“I always spend my time talking about sports, I might as well try to make a living out of it.” A noble idea hit Greg Carroll back when he used to roam the hallways at South Bend's Riley High School. Fast forward a few years and there he is as WSBT Sports Director, keeping a sharp pulse on everything sports which makes living in Michiana such a unique place!

“Sports has always been a passion of mine in life. Without a passion, you're on the sidelines waiting to get in the game, and that's as fun as getting hit by a golf ball!”

Greg, a nearly-lifelong native of South Bend, has covered it all: everything from A to Z when it comes to Notre Dame sports, the Chicago Bears, the Indianapolis Colts, the Chicago Cubs, MLB All-Star Games, Major Championship Golf, and of course, anything that has to do with high school sports in the area.

At South Bend Riley, Greg was an honor-roll student while playing four years of varsity soccer for the Wildcats. For his career, he is the school's all-time leading scorer with 65 career goals and 40 assists. He was 1st Team All-State two years and an All-Midwest selection his Senior year. As a member of the standout newspaper staff -- The Riley Review -- Greg developed a love for journalism. Greg was inducted into the Riley Athletic Hall of Fame in the fall of 2006.

Greg went off as a Division I student-athlete to Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. After graduation and the digestion of about 1,000 chili-coneys (Cincy is the “Chili-City” as well as the “Queen City”), he returned to South Bend to begin his career in television broadcast journalism.

“My career highlight so far has to be covering the Women’s Fighting Irish National Championship in 2001. If you can’t pull for talented, hard-working, and classy people like Muffet McGraw and that team, then you just have no sense.”

Other highlights for Greg include an Associated Press “Best Sports Videography” award for a 1999 story called “Game Day: The Notre Dame Experience”, a piece which presented the entire day of a Notre Dame Football game from start to finish.

“ND almost lost to Navy for that story,” he says. “That would have been kinda bad!”

When he's not doing sports, Greg is still doing sports. By that, he's either playing golf, running/exercising, playing online poker (gcmusketeer is his handle), or catching a game with his friends. At the very least, he gets a workout smuggling food out of his parents’ pantry to take to his own house on the south side of South Bend. Greg also spends plenty of quality of time with his girlfriend Alicia, a former Penn H.S. volleyball star. He also watches plenty of movies, is a semi-avid book reader, and plays guitar.

“For me it goes like this: Faith, Family, Friends. Without those three things, the idea of sports really doesn’t mean a thing.”

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