with Chris Tunis.[2] Wrubell would remain at BYU until when he graduated with a degree in communications.[3]
In , Paul James invited Wrubell to join the BYU Cougars football radio team.
Wrubell served as the sideline reporter for football and men's basketball. A heart attack led to James missing a few basketball games during the season, allowing Wrubell to move from the sidelines to play-by-play.
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There is one BYU fan whose passion can be heard above everyone else's, coming across the radio on Saturday afternoons in the fall and Thursday evenings during the winter. It's a voice most BYU fans have heard and can recognize but a voice that far fewer have seen. Even fewer know how this voice came to be the voice of the Cougars. The voice of the Cougars is Greg Wrubell. For the past 16 seasons of basketball and 12 seasons of football, this BYU graduate has been living his dream.Wrubell would become the full-time play-by-play voice for men's basketball during the season and then for football in [2]
Wrubell gained nationwide exposure when he made the only national radio commentary of the Miami Beach Bowl, including the infamous brawl between BYU and Memphis.[4] He followed that up by being featured nationally on ESPN's SportsCenter and IMG College's best of the week during weeks one and two of the BYU Cougars football season, following Tanner Mangum's hail-mary victories over Nebraska[5] and Boise State.[6]
In , Wrubell left KSL where he had been a producer, reporter, host, and announcer[3] and became the BYU Director of Broadcast Media.[7] In , Wrubell was hired as the first television broadcaster for Utah Royals FC.[8]
Personal life
Greg and Tauna Wrubell live in Cedar Hills, Utah and are the parents of four children.
One of their children, Regan, has autism, so Wrubell has participated in many autism-related benefit events. Wrubell testified before the Utah Legislature for autism funding and solicited corporate sponsors to donate to autism-related causes. He has also acted as emcee for benefit auctions for those with autism and at a few BYU award shows.[1]