HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Longtime radio voice of the Blue Dragons Glen Grunwald was honored on Tuesday for his 26 years of calling Hutchinson Community College men's basketball and football games on EAGLE Media stations, Country 102.9 and KWBW.
Grunwald joined the Blue Dragon broadcast crew in the 1997-98 season.
Since then, Grunwald has called 1,556 games and 1,248 as the Voice of the Blue Dragons. He has called 688 Blue Dragon men's basketball wins and 189 football wins.
In addition to his time as the lead Blue Dragon play-by-play voice, Grunwald has called numerous games as part of the NJCAA DI Men's Basketball Tournament and the NJCAA DI Volleyball Tournament broadcast crews.
Grunwald took over as the Sports Director at EAGLE Media in Hutchinson in 2019, replacing former Voice of the Blue Dragons, Rusty Hilst.
He has received the Hod Humiston Award by the Kansas Association of Broadcasters in 2017, the Oscar Stauffer "Sportscaster of the Year" award in 2020 from the Kansas Interscholastic Activities Administrators Association and numerous other awards.
Most recently, Grunwald was honored as one-of-three state finalists by the National Sports Media Association for Kansas "Sportscaster of the Year" for 2023.
Grunwald called the 2017 National Championship game in which the Blue Dragon men's basketball team defeated Eastern Florida State, as well as the first-ever football national title in program history in 2021.
The Blue Dragon Athletic Department awarded Grunwald and his wife Christi each with a rocking chair at the Region VI Tournament quarterfinal on Tuesday.
He will continue to call the Blue Dragon men's basketball games for as long as they keep playing, including the Region VI Tournament semifinal on Friday at 7:30 p.m. against Cowley College in the Sports Arena.
Grunwald announced earlier this year that he will be stepping down as the Voice of the Blue Dragons to spend more time with his wife and family. Grunwald plans to continue serving as the voice of the Hutchinson High School Salthawks for years to come.
