HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Eagle Media Hutchinson Sports Director Glen Grunwald has been selected by the Kansas Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association to be their 2021-2022 Sportscaster of the Year. Grunwald was nominated by Hutchinson High School.
The voice of the Hutch High Salthawks and HutchCC Blue Dragons will be presented the Sportscaster of the Year award at the KIAAA annual awards banquet to be held at the Kansas Star Casino Convention Center in Mulvane March 26th.
Grunwald started his broadcasting career with KANS in Larned, Kansas in 1985 as a hobby and as a favor to a friend that owned the local radio station. In 1990, Barton Community College named him as their broadcast voice, and he served as the voice of Barton Cougar basketball and volleyball until Hutchinson Community College and Eagle Media Hutchinson came calling in 1998.
Glen joined longtime local broadcaster Rusty Hilst in the booth and assisted Hilst with Football and handled the play-by-play duties for HutchCC basketball on KHUT in Hutchinson. In 2010, Glen joined the Hutch High broadcast team and served as sideline reporter for football. He also helped coordinate the football and basketball video streaming of games home and away.
When Hilst retired in 2019, Grunwald was named Sports Director for the Eagle Media Stations and has served in that capacity since then.
Glen retired from the Pharmaceutical Industry after 30 years with GlaxoSmithKline in 2010. In addition to his sportscasting, Grunwald is a regular member of the KWBW Morning Show.
In 2017, Grunwald received the Hod Humiston Award from the Kansas Association of Broadcasters (KAB) which is given annually to a Kansas Broadcaster who has made significant contributions to the field of sports broadcasting as well as work within the community. Glen was a member of the Kansas Special Olympics board of directors for 42 years and serves as a board member emeritus for the organization. He also received the KSHSAA Oscar Stauffer Award in 2020. The Stauffer honors a sports broadcaster for their outstanding play-by-play coverage of high school athletics in Kansas.
Glen lives in Hutchinson with wife Christi Karle-Grunwald, of 27 years. They share 5 daughters and 8 grandchildren.